1 00:00:03,159 --> 00:00:04,620 Hey, what's up everybody? 2 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:06,900 We are live. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:07,820 Look at that. 4 00:00:08,260 --> 00:00:10,040 Okay, this is my first time doing this. 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:12,660 Hopefully the sound is coming through okay. 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,500 I'm just going to check it really quick on X because that's where we're streaming. 7 00:00:16,940 --> 00:00:18,340 So give me a second to check that. 8 00:00:23,939 --> 00:00:24,340 Okay. 9 00:00:25,539 --> 00:00:26,420 Looks like we're good. 10 00:00:27,559 --> 00:00:28,360 Okay, sweet. 11 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:31,880 Well, welcome to Freedom Tech Weekend. 12 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:38,180 I am your host, Marks, and this is a new show that I'm going to be doing every Friday, 13 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,200 and it is Freedom Tech Weekend, one tool that you can play with this weekend. 14 00:00:45,140 --> 00:00:48,860 So it looks like we've got two people viewing on X. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,160 I think one of those is me, so welcome to the, oh, three people now. 16 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,340 Sweet. Welcome to the other two people. Awesome. 17 00:00:55,460 --> 00:00:58,680 My name is Marks. To introduce myself, you might already know me 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:05,260 you're following me on X potentially, but I run a company called OpenSecret and we make a 19 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:11,420 confidential backend for mobile app and web app developers. Every user in your app gets their own 20 00:01:11,540 --> 00:01:16,440 private encryption key. And so all of their data is privately encrypted, which protects you as the, 21 00:01:16,710 --> 00:01:21,320 as the developer protects you from their liability of the, from the liability of their personal 22 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:26,240 information, but then also protects the user from you and from anybody you hire at your company, 23 00:01:26,380 --> 00:01:29,500 as well as others who might hack into the system, 24 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:31,420 get a data breach, and take the data. 25 00:01:32,230 --> 00:01:35,540 We also have our main app is called Maple. 26 00:01:36,140 --> 00:01:37,400 Go to trymaple.ai, 27 00:01:38,310 --> 00:01:42,660 and you can get AI that is private, encrypted, end-to-end. 28 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,700 Anything you chat with in the AI is private to you. 29 00:01:46,819 --> 00:01:49,780 Okay, so what are we wanting to do here? 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,980 The goal of this show here is I'm going to broadcast every Friday at, 31 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:55,340 what time is it right now? 32 00:01:55,660 --> 00:01:57,300 This is the time that I want to broadcast at. 33 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:03,660 So UTC at 1530 UTC is my plan. 34 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,120 But also, I live in the United States. 35 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:10,039 I'm currently at Bitcoin Park Austin in Austin, Texas. 36 00:02:10,679 --> 00:02:16,860 And so we're going to say I'm recording at 1030 a.m. Bitcoin Park time. 37 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:18,700 Because there are two Bitcoin Parks. 38 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:20,540 There's one in Austin and there's one in Nashville. 39 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:21,420 The first one in Nashville. 40 00:02:21,620 --> 00:02:22,700 They're both in the same time zone. 41 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:24,440 So you heard it here first, folks. 42 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:31,400 there is a new time zone established and that is called Bitcoin Park Time, BPT. All right. So 43 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:40,800 every week, come check this out. 1530 UTC or 1030 AM Bitcoin Park Time. I'm going to try to keep 44 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:47,200 these to a half hour. And every week, what you're going to get from me is that I will research a 45 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,919 freedom tech tool. It might be something that I use on a regular basis. It might be something new 46 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:55,180 that just came out or one that I'm not as familiar with, but it's been around for a while. 47 00:02:55,700 --> 00:03:00,280 And I'm going to do a little research on it, show you what it does, show you some of the trade-offs 48 00:03:00,460 --> 00:03:06,200 from a privacy perspective, from an autonomy perspective, a freedom perspective, and then 49 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:10,580 also just show you how the tool works, some of the things you can do really with the goal that, 50 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,660 you know, that weekend, tomorrow, Sunday, whenever you have free time tonight, 51 00:03:16,460 --> 00:03:28,900 You can play around with the tool and then slowly but surely you can start to replace some of the proprietary tools that you use, the commercially available tools that maybe are closed source and do not support the ethos of freedom tech. 52 00:03:29,510 --> 00:03:33,980 You can start to replace some of those with some of these freedom tools that you learn about on this show. 53 00:03:34,810 --> 00:03:35,840 This will also be archived. 54 00:03:35,990 --> 00:03:39,220 So if you are not hanging out on the live stream right now, that's totally OK. 55 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:41,480 I will archive these. 