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Small Internet Presentation at MCH2022 | |
July 29th, 2022 | |
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I'm back home from the Netherlands and MCH2022 (May Contain | |
Hackers). It was a whirlwind and quite awesome. I'm just floored | |
by how much stuff a bunch of volunteers can accomplish with | |
motivation and creative hacking. | |
The talks were amazing and most can now be found online on the CCC | |
site. There was also an epic CTF game going on the whole week (I | |
helped out in some lock picking challenges). The ad-hoc villages | |
created by visitors were endless fun too. What a wild ride. I hope | |
you all get the chance to attend one of these hacker camps in the | |
future. | |
I participated in one group panel discussion on social media, | |
disinformation, and fascism that was really interesting, but not | |
recorded. I also gave one of the curated stage presentations which | |
was recorded [0]. | |
[0] Video of my Small Internet talk | |
My main talk was about the small internet, and specifically about | |
gopher and gemini. It covers some framing for what people mean by | |
the term small internet, what services and activities fall under | |
the umbrella, and a bit of sentiment and behavior information from | |
the survey I shared here earlier. Then I run through a quick | |
technical overview of gopher and gemini, and finish off with | |
a quick nod at pubnix and tildes. The questions from the audience | |
were wonderful and I hope it broadens awareness of our fun little | |
spaces. If you want to see the slides from the presentation, | |
they're a Nuxt app I tossed together for the purpose and can be | |
found here [1]: | |
[1] Presentation Slides | |
I hope I get to go to another camp in the near future. Perhaps | |
next time I'll discuss contract based dependency management [2]. | |
[2] CBDM Blog Post |