Libre Lounge

Libre Lounge comes to you with an interview from Libre Planet with Joey Hess discussing the Secure Scuttbutt project, a secure social network. The interview goes into detail about the protocol, differences between SSB and ActivityPub, and how Secure Scuttlebutt is a bit like Git.

Links:

• Joey Hess
• Scuttlebutt
• Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol
• Git Annex
• Libre Planet
• FSF (thanks for the batteries!)

Libre Lounge comes to you with an interview from Libre Planet with Joey Hess discussing the Secure Scuttbutt project, a secure social network. The interview goes into detail about the protocol, differences between SSB and ActivityPub, and how Secure Scuttlebutt is a bit like Git.

Links:

• Joey Hess
• Scuttlebutt
• Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol
• Git Annex
• Libre Planet
• FSF (thanks for the batteries!)

The Libre Lounge crew invite Kate Sills from Agoric to help explain and explore

Links:

• Agoric (agoric.com)
• POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident (medium.com)
• What are Object Capabilities? (habitatchronicles.com)
• An OCAP Approach to Safe Javascript (docs.google.com)
• The XKCD Sandbox Cycle (xkcd.com)
• Professor David Wagner Gives a Google Tech Talk on Object Capabilities for Security (youtube)

Join us for the first in an ongoing series on ActivityPub Chris and Serge dive into ActivityPub, explaining how the social networking protocol works, how it handles different audiences, understanding the Subject-Verb-Object model of communication, as well as how following and followers work.

Listen to Part 2 Here

Listen to Part 3 Here

ReviewPub materials coming soon!

Links:

• ActivityPub (w3c)

Serge and Chris talk about the concept of Federation, how ActivityPub fits in and Serge introduces a new project called ReviewPub to create a simple ActivityPub implementation that listeners can follow along with.

Chris and Serge are back from FOSDEM and CopyleftConf. Chris has a grant to work on an exciting new ActivityPub application and the dynamic duo talk about recursive compilation and Lisp without parentheis.

Links:

• FOSDEM 2019 (fosdem.org)
• CopyleftConf 2019 (copyleftconf.org)
• Chris is awarded the Samsung Stack Zero Grant (dustycloud.org)
• Spritely (gitlab.org)
• A Guiler's Year of Racket (fosdem.org)
• ActivityPub panel (fosdem.org)
• GNU Mes (fosdem.org)
• Experience with wisp (fosdem.org)

Chris and Serge continue their discussion from last time about Free Software funding models.

Listen to Part 1 here

Chris and Serge continue their discussion from last time about Free Software funding models.

Listen to Part 1 here

In this first part of a two parter, Serge and Chris talk about funding models for Free Software development.

Listen to Part 2 here.

In this first part of a two parter, Serge and Chris talk about funding models for Free Software development.

Listen to Part 2 here.