Hacker Culture

How To Increase Your Internet Privacy Using Only Your Mind

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about how to level up your privacy online using only your mind. Having the correct mindset will get you 80% of the way to inte...

How To Run OpenBSD On 10 Year Old Tech

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about running OpenBSD on a top of the line laptop from 2011. We also cover files to edit for a Linux replacement, how to conne...

Which Programming Language Is The Best To Learn First

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we chat about programming languages. Specifically, which is best to learn first depending on what part of the "stack" you pl...

Which Linux Distro Is The Best For The Beginner & Expert?

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about with Linux distribution is best for you. We cover Ubuntu, Manjaro, and the two distros they spun out of. Plus, what I us...

How To Remove Google From Android

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How to remove Google from your Android phone is easier than you might expect. What's often holding people back is where to find the right information....

How To Not Ruin Your Tech When You Overclock

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about over clocking your PC and how to do it the right way. You spent your hard earned money on those computer parts so why no...

Bitcoin is the Real Meme Coin

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we chat about why Bitcoin is not good money and what cryptocurrency is good money.

Store Your Dotfiles The Right Way

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tired of your spaghetti symlinks file and needing to update it after every file you create? Try this approach and have a simple and sane dotfile direc...

Time to Use A Real Chat App

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As a kid in the mid 2000s I fell in love with chat apps. But what is the best app for real hackers today?

Plain text is always better...

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about why plain text files are better for efficiency in your workflows.

Ditching Linux For OpenBSD?!

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we chat about OpenBSD vs. Linux and why I started to dabble in OpenBSD on my X200

It's Time To Be Your Own Platform

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In thin episode we talk about how it's easier than ever to be your own host and platform. Now is the time to take back the web and decentralize it as ...

Automating Youtube-DL for Copyright Free Music

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we chat about a shell script I wrote called "audiodl" and how it simplified my process of saving music from an online source to my com...

How to do Open Source as a Business

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about my plan to pivot my Internet based company to allow me to write open source code full time. There are three ways that ma...

Finally De-Googled & Social Feed Free

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In thin episode we talk about how home-y a Google free Android device feels. As well as my new site at swab.dev

DWM or Bust!

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we tank about tiling window managers and how much I missed DWM.

Google Free Again? Not so fast kiddo...

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode I talk about the long hard road to being Google free again on my Android device.

How To Get Your First Programming Job... Even If You Don't Know How To Code!

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Programming is becoming an essential skill as times change due to the ever increasing use of computer technology. In this episode we talk about why yo...

How Every Hacker Can Increase Their Security Over Night

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about 2FA. What it is, why you need it, and what are the best options out there. https://linktr.ee/jrswab

Gitea

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gitea is a fork of Gogs; both of which are a self hosted Git solution putting you in full control of your repos. Join us at chat.jrswab.com

ubPorts & Ubuntu Touch

10 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I got a free Nexus 5 so I decided to load up Ubuntu Touch.

Debating on Using Emacs...

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As a hacker I am always out to learn new skills and recently it has been Emacs. I love Vim though so this is a touchy subject...

How to Play Dwarf Fortress in the Terminal

25 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The following instructions are for Arch Linux without Xorg (so  essentially terminal only arch or what you get after a fresh Arch Linux  ins...

How To Block Ads On Your Entire Network

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many people use an ad blocker like uBlockOrigin to block ads from  tracking us around the web but this only works on the devices it is  inst...

Matrix: Decentralized Communication

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Welcome to Matrix: An open network for secure, decentralized communication."

Webapps Sandboxed Revisited

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Last week we talked about a new app I found called Webapps Sandboxed. This week I talk about what it was like using it for as many apps as possible.

How To Increase Android App Privacy

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"The idea behind it is to provide a secure way to browse popular webapps by eliminating referrers, 3rd party requests, insecure HTTP requests, etc. It...

How To Type Unicode With Any Keyboard!

11 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing s...

A Technology Nerd's Notion Review

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Then I was browsing YouTube at the end of the night to relax before bed  and came across a video talking about note-taking applications that are ...

How To Mine Monero With AMD Graphics On Linux

28 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

One day awhile back I chose to learn about a cryptocurrency that previously I knew nothing about. The pick was Monero, a coin (at the time) ranked thi...

You Need To Stop DNS Leaks

14 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

My mind has been on the Domain Name System (DNS) server for about a week now. I've been mulling over whether VPNs are necessary and what level of trus...

You VPN Is Not Enough

07 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A VPN is an encrypted tunnel between your computer and the internet  at large. They exist to allow employees access to internal intranets of a &n...

Drop Patreon Use Liberapay

17 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Patreon is able to shut down the income of a creator that is flagged by a random user. This is, at times, warranted by the content of the creator but ...

Don't Miss Out on Grav: the Open Source CMS!

26 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Grav is a web-based CMS in much the same way that WordPress is web-based. You set up an account on your server and then log in to create posts, pages,...

I'm Rethinking RSS

19 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After some thinking about the current state of social media and mass email lists, RSS came to mind, and it's actually a much better alternative for pr...

All about BitShares - The Original Decentralized Exchange

12 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about the original decentralized cryptocurrency exchange called BitShares. Why risk the hacking and government shutdown of the...

From Google Free To OnePlus 6T

05 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For the past year, I was using the OnePlus 3T without any Google apps or services. Now I picked up the OnePlus 6T and am figuring out a balance betwee...

Programmer Dvorak

09 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Secure Scuttlebutt

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Secure Scuttlebutt is "a database of unforgeable append-only feeds, optimized for efficient replication for peer to peer protocols." This may be my wa...

The Official XMPP Server Is Live!

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Join us over at [email protected]! Need an XMPP account? No problem, just us Pidgin or Finch to sign up and start chatting with us today!

