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**Reality 2.0**

Join Privacy and Open Source advocates, Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman, as they navigate the new digital world, covering topics related to digital privacy, cybersecurity, digital identity, as well as Linux and open source and other current issues.

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Episode 119: RapidDisk and Open Source Maintainership Jul 22, 2022

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Katherine Druckman talks to Petros Koutoupis about maintaining RapidDisk, his open source RAM disk software.

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GitHub - pkoutoupis/rapiddisk: An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devices. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network. — An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devices. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network.
The Linux RAM Disk — The RAM disk has its significant advantages alongside some major disadvantages and despite those disadvantages, it still hasn't prevented it from being used in full production environments to even the local desktop; where it is often used as a temporary cache for various services and applications. The idea is nothing new and has been around for at least a few decades but as we increase our computing power and are capable of utilizing larger amounts of system memory, the concept becomes much more intriguing.
RAM Drive Acceleration » ADMIN Magazine — Enable and share performant block devices across a network of compute nodes with the RapidDisk kernel RAM drive module.
Jeff Geerling on Twitter: "lol for one of my #opensource projects, an #infosec employee at @EpicGames emailed me this questionnaire with over 100 questions and wants me to fill it out so they can use my freely available open source software. No. https://t.co/IcRgh12LWc" / Twitter

Episode 118: Design and Fabrication with Inventables Jul 15, 2022

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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables, about design and fabrication with 3D carving, maker culture, and the history of Inventables.

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Projects | Inventables
Creating the First Usable Mouse | ideo.com — In 1980, Apple asked IDEO to develop a mouse for their radical new computer, the Lisa. Previous attempts at mouse design, by Douglas Englebart and Xerox PARC, yielded results that were too expensive and hard to make. The Apple mouse needed to be more reliable and less than 10 percent of the cost of the earlier versions.
x-carve - Search Results | Facebook
kaizen foam at DuckDuckGo
George Carlin - A place for my stuff - YouTube
Reality 2.0 Episode 104: Digital Archives and Nomads — Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Steven Roberts about digitizing media, photography, and retro computing.

Episode 117: Thrivacy Jul 08, 2022

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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gordon Jones and Erica Barnette about Thrivacy, their new digital wallet for private, verifiable credentials.

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Understanding DIDComm. A cross-community effort to standardize… | by Kaliya-IdentityWoman | Decentralized Identity Foundation | Medium — If you are reading this, you probably know already what Decentralized Identifiers (DID) are: they are “identifiers” or addresses which can be queried to return some information about the subject represented. The addresses take the form of a long, opaque “string” (a long block of letters and numbers, in this case of a fixed length), and the DID “documents” that get returned when they are queried contain some cryptographic key material and, depending on the particularities of the returning system, maybe a few other pieces of information or addresses.
Decentralized identifier - Wikipedia — Decentralized identifiers are a type of identifier that enables a verifiable, decentralized digital identity.[1][2] They are an important component of decentralized web applications.

Episode 116: The state of the CMS vs Silos Jun 24, 2022

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Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Adam Bergstein about the evolution of CMSes, the current landscape, and how they fit in with today’s siloed web.

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DrupalCon 2022 Recap | Nerdstein — While the CMS and DXP framework space is exploding, Drupal’s adoption numbers are trending down overall. While the talk covers this in greater depth, there were a few primary reasons my research uncovered: A heavy focus on an extensible, ambitious development framework de-emphasized builders and adopters who want low/no-code solutions and are concerned with time-to-value Frameworks are positioned for an enterprise market, where extensibility is critical to business success. Adoption is favoring tools that have more SaaS-based delivery (including products that deliver Wordpress) because they address SMB needs: faster time-to-value, common everyday features, usability over extensibility, no-code, and no/low maintenance offerings.
Evaluating the Landscape of Drupal Competition
Time for THEM to agree to OUR terms | by Doc Searls | Medium — We can do for customers what Creative Commons does for artists: give them terms they can offer — and be can read and agreed to by lawyers, ordinary folks, and their machines. And then we can watch “free market” come to mean what it says, and not just “your choice of captor.”
Doc Searls on Twitter: "Remarkable and surprising visualization on @Reddit: https://t.co/86j1FNIk0Z" / Twitter
Home | Simplytest — simplytest.me helps you to find the module, theme or distribution that fits your needs. It provides sandbox environments for testing the functionality of any project before even downloading it.
IEEE P7012 - Machine Readable Privacy Terms Working Group - IEEE P7012 Working Group — The standard identifies/addresses the manner in which personal privacy terms are proffered and how they can be read and agreed to by machines.

