A software developer, entrepreneur, author, husband and father passionate about data storage and open source technologies. Petros is the creator and maintainer of the RapidDisk Project and is currently a senior performance software engineer at Cray for its Lustre High Performance File System division.
Petros Koutoupis has been a guest on 34 episodes.
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Episode 149: Everything Is Personal
Episode | July 21st, 2023 | 49 mins 36 secs
technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about rescuing personal archives, personal AI, and preserving our identities.
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Episode 139: Permission Slip, a Consumer Reports Privacy App
Episode | February 9th, 2023 | 51 mins 9 secs
ccpa, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk to Don Marti about Permission Slip, the new data privacy app from Consumer Reports.
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Episode 131: Digital Wallets
Episode | November 5th, 2022 | 53 mins 47 secs
identity, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk digital wallets and current events.
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Episode 119: RapidDisk and Open Source Maintainership
Episode | July 22nd, 2022 | 34 mins 29 secs
open source, technology
Katherine Druckman talks to Petros Koutoupis about maintaining RapidDisk, his open source RAM disk software.
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Episode 100: A Celebration with IPFS, Web3, and Home Automation
Episode | February 25th, 2022 | 43 mins 43 secs
blockchain, technology, web3
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Petros Koutoupis celebrate our 100th episode and talk Web3, IPFS, and home automation.
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Episode 98: You Win Some, You Lose Some (Billions)
Episode | February 4th, 2022 | 36 mins 1 sec
ad tech, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about how big tech navigates the ad tech landscape, for better or worse.
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Episode 95: What Was Web 2.0?
Episode | January 14th, 2022 | 27 mins 45 secs
privacy, technology, web 2.0, web 3.0
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Petros Koutoupis about Air Tags and the generations of the web.
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Episode 90: Can Facebook Be the Good Guy?
Episode | October 29th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Petros Koutoupis about Facebook’s metaverse focus and whistleblower problems.
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Episode 88: Can We Fix Facebook?
Episode | October 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
technology
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Jerry Michalski and Petros Koutoupis about Facebook, its weaknesses, relationship to its users, and impact on all of us, and what happens when it disappears for six hours.
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Episode 81: Geeks at Home: The Gear That Makes Us Happy
Episode | August 6th, 2021 | 52 mins 5 secs
gear, technology, work from home
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Petros Koutoupis about how we make our personal spaces better for work and play.
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Episode 70: Apple AirTags and Privacy
Episode | May 14th, 2021 | 42 mins 47 secs
apple, privacy, technology
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk Apple Airtags and privacy.
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Episode 66: You Should Open Source Now, Ask Me How!
Episode | April 16th, 2021 | 53 mins 56 secs
open source, technology
Katherine Druckman chats with Petros Koutoupis and Kyle Rankin about FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), the benefits of contributing to the projects you use, and why you should be a FOSS fan as well.
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Episode 62: How Did Disinformation Become the Truth?
Episode | March 19th, 2021 | 46 mins 55 secs
iot, security, social media, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Prof. Chris Bronk, Ph.D. and Petros Koutoupis about disinformation and cyber security, and how they impact our lives, as well as IoT vulnerabilities and voice recognition technology.
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Episode 59: FOSS, Mentorship, and Doing Great Work
Episode | February 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
automated testing, drupal, engineering, open source, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Travis Carden and Petros Koutoupis about maintaining open source projects, mentoring contributors, Drupal, and automated testing.
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Episode 56: The Age of the Moderator
Episode | February 5th, 2021 | 41 mins 58 secs
privacy, social media, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk Twitter's new Birdwatch experiment, Signal's resistance to moderation, and Redditors' impact on the stock market.
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Episode 55: Radio Broadcasting
Episode | January 29th, 2021 | 56 mins 3 secs
radio, technology
Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dean Landsman and Paul Walker about radio broadcasting, including long distance coverage.