0x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x61_FOSDEM-2019-keynote-II.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x61_FOSDEM-2019-keynote-II.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: <cite>Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software</cite>. This episode is the second of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in history when they used very little proprietary software, and then discuss the beginning of their personal Dark Ages of using some proprietary software.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4> Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned The Who's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_destruction">destruction of their instruments</a> and his discomfort with it in relation to computers. (06:10)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen mentioned their long-time use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream">the HTC Dream</a> (07:30)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that he helped start the Replicant project, but his primary contribution was its name. (08:24)</li> </ul> <h4> Segment 1 (12:34)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen mentioned the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who%27s_Tommy_Pinball_Wizard">pinball machine that she owns</a>. (12:50)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the Dead Kennedys <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Me_Convenience_or_Give_Me_Death">album, <cite>Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death</cite></a>. (25:10)</li> <li>Karen and Bradley discuss proprietary Javascript. (28:20) <li>This is the <a href="/cast-media/google-maps-no-js.png">screen you get if you attempt to use Google maps without Javascript</a>. (28:45) Karen was wrong about this image no longer appearing. The image linked to here is from the day before our FOSDEM keynote was delivered. (29:55) </li> <li>Bradley and Karen recorded this episode while on site at LinuxConf Australia 2019. They had dinner the night this was recorded at a restaurant called, <a href="https://duxdine.co.nz/">Dux Dine</a> in Christchurch, NZ. There <a href="/cast-media/duxdine.jpg">were, in fact, ducks dining at Dux Dine</a>. (35:07) </li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>