Matt Hill of Start9 on True Digital Sovereignty – Epi-2937
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Matt Hill is a passionate leader by example with 12 years experience building products, teams, and companies. Matt is the CEO / Co-Founder of Start9 Labs, founder and developer of WorkBlast, the co-creator of Borker, and the co-architect and former CTO of SALT Lending.
Today he joins us to discuss sovereign computing and true digital privacy. Most people are beginning to recognize the significance of exposing personal / private information to companies like google, facebook, coinbase, and amazon. We’re entrusting important information to companies that may not have the incentives in place to protect it or may even have incentives to further compromise that data.
And yet, we often do utilize their services – they are easy to use and appear cost effective. The barrier to entry for self-hosting (many) services has seemed too high for the non-technical, the too busy, and the thrifty. Today, the people who are running servers are primary corporations, government & wealthy individuals – the ability to do so is powerful.
Those who aren’t running servers are renting that power from those who do – and they are paying that rent with their data, money and personal information. It’s time to take that power back. Today Matt and I talk about the trade-offs of using cloud services, what compromises one is making by choosing to, and what alternatives are available.
We then explain Start9’s Embassy one of the best and most simple to use alternatives available today. You can use the Embassy and its installed services in total privacy, right from a browser, from anywhere on Earth, and there are no trusted 3rd parties.
What you do with your Embassy is your business; it cannot be monitored or accessed by anyone – not even Start9, not even your ISP. It is your sovereign territory in the land of the Internet.
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My comment is I must be blind. Can’t find the thing to click to listen to the podcast.
Same here
It is fixed what a fricken day!
For those who want to listen you can use this until the website is fixed. http://survivalpodcast.net/audio/2021/08/epi-2938-true-digital-sovereignty.mp3
Can someone tell me what comment program (or whatever) this uses? I need to change my picture but have no idea what I’m logged into.
It pulls from a word press account linked to your email you put in the comment form.
Hi Jack,
You might be able to fix your Skype issues by cutting the end off an audio cable and leaving it plugged into your computers mic input.
This should render that mix useless, in theory.
That is actually the exact opposite of the problem.
Try using MS Teams instead of skype. When we were sent home right after the pandemic started, we started using skype and ran into the problem you described with audio. We quickly changed to Teams and the probem went away.
It isn’t a skype issue per se, it is me not always checking on each new session.
Anyway I am moving guest to StreamYard soon, we just have a lot already booked for Skype and it is hard to change (because people are a pain in the ass) once we have it set.
Great podcast today! Listening again and taking notes on what’s being discussed, and looking at the product page already! Amazing potential for some things I’m trying to get started! Thanks Jack for finding this guy/product and taking the time to do the interview!!
OK, this thing is sexy. They clearly believe in their cause and are trying to build a development community around it.
They offer the hardware specs and even offer the EmbassyOS source code on github if you want to compile it yourself, audit it, or hack at it and build in your own features. That’s not something you do when trying to extract money from a wave of hype.
I went ahead and bought one to support them, used the MSB code, then tipped them back the money…I just want to support these guys. I’m compiling the OS now.
I’m going to attempt to compile it myself as well…. just got my SD cards today so I can repurpose one of my Raspis.
I heard TOR slows down browsing. I’d like to know if you experience slower internet though this device.
Wow, Jack, this is awesome. I’m gonna try it for sure — and I’m joining MSB too, having learned many excellent things from you since I started listening earlier this year. Thanks!