It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?

    • blah@lemmy.1204.org
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      3 years ago

      Same, I would actually be curious to listen to a right wing tech podcast as the two concepts clash so hard in my brain.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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        3 years ago

        There’s very much a Peter Thiel-esque type of libertarian tech bro - think the crypto fanatics, the Elon Musk fanboys, etc. Or, tangentially, how New Atheism collapsed in part because some women had the audacity to point out that sexual harassment is a thing. On a similar note, just go onto any online video game and openly announce yourself to be gay or a woman.

        Geek culture and its associated cultures have always had an undercurrent of sexism, probably not unrelated to the fact that they’re historically dominated by somewhat awkward or lonely men. That feeling of male angst and isolation is absolutely something that the Right has been able to successfully exploit. Take Gamergate, for instance.

      • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boats
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        3 years ago

        Not specifically about podcasts, but I think there’s a minority (?) of privacy/security enthusiasts who are pretty overtly right-wing libertarians, often because those technologies are anti-establishment. Think Luke Smith. I’ve also met people in the tech sphere (both on the I love Big Tech as well as FOSS side) who have very traditionalist, borderline right-wing opinions.

        • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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          3 years ago

          Not specifically about podcasts, but I think there’s a minority (?) of privacy/security enthusiasts who are pretty overtly right-wing libertarians, often because those technologies are anti-establishment.

          yeah–the “techno-libertarians”, as i’ve personally taken to calling them. that tendency was also the case on reddit in the early days (and to some extent still influences the site’s cultural lean) and seems to be particularly common among stereotypical Silicon Valley types. a big calling card of that group is usually waxing poetic about the need to preserve almost unfiltered freedom of speech even though no website trying to preserve that has ever gone well.

        • comicallycluttered@beehaw.org
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          3 years ago

          There’s a dude who does Linux videos.

          Kind of went off the rails one day after one of the really bad mass shootings happened and he got all worked up about gun control.

          I think this was actually after Trump was elected. Might have been the Vegas shooting. I remember because it was also when DuckDuckGo was getting shit from these people about not promoting Russian propaganda, which “interferes with free speech” or whatever the fuck one of their talking points is.

          Actually, it might not have been after one of the shootings. But it was definitely around the time these people were complaining about DDG (and I think that was a while after the Vegas shooting) and it kind of devolved into complaining about gun control.

          I didn’t really watch him much, but I haven’t bothered since. Can’t even remember the channel name. Some bullshit. Dude was obsessed with xmonad.

      • magnetosphere @beehaw.org
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        3 years ago

        I don’t listen to tech podcasts at all, but now that you mention it, the concept seems odd to me, too. Tech involves objective facts, scientific reasoning, and logic, which are three things I definitely don’t associate with modern conservatism.

        • adderaline@beehaw.org
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          3 years ago

          engineering types do seem to fall off the conservatism cliff more frequently than other science-adjacent professions. so do surgeons, for some reason? at least from what i’ve observed. i think something about high performance, high pay jobs that require specialized education can make a person more vulnerable to brain worms.

        • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boats
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          3 years ago

          Tech involves objective facts, scientific reasoning, and logic

          Maybe the making of tech is, but its application and relevance in modern society is, at the end of the day, a sociological phenomenon.

        • Banzai51@midwest.social
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          3 years ago

          Tech involves a lot of do x, y, and z to get outcome a with no ambiguity. That appeals to a lot of the right wing.

    • doogiebug@beehaw.orgOP
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      3 years ago

      I’m still pretty new into looking, this post was inspired by listening to Self-Hosted and one of the hosts has a “news” podcast and one of the more recent episodes was recommending other creators, which were like Megyn Kelly and right wing people :( There were also a few YouTubers that I tried to get into to learn networking but some of them had rant videos about women and stuff. I maybe could have worded it as also like…not corporate-worshipping codebro type podcasts? If that makes sense. There seems to be a lot of libertarian types in computer networking and I just wanted some recommendations by people who have been listening longer than I have.

    • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      3 years ago

      When Noah was on some of the Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts, he had a number of right-wing editorialized viewpoints during discussions. Chris didn’t seem to bite much on them (at least, at the time), so I’m guessing Chris didn’t care for it much (speculating here). I stopped listening simply because of off-handed comments I’d hear Noah make. It didn’t happen that often, but it was enough to put me off listening. I honestly suspect Noah is more center than right-wing, but I’d much rather he just kept on topic and checked his political leanings at the door.

      Now that it’s Chris and other hosts, Linux Action News and Linux Unplugged might be good ones to check out, if you’re into Linux.

      • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I think it was just Noah. Chris hosted a news podcast for a while that treaded into some conspiracy areas, but wasn’t right-wing.

        Either way I find their current setup pretty good at staying away from politics unless they’re directly related to the technology conversation at hand.

  • DosDude@feddit.nl
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    3 years ago

    Darknet Diaries. It’s more of a “stories in the web security space” kind of podcast. But I have not noticed any political leaning in the host so far.

    Highly recommend it. I binged all existing episodes last year.

    • Recant@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      3 years ago

      I really enjoy Darknet Diaries. It is unfortunate he went to a once a month release cycle but I understand it is for a better work life cycle.

      If you are a fan of Darknet Diaries I would also recommend Hacked. It has two hosts which have a good dynamic. Plus they don’t touch politics so it avoids any controversy.

  • MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    It’s been mentioned already, but I genuinely love the WAN Show. Linus and Luke work really well together, and it’s easily become my go-to podcast during my daily walks. This is coming from someone who generally doesn’t enjoy podcasts, so maybe that means something?

