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Episode 60: SpaceX, Starlink, and Mozilla State Partitioning
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Starlink, SpaceX and Mozilla’s new state partitioning privacy feature in Firefox. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Starlink: SpaceX's satellite internet project | Space — Starlink is the name of a sa…
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Episode 59: FOSS, Mentorship, and Doing Great Work
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Travis Carden and Petros Koutoupis about maintaining open source projects, mentoring contributors, Drupal, and automated testing. Show notes: (42s): Intros, subscribe to our newsletter, and buy our swag. ;) (1m 38s): Who IS Travis Carden? (4m 36s): Maintaining an open source project and mentoring contributo…
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Episode 58: So Someone Stole Your Identity
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about protecting yourself online, password and security best practices, and a tragic tale. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Uni…
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Episode 57: You Look Familiar, Did I See You on the Internet?
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk facial recognition AI using our photos for training, and how we collectively negotiate our own privacy online. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: This new tool can tell you if your online photos are helping …
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk Twitter's new Birdwatch experiment, Signal's resistance to moderation, and Redditors' impact on the stock market. Show notes: [02:06]: Twitter outsourcing content moderation with expirimental Birdwatch feature. [13:32]: Signal's founder has pushed back against internal efforts to have some so…
Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dean Landsman and Paul Walker about radio broadcasting, including long distance coverage. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Dean Landsman and Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: :: Dean Landsman :: Landsman …
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Episode 54: Digital Rights are Human Rights
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Evan Greer, Deputy Director of digital rights activism group Fight for the Future about Section 230, privacy, politics, de-platforming, and internet policy. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Evan Greer. Support Real…
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about the SolarWinds hack, and Facebook's reaction to Apple privacy initiatives. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: The P…
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Episode 52: Fragmentation and Outrage of the Week
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about fragmentation and software development, the Amazon Halo, and surveilling school children. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Show notes: Katherine (41s): The concept of fragmentation as it applies to software deve…
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman have a fun chat with Petros Koutoupis about open source in space, digital detox, World War 2 cryptography, and poop in the desert. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: NASA is paying startups for moon rocks. It…
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Episode 50: What Happened to Cyber Utopia?
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Doc Searls and Jon Lebkowsky talk reality, social constructs, the internet, and disinformation. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Jon Lebkowsky. Support Reality 2.0 Links: The Big Lebkowsky - The Big Lebkowsky — Tracking strategic foresight, digital culture, media, and the Internet. ..…
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Episode 49: Parler, Ownership, and Open Source
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Petros Koutoupis, and Kyle Rankin talk Parler and platform lock-in, the concept of data, software, and hardware ownership, and the open source social contract. Show notes: (49s): “I think the first one, maybe the that's that we could cover is, well, let's see, how do I put this without causing too much controversy? T…
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Episode 48: The Politics of Communication
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Professor Barbara Cherry of Indiana University about political division, legislation and regulation, technical evolution, and more. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Barbara Cherry. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Official Website - Yuval Noah Harar…
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to Hadrian Zbarcea about revolutions, both technical and other. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Hadrian Zbarcea and Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: A Ransomware Attack Has Struck a Major US Hospital Chain | WIRED …
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Episode 46: Facial Recognition, Surveillance Technology, and the Balance of Power
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Kyle Rankin talk about facial recognition and surveillance technology in the hands of individuals, and how that affects the balance of power. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Activists Turn Facial Recognition …
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Episode 45: Social Media Regulation and Journalism
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk social media regulation and its relationship to journalism and the threat to Section 230. Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: FCC chairman says he'll seek to regulate social media under Trump's executive order - CNN — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will d…
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Episode 44: Podcasts Killed the Radio Star
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis discuss the evolution of podcasting vs. radio. Show Notes: 00:00:57 Please subscribe to our Newsletter - a reminder :) 00:01:35 Radio vs Podcasting, is it like Godzilla vs Bambi? 00:06:51 What makes podcasting so accessible? 00:20:27 Where we host our podcast and a shoutout to fireside.fm 00:41:2…
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dr. Augustine Fou about his privacy analysis app, Page X-Ray, ad tracking, and data privacy. Show Notes: 00:02:17 Page Xray and Blacklight 00:07:27 While you interact with one web page, who else is harvesting your information? 00:14:13 Listen to which tracker Katherine used for about 10 minute, and promptly…
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Episode 42: Camera Drones, Ad Trackers, and That Netflix Movie
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Kyle Rankin, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's new flying camera, ad tech, and The Social Dilemma. 00:01:27 The spying based advertising business is on it's way out 00:05:55 The Amazon's April fools joke that is now a product 00:12:14 Doc's issue with 'Alexa' listening to you all the time 00:15:09 California's…
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about TikTok and who controls your phone. Notes: 00:00:37 The new contraband - TikTok 00:04:34 Is the US wanting to "play" China and censor? 00:08:19 Will this become an ugly precedent? 00:15:37 We're concerned about the implementation of this ban 00:17:25 The Social Dilemma…
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's Alexa for landlords program. Show notes: 00:00:23 For starters, let's begin with Normalization of Surveillance. 00:50:00 Amazon Alexa for landlords. 00:10:15 Is this really jus another way to discover new markets? 00:19:03 Doc the mechanic?! 00:27:49 If you're young do you rea…
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk remote work, survival, and Facebook. 00:04:09 The three key subjects we're discussing 00:05:41 First subject - Remote work 00:17:41 Covid19 forced remote work, but Petros misses one thing in particular 00:23:24 The increasing disparity between people who can and can't work remotely 00:32:24 S…
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about Digital Convergence. Links mentioned: https://puri.sm/posts/investing-in-real-convergence/ Show notes: 00:00:32 Today we're talking about the idea of Convergence 00:04:36 Green on black Linux is COOL! --Kyle R. 00:07:01 The realization of adaptive design and how do others handle …
