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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Just met @geesegoose at the Papergoods Fest, today at Russian Hall until this afternoon. They have a lot of goose related merch so I bought a bunch, as well as explaining Atmosphere & the Goosetophers.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I wrote a proposal in the #CoSocialCa members forum about making services we already run on @cloudron for general co-op operations. Git hosting (we run @gitea) is of interest to me personally. Any other members want Canadian git hosting & code collaboration? […]

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The French government has been building out a collection of open source apps for use by their public servants called LaSuite I have a test install running using atproto accounts for login. Check out my write up, and apply if you’d like to help test it blog.bmannconsulting.com/3mvtex2jcs…

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LaSuite Apps + Atmosphere Accounts - Boris Mann Tech Blog

The French government LaSuite apps connected with Login with Atmosphere OIDC

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: cosocial.ca/@coop/117304257857053771 Thanks @dawn for your work in pushing things forward and prepping for the AGM - a nice morning of coworking where I got email for the atproto PDS working and tinkered with the operator admin panel that @gov installed. Progress! And met @ansate […]

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 17/09/2026

Here it is—the final talk from our @localfirstconf.com Lab Day! After 10 years of Ink & Switch, Peter van Hardenberg @pvh.ca takes the long view. Why do we do research? Who does it serve? And what now, as the world gets weirder? How to Research Tools for Thought

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How to Research Tools for Thought

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 15/09/2026

Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

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Boris @bmann.ca · 12/09/2026

📍 Tashkent Restaurant · 88 West Pender Street, Downtown 🌤️ 18°C Trying out Tashkent, an Uzbek halal place in the International Village Mall food court. We are sharing and ordered way too much. Manti beef dumplings… beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbq… #BeaconBits

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Introducing Patchwork-26

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

A lovely excuse to learn some Australian slang as part of a write up of how Canada walked away from negotiating with Trump ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carney-ac…

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 21/08/2026

"it's kind of what I mean by cultural victory. There's one more piece that I heard about at @dweb Camp from @wakest talking about a federated events platform that was built in a squat in Italy and it has gotten adopted in the punk community and has a massive amount of events on it in Italy and […]

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

RE: cosocial.ca/@boris/1171308644483455… That would be @avi over here having built Solander - here’s a video solander38.com

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

RE: www.manton.org/2026/08/11/introduci… Manton from Micro.blog is now hosting an independent personal data server. We're having an show & tell for the #CoSocialCa working group about running a PDS in Canada luma.com/3mplrg3i

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Hello #CoSocialCa! @gov and I are hosting a show and tell of a beta service for members, an atproto PDS. We still have some docs to write and it is not ready for everyone to use, but we've done initial setup and are ready to share and take questions. More in the members forum […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

This is a blog run by a Japanese man living in America 1/2

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/t…

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/07/2026

We’re going to do some work on the Lab Day talks before we release them. In the meantime - all the Day 1 & 2 talks are up!

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Picture that @evan took of me just before the panel I was moderating at #DWebCamp. Look at that big #CoSocialCa sticker!

Boris Mann with summer blue hat and blue shirt and shorts. Sitting in a chair holding a water bottle with many stickers - including cosocial.ca

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 09/07/2026

Goodmorning fedi, I just woke up in a windy tent in the middle of a field and sleepily scrolled thru all the opening talks at #DwebCamp to figure out what my first stop needs to be: def have to catch @cwebber, @dholms.at and @boris discuss the trade offs […] [Original post on social.wake.st]

Christine Lemmer Webber is lead author and co-editor of the W3C ActivityPub specification. Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, working on the AT Protocol specification at the IETF. Join us for a discussion on decentralization trade-offs and other design decisions in the two protocols, and what that means for different architectures, structures, and even future points of convergence.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 02/06/2026

New report: Can Canadian co-operatives build and own their own AI infrastructure? We looked at the technical, financial, and market feasibility and found a viable path forward. The Canadian Solidarity Stack is out now.

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This study, produced by CanTrust Hosting Co-operative and Hypha Worker Co-operative with funding from Co-operators’ Co-operative Development Program, examines whether a genuinely co-operative alternat...

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

RE: techhub.social/@fedicon/11668831968… Hey #CoSocialCa - @fedicon is happening again this year in August in Vancouver as part of #fossy2026

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FediCon @fedicon.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

🎉 What if the Fediverse met... in real life? FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web. Talks, Demos, Lightning Talks, Panels and more. Come be part of a community gathering focused on the Fediverse, the Social Web, and the people building the future of open social […]

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 29/05/2026

Check out @expede.wtf's lab note about designing bijou64, Bijective variable-length encodings for unsigned integers. It is "accidentally fast", which was a surprising and delightful result.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Here’s a petition by MP Jenny Kwan to the House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Peti… Simply: 1) Withdraw the bill 2) Don’t collect & retain metadata 3) Don’t weaken or break encryption, now or […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

1. Withdraw Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access, or
vote against it at all stages;
2. Remove all suspicionless bulk metadata retention
requirements from any future lawful access legislation; and
3. Explicitly prohibit any future lawful access legislation
from requiring the weakening or breaking of encryption.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Cooked tonight, which was exactly the kind of at home relaxing I needed after a lot of time traveling. Broke apart a whole chicken and roasted the legs & wings, and then separately the two breasts upside down. Salt, garlic powder, paprika, a bed of yellow peppers & onions, rice on the side.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Are there any Canadian computer assemblers? I’m looking for something like System76 or Framework (both US) or StarLabs (UK). #canada #elbowsuptech

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 14/05/2026

A new Lab Note by Ink & Switch Researcher John Mumm, "Progressions", about the learnings from composing independent audio tools into Patchwork, part of our malleable software research www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

Screenshot from the article https://www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/notebook/progressions/

"One of the themes we talk about at Ink & Switch is “situated software”, tools that are developed for the specific requirements of an individual or small community. I was interested in seeing if I could develop a patchwork tool that could not only solve my specific problem here but generally support my processes when writing progressions."

situated software link goes to https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

Bill C-22 is quite clearly a bad bill that the Canadian government is digging in it's heels on. Michael Geist @mgeist covers the latest, which is Signal @signalapp saying they will pull out of Canada if it passes (there is a requirement of retaining metadata for a year -- e.g. phone numbers […]

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Boris @bmann.ca · 22/04/2026

My first trip post AtmosphereConf where I am putting together a pack of travel stickers to give to @flo-bit.dev and leave behind for other @atproto.berlin folks

Floor of Z-Space gallery room covered in stickers

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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

I knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of […]

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Learned about GNOME OS from @pojntfx and also the concept of “distroless” os.gnome.org Anyone have opinions, pointers, blog posts about GNOME OS and/or distroless?

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GNOME OS Nightly

Try the latest and greatest GNOME software in a VM or on real hardware

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

I'm super hyped to announce that Bluesky Socal PBC has given me a grant to work on the Federated Credential Management (or FedCM) standards to make them really work for all decentralized web applications. This is why I stepped up to be an Invited Expert with the W3C FedID Working Group earlier […]

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Boris @bmann.ca · 04/03/2026

We hit 1000 guestbook sign ins at @z-space.ca today! @hilk.eu hit the button and captured the whole crew who came for member show & tell Thank you to @jonny.z-space.ca who built the tech & made the space & brings the energy to connect us together.

Guestbook Z-console with Hilke in the foreground

Hilke and Boris at Z-Space. Hilke is jet lagged! I need to shave badly!

We’re looking forward to our next imaginary number future reverse people signing.

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Piccalilli @piccalilli.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Finding an accessibility-first culture in npmx Today is the alpha release of npmx — an alternative browser for the npm registry. Abbey Perini joined early and soon discovered accessibility was a deep part of the culture, right from the start, which was both refreshing and incredibly productive. […]

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