Hi all, Roel he/him.
An artist and designer with an interest in computer networks, materiality of the internet, digital community infrastructure, DIY/DIWO approaches, FOSS culture.
You might know my work from the LowTech Mag's solar powered server project https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
Currently pursuing a #PhD in Interaction and Participatory #Design at MalmΓΆ University. As part of that research I work together with actors in the cultural sector to co-design alternative social media infrastructures with/for them. These are mostly based on fediverse applications, so I am also interested in aspects of #federation #governance #contentmoderation and more generally how to transition to and improve alternatives together etc. This space is far from perfect and in some cases insufficient but we need to start somewhere??
I'm a founding member of https://varia.zone, and also part of https://lurk.org. With LURK we've been running a fediverse instance called post.lurk.org since 2018, for which I am happy to be one of the co-admins! As part of that I boost #introductions, calls and questions..
This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337
On monday I'm presenting a paper on solar.lowtechmagazine.com during the 'Computing within #Limits' conference.
In the paper I'm describing the design choices we made, such as designing for unavailability and how they were based on reducing a few key metrics such as data transferred, calculations per request and use of third party services. This opens up a way of thinking about #degrowth and ICT. We should be looking in to that waaaay more.
The paper also tries to implicitly answer the 'how do we do sustainable web design?' question and argues aiming for reduction (of bytes transferred, computation and infra required) as useful rule of thumbs guiding a design. That is to say, solar protocols, 'low tech look', 3.5MB dithered images, green CDNs etc ain't it.
However, it also self-criticizes solar.lowtechmagazine.com for the fact that it is so unreproducible and a very limited and 'easy' use case. So yeah no answer but thinking through degrowth should definitely be considered as the direction of the answer..
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/papers/limits21-abbing.pdf
crunchy! you can see it fall apart a bit when looking straight down (holes appear) but otherwise i love it.?
SolariseCon 2022: Empowering Future Communities
https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/7d53b1a8-c004-47fd-8712-defc51c5bf61
SolariseCon 2022: Real Solarpunk Technology
https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/62c30ab7-b187-42cc-9a00-ee3ad882e497
Curiosity poll regarding social media approach.
Please boost because we're really curious about the experience-approach for as many users as possible.
We have excluded two options here and will explain why:
Twitter exclusively: probably not gonna see this poll if you don't use Fediverse at all
Spiderman: We assume everyone would add Spiderman to their options because of how polls work.
For those who enjoy frequent engagement with library systems in some form and/or have intimate knowledge of structuring digital files, we invite you to join us (@simoon and @manetta) during the Hold & Release Partyline (on Friday 10 + Saturday 11 of June at Varia, Rotterdam), where we will rethink library software, starting from Calibre. Can knowledge be held and released simultaneously? Subscription details and more information can be found here: https://varia.zone/en/hold-and-release.html
In The Moments of Rest, 1917. I love this lady, totally not bothered with her big-ass cavalry sabre.
So I turned a little niche laptop into a research computer: https://tv.undersco.re/w/hkPX4Yac8MivrxPxtdeGz3
"The innovation of Al/ML is its ability to βdoβ things without βdoingβ things because they were βdoneβ without a βdoer.β Proxy discrimination (or algorithmic pricing) has the same real effects of discrimination (or collusion) but without any explicit human decision being made. The effect still happens in the world, but nobody is responsible. Nobody did anything. Nobody knows for sure how it happened or who was affected. The designers and users are granted plausible deniability. Al as alibi."
via https://twitter.com/jathansadowski/status/1528961137429327872
#job opportunity in #art #design academy
boosts appreciated!
https://www.werkenbijhogescholen.nl/vacatures/tutor-commercial-practices-0-2-0-4-fte-2/
tutor in commercial practices at WdKA, art academy in Rotterdam, Netherlands
The job description is quite generic, but here is a list of relevant topics/subjects that are relevant to this position:
-art and design practices in relation to degrowth and collapsology
- system thinking and ecological economics applied to art and design practices
- alternative (micro)economic systems/models in art/design/publishing
- collaboration, cooperation and collective practices within microenterprise and coop
- (post-)free and open source software, hardware, and licensing
- resilient and less extractive computer technology and networked infrastructure
- creative design with extreme material, carbon and energy constraints
- collective care, work and labour ethics in the creative industries
- transition, circularity and beyond, gambiarra and repair culture (engagement and critique)
- multi-, trans-, and cross-disciplinary projects beyond the cultural sector
Wow some fresh work on different UI paradigms in linux!
https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie
Could be super useful for phones running @postmarketOS
via @shibacomputer
Dot Dot Dot User Group
'Dot Dot Dot' can mean a variety of things: dot to dots, constellations, forest, the fediverse, electronic circuits, soundscapes and ellipsis. An ellipsis is a 'blank' that someone has to fill in, a 'silence' that is a time when people stay calm and listen, and an 'indescribable' meaning that it cannot be described in words.
Hello! I am a scientist and parent looking to chat with folks about the future β the scary parts and also the hopeful parts. I'm interested in #permacomputing, the small internet, and doing more with less. I've been writing at http://degrowther.smol.pub/ and more recently sharing stuff at http://retrace.club/~mycorrhiza/. #introductions
What you can do to stop #chatcontrol :
1. Provide negative feedback on the proposal
βοΈ Feedback period: 13 May 2022 - 15 July 2022
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12726-Fighting-child-sexual-abuse-detection-removal-and-reporting-of-illegal-content-online_en
2. Phone your MEP
Tamar Sharon: Sphere Transgression by Tech Giants
https://video.publicspaces.net/videos/watch/a1aef147-ac51-44d4-9d64-1d91918733f8
Reminder: If you're thinking about it, but haven't done so yet β book your spot for our DAAP x Varia workshop in Rotterdam that's coming up pretty soon β Sunday, May 29th.
π Full details (incl. RSVP infos): https://www.varia.zone/en/daap-varia.html
π We'll be onboarding new users and discussing the ethical/technical setup of the DAAP (Digital Archive of Artists' Publishing) archive (daap.network) π«
Hey everyone, the #Fedivision Song Contest is now open for voting.
All the songs can be found at: https://fedivision.party (though sound doesn't seem to be working for me on Safari right now).
Once you've worked out which songs you like, you can reply to
@fedivision with the four letter code for your preferred song (eg SOMA).
I'm not clear how many votes you have, so maybe just vote for SOMA while you're waiting...
Remember: a pity vote is still a vote!
πΆ VOTE SOMA πΆ
Fuck me, the university is killing the domain for the computer club (still quite active, literally one of the biggest mirrors for free software in northern europe in terms of bytes served), and with it a) this mastodon domain (that'll be another fun headache to figure out) b) the e-mail I've been using for all sorts of personal and accounts-based uses for the last 15+ years.
Grote Zaal PublicSpaces Conference Grote Zaal
https://video.publicspaces.net/videos/watch/ea320df9-f12b-4c49-ae92-2f25fcba34f4
I do projects on/with/about computers, networks, infrastructures. he/him