Let’s make local and accountable tech!
summary
A decade of experiments produces concrete artifacts: a Raspberry Pi + cjdns mesh nodes kit to share internet, a decentralized storage + verification prototype for archived web pages and datasets, a MediaWiki co-written during events then exported as static sites and handed out on USB, and low‑bandwidth streaming built with FFmpeg and mediaMTX that also streamed over IPFS and HTTP. Some projects stabilize (co‑op governance, archived data), others fizzled; outcomes show what actually works and what still needs engineering.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Local and accountable tech
- 2:22Early inspiration and projects
- 4:31Urban agriculture to archives
- 6:17Our Networks and local-first software
- 8:21Slow scan television streaming
- 9:45Wiki future speculation
- 10:50Tech worker co-ops
- 12:34Decentralization’s promises
- 15:43Why local-first software matters
- 18:14Progress in local-first adoption
- 19:43Accountabilities in tech design
- 21:49Lessons and future directions
- 23:56Call for local computing futures
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