Episode n.1

Pat Matsueda (HTC, Twitter) talks to Gokulakrishna Sudharsan (HTC, Twitter, Mastodon) about FLOSS and the browser addons he created.

Transcript

You can read the transcript here.

Projects discussed

• Wayback Everywhere (for installing in other browsers, see here)
• Cloud Firewall
• Warn Common Password

References for topics

• Thoughts on why Wayback Everywhere addon is needed
• Awesome Humane Technologies list
• Tool that estimates the cost and effort of FLOSS projects
• Estimated cost/effort analysis for Wayback Everywhere addon
• Estimated cost/effort analysis for Cloud Firewall addon
• Free Software Foundation
• What is free software (free as in freedom, not cost)
• How free software is essential for educational purposes at schools/ universities
• Free software’s importance greater today than in the past
• Dion Moult on ethical software (mentioned in Pat’s question on forking)
• Kashmir Hill, research journalist
• Kashmir Hill’s research series Life Without the Tech Giants (Gokul states that this research series inspired him to build the Cloud Firewall addon, which enables everyone to replicate Kashmir’s research)
• Ublock Origin addon
• Common passwords research - researcher who conducted this research