  • MJBrune@beehaw.org
    5·
    3 years ago

    Will Smith and Brad Shoemaker made a tech podcast: https://techpod.content.town/

    Will Smith was a co-founder of tested.com and has gone on to do things within the games industry specifically in VR. He currently works at Stray Bombay in communications.

    Brad Shoemaker was a part of Gamespot, GiantBomb, and is now a part of Nextlander. He was a games journalist but now I would say Nextlander is less games journalism and more just personalities playing video games.

  • kuchai@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    Love the recommendations here! Would also like tech YouTube or general content creator recommendations too since a lot of them say some really sus shit that has nothing to do with tech. Recently unsubbed from one that outright made a blatantly sexist joke complete with visuals

    • doogiebug@beehaw.orgOP
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      3 years ago

      Ugghh right 🥴 I really like tracketpacer on Tiktok, she’s a network engineer and does lots of memes. Senegodess Tech on YouTube does more general career videos, “day in the life” type stuff but she’s fun to listen to. Oh and Julia Evans has lots of cute zines, some of them free, explaining computer science stuff. I listened to an interview with her and you can tell how excited she is to talk about 'puters and her love for them is infectious.

    • RickRussell_CA@beehaw.org
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      3 years ago

      I love Laporte’s personality, although he’s not strong technically. I feel like 90% of schtick on TechTV was to act like a confused grandpa while others did the explaining.

      But it’s a pretty good trick for running a balanced, and not overly technical, video stream.

    • Mr PoopyButthole@lemm.ee
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      3 years ago

      I 100% recommend TWIT, best tech podcast I listen to.

      I usually listed at 1.2x speed with gap skipping on, because they can talk a bit slow.

      Really great for weekly overviews of tech news, and excellent guests.

      • GadgeteerZA@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        3 years ago

        I’ll second TWIT too. Have to agree with the other comments, but I still stick with them. I listen on 1.5x which you get used to.

    • zaphod@lemmy.ca
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      3 years ago

      I occasionally listen to twit and my only major complaints are: 1) Leo interrupts his guests too much, and 2) whenever Amy Web or Owen Stone come on I have to skip the episode…

    • nlm@beehaw.org
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      3 years ago

      I’ll second Security Now!

      Listened to it for years but kind of lost track when I stopped having to commute. Kind of miss it really but I don’t find as much time for podcasts these days sadly.

    • doogiebug@beehaw.orgOP
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      3 years ago

      Thank you for so many suggestions and taking the time to write up descriptions, really appreciate it 😊

  • gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 years ago

    Some favorites of mine are The WAN Show, Command Line Heroes, Darknet Diaries, Linux Unplugged, Destination Linux and Surveillance Report All of these cover a lot of cool areas in tech, and I have never heard any right-wing views (or really any political views) voiced in any of these.

    • nobug-404@geddit.social
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      3 years ago

      I used to listen to Linux Unplugged but it feels like the crypto crap took over creative control.

      It’s all let’s read some crypto paid messages. Then a taking point. More crypto messages. Here is a part where we say the names of things wrong because the crypto messages told us to.

      It is creeping into the self hosted show too.

      • drewdevorcula@beehaw.org
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        3 years ago

        FWIW, the boosts are typically in their own section that you can skip if you like. I put chapter markers in every episode to make it easy for you.

        Those boosts are helping to keep the network solvent by diversifying income. As advertisers are getting more skittish, income needs to come from somewhere. None of us can afford to work for free, and there’s already one show that would be completely dead without boosts.

        They also function similarly to feedback. Yes, there’s plenty of shenanigans, but Linux Unplugged has always been about creating an entertaining talk show kind of vibe. Linux Action News is more the serious one. Unfortunately, that’s on hiatus because of lack of sponsors.

        Chris does try to tailor the boost segments per-show so they fit with the theme. Self Hosted, for example, keeps boosts more topical on average. It’s also worth mentioning that we haven’t removed email feedback - this isn’t pay-to-play.

        Source: I edit Linux Unplugged, Self Hosted, Office Hours, and Coder Radio.

      • monkeysuncle@beehaw.org
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        3 years ago

        I listen to Linux Unplugged and I also am not a fan of the crypto stuff. I remember they actually addressed the whole crypto thing in an office hours episode, which I found incredibly disappointing as Chris essentially said crypto is a scam and we hate it, except for bitcoin. He talks about how long he’s been using bitcoin and how you should trust him because he knows what he’s talking about. It was very patronizing, and I took a break from unplugged for a while because of it.

        I still listen to it because it’s the only free Linux podcast I’m aware of, and I understand the need to make money so I can deal with the boosts for now.

      • LaudemPax@beehaw.org
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        3 years ago

        I’ve been listening to them forever and was also pretty apprehensive about the crypto stuff but in the end he’s really just using it as a way to get donations. I personally don’t feel like the podcast talks about crypto much, if at all, and the boosts sections actually add to the show imo.

  • flunky@lemmy.flunky.club
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    3 years ago

    Maybe not what you’re looking for, but Security Now! seems to fit that bill. TWiT has a bunch of other shows as well, covering a range of topics. I can honestly say I’ve never encountered any bigoted hosts or guests on the shows I’ve listened to.

  • CableP13@waveform.social
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    3 years ago

    Decipher Security for a heavy infosec focus

    Technology Pill by Privacy International for something looking more at the impact of tech on society and human rights

    And as other have said I do enjoy the occasional Linux unplugged!