Join Wayne (out there) and Joe (in here) as they discuss the big picture of computing freedom.
Show Notes
- New intro song!
- Wayne & Joe recap 2018: Joe Trains, Wayne refrains
- Wayne has a good explosion of techiness: nextcloudpi, zsun card reader mesh hack
- Wayne plugs OpenWRT and creates OpenWRT telegram group
- Wayne brings up yggdrasil mesh project
- Wayne/Joe try to guess the meaning of the impossible-to-read-and-pronounce name. Turns out it's just a norse pagan tree god...
- Why mesh network?
- We need a people-owned internet so a small number of corporations don't own our communication
- Wayne touches on ability for people to spy on internet cables
- Ubuntu Touch is important because...
- Even if you free up your software and hardware, you still have a compromised network that you run it on...
- Three key mesh network projects to remove ISPs from the earth! Serval Mesh, OpenWRT, yggdrasil
- Ubiquiti long range wifi extenders are even cheaper than Wayne thought!
- Even if people 'cared' would they actually do anything? Or is a 'life event' required?
- Keyboard Cursor Trick
- Is the fear of change greater than the motivation to improve?
- In free software, which comes first? The software or the hardware?
- Nice quotes to end the day:
- "Not enough people" - Joe
- "The problem within all the problems is... the people....and the fall of humanity." - Joe (and Wayne)
- "The easiest diet is the one you have right now" - Joe
- "We need to keep hanging around the right people." - Wayne
- New outro song!