WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.120 Yeah, thank you, thank you, okay, so I'm a enforcer and I'm Sam, hello, okay, and so yes, so we are 00:18.120 --> 00:25.440 here to talk about death and I have to warn you, oh, that didn't work, oh yeah, there is 00:25.520 --> 00:31.520 death ahead, so if you are uncomfortable, then this is probably time to close your eyes, 00:31.520 --> 00:37.760 but it's coming your way, okay, so here's a question for you all, what would you do if you 00:37.760 --> 00:42.400 died today, you know, and that's a serious question, like it's something that we really need to 00:42.400 --> 00:47.280 think about all the time, and this is something that I think about and some think about all the time, 00:47.280 --> 00:53.680 so there's something about death that always scares a lot of people, and we've got to remember 00:53.680 --> 00:59.600 that it's always going to come, there's no way around it, no matter what Elon Musk and all the 00:59.600 --> 01:05.040 billionaires think, there's also a really important thing about kind of living well, but also 01:05.040 --> 01:10.800 dying well, so not just kind of, you actually hear his question, however you've got wheels hands up, 01:12.480 --> 01:18.320 okay, for people who haven't got wheels get a wheel, I'm dead these serious, that's a 01:18.800 --> 01:26.000 number talk, right, so there's also you might have noticed that what people die, there's this whole 01:26.000 --> 01:32.720 thing that starts to happen, and in the individual age death, you sometimes it's kind of like 01:32.720 --> 01:40.880 done socially, and so we sometimes see people who post stuff on their side, you see some of the 01:41.440 --> 01:49.040 Facebook kind of, I can never say the word, when you're the profile changes, and also you might 01:49.040 --> 01:54.080 see them even like some of the gravestones of now got QR codes on there, and I think it's a bit 01:54.640 --> 02:02.240 crafts myself, but I can understand what that whole thing, and so we need to think about all this 02:02.240 --> 02:07.360 stuff, we've got to feel about what you want, you know, I feel about what people around you may want, 02:07.440 --> 02:13.440 but also you ought to think about how do you feel when you see this, so I always ask this question, 02:13.440 --> 02:18.800 and it's just 44 in the pubs and time, it's like, how many of you've got people who have died, 02:18.800 --> 02:23.520 and their address book, your address book still got, you still got the contact in your address book, 02:23.520 --> 02:27.920 like what you do with it, you delete it, you like it's like the, it starts to kind of like 02:27.920 --> 02:34.640 play on the mind about how you do this stuff, so how can this one legacy work in the Fediverse, 02:34.720 --> 02:39.200 this is a really interesting question, it's like we've been exploring, so I'm going to 02:39.200 --> 02:44.080 process out there, I don't really like it, but there's this whole thing around grief bots, 02:44.880 --> 02:50.800 and so you can imagine if you die, that maybe a grief bot takes your position on the Fediverse, 02:51.680 --> 02:58.480 do it now, it's also you can do this kind of like memorization, remember, I can never say the 02:58.480 --> 03:03.280 words, you know, where people, you can see like what someone's life was like, it's that's 03:03.360 --> 03:07.440 me that you'd want to see as someone who's a friend or a family member, I'm not so sure, 03:08.480 --> 03:15.440 so we create this thing called machine readable wishes and for an in short, when you get a 03:15.440 --> 03:21.360 well in the UK, you also get a thing called the letter of wishes, which is a completely actual 03:21.360 --> 03:26.480 disrupt, this is a difference between them, one's legally binding, one's not, one's informal, 03:26.480 --> 03:32.160 one's not, one's flexible, you know, and so you can do a lot with the, the letter wishes, so much 03:32.240 --> 03:37.440 that actually, if it was, if it was actually created using something like, this is kind of stuff 03:37.440 --> 03:43.360 you could put in it, but if you put something in it, so if you make it with something like a machine 03:43.360 --> 03:48.720 readable format, then the machine could act on your behalf to do stuff, and this is where 03:48.720 --> 03:55.280 you're going to talk about that. Yep, so basically every aspect of your digital life, whether it's 03:55.360 --> 04:02.000 a private or public, will basically continue to exist after you pass, and I can guarantee that most 04:02.000 --> 04:10.000 of us, or many of us, don't really have any protocols in place for unexpected events like that, 04:10.000 --> 04:16.080 and I mean, I don't blame us, it's, it's difficult, and it's costly, and it's time consuming, 04:16.080 --> 04:21.680 and it feels really strange, and especially for unexpected events like that, and you know, 04:21.680 --> 04:27.360 in and I found it like really crazy, that there's nothing actually substantial, that whether you're 04:27.360 --> 04:33.680 technically in tune or not, allows you to wrap up your digital life, and just leave what you 04:33.680 --> 04:43.600 want behind before you become permanently AFK. So yeah, our machine letter of wishes tries to tackle 04:43.680 --> 04:51.600 that problem, or at least a portion of it by using automation and guiding user thought with 04:51.600 --> 04:59.680 some forms and