PickVidsBest Hacker culture & free software Videos
The 58 Hacker culture & free software videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 5 intermediate, 50 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TEDx Talks, Adrian Crenshaw, media.ccc.de.
Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key
A HOPE conference talk by Howard Payne and Deviant Ollam on common keys, such as elevator and fire service keys, that open many buildings.
Keynote - Karen Sandler
Karen Sandler's keynote at Linux.conf.au 2012 on the software running inside medical devices such as her own pacemaker-defibrillator.
F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
Aaron Swartz's keynote at Freedom to Connect 2012 describing how ordinary people helped defeat the SOPA censorship bill.
DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
Jason Scott's DEF CON 18 talk tells the history of software piracy over thirty years, centered on the feuds and drama among rival warez groups.
re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
Eben Moglen's re:publica 2012 talk argues that media which spy on and data-mine the public threaten freedom of thought, and that free technology and free culture are needed to protect it.
NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014
Poul-Henning Kamp's FOSDEM 2014 talk presents a fictitious NSA program called ORCHESTRA, satirizing how intelligence agencies could influence startups and open source.
Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for
A short TFiR clip of Linus Torvalds explaining why he thinks GPLv3 violates what GPLv2 stood for.
dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
A dotJS 2012 conference talk by Fat (of Twitter Bootstrap fame) on what open source really means and why maintainers feel guilty about it.
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht
Nina Paley's TEDxMaastricht talk arguing against copyright and for copyleft and free culture.
BBS the Documentary [Full HD]
Jason Scott's multi-episode documentary on the bulletin board system scene of the 1980s and 1990s, built from over 200 interviews.
A Conversation with Stewart Brand (Devcon4)
A panel conversation with Stewart Brand at Ethereum's Devcon4, where he recounts his life and work 'hacking civilization' and discusses the role of institutions in decentralization.
Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1]
The official Kubernetes documentary, part 1, tells how a handful of Google engineers, inspired by Docker's success, built a container orchestrator.
Talk - Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons
Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Conservancy speaks at the 2009 Law of the Commons Conference about free and open software as a model for a new intellectual commons.
Eben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS
A clip in which Eben Moglen tells how he grew up when software was freer and how his path crossed Richard Stallman's.
H2K2 (2002): "The Conscience of a Hacker"
The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship) reads his 1986 essay "The Conscience of a Hacker" at H2K2 in 2002 and adds his own insight about its backstory.
The Light It Up Contest -- geohot
A one-minute rap by George Hotz (geohot) aimed at Sony, made as an entry for a contest while Sony was suing him over the PS3 jailbreak.
[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process
Tim Ansell presents the SkyWater PDK, a fully open source manufacturable process development kit for a 130nm process, as the first FOSSi Dial-Up talk.
HACKERS | Just the Hacking Scenes | MGM Studios
A compilation of the hacking scenes from the 1995 film Hackers, featuring flashy visualizations of computer intrusion.
Trusted Computing? Yes or No
A four-minute 2006 explainer on trusted computing, describing what it is and whether users should support it, with a skeptical DRM angle.
PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves
Eben Moglen's 2011 Personal Democracy Forum talk on the loss of anonymity and privacy on the internet.
NixOS Drama Explained, a Personal Account
A long personal account by a former NixOS contributor of his experience in the community, his ban and the governance events.
Jellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried
Jellyvision hosts Basecamp founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson for a Q&A about open source, productivity, feature requests and taking care of customers.
SmackBook
A very short demo of SmackBook, a hack that used the MacBook Pro's sudden motion sensor so that smacking the sides of the laptop switches desktop spaces.
Richard Stallman Free software Song
A short clip of Richard Stallman singing the free software song, recorded during a visit to Ecuador.