Podcasts by Hacker Culture

How To Run OpenBSD On 10 Year Old Tech from 2021-10-26T06:00

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 connect to WiFi without extra software, and one t...

Which Programming Language Is The Best To Learn First from 2021-10-19T06:00

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

Each area has a ...

Which Linux Distro Is The Best For The Beginner&Expert? from 2021-10-12T06:00

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 use and why I use it.

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How To Not Ruin Your Tech When You Overclock from 2021-07-08T01:28:35

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 not get the most out of them while keeping longev...

Bitcoin is the Real Meme Coin from 2021-06-21T16:08:56

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

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Reasons Why Bitcoin Will Fail As Useful Money from 2021-06-21T12:08:56

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

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Store Your Dotfiles The Right Way from 2021-05-27T19:39:26

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 directory.

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The Ultimate Way To Store Your Dotfiles from 2021-05-27T15:39:26

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 directory.

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Time to Use A Real Chat App from 2021-05-19T18:44:49

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

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Use This Chat App for Privacy and Security... from 2021-05-19T14:44:49

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

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Plain text is always better... from 2021-04-21T19:47:34

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

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Why Plain Text Is Always Better from 2021-04-21T15:47:34

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

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Ditching Linux For OpenBSD?! from 2021-04-16T19:48:46

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

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It's Time To Be Your Own Platform from 2021-04-09T18:41:53

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 it was meant to be.

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It's Time To Be Your Own Technology Platform from 2021-04-09T14:41:53

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

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Automating Youtube-DL for Copyright Free Music from 2021-04-06T17:38:55

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 computer.

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How To Download Youtube Music With One Epic Script from 2021-04-06T13:38:55

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 computer.

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How to do Open Source as a Business from 2021-04-01T19:03:25

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 may work and I'm going to try them all.

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Finally De-Googled & Social Feed Free from 2021-03-30T00:35:01

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

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DWM or Bust! from 2021-03-26T19:32:31

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

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Why Tiling Window Managers Are One Unusually Powerful Tool from 2021-03-26T15:32:31

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

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Google Free Again? Not so fast kiddo... from 2021-03-23T18:10:42

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

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One Unexpected Lesson From A Discount Carrier Phone from 2021-03-23T14:10:42

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

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How To Get Your First Programming Job... Even If You Don't Know How To Code! from 2020-09-11T00:56:40

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 you should learn to code even if you don't wan...

Here Is How To Get Your First Tech Job from 2020-09-10T20:56:40

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 you should learn to code even if you don'...

How Every Hacker Can Increase Their Security Over Night from 2020-08-29T14:27:37

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

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Gitea from 2019-12-02T21:35:36

Gitea is a fork of Gogs; both of which are a self hosted Git solution putting you in full control of your repos.

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ubPorts & Ubuntu Touch from 2019-11-10T19:00:34

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

Debating on Using Emacs... from 2019-04-01T21:48:30

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 from 2019-03-25T20:50:17

The following instructions are for Arch Linux without Xorg (so  essentially terminal only arch or what you get after a fresh Arch Linux  install). If you are using Ubuntu server or ano...

How To Block Ads On Your Entire Network from 2019-03-19T00:01:58

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  installed on. We can do one better and prevent t...

Matrix: Decentralized Communication from 2019-03-11T20:59:06

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

Webapps Sandboxed Revisited from 2019-03-05T01:56:55

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 from 2019-02-25T20:15:37

"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 accomplishes this by providing a sandbox fo...

How To Type Unicode With Any Keyboard! from 2019-02-11T21:45:07

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

A Technology Nerd's Notion Review from 2019-02-04T21:18:53

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  both cross-platform and robust. This i...

How To Mine Monero With AMD Graphics On Linux from 2019-01-28T21:36:18

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 thirteenth by market cap on coinmarketcap.com a...

You Need To Stop DNS Leaks from 2019-01-14T21:53:18

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 trust should be placed in a DNS provider. It's e...

You VPN Is Not Enough from 2019-01-07T21:26:42

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  company to do work remotely.

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Drop Patreon Use Liberapay from 2018-12-17T23:05:50

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 is a very slippery slope. Instead of leaving th...

Don't Miss Out on Grav: the Open Source CMS! from 2018-11-26T20:57:45

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, upload media, or add plugins. But, it's much m...

I'm Rethinking RSS from 2018-11-19T21:03:18

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 privacy.

No data collection, no feed ma...

All about BitShares - The Original Decentralized Exchange from 2018-11-12T21:17:29

In this episode we talk about the original decentralized cryptocurrency exchange called BitShares. Why risk the hacking and government shutdown of the old exchange paradigm when you can use the fut...

From Google Free To OnePlus 6T from 2018-11-05T21:25:55

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 between extreme privacy and convince.