some leading questions. So we're out getting into too much detail, we used to use 04:59.680 --> 05:04.560 markdowns, but it's a little bit too open-ended. We used Google forms, not Google forms, 05:04.560 --> 05:11.200 X forms, to basically just provoke the question about where to go and what kind of commands you 05:11.200 --> 05:18.960 would do, past dying, and yeah, basically takes a form, input, and convert it into some predefined 05:18.960 --> 05:25.440 commands, and on execution, their performance is actions, logs it, and basically makes the 05:25.440 --> 05:32.560 document about decaling what's happened. And any one is basically perfect for this, if I'm sure 05:32.560 --> 05:38.720 most people know what that is. It's perfect because of how easily it's able to interact with a 05:38.720 --> 05:43.200 bunch of different third-party software. I mean it's already got in-built capabilities to talk 05:43.200 --> 05:49.280 with a bunch of stuff on the third-iverse, like Master Dawn, and it has WordPress as well, and it 05:49.280 --> 05:56.800 also allows for HTTP API requests. So if you have a public API on the third-party software, 05:56.800 --> 06:03.920 then our system can talk to it. And yeah, we're kind of being very careful to make this 06:04.480 --> 06:10.480 scalable because commands are supposed to be simply building blocks, and we want it to be 06:11.040 --> 06:17.360 allow for complex commands in the future, and potentially use a custom commands. So yeah, 06:17.360 --> 06:22.640 we're trying to prepare for the future, and we don't really know what's going to be important in 06:22.640 --> 06:28.160 the future, and what's going to mean necessary for our digital legacy, and it's important for us 06:28.160 --> 06:33.680 to keep everything open and expandable. Thank you. Okay, so in the two minutes, so here's 06:33.680 --> 06:37.840 a question, what would you do? So there's a whole bunch of things that could be done to the 06:37.840 --> 06:42.240 Fediverse. We have some recommendations about what could actually happen to the Fediverse, 06:42.240 --> 06:48.880 that could point to port. This would legacy better, but as a question on on Master Dawn, 06:48.880 --> 06:53.680 you know what what people do, and actually some interesting stuff came back. You can still 06:53.680 --> 06:59.280 report, reply to the Fred if you want to, the link is on the bottom. So I'll skip to the most 06:59.760 --> 07:05.920 important one. People won't talk about leaving the last kind of message, but there was a question 07:05.920 --> 07:12.480 that one came from Comrade. I'm saying about he would leave a message, but he also said that 07:12.480 --> 07:17.120 he hosted his own Master on Server, so how would that work? Because what's his credit card's gone, 07:17.120 --> 07:21.920 then it would just disappear, and that's a well, you're thinking too small. I think you can think 07:22.000 --> 07:27.600 bigger, because with what we're doing, it's that you can literally have a pool of money 07:28.320 --> 07:34.080 that then the any end workstream would pour the money from there, so it's like a kind of 07:34.080 --> 07:42.640 really day fund, and then keep that server running, for example, or turn that into HTML to a plain 07:42.640 --> 07:48.000 text HTML file, so you still have all this stuff around. It's something that you could do, so you can 07:48.080 --> 07:54.560 increase kind of quite crazy automations. So we're really interesting your thoughts, because we 07:54.560 --> 08:00.000 kind of don't know what we could do, we could do a whole ton of things. And if you're interested 08:00.000 --> 08:07.520 in learning more, and it's on GitHub, then the code is on GitHub, and yep, good. It is on GitHub, yes. 08:08.160 --> 08:13.360 And there is a QR code, a two-carot QR codes to go check out more, and we also have 08:13.600 --> 08:15.600 load results and links. Thank you very much. 08:22.000 --> 08:27.120 Does anybody have a single question for Ian and Sam? What would the last question be, now? 08:28.960 --> 08:32.480 You're dying questions? Anybody have a question? There's one there, I say jazz has a question. 08:33.760 --> 08:37.680 And if you want to know more, please come and bug us, we can go to a lot more detail. 08:38.640 --> 08:44.320 Yeah, maybe two granular for this presentation, but who's got the file? So I leave a letter 08:44.320 --> 08:50.720 that says execute when the motion takes, make this file thing happen. Who's got it, well, okay, 08:50.720 --> 08:58.240 so this is the answer, this is something, so in common law countries, you get a well, and you 08:58.240 --> 09:02.800 get a letter of wishes, that letter of wishes is attached to the well, the letter of wishes does not 09:02.880 --> 09:10.320 get released until the will with release. The people who are mentioned in the will are executed, 09:10.320 --> 09:15.920 there are only people who see that letter of wishes. So there's a really small circle that you've 09:15.920 --> 09:22.800 defined who see that and can execute. It doesn't just go public. And you're describing this file, 09:23.520 --> 09:29.280 yes, we'd execute this as part of that letter of wishes, yes, or attached to that letter of wish. 09:29.360 --> 09:34.240 Well, we'd also like the letter of wishes to be written in a format that is machine-readable. 09:35.920 --> 09:39.120 Okay, great, thank you. Okay, thank you both, thank you.