56 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:49,140 Hopefully the goal is stream on X, stream on Noster with Zap.Stream, also on YouTube, 57 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,500 maybe put this up on Rumble. I want to get this out everywhere I can, and then there will be a 58 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,840 podcast feed as well, an RSS feed that has the audio version of this available to people who 59 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:05,500 want to listen to it later. I know me personally, I do watch some video streams, and I do watch some 60 00:04:05,620 --> 00:04:10,099 video series, but for the most part, I like to listen to audio format, and then if the episode 61 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:14,300 is something that is very visual, then maybe I'll hop over to YouTube and watch that one 62 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:22,019 on video. So feel free to consume this however you want to, but I am going to be here week in 63 00:04:22,090 --> 00:04:27,080 and week out as much as I can. Now it is called Freedom Tech Weekend, which means I'm going to 64 00:04:27,090 --> 00:04:32,880 give myself a little bit of leeway that sometimes Friday at 10 30 a.m. my time, Bitcoin part time, 65 00:04:33,220 --> 00:04:40,080 will not work. I am running a company with me and my co-founder and we're running this together 66 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:46,120 And sometimes we will have things that come up during that time slot that just take precedent and take priority. 67 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,420 So please be a little flexible with me. 68 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:55,180 We might have to move it to later in the day, that specific day, or even on a Saturday, hopefully not even on a Sunday. 69 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:57,120 But there might be times that that happens. 70 00:04:58,540 --> 00:05:02,260 So number one goal, 10.30 a.m. this time. 71 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:03,480 Okay. 72 00:05:04,580 --> 00:05:06,240 What is Freedom Tech? 73 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,080 Freedom Tech has a lot of different definitions. 74 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:20,400 So for today's first stream, I just want to talk a little bit about what I think freedom technology is and then some of the tools that I might be showing off here. 75 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:28,960 But the hope is that as this grows over time, if we get more people watching over time, coming on a regular basis, chatting in the chat. 76 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:32,560 I can't see the chat right now with Twitter, with X. 77 00:05:33,010 --> 00:05:36,140 But eventually I'm going to have live stream chat open up as well. 78 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,100 And really, I want all of you to help figure out what we look at next. 79 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,460 So next week, I'm already going to tell you I'm going to look at Goose, 80 00:05:47,230 --> 00:05:53,760 which is a freedom tech tool for doing AI and having AI tools talk to each other locally on your computer. 81 00:05:55,160 --> 00:06:00,540 So I want to have you ask questions and say, hey, these are things that I am interested in learning about Goose. 82 00:06:01,270 --> 00:06:05,880 And then I can do some prep on that and then address those questions. 83 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,340 and then also as you ask questions live during the stream, 84 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,080 hopefully address those as well. 85 00:06:11,380 --> 00:06:13,420 And then I want you to suggest tools 86 00:06:13,530 --> 00:06:14,900 that maybe you want to learn about in the future, 87 00:06:15,250 --> 00:06:16,540 and I can look into those, 88 00:06:16,810 --> 00:06:19,280 and we can play with those live together on air 89 00:06:19,820 --> 00:06:23,260 and really make this more of a community thing if it can be. 90 00:06:24,540 --> 00:06:26,980 So I wanted to get everybody involved 91 00:06:27,230 --> 00:06:28,960 that would like to be involved with this, 92 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,000 try and decentralize this as much as possible. 93 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,499 I'm not streaming on zap.stream today 94 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:37,540 because the tool that I'm trying out for this 95 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,120 didn't let me set it up right away. 96 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,960 So I've got to get that figured out. 97 00:06:42,260 --> 00:06:43,780 But I wanted to go live and get this going. 98 00:06:44,180 --> 00:06:46,920 So hopefully next week, this is available on zap.stream 99 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:48,360 for the Nostra users out there 100 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:51,200 and those who want to send zaps and use lightning 101 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:52,080 and all that good stuff. 102 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:53,440 Cool. 103 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:57,140 So Freedom Tech, right? 104 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,180 In my mind, Freedom Technology is something 105 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,200 that embodies a few different things. 