Episode 115: Geeks in Space Jun 17, 2022

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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Paul Bailey of Cognitive Space about open source code, aerospace engineering, managing satellites, and the space shuttle! Listen to the end for your next weekend project.

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Cognitive Space — Access the full potential of your space resources with our next-generation machine intelligence platform.
Geospatial Intelligence | Real Time | BlackSky | SmallSat Constellations — BlackSky is Defining the Category of Real-Time Geospatial Intelligence
Heavens-Above
Space-Track.Org — Space-Track.org promotes space flight safety, protection of the space environment and the peaceful use of space worldwide by sharing space situational awareness services and information with U.S. and international satellite owners/operators, academia and other entities.
Aqua Earth-observing satellite mission | Aqua Project Science — Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission is collecting about the Earth's water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice. Additional variables also being measured by Aqua include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures.
MODIS/VIIRS Land Product Subsets — These MODIS/VIIRS Subsetting and Visualization services provide user-defined subsets of selected MODIS and VIIRS Land Products at a scale useful for field researchers in easy-to-use formats and are offered in collaboration with the Land Processes DAAC.
Bobiverse Series by Dennis E. Taylor — Bobiverse Series

Episode 114: Ethical Advertising Jun 10, 2022

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Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about how to advertise without being creepy.

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Is Ethical Advertising Possible? – Purism — Is ethical advertising possible? We all certainly know unethical advertising is possible, we live with it every day. The ad-driven Internet has created an insatiable hunger for personal data and as a result most of what the average person does in their web browser, or on their phone, and in real life is being measured, tracked, and sold to some degree. Yet if a company actually cared about your privacy and wanted to advertise its products, could it do so ethically? Can you track what a visitor does on your website without violating their privacy? We have been thinking about these issues heavily at Purism as we consider how to expand our marketing and in this article I’m going to explore where we currently are in our thinking.
Doc Searls Weblog · People vs. Adtech — Below are blog posts, articles and essays I’ve written toward four goals in fighting surveillance of our private spaces online by the tracking-based advertising business and its dependents in publishing.
Opinion | In Stores, Secret Bluetooth Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move - The New York Times — Imagine you are shopping in your favorite grocery store. As you approach the dairy aisle, you are sent a push notification in your phone: “10 percent off your favorite yogurt! Click here to redeem your coupon.” You considered buying yogurt on your last trip to the store, but you decided against it. How did your phone know?

Episode 113: Authentic Users and Data May 27, 2022

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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dave Huseby of Cryptid.tech about pseudonymous authentication and verifiable data.

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Reality 2.0 Episode 112: Pseudonymous Authentication for Twitter — Katherine Druckman and Kyle Rankin talk to Dave Huseby about his new approach to pseudonymous user authentication.
Reality 2.0 Episode 61: The Future of Authenticating Your Data — Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Dave Huseby about the authentic data economy, and the future of authentication.

Episode 112: Pseudonymous Authentication for Twitter May 20, 2022

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Katherine Druckman and Kyle Rankin talk to Dave Huseby about his new approach to pseudonymous user authentication.

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Authentication With Pseudonymity - Cryptid Technologies — Authentication With Pseudonymity How Elon can Legally Transform Twitter with Pseudonymous Free Speech by Dave Huseby “Authentication is important, but so is anonymity for many. A balance must be struck.” — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) In a well-studied and famous letter dated October 17, 1788 from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, Madison discusses the proposed Bill of Rights and his plan for getting it passed in the first session of Congress. One fact that many do not know is that the letter is encrypted in part using a cipher invented by Thomas Jefferson. In the letter, Madison details the bitter and extremely contentious politics among the states, especially between the prominent Anti-Federalists and the Federalists like themselves. Madison’s chief concern was passing the Bill of Rights to quell any organized opposition to the Constitution. Political persecution was rampant and serious enough that Madison and Jefferson made careful use of encryption to avoid being doxxed and canceled because of their private political opinions.

Episode 111: Peer-to-Peer Messaging with Quiet May 13, 2022

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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Holmes Wilson about Quiet, a Tor-based peer-to-peer messaging project.

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GitHub - ZbayApp/monorepo — An early prototype for a peer-to-peer alternative to Slack and Discord.

Episode 110: More on Mastodon May 06, 2022

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Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Shawn Powers have far too much fun continuing the conversation about Mastodon and the fediverse, with a dose of photography.

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