The MNT Reform is a Free Hardware laptop that entirely changes the way laptops are desgined and used. Come with us as we talk with the inventor, Lukas Hartmann about his journey into Free Software, the MNT's development and what the future holds on this episode of Libre Lounge! Links MNT Reform Crowdsupply (get your own!) MNT Reform Genode Operatin…

In this episode, Chris and Serge talk with User Interface expert Máirín Duffy about her history with Free Software, user interface in modern GNU/Linux systems and what developers can do to make better programs. Links Máirín's Blogpodcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

Serge and Chris have an conversation about a variety of topics including gender, real vs virtual life, language and pronouns.podcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

Serge and Chris sit down with award winning artist and Free Culture activist David Revoy on his webcomic series Pepper and Carrot, the Sintel film, and how he started his Free Software/Free Culture journey. Links:David Revoy's WebsiteSupporting David FinanciallyPepper & CarrotSintel Film3DVFFramasoftBlender FoundationBlender InstituteKritaMyPaintGN…

CW: This episode has dark themes and may be challenging for those suffering from depression In this episode of Libre Lounge, Serge and Chris invite Sean O'Brien back to the show to talk about the threats to our privacy that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic, including and especially the EARN-IT act, as well as how tragedies have effected soc…

Serge and Chris briefly discuss space games before a deep dive concern about the Affero General PublicLicense. Links: The Affero General Public License Is the AGPL Broken? Empty Epsilonpodcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

Chris returns to Libre Lounge for a casual conversation about their work, gender identity and social gaming during the era of COVID-19. Links: Spritely Project Software Freedom Conservancy Greeting Card Terminal Phase Libre Lounge Episode about Cool Terminal Tools What is Non-Binary Spivak Pronouns Empty Epsilon…

Serge has some personal words about Coronovirus, and how Libre Lounge is responding.podcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

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Phil Hagelberg (technomancy) joins Serge for a conversation about Clojure, a new lisp called Fennel, making video games, and making free hardware design keyboards. Links: Fennel Language Website Atreus Keyboard Phil Hagelberg's Website Phil Talking about the creation of the Atreus Keyboard Leiningen Energize! Game EXO_encounter 667 Game The Lua Lan…

On this mini-episode of Libre Lounge, Serge talks about his friend Greg Schnitzer, how the values of Star Trek made an impact on his life, and what we in the User Freedom community can learn from them. Links: Star Trek New Voyages New Voyages Episodes Video of Greg Talking about Props An online tribute to Greg Trekkies Documentary For the Love of S…

On this episode of Libre Lounge, Chris and Serge are joined by RoryM ofthe CyPurr Collective, a Brooklyn based digital security group focusedon bringing improved computer privacy and security to the masses throughworkshops that focus on asking questions and listening. Hear about CyPurr's approach, its history and its vision, as well aswhat we in th…

It's been a long summer and it's time for a fun break. Serge and Christalk about some of their favorite fun tools in this short episode ofLibre Lounge! Links: htop figlet byobu Ledger mosh autossh unison baobab Pandoc bb watch Cool Retro Termpodcast@librelounge.org (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 DataShar…

Serge and Chris have been busy working on a plan to keep the Fediverse safefrom spam, scammers and hate speech. On this episode of Libre Lounge, theyshare that plan with the world. We also announce the ActivityPubConference for September7th and 8th! Links: Serge's Paper Keeping Unwanted Messages off the Fediverse Chris's Paper OcapPub: Towards netw…

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 (Mit…

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)podcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

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…

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 …

In this episode of Libre Lounge, Chris and Serge continue exploringActivityPub. They use this episode to discuss webfinger, http signaturesand some of the parts of the ActivityPub protocol that are less wellunderstood. Listen to Part 1 Here Listen to Part 2 Here Links: ActivityPub Webfinger HTTP Signatures 5 Day Wait time in SMTP ActivityPub Federa…

Serge sits down with both Chris and Deb Nicholson to discuss building and maintaining a healthy Free Software community. Show Links: GNU Mediagoblin Software Freedom Conservancy Spinach Con Contributor Covenant OpenHatch First Timers Only OpenBSD Release Songspodcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