106 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:08,160 one it allows a person to be more autonomous in the way that they handle their own user data 107 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:14,320 so this is a tool that lets you take control over your data where it lives how it's transmitted 108 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:20,920 and then it's also a tool that is permissionless you don't need to ask someone's permission to use 109 00:07:20,970 --> 00:07:28,039 the tool and to create with the tool or consume with the tool but then also privacy usually is 110 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:33,260 a strong component of that. And I think that kind of goes along with the first two, but there should 111 00:07:33,310 --> 00:07:40,980 be a strong privacy angle to it. And user privacy is really essential to have freedom. And then 112 00:07:41,140 --> 00:07:51,040 lastly, open source is not a requirement, but it typically is a big part of it. And maybe it is a 113 00:07:51,060 --> 00:07:58,020 requirement. I'm still kind of noodling on that one, but there's a huge overlap. So most freedom 114 00:07:58,020 --> 00:08:04,720 technology tools are open source by nature. And maybe as I think through it more this weekend, 115 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:12,280 maybe it is a requirement, some level of open source-ness to the tool. Okay, how long have 116 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,920 we been going for here? We've been going for eight minutes. All right, sweet. Just trying to 117 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,360 check my schedule. These first episodes are going to be awkward as I'm learning how to do this. 118 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:27,220 So you can go right along and learn the awkwardness with me as we go. 119 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,880 Yeah, go ahead and follow me on X if you want to. 120 00:08:40,990 --> 00:08:42,800 I am Marks underscore FTW. 121 00:08:43,070 --> 00:08:50,340 So M-A-R-K-S underscore FTW stands for most people for the win. 122 00:08:50,860 --> 00:08:56,400 But for me, I used to do an old podcast over the last couple of years called Freedom Tech Wrap. 123 00:08:57,580 --> 00:08:58,280 Rap with a W. 124 00:08:58,620 --> 00:09:03,960 I did not have prose and lyrics for rapping the Freedom Tech news, although that would be cool. 125 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:10,860 But no, I was just kind of every week I would wrap up what kind of freedom technology news there was out there. 126 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:13,420 And so that's what FTW started as. 127 00:09:13,660 --> 00:09:16,860 But really, to me, it means more Freedom Tech works. 128 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,260 And that is this idea that really freedom tech is a technology that does work. 129 00:09:22,350 --> 00:09:23,380 It can function in our lives. 130 00:09:23,470 --> 00:09:26,120 It can help us to get more autonomy with our data. 131 00:09:26,940 --> 00:09:32,600 And I think over time, what we see with most technologies out there is that we trend toward 132 00:09:32,830 --> 00:09:33,240 freedom technology. 133 00:09:34,210 --> 00:09:36,360 I mean, look at the internet, for example. 134 00:09:36,710 --> 00:09:42,180 The internet started as this proprietary system being developed by government and Department 135 00:09:42,330 --> 00:09:42,640 of Defense. 136 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,160 And then as they started to plug nodes together and turn on more nodes on the network, 137 00:09:49,090 --> 00:09:52,520 it started to realize that this idea of the Internet wanted to be free 138 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,920 and did not want to be hidden behind proprietary software and proprietary connections. 139 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:04,200 And so then we saw TCP IP come out and other technologies that broke it free. 140 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:06,900 And you look at the servers running the Internet. 141 00:10:07,470 --> 00:10:08,720 We started with mainframes. 142 00:10:08,850 --> 00:10:12,660 We started with Unix, IBM, these lockdown systems. 143 00:10:13,460 --> 00:10:16,360 And then Linux came on the scene, broke it wide open, 144 00:10:16,510 --> 00:10:19,180 and now Linux is powering over half of the servers on the internet. 145 00:10:19,940 --> 00:10:21,980 I don't know what the exact number is, but it's quite a lot. 146 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:25,440 You've had proprietary systems that have tried to come in, like Windows. 147 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,580 Mac even, Mac OS even had a server for a while. 148 00:10:30,460 --> 00:10:31,900 These things just don't gain traction. 149 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,840 It's the freedom technology that wins in the long run. 150 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:37,220 And I think we will continue to see that 151 00:10:38,090 --> 00:10:42,220 where commercial options are disrupted in the long term by freedom ones. 152 00:10:43,340 --> 00:10:44,880 So Freedom Tech Works, FTW. 153 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:49,500 All right, let's get into the tool of this week. 154 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,840 So the tool of the week that I'm choosing is called Tail Scale, 155 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,240 which is based on WireGuard. 156 00:10:57,980 --> 00:11:00,660 And one of the difficult things that I have with choosing these tools 157 00:11:00,980 --> 00:11:04,520 is that I know that there's going to be a lot of opinions out there of, 158 00:11:04,860 --> 00:11:06,940 well, you know, this tool is totally captured, 159 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,900 or this tool isn't totally following the ethos of freedom technology, 160 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:10,740 this or that. 161 00:11:11,580 --> 00:11:15,120 So I'm going to run that risk and you can push back on me. 162 00:11:15,220 --> 00:11:22,560 And I would love for all of you to shape my opinion over time of some of these tools and really what it means to be a freedom technology. 163 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:31,180 But my goal is really to show anybody watching this stream, those who do not even know what freedom technology is, 164 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,740 all the way on the other side of the spectrum of those who are making freedom tech tools. 