and here is that video of the talk.
The Glenkens is the wide valley of the Ken river and Loch on the eastern end of #Galloway. flanked by the Rhins of Kells on the west, with the Southern Upland Way going through it Travelling from north to south, we will take you on three walks that give both a flavour of the beautiful landscape of the glen, but also a flavour of the history and folklore of this corner of #Scotland .
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I'm proud to say that I (Evan) will be a keynote speaker at WordCamp Canada 2025. My talk, Beyond Microblogging: WordPress Leads the Way With Long-form Text on the Social Web will cover the work that the SWF has done on long-form text with our supporters WordPress, Ghost, Write.as, and others. I'm excited to have the discussion and point the way forward for a more integrated experience of blog posts, newspaper and magazine articles, and other texts on the social web.
WordCamp Canada has a […]
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Looking for Fediverse oddities!
I am super late, OVER THE DEADLINE to submit the slides of my talk at SFSCON 2025, but I still want to add a few little things, and I need tips.
My presentation ends by listing a few “crazy but true” things about the Fediverse.
Can you help me find a few more in the next couple hours?
So far I have:
Truth Social uses Mastodon and it was forced to open-source its code after it was discovered
Some public institutions host their own Fediverse instances!
You could host a Fediverse server in your living room
You can use a car’s on-board computer to power a Fediverse server
You can synchronize your personal calendar with federated calendars from the Fediverse (using @gancio)
You can buy indie music by paying an artist directly (using @bandwagon)
You can do academic peer-reviews via the Fediverse (using @bonfire)
What else??? I only want cool or incredible things.
#Fediverse #help #oddities #conference #presentation #talk #SFSCON #SFSCON2025
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As the @bsdcan lists of talks and tutorials have been posted, I can officially announce my presentation:
Don't Freeze in the Cloud: Reclaiming Home Control with NetBSD
In 2010, I was taking more flights than cups of coffee. After a two-week trip, I returned home to a nasty, albeit expected, surprise: an indoor temperature of 7.8°C (46 F). Possessing more time than money, I decided to solve the problem my own way. I built a custom Python-based control system, accessible only via VPN, to manage my heating.
In 2015, after moving houses, this system was demoted to a secondary role, replaced by a shiny, commercial "smart" thermostat. However, I continued to maintain and update my custom solution for fun.
Fast forward to October 2025: major cloud providers faced significant outages. My commercial thermostat became dumber than a mechanical switch. I was reduced to manual two-hour overrides, with no visibility into settings or usage. It was a wake-up call: keeping my home warm should not depend on someone else's server.
I dusted off my solution and adapted it to modern needs - powered, of course, by NetBSD, running on the very same hardware that served my previous home for years.
In this talk, I will share the journey, the technical challenges, and the architectural decisions behind the project. I will demonstrate how NetBSD’s stability and low footprint make it the ideal operating system for long-term, "set-and-forget" home automation, allowing us to reclaim control from the cloud.
#NetBSD #BSDCan #BSDCan2026 #RunBSD #OwnYourData #Presentation #Talk
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