Chris and Serge wax poetic about instant messengers of the past, theirinfluence on Free Software, on communication and ways that they impactedeach of their lives. Content Warning: This episode has a brief discussion of death, includingsuicide. If you struggle with depression and are having a crisis, please use one of the resources listed at the end…

In our ongoing series about ActivityPub, Chris and Serge explore the world of JSON-LD and the ActivityStreams vocabulary. Listen to Part 1 Here Listen to Part 3 Here Links: The ActivityPub Specification (w3c) ActivityStreams (w3c) JSON-LD (json-ld.org) JSON-LD Playground (json-ld.org) Cyc (wikipedia) RDF (w3c)…

Are you ready for a meta episode? Curious about how Libre Lounge gets made? This show is for you as Serge and Chris talk about their goals for Libre Lounge and the process for making a show in 2019. Links: Audacity Haunt Git Annex Archive.orgpodcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

We're still at Libre Planet 2019 and we're talking to Sean O'Brien from the Yale Privacy Lab and Purism about personal security, phones, and how stores use sounds you can't hear to spy on you. Links: Yale Privacy Lab (yale.edu) The LibreM Phone (puri.sm) Exodus Privacy (exodus-privacy.eu.org) F-Droid (f-droid.org) LineageOS (lineageos.org) Uber Tra…

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 Li…

The Libre Lounge crew invite Kate Sills from Agoric to help explain and exploreObject Capabilities, an alternative to traditional ACL (Access Control List) orauthentication based mechanisms. Links: Agoric (agoric.com) POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident (medium.com) What are Object Capabilities? (habitatchronicles.com) An OCAP Appro…

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 mat…

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.podcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

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 (gi…

Chris and Serge continue their discussion from last time about Free Software funding models. Listen to Part 1 herepodcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

In this first part of a two parter, Serge and Chris talk about funding models for Free Software development. Listen to Part 2 here.podcast@librelounge.org (Libre Lounge)

In this episode of Libre Lounge, Serge and Chris talk about the Free Culture movement and contrast it with other forms of Free Culture online, including the Remix movement and "Youtube culture". Links: Definition of Free Cultural Works (freedomdefined.org) Karl Fogel's Talk on the History of Copyright (youtube.com) QuestionCopyright.org's Minute Me…

In this first of the year episode, Chris and Serge take a break from heady topics and talk about a few of their favorite Free Software video games. Show links: Nethack New ATI Card Pushes Limits of ASCII Gaming Extreme Tux Racer Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Globulation 2 Pixel Dungeon Kobo Deluxe Frozen Bubble Endless Sky Barbie Seahorse Adventures Emp…

In their first interview, Chris and Serge interview Karen Sandler, Executive Director of Software Freedom Conservancy, Founder of Outreachy, and co-host of the Free as in Freedom podcast. Show Links: Software Freedom Conservancy (sfconservancy.org) Become a Software Freedom Conservancy Supporter! (sfconservancy.org) Free as in Freedom (faif.us) Git…

In this episode of Libre Lounge, Chris sits down with Serge to talk about the Universal Declaration of Human rights and discuss how they relate to Free Software. Show links: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (un.org) An Animated Version of the Universa Declaration of Human Rights (youtube) Is Migration a Basic Human Right? (freakonomics.com…

In this episode of Libre Lounge, Serge and Chris go back to the roots of hacker culture starting in the 1950s and 1960s and connecting that with the hacker culture of today, its challenges and how it needs to evolve moving forward. Show links: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy (stevenlevy.com) Free as in Freedom (sagitter.fe…

In their second episode, Serge and Chris return from Thanksgiving thinking about malware in Free Software, specifically the NPM bitcoin attack found in event-streamer Show links: Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy) Backdoor in event-stream library dependency (hacker news) The event-stream bug report (github) Statement about the event-stream …

In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux. Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)! Links to some of the things discussed in the show Linux Sucks Forever - The latest …