165 00:11:37,260 --> 00:11:46,720 I want to provide things that help people to decouple their lives from commercially available software that locks them in and requires permission to use. 166 00:11:47,410 --> 00:11:52,760 So when I talk about a tool like Tailscale, there is a commercial company behind it. 167 00:11:53,270 --> 00:11:54,100 They do have open source. 168 00:11:54,650 --> 00:11:56,360 They do use WireGuard. 169 00:11:56,980 --> 00:11:59,740 They do use some of these open protocols and things. 170 00:12:00,210 --> 00:12:01,480 And so there are options. 171 00:12:02,060 --> 00:12:07,840 This can help people to get value and get more privacy in their lives, 172 00:12:08,580 --> 00:12:13,700 even if it's not 100% on the freedom side of freedom technology. 173 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,620 So I hope that makes sense. 174 00:12:17,180 --> 00:12:20,240 But now I'm going to share my screen using new streams here. 175 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,640 So let's just see how this goes. 176 00:12:23,820 --> 00:12:27,500 We are going to share the entire screen. 177 00:12:28,980 --> 00:12:30,200 Live on the wild side. 178 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:41,880 okay here we go all right so let's make sure that this this is uh sharing correctly i'm 179 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,960 going to look at the stream as you see here i have two things pulled up in my chrome browser 180 00:12:47,620 --> 00:12:54,340 perfect there it goes okay i've got on the left side i have maple this is maple ai you can go to 181 00:12:54,420 --> 00:13:02,360 try maple.ai. Let's show the address here if I can. There you go. Try maple.ai. Get a free 182 00:13:02,750 --> 00:13:08,660 account if you want to sign up for a paid account. Start using private end to end encrypted AI. 183 00:13:09,180 --> 00:13:12,700 I'm actually going to have this here because this is my companion throughout the show. 184 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:18,239 And I'm going to be using it pretty much on a weekly basis because this is what I use 185 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:25,140 every day in and out with what I do for work and in my own personal life. Okay, so Tailscale. We're 186 00:13:25,140 --> 00:13:30,240 going to go to tailscale.com. This is the website. As you can see, it is a business. They've got a 187 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:35,760 sales team. They have a pricing page. They have all the markers of what looks like to be commercially 188 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:43,159 locked in software, but don't let that fool you. They do produce a tool that is very useful for 189 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:50,300 people who are freedom tech oriented. So let's go in here and say, tell me about the privacy 190 00:13:51,940 --> 00:14:00,460 and freedom tech nature of tail scale. Okay. And that's going to tell us that they do have 191 00:14:00,460 --> 00:14:04,040 their privacy policy here. You can go read through that. And I always encourage people 192 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:08,899 to comb through privacy policies of tools that they're going to use before they use them to 193 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:12,740 make sure that they understand what they're getting into. You can throw this into AI and 194 00:14:12,780 --> 00:14:17,620 have it digest it for you and explain it to you as well. Okay. So this has come back here. 195 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:23,340 It's a zero config peer-to-peer virtual private network. It's decentralized architecture, 196 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:30,480 end-to-end encrypted, uses the WireGuard protocol. It does not log your information 197 00:14:31,220 --> 00:14:36,579 and helps protect user anonymity, and it is open source. I do want to call out this no logging 198 00:14:36,580 --> 00:14:41,740 thing. A lot of the apps and a lot of the services that we use, especially VPN services, 199 00:14:42,630 --> 00:14:45,860 tell us that they don't log. What does that even mean? It means that they're not recording 200 00:14:46,510 --> 00:14:50,320 your IP address. They're not recording the data that you're sending across the network. 201 00:14:51,170 --> 00:14:57,040 It means that they're not keeping these on their servers. So that way, if law enforcement or if a 202 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:03,199 hacker were to breach the system, they would not have any information on you as a user other than 203 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:08,400 maybe your email address that you use to sign up. And you can use a privacy email address so that 204 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:15,360 even if they have that, they don't know who you are. The caveat here with the no logging is that 205 00:15:15,860 --> 00:15:21,180 this is a just kind of a trust model. You have to trust that they are not logging. You can't 206 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:26,380 actually see the server code that they are running on their servers. And so you're just 207 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:32,159 kind of trusting in their reputation and hoping that they don't do that. Now there is a technology 208 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:33,920 that allows you to see what that is, 209 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:35,620 what's running on the servers, 210 00:15:35,790 --> 00:15:38,860 and those are secure enclaves or confidential computing. 211 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,420 That's actually the business that we are in at OpenSecret. 212 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,220 We make the confidential backend for app developers 213 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,340 so that users are protected by knowing 214 00:15:50,050 --> 00:15:52,480 that the server code is not logging 215 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,820 because they can actually see the server code that is running. 