Libre Lounge

Chris and Serge have an exciting announcement in the form of a new project called Datashards!

Datashards is a collaborative secure communication system that can be used online or offline and solves problems such as the Slashdot effects, offline data retrival, secure communication and more. Chris and Serge walk through the basic features of DataShards and why they're both working on it!

Links:

• The DataShards Website
• Tahoe-LAFS
• Freenet
• Jason Scott Talking about the Death of Geocities and Internet Culture
• Definition of the Slashdot Effect
• IPFS
• The original Freenet Paper

Chris and Serge have an exciting announcement in the form of a new project called Datashards!

Datashards is a collaborative secure communication system that can be used online or offline and solves problems such as the Slashdot effects, offline data retrival, secure communication and more. Chris and Serge walk through the basic features of DataShards and why they're both working on it!

Links:

• The DataShards Website
• Tahoe-LAFS
• Freenet
• Jason Scott Talking about the Death of Geocities and Internet Culture
• Definition of the Slashdot Effect
• IPFS
• The original Freenet Paper

Chris and Serge have an exciting announcement in the form of a new project called DataShards!

DataShards is a collaborative secure communication system that can be used online or offline and solves problems such as the Slashdot effects, offline data retrival, secure communication and more. Chris and Serge walk through the basic features of DataShards and why they're both working on it!

Links:

• The DataShards Website
• Tahoe-LAFS
• Freenet
• Jason Scott Talking about the Death of Geocities and Internet Culture
• Definition of the Slashdot Effect
• IPFS
• The original Freenet Paper

Chris and Serge have an exciting announcement in the form of a new project called Datashards!

Datashards is a collaborative secure communication system that can be used online or offline and solves problems such as the Slashdot effects, offline data retrival, secure communication and more. Chris and Serge walk through the basic features of DataShards and why they're both working on it!

Links:

• The DataShards Website
• Tahoe-LAFS
• Freenet
• Jason Scott Talking about the Death of Geocities and Internet Culture
• Definition of the Slashdot Effect
• IPFS
• The original Freenet Paper

Serge and Chris have been busy working on a plan to keep the Fediverse safe

We also announce the ActivityPub

Links:

• Serge's Paper Keeping Unwanted Messages off the Fediverse
• Chris's Paper OcapPub: Towards networks of consent
• Our show on Object Capabilities
• Our relevant show on ActivityPub
• ActivityPub Conf

Serge and Chris have been busy working on a plan to keep the Fediverse safe

We also announce the ActivityPub

Links:

• Serge's Paper Keeping Unwanted Messages off the Fediverse
• Chris's Paper OcapPub: Towards networks of consent
• Our show on Object Capabilities
• Our relevant show on ActivityPub
• ActivityPub Conf

What are Hackers? What are Hackerspaces? What makes us feel a sense of purpose and belonging? What are the origins of the term Open Source and Maker, and what do they have to do with one another? Mitch Altman brings clarity on all these topics and more when he joins Chris and Serge for this episode of Libre Lounge!

Links:

• Cornfield Electronics (Mitch's website)
• TV-B-Gone
• Hackerspaces.org
• 2600 Magazine
• Off the Hook Radio Show
• Chaos Communication Club
• Novena Computer
• Soldering is Easy

On this episode of Libre Lounge we get on Ludovic Courtès to talk about the Guix package manager and distribution, functional package management, reproducibility, and bootstrapping!

Links:

• GNU Guix
• GNU Mes
• Reflections on Trusting Trust (the "Thompson Attack")
• Guix 1.0 released (May 2, 2019)

On this episode, Serge sits down with game creator Sean Hillman and discusses Dungeons and Dragons, the Open Gaming License and how Free Culture encourages diversity.

Links:

• Sean Hillan's Patreon
• Zero Means You're Dead (Sean's podcast)
• ARMZine
• DIRGEZine
• Living Greyhawk (wizards.com)
• The Grand Duchy of Geoff (wizards.com)
• The Open Gaming License FAQ (wizards.com)
• FATE Game System (fate-srd.com)
• Queens of Adventure (Matt Baume's D&D/Drag Queen Podcast)
• Sean O'Brien Epic Theme #1

Chris and Serge take a walk down memory lane of old computers, programming environments and the command line. During this trip, they deconstruct the appeal of the command line, unix culture and ways that the aesthetics of the terminal have held us back.

Links:

• Commodore VIC-20 (wikipedia)
• Commodore 64 (wikipedia)
• MS DOS (wikipedia)
• Freedos (a Free Software DOS replacement)
• QBasic (wikipedia)
• FreeBASIC (a Free Software BASIC)
• GEOS (wikipedia)
• Unix Philosophy (wikipedia)
• REPL (wikipedia)
• In the Beginning... Was the Command Line (wikipedia)
• 8-Bit Guy's Dream Computer (the8bitguy.com)
• Adafruit Circuit Playground Express (learn.adafruit.com)
• Microsoft MakeCode (github.com)
• Scratch
• The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
• The Mycroft Personal Voice Assistant
• The Blender Project