Added #Macrowave as project to my website and took the time to write about why we are working on it.

https://lucas.love/projects/macrowave

What's a good number of presentations to fit in a conference day?
NIME (a single-track conference with low acceptance rate), fits in about 14 presentations of various lengths (all pretty darn short - 5, 10, or 15 mins), amongst a couple of other sessions. They have 5 papers per 90 minute session. https://nime2025.org/program/

ICMC (a multi-track conference) fits ~5 in a morning session and ~5 in an evening session, with 100 minute sessions.
https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/papers/

xCoAx (another single-track conference) fits 11 papers in 3 x 60 hour long sessions per day, plus performances, keynote etc
https://2025.xcoax.org/

I generally feel that conferences have too many presentations, and it's impossible to try to take them all in.. But OTOH having loads is a good way to get an interesting group of people together.. What's the sweet spot?

@bentsai then we squat inside US owned corporate clouds, same as it ever was

ANNOUNCING the Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence returns for a second year!!

A 2-day event on the intersection of anarchism and technology...

October 11 and 12 2025
At Batiment 7 in Tiohtia:ke Montreal

Welcome to anarcho-curious techies and tech-curious anarchists, and everyone in between.

- Workshops
- Presentations
- Skill shares
- Discussions

Website will be updated soon with a submission form for activity proposals!

https://mtl-atc.org
mtl-atc@riseup.net

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/16/why-centralized-ai-is-not-our-inevitable-future/

[[Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future]] is a response to Sam Altman's "gentle singularity", written by [[Alex Komoroske]], founder of [[Common Tools]]

"between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice."

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/#apps-are-avocado-slicers

[[Apps Are Avocado Slicers]]:

"…because the avocado slicer is narrowly focused on one task, it’s useless at anything else. If you used a specialized gadget for every single task, you’d end up with a mountain of plastic."

From [[Ink & Switch]] [[Malleable Software Essay]].

[[Devine Lu Linvega
Devine]] wrote notes on [[Malleable Computing XXIIVV
malleable computing]] as a reflection on the [[Malleable Software Essay
Ink & Switch Malleable Software essay]].

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/malleable_computing

I’ve been uneasy about [[Matrix]] for a long time.

This post goes on to recommend where to look for a replacement: [[Polyproto]], [[Delta Chat]], [[Revolt]]
https://blog.cyrneko.eu/matrix-is-cooked

[[Radicle]], an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app.
https://desktop.radicle.xyz/

https://tonk.substack.com/p/tonk-the-explainer

[[Tonk]] released an explainer about their new release - "a CLI that helps you vibe code your second brain", "designed to simplify the process of building custom dashboards, tools, and AI agents using your own data."

Explicitly mentions remixing your [[Obsidian]] content.

As part of walking the startup showcase at Web Summit Vancouver, I saw Forestwalk Labs demo'ing Timberline, their agentic Mac app - building task management in an agent-first way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ptXBlsZwC0

https://justin.searls.co/posts/these-4-code-snippets-won-wwdc/

Justin Searls explains why to be excited about what Apple announced about LLMs at WWDC. One is that developers can do "free, unlimited invocation of Apple's on-device language models", so zero cost LLM features by using a user's own device. The rest is about native support in Swift for working with LLMs.

RSS Dashboard is an [[Obsidian]] plugin that pulls in posts from RSS feeds, YouTube, podcasts, and other feed based media, created by Aditya Amatya.
https://github.com/amatya-aditya/obsidian-rss-dashboard

Resilio Sync was introduced to me by Jonny at [[Z-Space]] for user friendly file sync across many platforms. It used to be called BitTorrent Sync (and now I'm down a wikipedia rabbit hole - oh god,comparison of file sync software)
https://www.resilio.com/sync/

It is interesting how many people still live in the old FOSS world. When meanwhile all the rules changed and code got and gets stolen at an industrial scale. Didn't you realise yet that your particular license doesn't matter anymore?
I don't really think this will kill FOSS, due to the inherent advantages regardless, but everything done is now essentially public domain, no attribution required.
(unless some hero stands up and does proper lawsuits)

I gave a talk at last month about the role of organising in Open Source. I have three obserpinions therefrom:

1. Going all-in on permissive licensing was a mistake that directly led to extractive behaviour
2. Copyleft not having a good answer to the actual concerns of people who chose permissive licensing was a mistake that directly led to people going all-in on permissive licensing
3. It's too late to care about licensing, so we need other forms of consequences/ways to encourage organising