216 00:15:55,690 --> 00:15:57,560 But that's a story for another day. 217 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,160 You can check out OpenSecret.cloud if you want to. 218 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:07,400 so freedom tech aspects talks about how this can be self-hosted tail scale lets users host their 219 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:12,500 own vpn servers it's community driven has an open source community and it does not depend on 220 00:16:12,780 --> 00:16:18,520 centralized services limitations there's a dependence on wire guard protocol which while 221 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,920 secure may have its own limitations or vulnerabilities there is key management concerns 222 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:29,420 with public key cryptography, which requires proper management and to ensure security. 223 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,900 Public key cryptography is the basis for so much of what we do out there. So if you don't know how 224 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:41,120 to use it, I highly recommend you learn how to use public private keys, look into those, and 225 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,720 you probably are using them without even realizing that right now. And then there's network 226 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:50,539 configuration stuff that could be a barrier for non-technical users. The reason why I'm bringing 227 00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:56,100 up tail scales because it's actually really easy for non-technical users to use so what is tail 228 00:16:56,220 --> 00:17:01,500 scale i should have said that from the very beginning tail scale is a vpn service for your 229 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:10,339 own personal vpn many people in corporate america use vpns with their work so they they want to 230 00:17:10,339 --> 00:17:17,519 work from home a lot of us started working from home when you know a few years ago and so you're 231 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,720 working from home, but you still need access to secure things that are only on the company 232 00:17:21,939 --> 00:17:28,100 network. Well, you download the company approved VPN software, you click a little button in your 233 00:17:28,180 --> 00:17:32,600 menu bar, and it connects you to the VPN, the virtual private network. And what that does is 234 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:39,220 it makes it as if your computer is now at the office and logged into the local network there 235 00:17:39,220 --> 00:17:46,179 at the office, giving you access to all sorts of tools. Now, by nature of this, a lot of companies 236 00:17:46,180 --> 00:17:52,000 now because they are spread out globally or even just within the same country but have multiple 237 00:17:52,400 --> 00:18:00,660 regions the the term of being inside the office quote unquote is uh is less of a physical thing 238 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:09,200 now and more of a a virtual thing or a logical thing and so a vpn is a really powerful thing 239 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:17,580 that allows us to kind of be within this virtual office of our company. So VPNs are super useful. 240 00:18:18,030 --> 00:18:23,680 They encrypt all your traffic from your computers, talking to internal computers on the network. 241 00:18:24,550 --> 00:18:28,320 But it's really useful to have a VPN for yourself. Why would you want a VPN for yourself? Well, 242 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,400 at home, you have all sorts of devices on your network. You've got smart TVs, you have smart 243 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:38,520 speakers, you have other computers. Maybe you have something like an iMac that's plugged in, 244 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,360 that's a family computer and you're storing all your family photos on there or other things. 245 00:18:44,750 --> 00:18:50,220 And when you are away, you're in a hotel, you're at an airport, you might want to access that data. 246 00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:57,440 Well, it can be very tricky to set up your router and set up all these things and run your own 247 00:18:57,890 --> 00:19:02,120 service. So that's where Tailscale comes in. Now you can log in to your home computer 248 00:19:02,780 --> 00:19:07,100 and access that stuff while you're away. Another great thing about Tailscale, 249 00:19:07,180 --> 00:19:12,460 another great reason to have your own VPN is you can protect yourself when you're on a public 250 00:19:12,620 --> 00:19:16,900 network. So let's say you are at the airport or you are at a hotel and using public Wi-Fi, 251 00:19:17,940 --> 00:19:24,380 you don't just want your traffic out there for others to sniff and access. So you can use 252 00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:31,019 Tailscale to VPN into your home computer and encrypt all your traffic. So now your traffic 253 00:19:31,020 --> 00:19:37,420 on that public Wi-Fi is encrypted through a tunnel into your home computer. Yes, you can 254 00:19:37,470 --> 00:19:43,800 use another VPN service for this. A lot of podcasts talk about things like ExpressVPN or NordVPN. I am 255 00:19:43,810 --> 00:19:47,080 not endorsing those products. I'm just saying those are ones that you're probably familiar with, 256 00:19:47,430 --> 00:19:50,860 and this is their value prop, is that they say, oh, protect yourself on public Wi-Fi 257 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:59,260 by tunneling through our servers. I can't verify if those are really safe or not, 258 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,060 but that's their value prop. 259 00:20:03,390 --> 00:20:06,580 So why trust them when you can just run the software yourself, 260 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:08,940 something like Tailscale, run it on your home server, 261 00:20:09,590 --> 00:20:10,440 and run it on your home computer, 262 00:20:10,810 --> 00:20:13,400 and then VPN through that and tunnel everything yourself. 