André Castro @blcktofu@post.lurk.org

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

And the award for the cover of the week goes to … Bloomberg!

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

Open source art means nothing is ever done

One page of drawings, infinite variations

http://eleanorg.org/blog/open-source-illustration-infinite-variations

#artwithopensource #mastoart

training a neural network to "caption" summary vectors of lines of poetry, then using the network to generate text for summary vectors of arbitrary sentences. this is after seven epochs of training on my laptop last night; source line is first, output is second

#libregraphics call for presentations is out:
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/proposal-submission/

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/

${HASHTAGS}

Special Issue 07
Start up 📈 , Burn out 📉: Life Hacks 📌

Thursday December 13, 19:30-21:30 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in #Rotterdam with #XPUB under the influence of #lifehacker and #protip guru @entreprecariat!

https://issue.xpub.nl/07

hey! saturday the 8th of december we're organizing an event in #varia in #rotterdam about #mastodon and the #fediverse

https://varia.zone/en/mastodon-and-fediverse.html

We will dive into what the fediverse is, how it works, who is on there, who made it, what it means to host communities and how and where on can contribute.