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07/27/21 • 68 min
Wondering how you can contribute to FOSS projects without being able to code, or why privacy needs to be the default option in tools you use? This episode, we're sitting down with Justin Ehrenhofer to chat about contributing to FOSS projects as a non-dev, why privacy by default matters, and where Monero fits into his toolkit.
More about Justin:
- Justin's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/justin-ehrenhofer/
- MAGIC grants, a non-profit -- https://www.magicgrants.org/
Justin's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- OBS, a FOSS recording/streaming tool -- https://obsproject.com/
- KeePassXC, a FOSS password manager -- https://keepassxc.org/
- Bitwarden, a FOSS password manager -- https://bitwarden.com/
- Matrix, the protocol - https://matrix.org/
- Element, a cross-platform Matrix chat client - https://element.io
- Signal, an easy-to-use end-to-end encrypted messenger -- https://signal.org/
- Threema, an end-to-end encrypted messenger, similar to Signal -- https://threema.ch/en/
- Flarum, a self-hosted forum/Reddit alternative -- https://flarum.org/
- Nextcloud, a self-hosted storage, contacts, calendar, and much more FOSS app -- https://nextcloud.com/
- ProtonMail, an encrypted and private email service -- https://protonmail.com/
This week's project to help you Opt Out - Bitwarden:
- Bitwarden -- https://bitwarden.com/
- Bitwarden Server -- https://bitwarden.com/help/article/install-on-premise/
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
09/15/21 • 25 min
Wondering what mobile Monero wallet I use and recommend and why I chose to take Cake Wallet on as a sponsor? This episode, we're sitting down with Vik Sharma, owner of Cake Wallet, the newest sponsor of Opt Out.
More about Vik Sharma:
- Vik's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/vik-sharma/
More about Cake Wallet:
- Website -- https://cakewallet.com
- Reddit -- https://www.reddit.com/r/cakewallet/
- Telegram -- https://t.me/cakewallet_bot
- Twitter -- https://twitter.com/cakewallet
- Github -- https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
09/15/21 • 25 min
What's the best way to buy and sell Monero while maintaining personal privacy? This episode, we're sitting down with Alex, co-founder of LocalMonero, the newest sponsor of Opt Out.
More about Alex:
- Alex's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/alex-localmonero/
More about LocalMonero:
- LocalMonero's website -- https://localmonero.co
- LocalMonero onion address -- http://nehdddktmhvqklsnkjqcbpmb63htee2iznpcbs5tgzctipxykpj6yrid.onion/
- LocalMonero i2p address -- http://lm.i2p/
- LocalMonero Reddit -- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalMonero
- LocalMonero Telegram -- https://t.me/LocalMonero
- LocalMonero Forum -- https://forums.localmonero.co/
More about AgoraDesk:
- AgoraDesk's website -- https://agoradesk.com
- AgoraDesk onion address -- http://2jopbxfi2mrw6pfpmufm7smacrgniglr7a4raaila3kwlhlumflxfxad.onion/
- AgoraDesk i2p address -- http://agoradesk.i2p/
- AgoraDesk Reddit -- https://www.reddit.com/r/AgoraDesk
- AgoraDesk Telegram -- https://t.me/AgoraDesk
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
10/18/21 • 114 min
Wondering how global surveillance could realistically work, or how VPNs can play a role in your privacy? This episode, we're sitting down with Smuggler to chat about global surveillance, a realistic look at VPNs (and Tor!), and his journey as a cypherpunk.
More about Smuggler:
- Smuggler's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/smuggler/
- Cypherpunk Bitstream Podcast -- https://taz0.org/bitstream/
- Smuggler's blog -- https://opaque.link/
- Smuggler's paper on global surveillance -- https://opaque.link/post/2011-06-16-global-spying/
Smuggler's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- Cash
- Glasses and mask for physical privacy
- Face-to-face meetings
- Shipping containers as a Faraday cage
- Voice masking technology
This week's project to help you Opt Out - Whoogle:
- Github -- https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
- My instance: https://search.sethforprivacy.com
- My instance on Tor: http://nuifgsnbb2mcyza74o7illtqmuaqbwu4flam3cdmsrnudwcmkqur37qd.onion
- Setting it as your primary search instance -- https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#set-whoogle-as-your-primary-search-engine
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
10/05/21 • 84 min
NOTE: Apologies for the audio issues in this one, there was packet loss on Chris's side that only was apparent once we finished. If you have questions about a specific question please email me at [email protected] or reach out on Twitter and I'll do my best to clarify it!
Wondering what it's like to take the dive and switch to Linux and CalyxOS at once? How does the recent push for vaccine mandates impact our journey towards privacy? This episode, we're sitting down with Chris Blec to chat about his journey to Linux and CalyxOS, security and privacy in cryptocurrency, our thoughts on the privacy implications of vaccine mandates, and much more.
More about Chris Blec:
- Chris Blec's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/chris-blec/
- Defi Watch -- https://defiwatch.net/
- Proof of Decentralization podcast -- https://anchor.fm/proof-of-decentralization
Chris Blec's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- Privacy.com, a payment card aliasing service -- https://privacy.com/
- Simple Login, an email aliasing service -- https://simplelogin.io/
- Catch-all email addresses via ProtonMail -- https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/catch-all/
This week's project to help you Opt Out - Teddit:
- Teddit -- https://teddit.net
- Git -- https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
- My public Teddit instance -- https://teddit.sethforprivacy.com
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
09/30/21 • 65 min
Have you been thinking about switching to Linux for your daily driver, or wondering what Coreboot or open-source firmware are? This episode, we're sitting down with Jeremy Soller to chat about System76, the company that makes my laptop (among others) and are behind Pop_OS!, a user-friendly Linux distribution.
