Episode 64: Privacy on the internet: Then vs Now

November 28th, 2022  |  46 mins 24 secs

4chan, address, apps, big data, communities, data collection, doxing, facebook, forums, internet, online dating, personal information, pii, privacy, reddit, safety, security, shopping, tracking

Jeff and JT discuss some of the differences between attitudes towards privacy online over time.

Episode 39: Is Technology recreating Feudalism?

May 3rd, 2021  |  53 mins 12 secs

american revolution, central america, colonialism, england, facebook, feudalism, fruits of your labor, lord baltimore, middle ages, north america, south america, spain, twitter, value of work

Jeff and JT discuss the parallels between the middle age colonialism and the modern digital era.

Episode 36: The Dangers of Deplatforming with Dr. Andy Yen

April 12th, 2021  |  53 mins 46 secs

amazon, antitrust, apple, big tech, business model, censorship, democracy, deplatforming, facebook, free speech, google, government, myanmar, proton, protonmail, protonvpn, socrates, tech, technology, terms of service, trust and safety, twitter, un

Dr Andy Yen, the Founder and CEO of Proton Technologies, joins us today to talk about the matter of Big Tech Deplatforming.

Episode 29: ToS: Terms of Servitude

February 22nd, 2021  |  54 mins 21 secs

activist, apple, arbitration, clause, facebook, ibm, instagram, lawyer, license, north korea, open source, sears, terms of service, tos, twitpic

Jeff and JT discuss Terms of Service.

Episode 16: Does Openness of AI Algorithms matter?

November 23rd, 2020  |  37 mins 34 secs

ai, artificial intelligence, baysian, bill gates, bsd, covid vaccine, crosstraining, deep learning, development, facebook, genetic, google, gpt3, linux, machine learning, medical field, microsoft, ml, neat, oos, open source, openai, reinforcement, relu networks, research, reverse engineering, supervised, support vector machine, unix, unsupervised

JT and Jeff did deeper into the Open discussion this time focused on AI... and then go wildly off topic.

Episode 14: Should Algorithms be Free and Open?

November 9th, 2020  |  40 mins 55 secs

algorithms, development, facebook, foss, instagram, internet, kernel, linux, open development, oss, politics, public benefit, recommendation engines, twitter