263 00:20:14,660 --> 00:20:16,680 Okay, this uses WireGuard. 264 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:17,700 What is WireGuard? 265 00:20:18,420 --> 00:20:21,480 WireGuard is a VPN tunnel software, 266 00:20:21,850 --> 00:20:23,340 and it's open source as well. 267 00:20:23,450 --> 00:20:24,720 You can see the source code here. 268 00:20:26,150 --> 00:20:28,420 And so Tailscale is built on top of this. 269 00:20:29,220 --> 00:20:30,740 You can learn more about that if you want to. 270 00:20:32,020 --> 00:20:33,060 In fact, we can say, 271 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,140 explain like I am five what is wire guard. 272 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,420 And we will let that go on that. 273 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:46,800 And come back here. 274 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:48,800 Tail scale. 275 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:57,920 So imagine you're sending a secret letter to your friend. 276 00:20:58,340 --> 00:21:02,520 You want to make sure that only your friend can read the letter and that nobody else can intercept what's on the inside. 277 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,900 WireGuard is like a special envelope that keeps your letter, or in this case, your internet traffic, safe and private. 278 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:08,880 Okay? 279 00:21:09,540 --> 00:21:11,960 So it creates a tunnel, protects your traffic. 280 00:21:14,140 --> 00:21:14,720 All right. 281 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:17,620 How long have we been going? 282 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:20,880 I think we're getting close to the end of my time here. 283 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:21,560 Let me see. 284 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:22,060 2021. 285 00:21:22,420 --> 00:21:22,600 Okay. 286 00:21:22,820 --> 00:21:23,900 You just saw my studio. 287 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:24,260 Boom. 288 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:25,120 All right. 289 00:21:25,180 --> 00:21:26,400 So I've got a few more minutes here. 290 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,140 Let's talk about actually using the software now that we've talked about what it is. 291 00:21:32,420 --> 00:21:33,840 So you can download it. 292 00:21:34,860 --> 00:21:36,340 I'm going to show you here on their website. 293 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:37,960 You just go to downloads. 294 00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:39,580 They support all the different platforms. 295 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:47,680 And then they also, I like to go look at the source code, which I had it pulled up. 296 00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:50,800 And then I lost it. 297 00:21:51,140 --> 00:21:51,660 Let's see. 298 00:21:51,980 --> 00:21:52,100 Source. 299 00:21:53,220 --> 00:21:53,820 Here we go. 300 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:54,600 Open source. 301 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:58,800 So they talk about how they're largely open source. 302 00:21:59,020 --> 00:22:00,240 They're not 100% open source. 303 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:05,100 For example, the user interface on Mac is not open source fully, 304 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:08,900 but you can build the Mac client software 305 00:22:09,220 --> 00:22:11,560 that runs with a command line without a user interface. 306 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,840 That is open source. 307 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:15,560 The Linux and Android versions are fully open source. 308 00:22:15,860 --> 00:22:17,680 You can build those yourselves and run them. 309 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,160 So this is where we get into trade-offs 310 00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:24,400 within freedom technology and privacy trade-offs. 311 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:41,780 If you are a person on a Mac and you don't know how to build code and you don't know how to audit code, maybe you are just trusting public opinion, your web of trust, the people that you follow online that you think are in the know. 312 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:44,580 And they say, oh, Tailscale on a Mac is safe. 313 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:45,460 Download and run it. 314 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,020 Maybe you're trusting them. 315 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,040 You're giving away a little bit of your, you know, you're making a tradeoff here on your privacy. 316 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,540 And that's your choice to make. 317 00:22:54,620 --> 00:23:01,840 then for those who really want overall control and freedom and the ability to do uh introspection 318 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:07,900 then uh they can download the linux code they can download the android code they can 319 00:23:08,460 --> 00:23:13,540 look through it themselves hand it over to ai and ask it to look for backdoors and then they can 320 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,100 build it and run it themselves and know that there are no backdoors in there in the software 321 00:23:17,150 --> 00:23:23,660 that they're running so that's one thing i like about tail scale is it provides different options 322 00:23:23,660 --> 00:23:28,680 based on your risk profile and what you're willing to sacrifice and trade off. 323 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,100 So I do want to make it over eventually to GitHub. 