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I was interviewed for this documentary (It was released in France and Germany, they're working on the English version). I think the trailer looks really good! https://www.labatailledulibre.org/en/home/

Ok, the Datashards presentation went really well! @emacsen and I did a demo where I uploaded the Death Star plans to a datashards store, converted it to a QR code, which @emacsen then scanned from my screen on his laptop and displayed to the audience.

And the web store was oblivious to the data we were transmitting!

Stories like this one fit the "western savior" narrative so perfectly. It's like Dances with Wolves with apps https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/09/02/hong-kong-protestors-using-mesh-messaging-app-china-cant-block-usage-up-3685/#1edf390a135a

New episode of @librelounge out about Datashards, a project @emacsen and I have been working on for secure, collaborative, decentralized storage primitives for the web. https://librelounge.org/episodes/26-announcing-datashards.html

Datashards is inspired by Tahoe-LAFS and Freenet, but generalized. If you remember the Spritely Magenc/Crystal/Golem secure storage/distribution demos, Datashards grew out of all that!

(we're trying to get the website up today; I had other ideas for a logo I was going to make in Blender, but I have run out of time)

Datashards logo (hastily produced from cool-retro-term). Preferences between these two?

https://dustycloud.org/tmp/datashards-logos/datashards-green3-anim-2.gif (prompt + scan line)
https://dustycloud.org/tmp/datashards-logos/datashards-green3-anim-3.gif (no prompt, no scan line)

Recording @librelounge is genuinely hard while I have some equipment in one city while I have other equipment in another.

My recording never sounds consistent.

I'd love some help in setting up a good audio setup in two places. I have good equipment but I think there are just ways I could be setting it up.

Audio engineering help welcome!

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Mark S. Miller (of object capability fame) is keynoting at ActivityPub Conf 2019! We couldn't be more thrilled! https://dustycloud.org/blog/mark-miller-at-apconf-2019/

I've finished writing part 1 of "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent", which is to say the "Conceptual Overview" section https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

There's a lot there already, and we haven't even gotten to Part 2, the "How to Build It" section yet. I'll begin work on that tomorrow.

What's here already is more or less an explanation of *why* OcapPub is taking the particular direction it is taking, and why other approaches run into serious problems.

I'm having a bit of a family emergency. I need to take time off for a while. That means no new @librelounge for a while.

I have a ton of episodes planned out with @cwebber- exciting stuff about Lisp, about adventures with Git, about ActivityPub, DataShards, Spritely, and some exciting guests.

We'll be on a hiatus, but not forgotten- promise.

In happier news, my Datashards Rationale document got accepted as a Rebooting Web of Trust pre-reading document https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/datashards-rationale.md

and so did @emacsen's AP Unwanted Messages writeup (which has also informed much of the writeup I'm working on now for OcapPub) https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/ap-unwanted-messages.md