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After years of producing Linux, BSD and Other Open Source Podcasts, I came to the realization that we almost always focus on the technology. It makes sense, we all love tech, that's why we are who we are. But the community we are apart of is full of varied and fascinating people that make that tech. This is my attempt to highlight the people who are helping dream up and build the future around us.
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Each fortnight, the Blocks Decoded Podcast will bring you vital news from the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain, broken down into an easily digestible blocksize. Furthermore, the team will break down handy cryptocurrency tips, the best and most exciting blockchain innovations, and help you better understand the world of cryptocurrency.
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Ben Cotton Ben Cotton is the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. We talk about about Fedora, his history getting into Linux, and what it's like herding cats for a job. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcotton/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FunnelFiasco/ Website: https://www.funnelfiasco.com Notes: Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.…
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Brett Davis Brett Davis is the Executive Vice President at iXsystems. We talk about his first jobs in the tech field, his introduction to open source, as well as the interesting history of iXsystems. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettiandavis/ Notes: Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.com Special Guest: Brett Davis.…
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Deb Goodkin Deb Goodkin is the Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deb-goodkin-b282924a/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgoodkin Notes: https://freebsdfoundation.org/ Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.com Special Guest: Deb Goodkin.By JT Pennington
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Philippe Humeau Philippe Humeau is the Founder of CrowdSec, a free, modern & collaborative behavior detection engine, coupled with a global IP reputation network. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippehumeau/ Notes: https://crowdsec.net/ https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.com Special Gu…
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Dr. Brian Callahan Brian is a Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an OpenBSD Developer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-robert-callahan-ph-d-707738137/ Notes: https://briancallahan.net/ https://mastodon.com/bcallah@bsdnetwork Brian's interview on BSD Now : https://www.bsdnow.tv/422 Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonm…
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Kim McMahon Kim is the Director of Visibility & Community Engagement at RISC-V International and a Co-Chair of the Open Hardware Diversity Alliance. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimmcmahonco/ Notes: RISC-V: https://www.linkedin.com/company/risc-v-international/ OHDA: https://diversityhw.org Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.c…
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Richard Brown Richard Brown is a long time SUSE and OpenSUSE community member and a current Linux Distribution Engineer at SUSE. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sysrich/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sysrich Notes: Other websites to connect with Richard on: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/RBrownCCB https://instagram.com/sysrich http…
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Gregory Kurtzer Gregory is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ctrl IQ, Inc and the Founder of CentOS and Rocky Linux. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gmkurtzer/ https://github.com/gmkurtzer https://gmkurtzer.github.io https://ctrliq.com/ Notes: MPI Hello world - https://mpitutorial.com/tutorials/mpi-hello-world/ HPL Linpack - https://www.netlib…
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Mark Himelstein Mark is the Chief Technology Officer at RISC-V International, a non-profit consortium chartered to standardize, protect, and promote the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heavenstone/ Notes: https://riscv.org https://www.linkedin.com/company/risc-v-international/ Credits: Music b…
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E.G. Nadhan Nadhan is the Chief Architect and Strategist for Red Hat North America. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/egnadhan/ Notes: https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-open-source-report/2021 https://research.redhat.com https://next.redhat.com Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.com Special Guest: E.G. Nadhan.…
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Tom Jones Tom Jones is an Internet Researcher and FreeBSD developer that works on improving the core protocols that drive the Internet. He is a contributor to open standards in the IETF and is enthusiastic about using FreeBSD as a platform to experiment with new networking ideas as they progress towards standardisation. Twitter: https://twitter.com…
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Mark Harding Mark Harding is the CTO of Minds.com, an open source Social Network that pays you for your content. We talk about how he got into Open Source Development, what let him to building a social network, and how AI fits into an open mindset. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-harding-43303938 Minds: https://www.minds.com/mark/ Notes:…
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Christopher Waid Chris is the Founder & CEO of ThinkPenguin. Notes: ThinkPenguin https://www.thinkpenguin.com Freedom Decrypted Podcast: https://www.freedomdecrypted.com Eoma68: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop+ Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.com Special Guest: Christopher Waid.…
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Name Colin Percival is the Developer of Tarsnap and a FreeBSD Developer. Twitter: https://twitter.com/cperciva LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-percival-8269672/?originalSubdomain=ca Notes: Colin's Scrypt paper http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf Colin's personal website http://www.daemonology.net Cheri Project https://www.cl.cam.ac…
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Jon "maddog" Hall Board Chair for the Linux Professional Institute maddog and I talk about he got started working in technology, the early days of #Linux, and the various #opensource projects he's involved with. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/maddoghall Notes: Linux Professional Institute : https://www.lp…
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Luke Leighton Luke Leighton is the Lead Dev and Project Coordinator for Libre-SOC LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lkclnet/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lkcl LibreSOC: https://libre-soc.org Notes: https://www.crnhq.org/12-skill-summary/ https://aldacenter.org Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.com Special Guest: Luke Kenneth Casso…
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Dan Langille Dan is a sysadmin at Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group, He's the organizer of BSDCan, the man behind the FreeBSD Diary, Fresh Ports, and Fresh Source. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DLangille LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlangille/ Notes: Sites Dan Runs: https://www.freebsddiary.org https://www.freshports.org https://www.freshs…