324 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,000 So here's their GitHub. 325 00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:36,500 This is their organization. 326 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:42,280 Tailscale is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure private networks easy for teams of any scale. 327 00:23:43,050 --> 00:23:45,520 Okay, so you can check out all the repos that they have here, 328 00:23:46,670 --> 00:23:50,540 download them, audit them, build them, do what you wish. 329 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:57,120 Okay, they just made a check-in 15 hours ago, so they're actively developing this. 330 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,100 So once you download it, I downloaded the macOS version. 331 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,340 You install it. It lives up here in your menu bar. 332 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:13,480 Now up here, I am not connected at the moment, but I have signed in with my GitHub account. 333 00:24:13,780 --> 00:24:16,460 You can sign in with an email. You can sign in however you want to. 334 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,300 They have different options. 335 00:24:19,460 --> 00:24:20,120 Excuse me. 336 00:24:20,940 --> 00:24:21,720 That's how I did it. 337 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,560 And then, oof, do I turn it on? 338 00:24:26,870 --> 00:24:29,380 I didn't think through this while I started streaming. 339 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,840 I don't know if it'll interrupt the stream. 340 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:35,520 So, shoot. 341 00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:38,380 Well, I'm not going to turn it on today because I don't want to interrupt the stream. 342 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,180 I'll test that out another time. 343 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,700 But I'm going to walk you through what it does. 344 00:24:44,130 --> 00:24:47,600 So if I flip this on, the cool thing that happens is on this menu, a bunch of things pop up. 345 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,900 And it shows other computers that are on your Tail Scale network. 346 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,260 So, tail scale only works if you have it running on at least two devices. 347 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:01,240 So, I have a computer at home that is plugged in, running 24-7. 348 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,340 I highly recommend everybody get a computer that they can just have running at home. 349 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,400 It doesn't need to be expensive. 350 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:08,220 It can be small. 351 00:25:08,780 --> 00:25:10,320 It needs to be more than a Raspberry Pi. 352 00:25:10,460 --> 00:25:16,180 Please, for the love of Freedom Tech, don't get a Raspberry Pi as your home server. 353 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:17,500 Get something else. 354 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,200 There are plenty of old Dell computers out there, 355 00:25:21,610 --> 00:25:23,440 old Windows computers out there that you can download 356 00:25:23,490 --> 00:25:24,480 that are still plenty powerful. 357 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,060 You can get an old Mac, get a Mac Mini, something used, 358 00:25:28,410 --> 00:25:29,480 or even a new Mac Mini. 359 00:25:30,399 --> 00:25:32,660 I always go refurbished if I'm buying a Mac 360 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:34,460 because they're 15% off, 361 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,480 and they come with the same warranty as brand-new computers. 362 00:25:37,890 --> 00:25:40,280 So you're effectively getting a new computer for 15% off. 363 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,220 Get something, an old laptop, plug it in, 364 00:25:44,410 --> 00:25:46,600 have it connected to your network running 24-7. 365 00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:51,660 The great thing about that is then you will have the ability to play around with a lot of these tools 366 00:25:51,820 --> 00:25:54,480 that we are going to talk about on this stream week in and week out. 367 00:25:56,919 --> 00:26:01,320 And I think you will use it a lot more than you are expecting. 368 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:04,740 So, Tailscale. I installed Tailscale on that home computer. 369 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,560 So, when I turn it on, now I am able to connect to it as a node. 370 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:14,320 So, then all of my traffic, this whole stream, would then go through... 371 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,020 All right, hopefully I cleared that out. 372 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,480 This whole stream would go through that home server, and it would be as if I were at home 373 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:30,420 instead of here in Bitcoin Park, Austin, and I would be streaming, as far as the internet 374 00:26:30,460 --> 00:26:32,080 is concerned, I would be streaming from home. 375 00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:35,300 And so there's a lot of great benefits to that. 376 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:42,260 The other option you have, too, is you can choose to tunnel all your traffic through 377 00:26:42,260 --> 00:26:48,300 the VPN, or you can tunnel just traffic that is only available on that network. What does that 378 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:54,380 mean? So you could, let's say you're on public wifi, you're at the airport, and then at home, 379 00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:59,320 you have this app running on your server that lets you watch movies that you've downloaded 380 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:07,420 legally, of course, duh. And so you want to watch a movie at the airport. Um, but for some reason, 381 00:27:07,470 --> 00:27:10,540 you don't want to tunnel all your traffic through. I don't know. You just don't want to, 382 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:18,680 right? You only want that address for your home movie server to the traffic for that to go over 383 00:27:19,090 --> 00:27:23,920 the tail scale network. Maybe you just have low bandwidth at home. And so you don't want every 384 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:29,840 other app on your device talking to your home network. You can do that. I tunnel everything. 