Angeliki Diakrousi @anglk@post.lurk.org

If you're lurking in #rotterdam on thursday (2020-07-30) and into learning about #solarpunk #p2p #dweb #dat #hypercore then we're streaming https://events.dat.foundation/2020/ for a few hours at #varia! See https://varia.zone/en/dat-conf.html for more

Great alternatives to Google Maps that use #OpenStreetMap data:

- Qwant Maps: website, has directions. Highlights the fact that data is from #OSM, providing links to view and edit the data.
https://www.qwant.com/maps
- F4map: website, 3D views of cities.
https://demo.f4map.com/
- MAPS.ME: mobile apps with a neat vector renderer. Minimalist. Works offline. More obviously profit-oriented.
- OsmAnd: mobile apps with lots of features. Offline too. (Too?) many customisations and options available.

Come read with us online, this thursday evening, 23/07, 16:00 - 18:00 CEST. 📚

Varia is hosting two collective reading and conversation sessions. One will be online and one will be in our physical space, as a series of events to discuss matters of abolitionist technology & community-driven systems of accountability, while generating anonymous, consensual debris for stone throw, a temporary online work to share our resources and reflections. We sought texts that are talking about what we want to learn with and about, now.

For our first session we will read from Ruha Benjamin's Race After Technology, choosing chapter 5 Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice to read together. In this chapter, Benjamin examines how practitioners, scholars, activists, artists, and students are working to resist and challenge the New Jim Code (a term Benjamin uses to connect discriminatory technology with past segregationist laws in the Southern states). This chapter also offers suggestions on how to contribute to an approach to technology that moves beyond accessing new products, to advocating for justice-oriented design practices.

These workshops are made with @jules @ccl. 👌

Find out more here - http://varia.zone/en/rr-stone-throw-1.html

Very very interesting long read about the possible future of ActivityPub, the underlying protocol of Mastodon and Queer Haus.

Many of the concerns mentioned here in this proposal is why we chose to limit the connections that Queer Haus has to the rest of the fediverse. To build our own curated slice of the fediverse.

This proposal aims to solve this descent into fediverse nation states by making the network itself aware of consent.

Fascinating stuff! Thanks @rra for the link!

https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub

Buster is a browser extension that solves goog's reCAPTCHA's audio challenges using speech recognition. It is a tiny thing but it spares you both the humiliation and the cognitive energy involved in training the algorithms of your future oppression.

I've had it for years and it works really well, give it a go.

https://github.com/dessant/buster

The program for the Online LGM is now published: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/program.html

😍 Excellent work by Artemis Gryllaki and Rita Graca featured at #AMRO20:

http://voiceofconduct.club/

Voice of Conduct is a collection of vocal exercises that explore the frustrations, emotions and tensions behind Codes of Conduct.

only a few hours left before the opening of #amro20 very much looking forward to it! see you there!

https://gateway.radical-openness.org/conference.html

and here all #amro20 inspiring online workshops open for registration
https://gitlab.servus.at/amro/of-whirlpools-and-tornadoes#amro-workshop

registration for #visual #crypto online workshop is open https://www.radical-openness.org/en/programm/2020/encrypt-print-decrypt

📻 We Hope This Email Finds You Well is being streamed at p-node today 📻

4pm CEST
https://p-node.org/

@p_p @anglk @estragon @RyBn

Small update! We start at 20:30!

Tonight in the LURK Echo Chamber #radio, I will prepare your cognitive state of mind with relaxing #pop #indie #rock #electronica #folk feels so as to maximize the creation of new neural #italo pathways under the guidance of @cmos4040

So:

20:30-21:15 CEST: many relaxing feels

21:15-??? CEST: Italo hits live from burning hot wax therapy

XMPP: echo@muc.lurk.org
webchat + webplayer: https://echochamber.lurk.org
OGG/Vorbis stream: https://echo.lurk.org:999/echochamber

#conversations, the #android #xmpp messenger now supports Audio/Video calls. so we've written a new article on the homebrewserver.club on how to set up server-side support:

https://homebrewserver.club/server-support-for-audio-video-calls.html

#federation #selfhosting #floss #config