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Episode 37: User Sovereignty and Decentralization, The Sequel
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman continue their conversation with Dave Huseby, Hyperledger's Security Maven, about user sovereignty and decentralization, open source culture, cryptography, respectful technology, and more. For more about Dave's projects, keep an eye on: https://vi.rs https://virs-group.slack.com https://medium.com/@dwh_3562 Show no…
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Episode 36: User Sovereignty and Decentralization
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dave Huseby, Hyperledger's Security Maven, about User Sovereignty and Decentralization, Hyperledger, blockchain and security. Special Guests: Dave Huseby and Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
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Episode 35: Bruce Schneier on Truth, Reality, and Contact Tracing
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Bruce Schneier about contact tracing, digital identity, hacking, privacy, and regulation. Show notes: 0:00:25: Contact tracing apps 0:02:31: Contract tracing false positive and false negative 0:04:24: Contract tracing apps adoption rate 0:07:36: Katherine agrees apps should build more trust 0:11:44: The 2nd…
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Episode 34: Privacy and Self-Hosting
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Robert Douglass of Platform.sh about self-hosting collaboration tools, and other current privacy topics. Show notes: 0:00:54: Introduction to a couple of tools 0:02:04: Doc's take on Zoom. 0:05:13: A lot of what we do online is not especially private. 0:06:33: Apple and Google and contact tracing. 0:09:00: …
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin, Petros Koutoupis, and Shawn Powers about the new realities we're facing as a result of COVID-19. Show notes: 0:04:08: How is this situation a little bit different from what we're used to? 0:04:36: E-learning 0:06:00: Shawn on e-learning and computer-based training. 0:08:09: Kids without compute…
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman speak with Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin from the All the Music project, allthemusic.info, a project that has machine-generated all possible melodies and released them to the public domain. We discuss music copyright in the digital landscape and musical math and humanity. We highly recommend watching Damien's TEDx Mi…
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Episode 31: Personal Devices are Personal
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin, CSO of Purism, about mobile phones, their security and privacy vulnerabilities, and Purism's new Librem 5 device. Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Norman, one of the world's most influential designers, about data privacy, the cult of Apple, hero complexes, and climate change. Special Guest: Don Norman. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis discuss the Open Source Cloud landscape, weigh in on Open Source communities and contribution, and open multiple beers. Petros tells us how he really feels about systemd. Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk about ownership, freedom, and convenience in the digital world. Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
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Episode 27: On Ring Doorbells and Consumer Privacy
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin, Purism CSO, about Ring doorbells and consumer privacy. Links: Here's How Amazon's Ring Doorbell Police Partnership Affects You Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant, report says Amazon’s Ring Is a Perfect Storm of Privacy Threats Amazon's Ring camera raises civil liberties…
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Episode 26: Retro Computing with the Altair-Duino
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Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Chris Davis of adwaterandstir.com about his Arduino-based Altair 8800 replica kits. Links mentioned: http://adwaterandstir.com Going Retro with an Altair 8800 Emulator: Introducing the Altair-Duino Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0…
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Episode 25: A Chat With Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, and co-author of Super Thinking and Traction. Special Guest: Gabriel Weinberg. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Yiftach Shoolman, CTO and Co-founder of Redis Labs, about Redis, Open Source licenses, company culture and more. Download ogg format Links mentioned: Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend Redis Labs and the "Common Clause" Redis Labs Changing Its Licensing for Redis Modu…
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Episode 22: Don't Panic, It's All About the Kernel
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Katherine Druckman talks to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about building your own kernel, kernel panics, and other projects. Download in ogg format Links mentioned: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/kernel-issue Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about moving from Mac to Linux. Download ogg format Links Mentioned: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Application_wish_list https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-laptop-buyers-guide Special Guest: …
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Episode 20: Advertising is Broken, but Linux Isn't.
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti, of Mozilla and formerly of Linux Journal, about ad technology, privacy, and the Linux community. Download ogg format Links Mentioned: http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
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Episode 19: Democratizing Cybersecurity
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Alex Gounares of Polyverse Linux about Cybersecurity for everyone. Download in ogg format Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Doc Searls talks to Zhen, Devon and Melora Lofretto of KidOYO and Doctor Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola Public School system in Mineola Long Island. Download OGG format Links Mentioned: The Kids Take Over Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bob Erdman, Security Product Manager for Helpsystems about Linux security threats. Download ogg format Links mentioned: https://www.helpsystems.com/cta/free-network-security-vulnerability-scan https://www.helpsystems.com/cta/intermapper-free-version https://www.helpsystems.com/cta/scan-your-system Support R…
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about digital stalking, journalism, clickbait, and using ad targeting for evil. Download in ogg format Links mentioned: The Spinner’s hack on journalism Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Senior Columnist, Reuven Lerner, about learning new languages such as Python. Download in ogg format Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Elizabeth Renieris about digital identity, ethics, boiled frogs, and horses with lasers. Download ogg format Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dr. Augustine Fou about surveillance marketing, ad tech, and privacy. Links mentioned: If it weren’t for retargeting, we might not have ad blocking Special Guest: Dr. Augustine Fou. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal's Technical Editor, Kyle Rankin, about vendor lock-in. Download ogg format Links mentioned: Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Shaving Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Messaging Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about his Deep Dive articles, storage, blockchain, and moving chairs. Download ogg format Links mentioned: The December issue of Linux Journal Blockchain, Part I: Introduction and Cryptocurrency Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0…
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to David Egts (@davidegts), Chief Technologist North America for the Public Sector at Red Hat (@redhatgov) about open source enthusiasm. Links Mentioned: Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend Adopt-a-Hydrant Special Guest: David Egts. Support Reality 2.0…