Yeah, thank you, thank you, okay, so I'm a enforcer and I'm Sam, hello, okay, and so yes, so we are
here to talk about death and I have to warn you, oh, that didn't work, oh yeah, there is
death ahead, so if you are uncomfortable, then this is probably time to close your eyes,
but it's coming your way, okay, so here's a question for you all, what would you do if you
died today, you know, and that's a serious question, like it's something that we really need to
think about all the time, and this is something that I think about and some think about all the time,
so there's something about death that always scares a lot of people, and we've got to remember
that it's always going to come, there's no way around it, no matter what Elon Musk and all the
billionaires think, there's also a really important thing about kind of living well, but also
dying well, so not just kind of, you actually hear his question, however you've got wheels hands up,
okay, for people who haven't got wheels get a wheel, I'm dead these serious, that's a
number talk, right, so there's also you might have noticed that what people die, there's this whole
thing that starts to happen, and in the individual age death, you sometimes it's kind of like
done socially, and so we sometimes see people who post stuff on their side, you see some of the
Facebook kind of, I can never say the word, when you're the profile changes, and also you might
see them even like some of the gravestones of now got QR codes on there, and I think it's a bit
crafts myself, but I can understand what that whole thing, and so we need to think about all this
stuff, we've got to feel about what you want, you know, I feel about what people around you may want,
but also you ought to think about how do you feel when you see this, so I always ask this question,
and it's just 44 in the pubs and time, it's like, how many of you've got people who have died,
and their address book, your address book still got, you still got the contact in your address book,
like what you do with it, you delete it, you like it's like the, it starts to kind of like
play on the mind about how you do this stuff, so how can this one legacy work in the Fediverse,
this is a really interesting question, it's like we've been exploring, so I'm going to
process out there, I don't really like it, but there's this whole thing around grief bots,
and so you can imagine if you die, that maybe a grief bot takes your position on the Fediverse,
do it now, it's also you can do this kind of like memorization, remember, I can never say the
words, you know, where people, you can see like what someone's life was like, it's that's
me that you'd want to see as someone who's a friend or a family member, I'm not so sure,
so we create this thing called machine readable wishes and for an in short, when you get a
well in the UK, you also get a thing called the letter of wishes, which is a completely actual
disrupt, this is a difference between them, one's legally binding, one's not, one's informal,
one's not, one's flexible, you know, and so you can do a lot with the, the letter wishes, so much
that actually, if it was, if it was actually created using something like, this is kind of stuff
you could put in it, but if you put something in it, so if you make it with something like a machine
readable format, then the machine could act on your behalf to do stuff, and this is where
you're going to talk about that. Yep, so basically every aspect of your digital life, whether it's
a private or public, will basically continue to exist after you pass, and I can guarantee that most
of us, or many of us, don't really have any protocols in place for unexpected events like that,
and I mean, I don't blame us, it's, it's difficult, and it's costly, and it's time consuming,
and it feels really strange, and especially for unexpected events like that, and you know,
in and I found it like really crazy, that there's nothing actually substantial, that whether you're
technically in tune or not, allows you to wrap up your digital life, and just leave what you
want behind before you become permanently AFK. So yeah, our machine letter of wishes tries to tackle
that problem, or at least a portion of it by using automation and guiding user thought with
some forms and some leading questions. So we're out getting into too much detail, we used to use
markdowns, but it's a little bit too open-ended. We used Google forms, not Google forms,
X forms, to basically just provoke the question about where to go and what kind of commands you
would do, past dying, and yeah, basically takes a form, input, and convert it into some predefined
commands, and on execution, their performance is actions, logs it, and basically makes the
document about decaling what's happened. And any one is basically perfect for this, if I'm sure
most people know what that is. It's perfect because of how easily it's able to interact with a
bunch of different third-party software. I mean it's already got in-built capabilities to talk
with a bunch of stuff on the third-iverse, like Master Dawn, and it has WordPress as well, and it
also allows for HTTP API requests. So if you have a public API on the third-party software,
then our system can talk to it. And yeah, we're kind of being very careful to make this
scalable because commands are supposed to be simply building blocks, and we want it to be
allow for complex commands in the future, and potentially use a custom commands. So yeah,
we're trying to prepare for the future, and we don't really know what's going to be important in
the future, and what's going to mean necessary for our digital legacy, and it's important for us
to keep everything open and expandable. Thank you. Okay, so in the two minutes, so here's
a question, what would you do? So there's a whole bunch of things that could be done to the
Fediverse. We have some recommendations about what could actually happen to the Fediverse,
that could point to port. This would legacy better, but as a question on on Master Dawn,
you know what what people do, and actually some interesting stuff came back. You can still
report, reply to the Fred if you want to, the link is on the bottom. So I'll skip to the most
important one. People won't talk about leaving the last kind of message, but there was a question
that one came from Comrade. I'm saying about he would leave a message, but he also said that
he hosted his own Master on Server, so how would that work? Because what's his credit card's gone,
then it would just disappear, and that's a well, you're thinking too small. I think you can think
bigger, because with what we're doing, it's that you can literally have a pool of money
that then the any end workstream would pour the money from there, so it's like a kind of
really day fund, and then keep that server running, for example, or turn that into HTML to a plain
text HTML file, so you still have all this stuff around. It's something that you could do, so you can
increase kind of quite crazy automations. So we're really interesting your thoughts, because we
kind of don't know what we could do, we could do a whole ton of things. And if you're interested
in learning more, and it's on GitHub, then the code is on GitHub, and yep, good. It is on GitHub, yes.
And there is a QR code, a two-carot QR codes to go check out more, and we also have
load results and links. Thank you very much.
Does anybody have a single question for Ian and Sam? What would the last question be, now?
You're dying questions? Anybody have a question? There's one there, I say jazz has a question.
And if you want to know more, please come and bug us, we can go to a lot more detail.
Yeah, maybe two granular for this presentation, but who's got the file? So I leave a letter
that says execute when the motion takes, make this file thing happen. Who's got it, well, okay,
so this is the answer, this is something, so in common law countries, you get a well, and you
get a letter of wishes, that letter of wishes is attached to the well, the letter of wishes does not
get released until the will with release. The people who are mentioned in the will are executed,
there are only people who see that letter of wishes. So there's a really small circle that you've
defined who see that and can execute. It doesn't just go public. And you're describing this file,
yes, we'd execute this as part of that letter of wishes, yes, or attached to that letter of wish.
Well, we'd also like the letter of wishes to be written in a format that is machine-readable.
Okay, great, thank you. Okay, thank you both, thank you.