𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕓𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕦𝕥𝕖𝕣 @shibacomputer@post.lurk.org

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THE PARA-REAL: FINDING THE FUTURE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

A livestream series about hidden economies, communities building livelihoods and support in defiance of platform exploitation and atomisation.

Streaming WEEKLY from Sunday, May 23
12PM PDT/3PM EDT/9PM CEST

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT 👉🏽 https://ndc.substack.com/p/the-para-real-livestream-series

TRAILER 👉🏽 https://youtube.com/watch?v=b-JQ5Bo4JnI

STREAMING SITE & PROGRAMME 👉🏽 https://stream.undersco.re

PUBLIC CALENDAR LINK: webcal://cloud.undersco.re/remote.php/dav/public-calendars/9FzomgAfidHWCQcx/?export

lmao every few months moxie talked big about how his centralised chat app is better than decentralised alternatives because its centralisation prevents fragmentation and increases security, and really it was so he could build critical user mass and then insert a shitcoin into it

lmfao upgraded Underscore to Nextcloud 23 to help solve file syncing issues and get access to Nextcloud Office and .... Nextcloud Office x Collabora doesn't fucking work. Incredible.

NEW DESIGN CONGRESS x @entreprecariat

WELCOME TO MY THREAD TALK: A DISCUSSION ON DESIGN & DISILLUSION
STREAMING FRIDAY NOV 19
5PM GMT / 6PM CET / 8PM MSK / 9AM PST / 12PM EST

DETAILS & SIGN-UP:
https://stream.undersco.re/series/welcome-to-my-thread-talk

After doing some experiments, I discovered that it's very possible to livestream with autogenerated captions.

Please upvote my feature request to help get livestream auto-captioning into Peertube! #accessibiity #accessibilité #a11y

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/4505

JUST DROPPED
"THE LIMITS TO DIGITAL CONSENT"
CRITICAL RESEARCH INTO THE VIABILITY OF ETHICAL CONSENT IN COMPLEX DIGITAL SYSTEMS

NDC x SIMPLY SECURE.

"Consent is broken. Efforts to refine digital consent have not succeeded. Today we launch The Limits to Digital Consent report with the New Design Congress. Read how consent has failed:"

More info 👉 https://ndc.substack.com/p/the-limits-to-digital-consent

Get the report 👉 https://simplysecure.org/resources/The_Limits_to_Digital_Consent_FINAL_Oct2021.pdf

JONY IVE IS A CLIMATE VANDAL

Anyway, re: Godot, here's a guide to building an RSS reader that I'm going to follow on this weekend: https://andreww.xyz/tutorials/2019-02-25-creating-an-rss-reader-in-godot-part-1/

Another good example of how powerful interface complexity can be is with MusicBee, a free music app for Windows. On the surface it looks similar to any other music player, but it embraces the messiness of music, cataloguing and user preference with respect to their music. Fully skinnable, automation management, multi-format encoding/transcoding, Discogs/Musicbeans support, streaming support, soundcloud support, extensive keyboard support, syncs with portable music players and phones etc etc. A negotiated balance between the expression of art inherent in music, and the user's individual relationships to music. An incredibly liberating tool.

With no disrespect intended to the merveilles.town crowd (and similar spaces), I'm more excited by the power of embraced complexity inherent in systems borrowed from games and simulations than I am by
the aesthetics and interfaces derived from simplicity, command lines, minimalism and degrowth.

Masterplan, for example, remains one of the most striking personal project management tools I've ever encountered. If you've never seen it before, you owe it to yourself to see how it works, and how its designer, Solarlune, perceives the relationships between interface, animation and input: https://solarlune.itch.io/masterplan

I've been playing on and off with Godot, an open source 2d/3d game engine. I increasingly think that game engines offer the most exciting examples of new or more supportive/powerful desktop paradigms, particularly for personal software.

https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b

Hilarious that a bunch of people liked this post. Thank u for enjoying my generally awful mood and impatience I guess?? 😅

I went on a two week break into the German forests to unwind and came out with less patience than before

Not finished yet, but making progress.

More than anything, I'm really happy with our integration work and aesthetics with this Underscore project. 💜💜