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In this episode of Reality 2.0, Katherine Druckman talks with Lori Lorusso from the Rust Foundation about the critical importance of sustainable stewardship for open source infrastructure. They discuss a joint statement from the OpenSSF, the Rust Foundation, and other community organizations emphasizing the need for financial support of package managers used widely in both hobbyist and enterprise applications. The conversation touches on the complexities of open source dependency management, the influence of the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, and the interconnectedness of various open source initiatives including the Valkey project. Lori shares insights into the Rust Foundation's outreach efforts and encourages community engagement to ensure open source projects continue to thrive. 00:00 Welcome and Introduction 00:28 Meet Lori Lorusso from the Rust Foundation 01:58 Open Source Sustainability and the Joint Statement 04:34 Challenges in Open Source Contribution 06:36 The Importance of Supporting Open Source Projects 15:38 The Cyber Resilience Act and Its Implications 21:40 Engaging with the Rust Foundation 24:36 The Value of Open Source Communities 26:33 Conclusion and Upcoming Events Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Lori Lorusso. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship – Open Source Security Foundation — An Open Letter from the Stewards of Public Open Source Infrastructure Over the past two decades, open source has revolutionized the way software is developed. Every modern application, whether written in Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, PHP, or beyond, depends on public package registries like Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, Packagist and open-vsx to retrieve, share, and validate dependencies. These registries have become foundational digital infrastructure – not just for open source, but for the global software supply chain. The Rust Foundation - Official — THE RUST FOUNDATION is an independent nonprofit committed to a safe, secure, and sustainable future powered by the Rust programming language. We believe that investing in the global open-source community is essential to maintaining a healthy and performant technological ecosystem — for individuals and organizations alike. xkcd: Dependency

In this episode of Reality 2.0, Doc and Katherine return after a long hiatus to discuss a range of topics including AI and security concerns, the evolution of cloud-native technologies, and the growing complexity of AI-related projects within various Linux Foundation groups. The conversation also touches on approaches to AI and privacy, the potential for AI to assist in personal and professional tasks, and the importance of standardizing and simplifying best practices for AI deployment. The episode wraps up with insights on the innovative 'My Terms' project aimed at flipping the cookie consent model to better respect user privacy. The hosts also emphasize the importance of constructive conversations and maintaining optimism about the future of technology. 00:00 Welcome Back to Reality 2.0 00:36 Upcoming Open Source Summit 01:03 Linux Foundation and AI Initiatives 04:20 Apple's Approach to Personal AI 05:11 Challenges of AI and Data Privacy 07:16 Potential of Personal AI Models 11:10 Human Interaction with AI 26:50 Innovations in Cookie Consent 31:08 Commitment to More Frequent Episodes 33:16 Closing Remarks and Future Plans Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Kwaai - KwaaiNet — AI running distributed on a P2P fabric, built By the People, For the People Imagine what we can do. Open Source Summit North America

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss the Cluetrain Manifesto on its 25th anniversary, how the world has and hasn't changed since, and about SCaLE 21x (Southern California Linux Expo) coming up March 14. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0

In this episode of 'Reality 2.0', hosts Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza, an AI expert. The discussion centered on the potential of AI and its relationship to personal empowerment. Exploring the current state of AI, the hosts express concerns about data security and appropriately leveraging AI's capabilities for individual benefit. The conversation dives into the infiltration of AI into various sectors like fashion and art, and its capability to significantly alter the consumer experience. The hosts also emphasize the importance of cautiously handling the growing influence and application of AI, pointing out its susceptibility to misuse in fields like advertising. 00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back 00:08 The AI Discussion: A Different Perspective 00:35 Introducing the Guest: Ezequiel Lanza 01:00 AI and Personal Empowerment: A Blog Post Discussion 01:30 AI: A Tool for Individual Empowerment or a Category Error? 02:35 The Desire for Personal AI: Use Cases 05:08 The Feasibility of Personal AI: A Discussion 09:22 AI and Data Privacy: A Concern 13:57 The Future of AI: Personal Devices and Local Computation 18:51 AI: An Extension of Us or a Reflection of Our Flaws? 20:51 AI and Art: An Experiment 22:59 Exploring AI's Creative Capabilities 23:20 AI's Limitations and Ethical Boundaries 23:44 AI's Interpretation of Beauty 25:04 AI's Influence on Art and Fashion 26:05 AI's Role in Content Generation 26:36 AI's Impact on Individuality and Creativity 27:59 AI's Backward-Looking Approach 28:24 AI's Integration in Everyday Life 30:28 AI's Influence on the Internet and Content Consumption 35:28 AI's Role in Advertising and User Experience 37:26 Final Thoughts on AI's Potential and Challenges Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Ezequiel Lanza. Support Reality 2.0