More about Jeremy Soller:
- Jeremy Soller's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/jeremy-soller/
More about System76:
- Website -- https://system76.com/
- About System76 -- https://system76.com/about
- Pop_OS! -- https://pop.system76.com/
- Pop_OS! chat -- https://chat.pop-os.org
- System76 open firmware -- https://github.com/system76/firmware-open
- The System76 Lemur Pro, my laptop -- https://system76.com/laptops/lemur
More about Coreboot:
- Docs -- https://doc.coreboot.org/
Jeremy Soller's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- Tor browser, and easy to use anonymous web browser -- https://www.torproject.org/
- Bitcoin
- Firefox, a FOSS and privacy-preserving browser -- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
- My recommended Firefox hardening guide -- https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
09/06/21 • 67 min
Wondering what alternatives are available for Twitter or similar centralized and censored services? This episode, we're sitting down with Sean O'Brien to chat about the need for decentralized and censorship-resistant micro-blogging and short messaging platforms.
More about Sean O'Brien:
- Sean O'Brien's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/sean-obrien/
- Panquake -- https://panquake.com/
- Talk Liberation newsletter -- https://talkliberation.substack.com/
Sean O'Brien's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- uBlock Origin, an ad and tracker blogging browser plugin -- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- GNU/Linux, specifically Debian and Debian-based distributions -- https://www.debian.org/
- Ubuntu, an easy-to-use Linux distro based on Debian -- https://ubuntu.com/
- Tor and Tor browser, and easy to use anonymous web browser -- https://www.torproject.org/
- Tails, a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship -- https://tails.boum.org/
- Signal, an easy-to-use end-to-end encrypted messenger -- https://signal.org/
This week's project to help you Opt Out - Threema:
- Threema's website -- https://threema.ch/en
- Comparing Threema with other popular messengers -- https://threema.ch/en/messenger-comparison
- Threema source code -- https://threema.ch/en/open-source
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
06/27/21 • 105 min
Wanting to learn more about mobile privacy, but not sure where to start? This episode, we sat down with Max Tannahill to chat about mobile OSs, surveillance, and cryptocurrency.
More about Max:
- Max's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/max-tannahill/
- Mamushi, a CalyxOS Pixel retailer -- https://mamushi.io/
- Max's Twitter -- https://twitter.com/maxtannahill
- Blog post on migrating Mamushi from CopperheadOS to CalyxOS -- https://mamushi.io/2021/04/12/departing-from-copperhead/
- Ministry of Nodes -- https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/
Max's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- Nextcloud, a self-hosted storage, contacts, calendar, and much more FOSS app -- https://nextcloud.com/
- Telegram, an encrypted (if using secret chats) messenger -- https://telegram.org/
- Threema, an end-to-end encrypted messenger, similar to Signal -- https://threema.ch/en/
- ProtonMail, an encrypted and private email service -- https://protonmail.com/
- Bitcoin, via Samourai Wallet, a privacy-preserving Android wallet -- https://samouraiwallet.com/
- Monero, a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency -- https://www.getmonero.org/
- Pop_OS!, an easy to use Linux OS -- https://pop.system76.com/
This week's project to help you Opt Out - Standard Notes:
- Standard Notes website -- https://standardnotes.com/
- Extended Features -- https://standardnotes.com/features
- Github -- https://github.com/standardnotes/web
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
10/31/21 • 73 min
Wondering how to find the right balance of privacy and convenience, or struggling with the mental strain of a journey towards personal privacy? This episode, we're sitting down with j43 to chat about the mental strain that can be caused by a journey towards privacy, and a deeper look at parallel economies or "second realms".
More about j43:
- j43's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/j43/
j43's recommended ways to Opt Out:
- Use HTTPS only!
- Blocking trackers, at DNS/IP whenever possible
- Blending into the noise, having a portion of your digital identity that looks more "normal" to corporations and 3rd parties
- DYOR and find a good VPN provider that you trust
- Don't rely 100% on Tor for privacy alone
This week's project to help you Opt Out - Nextcloud:
- Site -- https://nextcloud.com/
- Self-hosting -- https://nextcloud.com/install/#instructions-server
- Self-hosting via my Docker Compose project -- https://github.com/sethforprivacy/self-hosted-services
- Self-hosting via Yunohost -- https://diverter.hostyourown.tools/uncle-jims-cloud/
- Davx for syncing calendar/contacts with mobile -- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/
Opt Out's Sponsors:
- Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
- LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
- IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn
Supporting Opt Out:
- Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations
- Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible!
- Share it with your friends, family, and other communities!
Welcome to Opt Out
Opt Out
05/31/21 • 0 min
Welcome to Opt Out!
I hope you enjoy this short intro which I’m using to introduce the podcast and go ahead and get it published across all major platforms in preparation for our first episode on 6/1.
Thanks for listening, and be sure to subscribe on your favorite app or to the RSS feed at https://www.optoutpod.com!
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FAQ
How many episodes does Opt Out have?
Opt Out currently has 57 episodes available.
What topics does Opt Out cover?
The podcast is about Cryptocurrency, Podcasts, Technology and Privacy.
What is the most popular episode on Opt Out?
The episode title 'Digital identity, FOSS, and self-hosting w/ k3tan [S01:E02]' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Opt Out?
The average episode length on Opt Out is 71 minutes.
How often are episodes of Opt Out released?
Episodes of Opt Out are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Opt Out?
The first episode of Opt Out was released on May 31, 2021.
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