Fair enough. I try not to be a zealot but it is increasingly apparent that we need to break from big tech and support those FLOSS projects we love. We are || this close from being the equivalent of Gap on Mainstreet in terms of tech biodiversity.
Baby steps...I increasingly feel there are two 'tech' consumers...and convenience is tough to beat 😞
@podo :
Might be of interest to you and yours:
https://nerdculture.de/@Sean/110909670530245870
Wer noch alte Laptops, Computer oder Smartphones zuhause rumliegen hat kann sie auch spenden.
Die Wartelisten sind lang und es sind nur wenige Geräte da.
#Mastodon: All instances are equal, but some are more equal than others.
In Oct 2009 I ran spontaneously behind the Google Streetview car on Borsigstrasse Berlin. One year later the Streetview pictures were published by Google and my action became a performance piece. I called it “15 Seconds Of Fame“. I could be found on the service for a very long time, for almost 14 years. Google never updated the picture set because there were big discussions over privacy questions in Germany back then. But couple weeks ago, on July 25th 2023 Google ran an update and I disappeared from the service. „15 seconds of fame“ turned into almost 15 years ;)) The work is finally complete.
#15secondsoffame #arambartholl #2009-2023 #google #streetview #germany
#Socialnetworks are not our communities.!
https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html
Humans lives in communities. We join them, we sometimes leave them. Social networks should only be an underlying infrastructure to support our communities. Social networks are not our communities.
#OFFDEM will take place next to #FOSDEM next year.
A small group of folks are gathering to organize a nice cosy family event again. Thanks to @how and @natacha and their teams for organizing the last ediitons.
Orga is slowly forming and it is an early stage announcement. So, if you want to join for orga, we will start soonish :)
@EU_Commission We used to have a decentralised Internet in the 90s. It was called "the Internet".
Berlin being what it is, there is an art installation happening outside my door that looks scarily like my office cable box #charged #strausbergerplatz
#Sursiendo: campaña #tecnoafecciones se plantea como un recorrido de cinco semanas en el que nos detendremos en cada una de las dimensiones que hemos decidido abordar en el proceso de producción y consumo de #tecnologías: el #extractivismo, el trabajo, la infraestructura, el uso y el desecho.
https://sursiendo.org/2023/07/campana-tecnoafecciones/
Supposed AI-only 'Twitter', for the entertainment of humans in nihilistic fascination with our self-obsolescence.
Beyond Turing and computational rationalism, I do wonder how much of this is disaster vanity, the 'OMG we created a monster'.
How long?
A contemporary #internet story.
ALICE: Bob is a #psychopath.
CAROL: Could be, I don't know, I haven't seen any direct evidence of Bob being a psychopath.
ALICE: Come on, even Mallory says Bob is a psychopath.
CAROL: Wait.. now I HAVE directly seen Mallory display sociopathic behaviour.
ALICE: Carol is a psychopath.
Don't be bullied into beliefs. #JustSayNo to #CancelCulture
* Make software that works on older devices, the older the better.
* Make software that will keep on working for a very long time.
* Make software that uses the least amount of total energy to achieve its results.
* Make software that also uses the least amount of network data transfer, memory and storage.
* Make software that encourages the user to use it in a frugal way.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.