Learning To Master RegEx

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we chat about Regular Expressions and a great tool to learn how to use this powerful tool wisely. Let me know if you can make this sh...

IPFS To The Resue!

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IPFS, Better Than HTTP When we download a file from the internet, we access a traditional server and request to have the data we need. Then the serve...

Linux System Administration 001

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about a book that I am using to study up on Linux System Administration. My goal is to same day work as a sysadmin and filling...

Let's Learn Bash! Tutorial 003

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The previous episode in this series covered a few basic commands that we use most often in both the terminal and in Bash scripts. Today we will stay w...

Let's Learn Bash! Tutorial 002

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the bash tutorial series. If you have not listened to the first episode in the series and you have never used bash please check that o...

Let's Learn Bash! Tutorial 001

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is a start to a series all about bash and scripting for the terminal. There are lots of commands to cover but today is all about the basics.

How To Get Healthy As A Technology Enthusiast

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Us geeks, nerds, and technology lovers spend most of our day in front of a computer. We wake up and head the work where we spend eight hours on a comp...

Powerful Effects Of Ergonomic Technology

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

While this podcast is all about a technology of some sort this episode needs the attention of the nerd community. We spend all day on our computers co...

YaCy: How To Search The Internet In Freedom and Privacy

27 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We mentioned YaCy in the past episode titled "Peer-To-Peer: Our Only Hope." Today we are getting more in-depth with YaCy and why it is essential. We, ...

VPNs Are Awesome And You Should Be Using One

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. It is virtual since the computer acts like it is on another network when on your normal connection. The privat...

Peer-To-Peer: Our Only Hope.

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We have mentioned peer-to-peer a lot over the past few podcasts but we have not taken the time to dive into the concept. I should have brought this up...

Git And Utopian.io

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Utopian.io is taking the open-source community that exists around Github and adding rewards. The rewards get distributed in Steem for quality contrib...

Demonsaw: Share Files And Chat

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Demonsaw "is an encrypted communications platform that allows you to chat, message, and transfer files without fear of data collection or surveillance...

Nextcloud Privacy In The Cloud

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nextcloud is the solution to the major players in the cloud storage space. It is an open-source project that aims to give you back the control of your...

Mesh Networks: End Of Your ISP

14 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about what mesh networks are and why they are important. We also get into a nonprofit that is working to make mesh networking ...

Decentralized Websites & Apps!

11 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about the DAT protocol and the beaker browser! Both are working together to provide a better peer-to-peer internet for the fut...

The Powerful Future Of Social

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss some alternatives to site like Facebook and Twitter. Some are decentralized and others should be.

T-UI: Hacker Android launcher

07 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about the Android launcher called T-UI by Francesco Andreizzi. This is a terminal to replace your native GUI based launcher an...

Video Hosting For Free Speech!

05 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about alternatives to YouTube. Including VidMe, dTube, LBRY, and BitChute! One of them is my favorite right now and all but on...

Decentralize Save The Internet

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Decentralization is how we save the internet and move into one based on free speech. We talk about why it is important and where it is being used alre...

i3wm & Tiling Window Managers

31 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Types of window managers - what is i3wm - tiling windows for max productivity

Mythical Keyboard Of Dvorak

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dvorak Simplified Keyboard • My hands hurt on QWERTY • Should you switch to Dvorak?

Tmux: Desktop In The Terminal!

24 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What is tmux • Using tmux • Tmux windows and panes

Open Source: Don't Be Suckers!

23 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Open Source! • Eric Raymond, VLC, and Gimp • Kdenlive and Microsoft Office Alternatives

Terminal: The Only Application

18 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What is the Linux terminal? • Is it fast or really fast? • Customize and learn

Top Security Tips For Android!

16 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Encryption on Android • Securely Unlock Your Android Device • Apps and their permissions • The creepy camera

PGP & Keybase: Secure The Data

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

PGP, OpenPGP, and GPG: Waht Is The Difference? • Breaking down Keybase.io • Using Keybase.io Web App • Keybase Apps and the Command Line

Bitcoin Gold, Should You Worry

09 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin Gold: What is it? • Bitcoin Gold: Should you sell right away? • Bitcoin Gold: Should holders worry? • Bitcoin Gold: My thoughts...

Internet Security & Privacy

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Passwords, extensions, VPNs, web browsers, email, and search.

I De-Googled My phone!

26 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I 'de-googled' My Phone ~ The Experiment • De-Googled: LineageOS • De-Googled: App Stores • De-Googled: Apps Work & Apps Don't • De-Googled: O...

All About Cryptocurrency!

21 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cryptocurrency: What is it? • Cryptocurrency: The Blockchain • Cryptocurrency: Mining • Cryptocurrency: Wallets

Civic: Identity For The Future

19 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What is it, the ecosystem and token, the secure identity platform, and better identity theft protection.

Hash Algorithms & Cryptography

18 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cryptography & Hash Algorithms: The basics • Cryptography & Hash Algorithms: Intro to Crypto • Cryptography & Hash Algorithms: Degree of Difficult...

Passphrases: What To Know

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

All about why passphrases are better than passwords, why its important, how to make them great, and when to use them.

Encryption & Quantum Computers

13 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What is encryption, why does it matter, will quantum computers kill all our encrypted data, and should we worry?

What Is Linux? (A Brief Intro)

12 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Linux is the future, free as in freedom, massive customization, and the challenge.

Hackers, Nerds, & Style Points

12 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about the hacker/nerd connection, what it takes to gain extra hacker style points, and things not to do!

Intro To Hackers

10 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What is a hacker and what are the basic skills of a true hacker?

Hacker Culture (Trailer)

09 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas