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@cstross
I'm just sad that "this group deserves to exist" is a wedge issue, and not just something most people can agree on 😞
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Mathew Storm
@smattymatty@socialontario.ca
mastodon 4.6.4- Engineer, Educator & Enthusiast -
I am really into Open Source, coding, tech, politics, philosophy, literature, music, and just have way too many hobbies.
- Aspiring Absurdist Author & Adamantly Anti-Authoritarian -
Building sovereign infrastructure for the decentralized web.
🇨🇦 Canadian by birth and choice 🇨🇦 Human rights > all
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Joined December 27, 2025
Canadian Cloud Infrastructure:
Personal Site:
https://northtube.ca/w/pHG7o3TVuMHMp1eCQcj2fW
NorthTube's storage is now on Storm Buckets, fully Canadian-hosted -- here's a tutorial on the s3 storage platform I've been creating, using #Garage under the hood! I have two commits merged upstream, excitedly waiting for 2.4.0!
I'm still building & dogfooding the platform, but if anyone wants alpha access let me know!
Mark Zuckerberg donated $1M to Trump's inauguration, killed fact-checking to please him, and just made Trump's former national security adviser Meta's president. Their own researchers called Instagram "a drug" and themselves "pushers."
Canada's Bill C-11 protects these companies from Canadian competition. Doctorow is right - repeal it, legalize jailbreaking, and go into business disenshittifying their garbage.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/12/meta-taps-former-trump-adviser-to-be-president-vice-chair-00721906
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/
#RepealC11 #Canada #CdnPoli
As for age verification, I agree with @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca that even if we wanted to do it, we just do not have the resources.
If we were ordered to "Do it or shut down" then our only choice would be to shut down, which gives more power to big-tech and enables their abuses even further, with more data on their users!
Another bill we should just kill, in my opinion.
I just switched here, after creating the instance! Time for a re-introduction.
I believe in:
🍁 Canadian digital sovereignty
🌐 Building the gardens, not the walls
🪨 Imagining Sisyphus happy (even when the boulder has ML capabilities)
I also host the https://northtube.ca platform!
If you're interested in #Django, #Fediverse infrastructure, #Philosophy, #Absurdism, or just #Canadian things, let's connect.
Finished recording this tutorial, got it on Northtube!
#PeerTube is literally the reason I started working on my own s3 platform, so it's the first real app-specific tutorial - was built to solve my problem, so hopefully it can solve others!
https://northtube.ca/w/uvzUit2ryMPpN7vfZ9S6Vn
More to come. Storm Buckets is in alpha, but feel free to sign up for a free 100gb grant! Honestly looking for more Alpha users to provide feedback, so you'd be helping me out as well
Try out my game:
https://smattymatty.itch.io/archimedes-survivor
A fast-paced survivor roguelite - start off simple, scales to absurd chaos!
My friend and I have been making the 'Archimedes' game engine from scratch for some time - an 'off-and-on' type of project - and this is the official tech demo!
If you like survivors-like games, you'll probably enjoy this. But be warned: It's quite tough!
Can you get past 3 minutes? Most can't.
RE: @dmacphee@mas.to
So is this guy going to jail, or is crime now legal in Canada?
@Jeremy@nwt.social @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com @evan@cosocial.ca @cwebber@social.coop
I'm not sure if we are talking about the same bill, but c-22 that designates "electronic service providers"; fediverse admins fall into that, even someone who hosts nextcloud for their family falls into that -- the government can order you to betray your users/family/friends - and legally bar you from talking about it.
If passed as written, it's pretty damning for the 'digital sovereignty' movement. I think a lot of our time should be spent against it.
Participated in the first ever MOOP Open Source Game Jam - Two weeks to create a game with the theme 'Open', using Open source tools:
https://smattymatty.itch.io/open-door-dungeon
We created a roguelike dungeon crawler all about opening doors ;) a proof-of-concept of our C->WebAssembly Pipeline with our Archimedes + Daedalus toolchain
Devlog about design and tech here:
@Jakester@socialontario.ca was my team-mate who made the map editor and some art
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@Gina @forgejo @BZKopensource @tomootes @bo @johan @marlenabcn @opensource @developer
This is so cool!! I just got my forgejo instance set up and have been loving it. I really hope to see more countries take this initiative!
I've been following #garage for a few months, and finally I got around to opening up my own self-hosted garage cluster - for now it just holds my obsidian notes, but I have a ton of ideas for what I want to use this for!
I'm super happy with how easy Garage is to set up and use. I'm excited to delve deeper into it, write more about it, and transition NorthTube and SocialOntario to it once I can ensure it's fully stable!
Blog post: https://mathewstorm.ca/tech/self-host-journey/garage-1/
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@renata@cosocial.ca @dmacphee@mas.to
Continued rant:
As a software developer and cybersecurity specialist, I spend countless hours making sure people's data is safe, protecting from cyber criminals, etc. Just for this fucking idiot to commit a massive cyber crime without 2 brain cells, not a care in the world; and now he ACTS LIKE THE VICTIM?
Seriously if he doesn't go to jail imma revolt, I'm not an Albertan, but as a cybersecurity techy this pisses me off 😤
okay guys you can calm down, the OPTIONS preflight CORS handling on local-aliased buckets in Garage is fixed
Jokes aside, I am proud to announce my pr got merged into Garage!