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls learn all about Project Bluefin, a new cloud native friendly Linux distribution, from its creator, Jorge Castro, and Kyle Rankin, its newest enthusiast. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Jorge Castro and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation — The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability. Announcing Project Bluefin — Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything but we're too lazy to maintain anything. So we automated the entire delivery pipeline in GitHub.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about his journey into Kubernetes and the cloud native landscape. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation — The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability. Getting started | Kubernetes — This section lists the different ways to set up and run Kubernetes. When you install Kubernetes, choose an installation type based on: ease of maintenance, security, control, available resources, and expertise required to operate and manage a cluster. Cloud Native Landscape

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Kyle Rankin discuss the personal AI tools they'd like to have, what's available, and how they might come together. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI commercial users get sued - The Verge — Some users of Microsoft’s Copilot platforms can turn to the company if they get sued for copyright infringement. AI | Doc Searls Weblog

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Michael Stolarczyk about the complex ways in which physical goods go around the world, and behind-the-scenes strategies at play. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Michael Stolarczyk. Support Reality 2.0

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman chat with Joe Brockmeier about WordPress turning 25 and our increasing desires to carve out our own homes on the web. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Joe Brockmeier. Support Reality 2.0

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about his new book for aspiring authors, discuss the publishing process, self-discipline, marketing, and share their expertise from their decades as authors. Notes: [00:01:04] Intro to Kyle's new book, "How To Write A Tech Book." [00:04:52] Vetting your idea and pitching to a publisher [00:09:24] On self-publishing vs. traditional publishers [00:12:27] Print on-demand [00:15:05] Market research and publishers [00:18:03] Co-authoring vs solo authoring [00:20:43] The Cluetrain Manifesto and The Intention Economy [00:24:05] Return from social media to blogging and longer-form writing [00:27:30] Marketing and promotion [00:31:19] Find us at Defcon! [00:44:13] Formatting code and technical content [00:48:14] LaTeX and layout Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: How To Write A Tech Book — Many technical professionals would like to write a book sharing their knowledge and experience, but most haven't. If you ask them why, it's not from lack of ideas or experience with technical subject matter. Instead, they just don't know how turn their idea into an actual published book. Even though there are some guides for publishing nonfiction books, tech books are unique in the publishing world, and there haven't been any guides that tackle the special process that goes into publishing a tech book. This book aims to change that. Rankin has authored and published a dozen books across multiple traditional tech publishers and also through self-publishing. This book distills his experience into an easy-to-follow guide that explains the full book writing and publishing process step-by-step. Topics include vetting ideas, creating an outline, pitching a publisher, writing a draft, editing, formatting, publishing, marketing, and planning future revisions. The Cluetrain Manifesto - Wikipedia — The Cluetrain Manifesto is a work of business literature collaboratively authored by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. It was first posted to the web in 1999 as a set of ninety-five theses, and was published as a book in 2000 with the theses extended by seven essays. The work examines the impact of the Internet on marketing, claiming that conventional marketing techniques are rendered obsolete by the online "conversations" that consumers have and that companies need to join. Intention economy - Wikipedia — The intention economy is an approach to viewing markets and economies focusing on buyers as a scarce commodity. Customers' intention to buy drives the production of goods to meet their specific needs. It is also the title of Doc Searls book: The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge published in May, 2012.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about rescuing personal archives, personal AI, and preserving our identities. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to David Kirichenko about Ukraine, journalism, troll farms and disinformation in times of war. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: David Kirichenko. Support Reality 2.0

