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Went to a session on Scuttlebutt with Soapdog and crew. Decentralised and offline messaging. We role played in grouos as Earth and Mars, each with our own network that synced when our Mars envoy went to Earth and brought the messages back. Fun demo of ssb and I finally got an account, though I’m not using it actively yet.

Wonder is there any possible ssb/indieweb bridge?

#mozfest #scuttlebutt

I met someone working with Purism on the Librem 5 phone. The libre phone that’s free all the way down the stack. Built on Debian and GTK. They have a very strong focus on privacy. Also interested to discuss how they could make their phone repairable and long-lasting.

#mozfest

First session on the Saturday was thinking about smart homes and IoT devices and how they can unfortunately often be used as tools of control and domestic abuse. We brainstormed ways in which they could be produced to stop that from happening.

#mozfest

interlude at Towards Collapse last night

Musique concrete meets concrete mixer. Particularly enjoying the use of old CRTs playing VHS of e-waste and flytipping.

On a scale of utopian to dystopian I’d give it a solid dystopian. That said, everyone seems very friendly.

https://towardscollapse.bandcamp.com/

Also at the Science Fair was Project Lantern, a great project making devices that can be deployed in a disaster zone for building an information sharing network. Built on a thing called LoRa. 3D printed casing.

https://www.lantern.works/

#mozfest

At the Science Fair met the awesome Ash from the Highlander Center in Appalachia. As part of Southern Connected Communities and with the University of Tennessee they’ve set up a community ISP that gets far better speeds in their rural area than any of the commercial ISPs ever gave them (and for less cost). Looking forwards they might turn it into a coop.

https://www.highlandercenter.org/

#mozfest

Had a great time at #MozFest last weekend.. got to try and document it a little before I forget.

(side note: currently doing this offline while on the tube with Indigenous, to be posted later… awesomeness from #indieweb swentel)

Nae Pasaran was really good. Shows that principles matter, solidarity matters. What might seem a small gesture could have big repercussions.

Also I feel unbelievably angerered every time I see anything about the coup in Chile, the complicity of foreign governments and corporations in the atrocities they committed, pretty much to protect financial interests, is sickening.

Anyone used/set up gollum wiki or fedwiki?

I like the fact that gollum is just a git repo behind the scenes – makes it easy for me to understand how the distribution works. And the interface is very simple.

fedwiki I always feel a little confused by. But admittedly I have never dug deep into it.