I'm always super nervous when making a PR for open source projects, a mix of imposter syndrome and catastrophizing -- so I'm really happy it was accepted so quickly :) especially since it was legitimately blocking me in production
Haven't been too active, and have been letting things get out of touch -- I apologize -- got hit with the good ol' depression bug. The same stuff that I was super excited about ~ a month ago, I just haven't had any energy for, lately. Just been working, sleeping, and trying my best to take care of myself. Sorry guys, but I'll be back soon.
@davidallengreen@mastodon.green @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @Popehat@mastodon.social @emptywheel@mastodon.social
hey man dont let the HOA people get to ya, we love you here
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@_elena@mastodon.social
Damn. Hopefully this gets a wave of people to quit bluesky and join fedi - if ICE was on fedi, the majority of decent instance hosts would just block them outright, so their users wouldn't have to worry.
Hmm, my first thought is that moderation is community-based on a per-instance basis, so they can have a much easier time moderating out bad actors (entire bad instances) - and regional instances like yours for NWT can ensure they're more likely to reach their actual constituents rather than faraway trolls
you can mention rule 1 of https://joinmastodon.org/covenant that would wipe out many types of bad actors from any respected instance
I'll read the article and try to formulate more thoughts
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I would love to see these guys build a presence of #Mastodon and #Peertube
I'm thinking of starting an e-mail campaign to help explain how the #fediverse would be perfect for their org ;)
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@avilewis@mstdn.ca
Awesome to see you here, Avi!! The fact that you are taking #DigitalSovereignty seriously by joining the #Fediverse is huge!
#NDP #cdnpoli #canada
@votetanille@socialbc.ca said #Mastodon during the #NDP Debate!
https://youtu.be/Uy6_gTsUH4A?t=4895
It came last after FB, tho. Small victories.
Got around to uploading my 2nd class on #Django web dev fundamentals --
https://northtube.ca/w/tsgFMfZeYvSEb49KEEYuGi
Recorded this a while ago, but I'm transferring all my old YouTube content -> PeerTube - Slowly but Surely
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@headfirstonly
Thanks, really needed to hear this. I'm just picking myself out of a depression/autism-burnout pit- and seeing that I'm not alone really helps
The art thing is true. Instead of my usual hyperfocus on coding/tech projects, I picked up my guitar and piano again for the last few weeks, it's been a good way to take a break from """serious""" work
Hope others feel the same and can pick themselves back up when the time is right :)
I found this out in the wild while researching similar sites for my client -- 'As Recommended by ChatGPT and Google Gemini' -- WHAT?!
That's like putting 'As recommended by my Ouija board and my Vacuum Cleaner' as a review for your business O__O
Oh dear.
'As recommended by the homeless man down the street who yells in riddles'
'As recommended by my parrot that I taught to swear'
I'm having too much fun with this.
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@beemdvp@techhub.social @Jakester@socialontario.ca Thanks! I enjoy the simplicity of C, but my main goal with Daedalus's design was to make it feel more Pythonic and modern, allowing for true Data-Driven-Design
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@dansup@mastodon.social
wow .... :) very nice - whats the tech stack?
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@britt@mstdn.gameshttps://fedihost.co/ from @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com has been my go-to - I've not had any technical issues but my instance is tiny
They have a custom option, might be worth reaching out :)
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@MaximilianBlum@linke.social @_elena@mastodon.social
Fedi has the tools to deal with this, BlueSky doesn't.
Toxic instances already exist, and I agree that if fedi grows, more toxic instances will exist - it will become more difficult to update blocklists and whatnot - but at least Fedi gives us the tools to deal with this.
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@geekysteven
This is the kind of event that really separates the REAL pieces of shits from the Semi pieces of shits
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social
I honestly don't think they care even for the well-being of their fellow wealthy white male "Christians" (feels so dirty calling them that, but besides the point-) they only really care about how useful they are for the moment
If they saw the chance to step on the head of their fellow wealthy white guys, ruin their lives, and profit off their losses- they'd do it in a heartbeat. That's why these people all have dirt on each other and backup plans for when shit hits the fan.
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@nextcloud@mastodon.xyz
Awesome!!!
Amazing example of 'practice what you preach' by #nextcloud
Hopefully this put a lot of eyes on #Peertube and helps people discover that it's something they never knew they needed!
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social @rwg@aoir.social
@Jeremy@nwt.social @res260@infosec.exchange @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com @evan@cosocial.ca @cwebber@social.coop
All good, I don't blame you, bills in this country are so vaguely named and hard to follow.
Both bills deserve scrutiny though so I appreciate you bringing it up.
@gfsc
What time zone is this 4-5pm in? :)
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@dansup@mastodon.social
Let me know what kind of help you need and when you need it - I design and implement APIs often, and am decent with TypeScript - this seems like a good opportunity to get on-hand experience with FediDB's APIs
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
The most heinous crimes are often committed by those who know they can get away with it - those in power.
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@Techaltar@mas.to
C/ it's an environmental catastrophe that EXISTS TO DESTROY TRUTH so oligarchs can dismiss any crime as 'AI generated' while fabricating whatever they need. We're burning the planet to build the infrastructure of fascism