Monthly Round Up 8: When Data Becomes Oil Who Owns You

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of sovereign computing and its implications on ownership of technology and data.

We go deep on what “sovereign computing” looks like when you try it for real, from spinning up a Fedimint federation to self-hosting services that keep working even when platforms or politics turn against you. We then connect local AI, persistent knowledge bases, and geopolitics to one question: do we own our tools or do we rent our future? • choosing a deliberately clickbait title and what it signals about tech culture • setting up a Fedimint federation on Start9 and what makes it “ea...

People in this episode

Host: Gavin

Topics covered

• sovereign computing
• Fedimint federation
• self-hosting services
• AI
• geopolitics
• tech culture

Keywords

• sovereign computing
• Fedimint
• self-hosting
• AI
• geopolitics
• tech culture
• data ownership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fedimint, Start9

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