joak @joak@post.lurk.org

Today, me and @ccl will be giving a talk about Varia and the building of collective infrastructures as part of the event "De-platform-ization, Ethics and Alternative Social Media":

http://display.cz/en/events/de-platformization-ethics-and-alternative-social-media

The event starts at 18:00 CET.

Furthermore, @liaizon will also be giving an introduction to the fediverse!

Cybersyn City

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Heute ist ein guter Tag.
Heute habe ich guten Unfug fertiggestellt. Heute wurden diese Awards im !@metalab verliehen.

Typewriter art: some, but not all of the constraints of ASCII art, reproducible through knitting like recipies https://archive.org/details/BobNeillsSecondBookOfTypewriterArt/page/n135/mode/2up

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I found a 1985 vintage Daisy Wheel #printer recently. It's basically an electric typewriter (sans keyboard) with a serial port. I have no docs but it seems to have similar guts to an old Atari printer which has PDFs floating around. It's enough that I have sorted out how to print all characters, and tweak the vertical and horizontal pitch.

#ASCII art is fun but I decided to make graphics... by typing lots of periods. I dig it. It has a kind of offset dithered look:
#screenless #retro

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Hallo da draußen. Keine Ahnung, ob das hier überhaupt irgendwer liest. :D Aber falls doch: Gibt es hier Menschen, die sich mit barrierefreier Websiteprogrammierung bzw. Forenprogrammierung auskennen? Ich suche zum Beispiel gute Texte, die mir Unwissenden erklären, was technisch alles möglich wäre.

Dear followers, please note that in the official music video of

Nelly - Dilemma ft. Kelly Rowland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc

at 3:14 she is angry he isn't responding but she is messaging him with a nokia 9210 communicator, the first model to come out with the Symbian OS.

And that indeed is Microsoft office Excel.

Does that version of Excel have macros?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWEdwPd6MM

I've updated #MetaApp to support controlling Sonne 2.0 floodlights at !@metalab. Now available in #FDroid.