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Programmer Dvorak from 2018-10-09T12:03:42

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Secure Scuttlebutt from 2018-07-05T16:41:50

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

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The Official XMPP Server Is Live! from 2018-06-12T20:47:53

Join us over at hc-general@hackerculture.us! Need an XMPP account? No problem, just us Pidgin or Finch to sign up and start chatting with us today!

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Learning To Master RegEx from 2018-06-08T00:22:18

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 shorter -> `([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}`

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IPFS To The Resue! from 2018-05-31T23:54:16

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 server sends this file over the internet to ...

Linux System Administration 001 from 2018-05-25T21:02:30

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 in the gaps of me knowledge will be important ...

Let's Learn Bash! Tutorial 003 from 2018-04-17T21:22:44

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 with this trend as we progress into more ways to...

Let's Learn Bash! Tutorial 002 from 2018-04-12T21:47:20

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 out before continuing. There are basic commands ...

Let's Learn Bash! Tutorial 001 from 2018-03-09T00:07:22

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.

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How To Get Healthy As A Technology Enthusiast from 2018-03-06T21:36:32

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 computer to pay the bills. Then we come home and tu...

Powerful Effects Of Ergonomic Technology from 2018-03-01T21:49

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 coding, blogging, and consuming knowledge. This l...

YaCy: How To Search The Internet In Freedom and Privacy from 2018-02-27T23:03:42

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, as internet users, need to be mindful of who is...

VPNs Are Awesome And You Should Be Using One from 2018-02-23T01:23:47

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 private part is where this matters to you. The VPN ha...

Peer-To-Peer: Our Only Hope. from 2017-12-08T00:46:51

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 before all those podcasts but we'll do it now....

Git And Utopian.io from 2017-11-28T21:38:47

Utopian.io is taking the open-source community that exists around Github and adding rewards. The rewards get distributed in Steem for quality contributions to an open-source project. This is intere...

Demonsaw: Share Files And Chat from 2017-11-20T22:21:28

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

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Nextcloud Privacy In The Cloud from 2017-11-16T02:50:18

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 data while bringing the same functionality you...

Mesh Networks: End Of Your ISP from 2017-11-14T01:58:01

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 easier to deploy.

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Decentralized Websites & Apps! from 2017-11-11T01:46:04

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 future.

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The Powerful Future Of Social from 2017-11-09T02:51:14

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

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T-UI: Hacker Android launcher from 2017-11-07T01:06:34

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 and it is freaking amazing!

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Video Hosting For Free Speech! from 2017-11-05T00:33:22

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 one are decentralized!

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Decentralize Save The Internet from 2017-11-02T00:49:22

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 already.

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i3wm & Tiling Window Managers from 2017-10-31T03:14:55

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

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Mythical Keyboard Of Dvorak from 2017-10-26T20:48:26

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

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Tmux: Desktop In The Terminal! from 2017-10-24T20:16:30

What is tmux • Using tmux • Tmux windows and panes

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Open Source: Don't Be Suckers! from 2017-10-23T21:00:44

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

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Terminal: The Only Application from 2017-10-18T20:35:56

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

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Top Security Tips For Android! from 2017-10-16T20:41:37

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

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PGP & Keybase: Secure The Data from 2017-10-12T00:18:06

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

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Bitcoin Gold, Should You Worry from 2017-10-09T21:08:06

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

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Internet Security & Privacy from 2017-10-03T20:13:48

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

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I De-Googled My phone! from 2017-09-26T22:01:32

I 'de-googled' My Phone ~ The Experiment • De-Googled: LineageOS • De-Googled: App Stores • De-Googled: Apps Work & Apps Don't • De-Googled: One Month In ~ A Recap

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All About Cryptocurrency! from 2017-09-21T11:58:32

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

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Civic: Identity For The Future from 2017-09-19T20:12:30

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

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Hash Algorithms & Cryptography from 2017-09-18T21:14:18

Cryptography & Hash Algorithms: The basics • Cryptography & Hash Algorithms: Intro to Crypto • Cryptography & Hash Algorithms: Degree of Difficulty • Cryptography & Hash Algorithms: Application • C...

Passphrases: What To Know from 2017-09-14T22:06:52

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

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Encryption & Quantum Computers from 2017-09-13T20:48:46

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

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What Is Linux? (A Brief Intro) from 2017-09-12T20:23:14

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

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Hackers, Nerds, & Style Points from 2017-09-12T03:35:32

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

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Intro To Hackers from 2017-09-10T14:01:34

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

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What is a Hacker? from 2017-09-10T10:01:34

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

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Hacker Culture (Trailer) from 2017-09-09T14:01:34

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Hacker Culture (Trailer) from 2017-09-09T10:01:34

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