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Morning! It's my day off. Slept in and now on my third cup of coffee in front of the computer.
Yesterday I came back home from a visit to Stockholm.
I presented Tillitis TKey at the SamNet conference which was held on Tuesday at Internetstiftelsen's offices. My talk begins at 3:09:18:
https://play.mittdata.se/w/s9V87wkphFe7r1g15zwfrU?start=3h9m18s
Warning: Swedish.
It went well, I thought. There was about 80 people in the room. I got a couple of good questions (in Swedish and without mic from the people who asked questions) and had great discussions afterwards. Was a little worried that my talk would be much too technical for the crowd but it seemed to work.
Unfortunately I couldn't use org-present in Emacs for this presentation. I tried hooking up my laptop to the projector during lunch and everything seemed to work but when it time for the actual presentation nothing worked. Tobias, who presented just before me, warned me and said that I should mail a PDF to one of the organisers, so I did.
I did, however, generate the PDF from the Org Mode file! I used org-present and used the reveal.js export, then looked at the reveal.js in a browser (first Firefox, then Chrome) and exported it as PDF. Didn't look quite the same and some text from slides spilled over to the next slide, but the Chrome version looked best.
On Wednesday I presented the TKey again, this time with org-present (yes!) and a slightly different presentation in English about the status of the TKey development for a slightly different crowd at our sister company Glasklar Teknik. Glasklar hade invited some guests in their Stockholm office which incidentally looked a lot like a hackerspace. Really nice, comfy office which also included a real VT100 terminal.
Wednesday evening I was invited to a meeting of old friends from a mailing list I've been on for a long time. Met some people for the very first time and made at least one new friend.
Went back home Thursday in an uneventful train trip.
The hotel this time, Clarion Stockholm, was interesting. It had great wifi! No v6, though. And it had warm vegan breakfast! Small sausages (pea protein), fried potatoes, grilled tomatoes, and white beans in tomato sauce. They also had vegan oatmeal porridge.
I managed to set up ement.el, an Emacs Matrix client, and the Pantalaimon E2EE proxy. It's a bit frustrating since I don't seem to be able to create an encrypted room and neither cross-signing nor interactive verification seem to work against for instance the Element client.
The entire Matrix ecosystem is a bit frustrating. I've tried so many clients by now. ement.el has a rather nice UI but completely lacks e2ee and relies on pantalaimon for that and even that isn't complete.
Still, I'm now reachable on Matrix as @mc:matrix.org but don't count on encrypted messages and working verification. I'm probably going to use this mostly for public non-encrypted rooms. If you want to reach out in a 1:1 please use e-mail or XMPP instead.
It seemed I had a lot of devices on the homeserver (38!) and managed to clean it up a bit by temporarily installing Element Android and using that to sign out of all the device sessions.
mc,
Pungenday, the 48 day of Chaos in the YOLD 3189