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 ?
The wan show is one
The WAN show is a great option for a one stop shop for broad tech stuff. It is often very long but they add very clear chapters to the youtube video that make it easy to jump to the stuff that interests you. Luke is a software developer/manager so he is fairy knowledgeable in that realm, and Linus is a very transparent CEO of a tech media company, so the coverage is actually very good between the two of them. Just dont expect in depth conversations about RHEL forks and node.js code efficiency and stuff, its very much meant to be consumed by regular tech enthusiasts and not hyper deep code monkeys.
Oo this looks great, thank you!
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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.
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Thank you for so many suggestions and taking the time to write up descriptions, really appreciate it 😊
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.
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.
Ive been listening to these two for years. I highly recommend anything Brad Shoemaker-related.
Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod - https://techpod.content.town/
Brad Shoemaker of Gamespot/GiantBomb/Nextlander and Will Smith of Tested.com and several other things (but not THAT Will Smith) both dive into tech issues and are more to the left. They also have a separate FOSS Pod.
Came here to recommend this
Seconded, one of my favorite podcasts.
The Mozilla Foundation did a tech podcast called IRL. It hasn’t updated in nearly a year, and I don’t know if it’s ever coming back, but some of their back episodes are worth listening to.
I think techwontsave.us is want you didn’t know you want, but maybe you’ll enjoy it. It has some really interesting guests and topics.
The Homelab show. Hosted by the owner of Lawrence Systems Canadian managed services firm along with another guy who I can’t remember. Very cool podcast for people who like to tinker with servers at home, or in the cloud.
I felt the same way about different privacy/security forums after a bit. Every time I checked the off topic forums I was seeing highly political, often extreme content, mixed with slurs that would made me blush…and I grew up around racist fishermen and homophobic truckers.
I think a lot of American privacy/security folks start with realizing the US government isn’t about privacy, so they want smaller government, but the only party pushing for smaller government pushes bigoted views to so the privacy folks get sucked into that mental space… not condoning them at all but I think this situation is the result of two-party government. I’m in security sector, but I do research and so there are a lot more left-leaning people around me. Sorry I don’t know any podcasts to recommend though.
There Are No Girls On The Internet is fantastic.
Thank you!! I also found 2 girls one podcast, it’s a lot of internet culture stuff and they have an episode about Lemmy
Oh nice!! I’ll have to check that on out.
Hanselminutes by Scott Hanselman. Covers a variety of tech topics. He’s kinda like the Mr. Rodgers of programming and tech podcasts.
If you liked/tried Reply All I highly recommend Underunderstood (plus Overunderstood if you join their Patreon, it’s a big catalog). That being said it’s more tech in culture than heavy/deep tech (they’re journalists, not developers/hackers)
I don’t think Darknet Diaries falls into this boat either…? The host may be libertarian or something but it’s not really relevant to the content since it’s mostly narrative-driven interviews or stories
How is your Swiss German? I quite like SRF Digital, but it’s likely completely incomprehensible.
I’m not OP, but thanks for the tip, will check it out. Greetings from Züri Oberland.
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
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.
Accidental Tech Podcast ATP
It’s Apple-centric if you don’t mind that and the hosts are super friendly.
The EFF’s How to Fix the Internet is an interesting podcast which talks about various issues with the current landscape of the internet and potential ways to improve it.
