FediMTL Livestream
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Met up with @matt@writing.exchange for a mini Longformers reunion
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A balmy -13°C this morning in Montreal.
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A balmy -13°C this morning in Montreal.
Doors open and the participants are starting to arrive.
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Doors open and the participants are starting to arrive.
The venue, Le Ministère, is an intimate concert venue housed in a former bank.
Super cool! The closest thing we have to that at home is a former bank turned shawarma joint. Still neat, but not the same
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The venue, Le Ministère, is an intimate concert venue housed in a former bank.
Super cool! The closest thing we have to that at home is a former bank turned shawarma joint. Still neat, but not the same
@julian isn't it a great spot?
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The venue, Le Ministère, is an intimate concert venue housed in a former bank.
Super cool! The closest thing we have to that at home is a former bank turned shawarma joint. Still neat, but not the same
@randydjohnston@qlub.social introducing and welcoming us to the first edition of FediMTL!
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@randydjohnston@qlub.social introducing and welcoming us to the first edition of FediMTL!
@pluralistic@mamot.fr starting off with hard truths about how Canada sucks at regulating American tech
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr starting off with hard truths about how Canada sucks at regulating American tech
This slide deck is absolutely bonkers, I love it.
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@julian thanks for the heads up on the streaming tickets! Didn't use the code because I really want to see this be successful!
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This slide deck is absolutely bonkers, I love it.
@pluralistic@mamot.fr answering a question about Threads defederation, noting that it is "reactionary", and that the ones you hurt are the users, the "normie friends" you want to talk to.
The act of defederating from threads assumes that the people on Threads are the problem, not the fact that it's owned by Meta. (says Cory)
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr answering a question about Threads defederation, noting that it is "reactionary", and that the ones you hurt are the users, the "normie friends" you want to talk to.
The act of defederating from threads assumes that the people on Threads are the problem, not the fact that it's owned by Meta. (says Cory)
Q: How can/should Canadian technologists sell escape hatches to other companies?
A: Cory reminding us about John Deere DRM'd tractors. John Deere bricked hundreds of tractors taken from the Ukraine by the Russians to Chechnya.
Cool from a cyberpunk POV but absolutely chilling when you realize that Trump tomorrow could order John Deere to trigger kill switches on every one of their tractors operating in Canada. (says Cory)
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Q: How can/should Canadian technologists sell escape hatches to other companies?
A: Cory reminding us about John Deere DRM'd tractors. John Deere bricked hundreds of tractors taken from the Ukraine by the Russians to Chechnya.
Cool from a cyberpunk POV but absolutely chilling when you realize that Trump tomorrow could order John Deere to trigger kill switches on every one of their tractors operating in Canada. (says Cory)
Q: is it better to pick a fight with big tech, or is it better to build open alternatives?
Cory:
- references Trump wanting Greenland, and then volatility of his tarrifs
- if you plan assumes America is a market you can rely on, you're being naïve
- "we should be breaking all land speed records to get away from it [specifically, the dependency on the American SWIFT system]
- when Carney says the old world order is gone, it's gone
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Q: is it better to pick a fight with big tech, or is it better to build open alternatives?
Cory:
- references Trump wanting Greenland, and then volatility of his tarrifs
- if you plan assumes America is a market you can rely on, you're being naïve
- "we should be breaking all land speed records to get away from it [specifically, the dependency on the American SWIFT system]
- when Carney says the old world order is gone, it's gone
Christine Lemmer-Webber is up next!
Going completely slide-less today!
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Christine Lemmer-Webber is up next!
Going completely slide-less today!
Reflecting on her article about How Decentralized Bluesky is, and asking introspectively whether ActivityPub can win big in the wake of ATProto's surging popularity.
Drawing parallels to Lisp vs UNIX.
"The fediverse has a lot of people who care about the ethics of the technology — we need to run with that."
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Reflecting on her article about How Decentralized Bluesky is, and asking introspectively whether ActivityPub can win big in the wake of ATProto's surging popularity.
Drawing parallels to Lisp vs UNIX.
"The fediverse has a lot of people who care about the ethics of the technology — we need to run with that."
@cwebber@social.coop on Age Verification
- Relies on you no longer owning the hardware you run, with backdoors written in
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@cwebber@social.coop on Age Verification
- Relies on you no longer owning the hardware you run, with backdoors written in
@cwebber@social.coop: Data centers represent a centralization of power. We should be doing the complete opposite, this is what we're working on at the Spritely Institute