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Josh Hester about his new project exploring personal AI. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Josh Hester. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Don't Fear The AI

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Golda Velez about the state of AI, how it relates to identity, ethics, and where this all goes from here. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Golda Velez. Support Reality 2.0

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about a proposal for authenticating content with cryptographic signing, and saving the internet. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it. — LLMs break the internet. The going rate for GPT-4 is $0.06 per 1000 tokens, or about $0.00008 per word. New open source models like Dolly and StableLM will drop costs even further, and without the content restrictions. Thought has never been so cheap. Creative expression has never been so accessible. Also spam, phishing, harassment mobs, and mass influence ops have never been so cheap, so accessible. You thought the internet was a mess before? Get ready for bots that beat the Turing test, synthesize your voice, generate fake social consensus at scale. We’re seeing the beginnings of this already. Expect a tidal wave of spam, identity theft, phishing, ransomware over the next 36 months. See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart - Washington Post — AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities, from writing sophisticated term papers to holding unnervingly lucid conversations. Chatbots cannot think like humans: They do not actually understand what they say. They can mimic human speech because the artificial intelligence that powers them has ingested a gargantuan amount of text, mostly scraped from the internet.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to prolific tech author, Kyle Rankin, about how he recently self-published his latest book, and how that differs from his many experiences with traditional publishers. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Kyle Rankin - Books and Publications Spotlight | Lulu — Kyle Rankin has over two decades of professional Linux experience, and was a long-time systems administrator with a particular focus on infrastructure security, architecture, automation, and troubleshooting. He is the author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course (self-published, 2023), Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks (Pearson, 2017), DevOps Troubleshooting (Addison-Wesley, 2012), The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 2013), Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition (O’Reilly, 2007), and Ubuntu Hacks (O’Reilly, 2006), among other books. Rankin was an award-winning columnist and tech editor for Linux Journal, and speaks frequently on Open Source software including at SCALE, FOSDEM, O’Reilly Security Conference, Linux Fest NorthWest, BSidesLV, CactusCon, OSCON, Linux World Expo, and Penguicon.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss an open letter to pause AI development. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society' | Reuters — Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society. AI company harvested billions of Facebook photos for a facial recognition database it sold to police | Salon.com — Artificial intelligence is having a cultural moment. AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT — and their visual image-creating counterparts like DALL-E — have been in the news lately for fear that they could replace human jobs. Such AI tools work by scraping the data from millions of texts and pictures, refashioning new works by remixing existing ones in intelligent ways that make them seem almost human.  Microsoft's Bing A.I. is leading to creepy experiences for users — New York Times columnist Kevin Roose wrote on Thursday that when he talked to Sydney, the chatbot seemed like “a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.”

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Shawn's head's appearance at the recent SCaLE conference and 3D printing, all while having a little too much fun. Hit play if you always wondered about our Myers-Briggs types. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: FreeCAD: Your own 3D parametric modeler — Your own 3D parametric modeler Ender-3 3D Printer Southern California Linux Expo - YouTube

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls hear Dave Huseby's new ideas about identity verification and data authenticity in commerce. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Dave Huseby. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Cryptid Technologies — Necessary Security at Unprecedented Scale We offer flexible APIs for building zero-knowledge proof based authentication and authorization, authenticated provenance, verifiable authenticity, and privacy preserving decentralized identity that scales to billions of people and devices. IIW — The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza about AI-based search. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Ezequiel Lanza. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Perplexity AI: Ask Anything Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again - The New York Times — Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine. Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality | TED Talk — The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug that saved her own daughter's life). Meanwhile she is working to preserve the consciousness of the woman she loves in a digital file ... and a companion robot. In an onstage conversation with TED's Chris Anderson, Rothblatt shares her powerful story of love, identity, creativity, and limitless possibility. Fraud Detection with Intel® Distribution of Modin* — This tutorial provides a use case where a credit card company might benefit from machine learning techniques to predict fraudulent transactions. This is the first part of a three-part series.