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Keith Perry Keith is the Founder of DAO Technologies and works as a systems, network, security and application development professional. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-c-perry-ms-e-e-7023b622 Website: http://daotechnologies.com/ Credits: Music by ikson: https://www.iksonmusic.com Special Guest: Keith Perry.…
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Melanie Shimano Melanie Shimano. Melanie is facaulty at John Hopkins, the founder of the Food Computer Program in Baltimore, and currently attending Harvard working towards her Masters in Education. https://twitter.com/melanieshimano https://www.forbes.com/profile/melanie-shimano/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-shimano-56ba133a Notes: MDM inte…
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Scott McCarty Scott McCarty is a principle product manager for the container subsystem team at Red Hat... if you're unsure what that means... lets just say he's one of the super awesome guys and gals who make sure that the OpenShift on Red Hat works. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scmccarty/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fatherlinux Notes: As…
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Frank Karlitschek Frank Karlitschek is the Managing Director and Founder of NextCloud. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankkarlitschek/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fkarlitschek?lang=en Notes: User Data Manafest: https://userdatamanifesto.org Frank's FOSDEM 2018 talk "Why I forked my own project and my own company": https://www.youtube.com/w…
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Charlie Reisinger Charlie Reisinger is the Technology Director for Penn Manor School District in Lancaster County Pennsylvania,where hs is a member of the senior leadership team, he directs instructional technology programs and technical infrastructure and operations. Charlie is also the other the Author of "The Open Schoolhouse". Personal website:…
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Ruth Suehle Ruth is the Senior Community Outreach Manager at Red Hat. She was heavily involved in OpenSource.com, she is the author of Raspberry Pi Hacks along with co-author Tom Callaway, and she is part of the Red Hat CoLab Project. https://twitter.com/suehle https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthsuehle/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rsuehle Note…
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Hugh Blemings Hugh Blemings, the former Director of the Open Power Foundation, comes on the program to talk about his life and journey with technology. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugh-blemings/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hughhalf OpenPower Foundation Board: https://openpowerfoundation.org/about-us/board-of-directors/ Notes: Credits: Mu…
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Matthew Miller Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Lead, comes on the program to talk about his life and journey with technology. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewmiller/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattdm Fedora Wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mattdm Notes: JT's Wall-o-Linux that Matthew references: https://photos.smugmug.com…
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Welcome to Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 9! In the news this week: The Litecoin halving event completes, with some interesting results for the Litecoin market Thailand explores the introduction of new AML rules targeting cryptocurrencies Roger Ver vs. Craig Wright court case reaches a conclusion... or is it a new beginning? The Blocks Decoded Team…
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Welcome to Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 8! In the news this week: The BitMEX margin trading exchange comes under extreme scruitinty from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after allowing US citizens to trade cryptocurrency futures President Trump calls Bitcoin a scam and says Facebook Libra won't work --- is this good for Bitcoin? Th…
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Welcome to Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 7! In the news this week: Facebook Libra comes under continued attack, with the Chinese government (sort of) announcing a national cryptocurrency Open source blockchain explorer tool, SimBlock, hits the market and lets anyone play around with the Bitcoin blockchain Nestle nibbles at new networks; in other w…
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Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 7 looks at Facebook vs. Everyone (mainly China!), a new open source blockchain explorer and test tool, and food giant Nestle's embracing of blockchain technology. The team also give you the low down on Ontology (ONT), the 5 best Coinbase alternatives, and a heap of blockchain films and documentaries you can watch over…
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Welcome to Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 6! In the news this week: Facebook announces Libra, their long awaited "cryptocurrency" offering. The Bitcoin price is heading to the moon---what's driving the price increase, and where will it go? The Bitcoin price increase is accompanied by a surge in cryptocurrency mining activity and a boost in the mini…
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Welcome to Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 5! In the news this week: - Justin Sun wins charity auction, claiming cryptocurrency lunch with Warren Buffet as the prize - India proposes draconian anti-cryptocurrency laws, up to 10 years in jail for using Bitcoin - Binance suffers a drive failure, taking the entire exchange offline and sparking mild pan…
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Welcome to Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 4! In the news this week: - A 51% attack on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, but everything is probably okay - Conflux is developing an exciting new Proof of Stake algorithm - Telegram Open Network blockchain information is starting to appear - Pro athletes want their salary in crypto! The Blocks Decoded Team a…
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Welcome to Blocks Decoded Podcast Episode 3! In the news this week: - Will the Bitcoin price continue to rise? What's fuelling the rise in Bitcoin price, and the altcoins with it? - US Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman wants to ban all cryptocurrencies; why? - A massive Satoshi reveal... with a twist! The Blocks Decoded Team also discuss: - Who i…
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Welcome to the second Blocks Decoded Podcast! In the news this week: - Why has the SEC frozen trading on the Bitcoin Generation exchange? - The continued "adventures" of Craig Wright, aka "Not Satoshi" - Jaguar Land Rover announce trial to buy car driver data with IOTA The Blocks Decoded Team also discuss: - What is Binance Coin (BNB) - Why Crypto …
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Welcome to the very first Blocks Decoded Podcast. In the news this week: Find out why: - Binance and other exchanges are delisting BCHSV - What might a Facebook token look like and would it be good for cryptocurrency? - Is Coinbase Card is worth your time? The Blocks Decoded team also discuss: - The 7 Best Apps to Track Crypto Prices - 2019s Most E…
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