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• Post #3672922

  Repurposing Chromebooks "With Android smartphones, Chromebooks are probably one of the most exemplary materialization of the cognitive dissonance taking place in the capitalist creative destruction driven ICT industry. These computers would not exist without plethora FLOSS and related projects, and at the same time all this technological openness is by design obfuscated and restricted to create an ecosystem that is as closed as possible, and designed for planned obsolescence. This appr...

• Post #3601850

  new hobby: reading CVE READMEs to spot where is the product placement.

• Post #3601849

  unsolicited behind the scene #permacomputing infra news :) @spacehobo has smoothly migrated the wiki from my personal server to a dedicated pmc machine (thanks to @servus for hosting us) this is an important step for our plan to move towards a collective maintenance/governance of the pmc infra. right now @decentral1se and @estragon are also busy bridging the wiki, web forum and web hosting with a single sign-on mechanism which should simplify a lot onboarding and participation in this whole hap...

• Post #3601848

  Meme (1998) "Meme(tm) is a platform-independent standard for networked virtual reality. Meme(tm) was designed from the ground up for multi-user networked virtual worlds. - High performance - Self-contained - FAST real-time 3D - Easily customized for use with head-mounted displays, data gloves, and other VR peripherals" https://web.archive.org/web/19981212025832/http://www.immersive.com/ #VR #VRML #3D #metaverse #meme

• Post #3601847

  current mood

• Post #2057696

  TRACES OF POWER FREE EVENT Thursday March 7 16:00—18:00 DeWillem at WdKA Wijnhaven 61, 3011 WJ Rotterdam At times where it is becoming urgent to understand at long last the materiality and energy usage of the digital, we've asked Benjamin Czaja, @becha and @l03s to help us follow these traces of power, and share with us some of the insights needed if we really want to rethink the role and environmental impact of computation in tomorrow's (dis-)connected worlds. more info https...

• Post #1949499

  Hey everyone, the permacomputing principles have received an important update! https://permacomputing.net/principles/ :permacomputing: Next to our attempt to articulate things a bit better, we're now testing a new structure to give examples of how each principle could be translated into more concrete steps regardless of levels of technical skills and literacy. ⚠️ It's still a 🚧 big work-in-progress 🚧 , and for sure not the last iteration. :oh_no_bubble: This new text benefi...

• Post #1657761

  Hey, there is a job opening at https://xpub.nl ! 🖨️ 💻 🔥 The Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing (aka XPUB) focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks. XPUB is a two-year, full-time program for practitioners either looking to extend their toolbox and ways of working, looking for new forms of collaboration, and/or looking for a space to step back and contextualize their practice in a larger historical theoretical...

• Post #1159035

  Practising Permacomputing: Call for workshop participants "This autumn is dedicated to Practising Permacomputing; a concept and a nascent community of practice-oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology derived, among others, from permaculture principles. As part of this community, space is offered to makers and thinkers in digital culture (and other connected areas) to put the fundamentals and applications of #permacomputing into practic...

• Post #1132195

  UPDATE: Thanks to @doriane we now have a section that quickly summarizes what is permacomputing and *also* a printable PDF zine of the score/guide. 🎉 🖨️ Do you want to start a permacomputing collective? :permacomputing: In the past months, and with support from @Error417 we have developed a small score/guide/recipe that can hopefully inspire you to get started with this topic. https://brewing.permacomputing.net The text of the guide was written by anna andrejew (https://annaandrejew.com), @...

• Post #1132193

  it's my birthday soon and my union is unironically sending me a 15% discount code email to order customised factory cakes :unwanted_thumb: collective bargaining has really come a long way...

• Post #944955

  The final ROM of What Remains is out! 🎉🎊 What Remains is an 8-bit interactive fiction and adventure video game for the #NES about environmental issues, the manipulation of public opinion, and whistleblowing. https://iodinedynamics.com/whatremains.html

• Post #866527

  you don't understand, it's not mainstream tepid genai slop, you silly you, it's investigative promptocritical post-ai study.

• Post #726857

  Art/design academy #job opportunity in the #Netherlands! WdKA in #Rotterdam is looking for someone to lead and coordinate a multi-year transformation process of one of it core current BA and future MA trajectory. Focus will be on alternative #economy, #ecology, #tech from a critical, practical, and experimental POV. "The Commercial Practices is one of three interdisciplinary graduation profiles at the Willem de Kooning Academy. The main focus of the WdKA Commercial Practices is helpin...

• Post #585641

  More job opportunities from Rotterdam. The art/design Willem de Kooning Academy is looking for a new full-time manager 👓 🕑 💦 :unacceptable: for its masters and its research centre. You will be managing the masters of the Piet Zwart Institute https://www.pzwart.nl/ and you will manage/support the research centre where @rbw @fcr and myself work (current agenda is intersectionality and degrowth with lots of things related to the commons, performing arts, neurodiversity, autonomy, organisation, di...

• Post #585640

  Nothing in Commons: the end of digital collective ownership? I'm sharing a new text where I try to summarize some older thoughts that have been slowly fermenting in the past years regarding the dead-end in which the digital commons have landed. I discuss the discomfort of their growing ambivalence, and the incredible difficulty, but urgency to move forward beyond this concept and rethink collective objectives in relation to digital tools and practices. It is the follow-up of a copyleft...

• Post #585639

  Today at Stroom, 17:00, Den Haag, Netherlands. The most discussed event since the Zuckerberg VS Musk cage fight. :nes_fire: :nes_fire: :nes_fire: Permacomputing London Club VS Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up VS Rotterdam Varia's Permacomputing Working Group :nes_fire: :nes_fire: :nes_fire: What could possibly go wrong?? https://www.stroom.nl/en/stroom/agenda-en/brewing-permacomputing-collectives We will discuss the experience of several permacomputing groups, and tease an upcoming sco...

• Post #585636

  Lucier's I'm sitting in a room, but I'm sitting in a meeting planning the follow-up meeting to the follow-up meeting to the fol- .. while any purpose in existence keeps loosing its clarity at every new iteration..

• Post #409040

  fuck off ai music "welcome to the fuck off ai music movement in this movement we believe that ai music should fuck off. you are welcome to join if you’d like" https://fuckoffaimusic.com via la_mettrie on pmc IRC chan

• Post #313506

  Micro Music Media Library (2019) by @protodome "This is the companion web page for the Micro Music: Exploring the Idiosyncratic Compositional Strategies Encountered in 1-Bit, Limited Memory Environments doctoral project. [...] 1-bit music, generally considered a sub-division of chiptune, is the music of a single square wave. [...] [T]he unique techniques and auditory tricks of contemporary 1-bit practice exploit the limits of human perception. Through layers of modulation, abstractio...

• Post #284317

  next level bad apple(s), literally.

• Post #198442

  what is your problem?