Libre Lounge @librelounge@floss.social

I'm having a bit of a family emergency. I need to take time off for a while. That means no new @librelounge for a while.

I have a ton of episodes planned out with @cwebber- exciting stuff about Lisp, about adventures with Git, about ActivityPub, DataShards, Spritely, and some exciting guests.

We'll be on a hiatus, but not forgotten- promise.

In happier news, my Datashards Rationale document got accepted as a Rebooting Web of Trust pre-reading document https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/datashards-rationale.md

and so did @emacsen's AP Unwanted Messages writeup (which has also informed much of the writeup I'm working on now for OcapPub) https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/ap-unwanted-messages.md

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I buried the lede in my earlier comment, sorry.

It was wonderful to hear Serge and Sean Hillman discuss diversity in gaming, both in terms of the players and in terms of settings and story tropes. I'm pleased to hear of Sean's D.I.R.G.Ezine project too.

@librelounge you guys are on the front page of r/Linux!

Hackers, Freedonians and Everyone Else...

You may not know me but I produce and edit a Free Software podcast called Libre Lounge. I want to take the podcast in some new directions, either LL itself, or a new podcast with a similar aim, but to do that, I'm going to need some help- production and editing especially. If you have those kinds of skills and can help, please send me a direct message or email me at emacsen@emacsen.net!

Several pieces of email we've gotten to @librelounge has been spam by someone wanting us to link to an article or song of theirs on our podcast.

I've been using this as an opportunity to tell people about Freely Licensed works, and why we would be happy to check their music/article out, but only if it's Free.

Maybe one day someone will actually change their license to fit our requirements. :smile:

Wow this post blew up!

For anyone who liked it... I co-host a podcast about User Freedom with @cwebber called @librelounge which you can check out at https://librelounge.org

A few months ago, Microsoft decided to collaborate with Google and drop its web engine in favor of Google's.

Earlier this week, Google blocked all ad blockers, and now Microsoft has de-listed UBlock Origin (a powerful ad-blocker). Without real choice, monopolies will dictate what you see and do on the Internet.

Real choice comes with Free/Open Source Software.

On episode 21 of @librelounge we talked about how Unix programs communicate with each other with primitive data structures.

What else could exist? Well, just look at episode 17 where we talk about about rich data structures on the web and linked data!

In a weird "me day" coincidence, the LibreLounge episode where I talk with @cwebber and @emacsen about FOSS community development, is also available! https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-19-community-development-with-deb-nicholson.html

@librelounge Stop pretending that you're not just me using a different account!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ZkJdQok2c