385 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,740 I just, I don't want anything running on the public network. So I'm going to tunnel it all 386 00:27:33,740 --> 00:27:39,720 through. That's your choice. But yeah, so you can have multiple devices. And so if you, 387 00:27:40,740 --> 00:27:47,140 if you have a trusted family member in another region, living in another state or city or country 388 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:54,420 even, you could put a home server at their house and install Tailscale there. And now you are able 389 00:27:54,420 --> 00:27:59,860 to VPN through their network, obviously with their permission, VPN through their network. And maybe 390 00:27:59,860 --> 00:28:06,120 you use that for all sorts of reasons where you might need to have a an IP address in that local 391 00:28:06,660 --> 00:28:12,320 region so tail scale is great it's really flexible there's a lot more that we could get into but we 392 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:22,380 are running low on time here so I am going to stop sharing my screen go back to go back to the main 393 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:29,060 video screen here there we go sweet all right well we're out of time thank you everybody for 394 00:28:29,060 --> 00:28:35,420 jumping onto this first one. Wow, we're up to 16 people on X. Holy cow. You rock. Let me show off 395 00:28:35,430 --> 00:28:40,640 my shirt here. I'm wearing my heat punk shirt. You don't know what heat punk is. It's a new term. 396 00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:44,840 I don't know how long it's been around, but 2025 is really where it's coming on the scene. 397 00:28:45,370 --> 00:28:51,780 Heat punks are people who have Bitcoin miners and they'll run a Bitcoin miner in their house 398 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,500 and then they want to use the heat from that to heat their room. And this could be just on a small 399 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:03,100 scale of heating your room all the way up to commercial people who want to use the heat from 400 00:29:03,420 --> 00:29:09,720 bitcoin miners to do commercially available things like there are people who dry out cocoa beans and 401 00:29:09,820 --> 00:29:15,320 drying cocoa beans takes a lot of heat and so they're using they're using bitcoin miners and 402 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,920 all the heat coming off of those and drying out the cocoa beans but then they also get to keep 403 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:26,420 the bitcoin so heat punks um i think it's really cool idea i've got a heater that i run at home 404 00:29:26,420 --> 00:29:33,860 during the winter to heat the office that I work out of at home. So, um, cool. 405 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:42,040 All right. Well, thanks for joining. We're going to be back next week on Friday, 10 30 AM Bitcoin 406 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:48,980 part-time, which translates to 15 30 UTC. Uh, next week, I'm going to be going over the tool 407 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:56,460 called Goose. And Goose is a tool that you can download on your computer. It's put out by the 408 00:29:56,500 --> 00:30:03,520 company Block. Block is behind Square and Cash App. And it's a tool for getting different AI 409 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:11,380 apps to talk to each other. And it uses something called MCP, which is an open protocol for AI apps 410 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:12,540 to communicate. 411 00:30:13,940 --> 00:30:17,440 So I will post a message on X and on Noster 412 00:30:18,110 --> 00:30:20,260 for people to ask questions about Goose, 413 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:21,300 things that they want to learn about, 414 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,440 and then also start taking feedback 415 00:30:23,670 --> 00:30:26,000 on what other Freedom Tech tools you want to learn about. 416 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:30,160 So in the meantime, you know, this weekend, 417 00:30:31,260 --> 00:30:33,420 check out Tailscale, check out WireGuard, 418 00:30:33,470 --> 00:30:37,240 or check out any other Freedom Tech VPN tool that you like. 419 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:39,060 Play around with them. 420 00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:44,940 If there's other VPN tools that you like that are similar to Tailscale, let me know. 421 00:30:45,310 --> 00:30:46,580 Damn, what's going on with my throat today? 422 00:30:47,550 --> 00:30:47,840 Excuse me. 423 00:30:48,820 --> 00:30:48,900 Okay. 424 00:30:49,690 --> 00:30:51,280 Well, again, my name is Marks. 425 00:30:52,020 --> 00:30:52,920 Thanks for joining me. 426 00:30:53,480 --> 00:31:03,200 Follow me on X, Marks underscore FTW for Freedom Tech Works or Freedom Tech Weekend, Freedom Tech Wrap, For the Win, whatever you want it to mean. 427 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:04,120 All right. 428 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,100 Later. 429 00:31:05,220 --> 00:31:05,240 Thank you.