André Castro @blcktofu@post.lurk.org

Hey! Stop the press! Tomorrow, Friday 17.5.19, #XPUB Master students are urgently presenting the 8th Special Issue 'The Network We (de)Serve' produced in urgency with #Varia at the #Urgent #Publishing conference.

https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/conference/

#chilloutpublishingconfwhentho

https://www.eenewsembedded.com/news/there-news-solar-powered-website-leaves-it-sun

Hello everyone !

📢 🔴 URGENT 🔴

An awesome software is dying, because its #developper has not time anymore to care of it.

It's an alternative of Adobe AfterEffect : Natron (https://natrongithub.github.io/)

Please, can Mastodon community search for a C++ dev, which want to maintain it ? or search for a company which work with free software ? It's very important.

Boost very appreciated

Thanks in advance for your contribution !

#Dev #Mastodon #C++ #Python

Tomorrow, 14.04.19, in #Rotterdam at #Varia's open day, you can come and play the latest (unreleased) build of What Remains on real hardware! (an RGB modded #Famicom to be precise)

http://varia.zone/en/openday2019.html

"We, the professors, tutors and lecturers of Dutch art academies declare to stand for academic freedom and independence, now that our essential core values are under attack with the appeal to report ‘indoctrination in education’ by the Renaissance Institute of the Forum voor Democratie (FVD), which was launched last March 12.

March 15, more than 40,000 teachers, including some of our colleagues of Dutch art academies, were protesting at the Malieveld in The Hague for better and more investment in education and against the increasing work pressure. The pressure has elevated dramatically now that autonomy in the classroom is at stake. History demonstrates that threats, intimidation, and documentation of people for who or what they are and believe in can have terrible consequences. We therefore reject the public persecution of teachers and academics as a measure to ‘structurally change and improve education’.

[...]"

Read more here and if you are involved in Dutch art education sign the declaration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLYkGXeB-1a-PTt5eoPA2MfknKQEdMUpMxN384rG-9h8ldBw/viewform

THE NETWORK WE (DE)SERVED

#XPUB Special Issue 08 will be presented at #Varia in #Rotterdam this coming Thursday 04.04.19 📡at 19:00!

https://issue.xpub.nl/08/

Wtf is debian doing debconf in israel, why is debian making such political statement and why this one?

#debian #israel #Palestine

Impressive attempt to visualize quantities of injury and death in Gaza based on UN data using particles to attempt to convey quantity/scale (still hard to imagine each point as an individual) https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2019/mar/29/a-year-of-bloodshed-at-gaza-border-protests

Dear ${USER},

XPUB Master is open for applications!

We focus on ${TRENDING_MEMES}, our staff includes ${GREAT_TUTORS}
and we regularly collaborate with ${OBVIOUS_NAME_DROPPING_IS_OBVIOUS}.

Non-EU + EU priority Deadline: 01.03.19

http://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/

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Registration is now open for the Battlemesh v12! It will happen from 8 July to 14 July near Paris.

All information is on https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV12

Don't forget to propose a talk or workshop on your favourite project of the moment :)

I gave a little talk at work today that tries to explain what ActivityPub is; I also turned that talk into a blog post! I blogged!!! https://johnholdun.com/articles/what-is-activitypub/

I wrote a thing about why I believe the best and most useful decentralized applications are going to be the ones that utilize multiple protocols. I imagine a world where ActivityPub, Dat, and Secure ScuttleButt are all seen as tools in a toolbox rather than as ecosystems, and what kind of amazing software we could build with them outside of the central/corporate paradigm.

https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

Web design as architecture http://www--arc.com/

The program of the Libre Graphics Meeting is out. https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ #LGM 19

Anyone from TW #Germany planning to go?

Hey all!I am researching on the topic of federation and more focused on Mastodon. I would really appreciate if you could answer to this question:
— What made you move to Mastodon?
Thank you so much for all the help you can give me, love, Pedro

On the upcoming education strike in NL (15/03):

"So what’s wrong with Dutch education? The answer can be found in the policy mix pursued by successive Dutch governments, contriving to simulate an austerity-driven market mechanism in the public sector. Universities and schools are encouraged to compete against each other for students and monies, under emaciated budgets, on the basis of dubious benchmarks and targets. The policy has raised the student/staff ratio in the Netherlands to one among the highest in the OECD – higher than the US, Greece and Italy; the ratio is approaching 20 in the main research universities."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/why-we-strike-education-strike-netherlands/

"What idiot designed this?"

A history of video standards, from its origin to now, as told from a US point of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s661CU6Fvl4

#video #YUV #NTSC #ATSC

hi what's up, we've made a queer netlabel called red onyx music!!!

all of us are small queer artists on mastodon and we've got lots of rad music you should check out and support

https://red-onyx-music.xyz/ ❤️​

the blog should work so if you want to subscribe through rss it's there. i also made a fedi account for it too: @red_onyx_music

#queer #QueerMusic #creative #music

On the 30th of january the #XMPP community is organizing a development sprint focused on #UX and #UI in the XMPP ecosystem.

XMPP is a long standing protocol for federated chat which in recent years underwent impressive technical modernization that brought the ecosystem modern mobile clients, cross device chat and end-to-end encryption based on Signal.

The XMPP community organizes so-called sprints where developers gather from across Europe to work on the ecosystem.

Even though the ecosystem saw many improvements in recent years, the UX across the ecosystem still leaves a lot to be desired. To begin addressing this, the next XMPP Sprint will be focused on UX and UI, particularly in regards to naming conventions.

That is why we’d like to invite members of the open source design community to join us on the 30th of January in the offices of Open Source Publishing[1]. On february the 1st we will also do a smaller meetup in the margins of FOSDEM.

If you already have an account on the XMPP network, join us in our Sprint chatroom:
xmpp:xmpp-sprint@chat.cluxia.eu?join

If you don’t, the room is also accessible without an account via:
https://chat.cluxia.eu/anon/#xmpp-sprint

For more information have a look at:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2019_January_Brussels

[1]: http://osp.kitchen

It's a new year! Dennis (de Bel) is back, the window is broken and l'intolerant #18 is out. Enough reasons to come together and have a drink.

This Friday, the 11th of January, from 19:30, Varia opens its doors for some special new year's drinks and some fitting music.

Woodstone Kugelblitz will also be presenting the latest issue of L'Intolerant #18: A Really Useful Cookbook.

Almost everyone is welcome and the entrance is free. However, a voluntary donation of 5 euros will help us replace our window and is greatly appreciated!

See you there!

http://varia.zone/en/borrel2019.html