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Speaking of #JDLL, some of you may remember that I had the honor of speaking at the 2025 edition, invited by the awesome @yunohost team to share my experiences self-hosting with them.
I asked my husband to tag along and bring our daughter so she could see me speaking on stage... and see that mamma does cool stuff outside the house too.
Well, my daughter brought up Lyon and the conference on the way to school the other morning. I asked her: "did you have a good time?" and her immediate response was: "I didn't understand anything you said!"
Me: "Well, it's normal, I talked about grown up stuff."
Child (4 then, 5 soon): "But what did you say?"
And then I proceeded to try to explain the concept of #selfhosting and #digitalsovereignty and how empowering it is to use a tech stack independent of #BigTech platforms... in an accessible way that she would understand.
It was SO DIFFICULT.
I probably failed spectacularly and she still doesn't understand. But it made me think that it'd be worth trying to explain this to older kids... like pre-adolescents or in their early teens? Maybe a project for another time.
Edit/add-on: my daughter asked me to speak about the Pink Panther or Bluey next time so she could understand 😂
@yunohost@toot.aquilenet.fr @elena@aseachange.com On my side I initiate my 12yo to sharkey and peertube and we use signal in the family. No surveillance platform on teenagers mobile 🙎
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@whitehotaru speaking of, I can't wait for my little one to be a bit older so we can do projects with Raspberry Pis 😆
@elena @whitehotaru my 7 and 10 years old daughters have their own laptop (under parental supervision) running on Linux, with Libre Office, Delta Chat, Gcompris, Freetube and other OpenSource apps, so that they get to know these tools before school forces them to use Windows, Microsoft Office and Google... Later on we'll probably set up our own home server together 😎
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@yunohost@toot.aquilenet.fr @elena@aseachange.com On my side I initiate my 12yo to sharkey and peertube and we use signal in the family. No surveillance platform on teenagers mobile 🙎
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@elena @whitehotaru my 7 and 10 years old daughters have their own laptop (under parental supervision) running on Linux, with Libre Office, Delta Chat, Gcompris, Freetube and other OpenSource apps, so that they get to know these tools before school forces them to use Windows, Microsoft Office and Google... Later on we'll probably set up our own home server together 😎
@louis @whitehotaru fantastic!
yesterday my 4-year-old spotted a Mastodon sticker on my laptop (a brand new one) and said she'd like a computer one day... so she could put cool stickers on the lid 😂
I will keep all my old Macbooks around so that I could install Linux on one when the time comes... I mean she's still illiterate 😅
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@louis @whitehotaru fantastic!
yesterday my 4-year-old spotted a Mastodon sticker on my laptop (a brand new one) and said she'd like a computer one day... so she could put cool stickers on the lid 😂
I will keep all my old Macbooks around so that I could install Linux on one when the time comes... I mean she's still illiterate 😅
@elena yeah mine love stickers too, and I give them some goodies like key-rings and such that I get on some events, they love it :)
I only set up this computer 1 or 2 years ago for them, using an old DELL laptop, so that my older one could prepare her school presentations and reports. So yeah 4 years old might be a bit too early ^^ -
@elena yeah mine love stickers too, and I give them some goodies like key-rings and such that I get on some events, they love it :)
I only set up this computer 1 or 2 years ago for them, using an old DELL laptop, so that my older one could prepare her school presentations and reports. So yeah 4 years old might be a bit too early ^^@louis I can't stop thinking about your previous toot... and imagining my little one at school in the future, being force-fed the use of Big Tech tools. This is definitely motivation enough to go full steam ahead for me, advocating for FOSS and creating resources for parents and educators.... so thank you for making me think of this. I know it's a David vs. Goliath kind of battle, but worth the fight
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Speaking of #JDLL, some of you may remember that I had the honor of speaking at the 2025 edition, invited by the awesome @yunohost team to share my experiences self-hosting with them.
I asked my husband to tag along and bring our daughter so she could see me speaking on stage... and see that mamma does cool stuff outside the house too.
Well, my daughter brought up Lyon and the conference on the way to school the other morning. I asked her: "did you have a good time?" and her immediate response was: "I didn't understand anything you said!"
Me: "Well, it's normal, I talked about grown up stuff."
Child (4 then, 5 soon): "But what did you say?"
And then I proceeded to try to explain the concept of #selfhosting and #digitalsovereignty and how empowering it is to use a tech stack independent of #BigTech platforms... in an accessible way that she would understand.
It was SO DIFFICULT.
I probably failed spectacularly and she still doesn't understand. But it made me think that it'd be worth trying to explain this to older kids... like pre-adolescents or in their early teens? Maybe a project for another time.
Edit/add-on: my daughter asked me to speak about the Pink Panther or Bluey next time so she could understand 😂
@elena I love explaining stuff to small children!
If I would have to explain (some aspect) of digital sovereignty to a 4 year old. I would do it as follows: in your class, you have toys. Which is nice, so you can play. But in some schools, there are also toys that are shared over all classrooms. Is this the case in your school? Imagine that you your class has shared all its toys. But now the other classes have decided you can't play with them anymore. That would be no fun and not fair.
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My kids, when they were younger, thought my work had something to do with spiky fishes, given the amount of #OpenBSD swag I keep around.
So I was the computer guy who worked with spiky fishes. Explain that to your teacher when you are 6 or 7...
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@titus ooooh this is really interesting stuff, thank you! I should look into it... I was going to prepare a presentation for high schools but it's so important to get even younger people aware of all this
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@ParadeGrotesque haha amazing 😆
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@elena I love explaining stuff to small children!
If I would have to explain (some aspect) of digital sovereignty to a 4 year old. I would do it as follows: in your class, you have toys. Which is nice, so you can play. But in some schools, there are also toys that are shared over all classrooms. Is this the case in your school? Imagine that you your class has shared all its toys. But now the other classes have decided you can't play with them anymore. That would be no fun and not fair.
@wdeborger I love this and will try it!
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