ultrageranium

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 approach has been championed by Google and the computer manufacturers producing these devices. Good job everyone 👍‍"

https://permacomputing.net/repurposing_chromebooks/

#permacomputing #chromebook #google

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

Today at Stroom, 17:00, Den Haag, Netherlands.

The most discussed event since the Zuckerberg VS Musk cage fight.

Permacomputing London Club VS Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up VS Rotterdam Varia's Permacomputing Working Group

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 score/recipe/guideline to start permacomputing collectives (with support from @Error417@tldr.nettime.org )

With presentations from: @anmeisel@mastodon.social @praxeology@post.lurk.org @cmos4040@post.lurk.org anna andrejew, and Lua Vollaard

#permacomputing #mma #denhaag

unsolicited behind the scene #permacomputing infra news :)

@spacehobo@teh.entar.net has smoothly migrated the wiki from my personal server to a dedicated pmc machine (thanks to @servus@social.servus.at 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@gts.varia.zone and @estragon@post.lurk.org 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 happy mess. this will also help us support pmc groups better (see https://brewing.permacomputing.net if you want to start your own!) oh and @BazDark@fosstodon.org is slowly cooking another thing that should also help making visible pmc activities happening. last but not least the xmpp pmc chatroom keep on slowly growing with lots of nice discussions thanks to @msavoritias@activitypub.auringonkukkametsa.social who made sure to set a good welcoming and moderated environment right from the start.

tbc... and thanks to everyone out there for contributing to this thing!

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

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/copyright/copywhat licensing workshop I gave at https://spookstad.boo. Amsterdam Alternative asked me to contribute an essay on the digital commons based on some of the topics discussed in the workshop for their web docu on collective ownership.

The text is also available in Dutch, thanks to a translation by Menno Grootveld from Starfish Books.

Illustration: @l03s@post.lurk.org

https://www.collectiefeigendom.nl/en/ownership/digital-collective-ownership

#commons #digitalcommons #freesoftware #opensource #creativecommons #licenses #freeculture #collective

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 benefited from input, feedback and the writing/editing of: annaa @cmos4040@post.lurk.org @decentral1se@gts.varia.zone @jveenk@mastodon.social @kattrali@mastodon.gamedev.place @latentspace@post.lurk.org @l03s@post.lurk.org @leoscarin@pan.rent @michal @msavoritias@tilde.zone @manetta@post.lurk.org @neajul@post.lurk.org @pixouls@post.lurk.org @praxeology@post.lurk.org @sandu@post.lurk.org @sister0@post.lurk.org @viznut and myself.

Big Thanks to @mordremoth@lgbt.io for last minute sharp remarks and to everyone shaping, hacking, breaking, growing and fermenting ideas and practices around this topic!

If you're interested to join this happy mess, check https://permacomputing.net/Community/ to get started.

#permacomputing

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

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

current mood

it's my birthday soon and my union is unironically sending me a 15% discount code email to order customised factory cakes

collective bargaining has really come a long way...

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 understanding.

0.2 FTE, scale 11

You will be working with @automatist@framapiaf.org @ccl@post.lurk.org @G1ngG1ng@post.lurk.org @l03s@post.lurk.org @lidia_p@post.lurk.org @manetta@post.lurk.org and Steve Rushton

If you have questions you can DM @xpub@post.lurk.org

https://www.werkenbijhogescholen.nl/vacatures/tutor-master-experimental-publishing-piet-zwart-institute-wdka-02-fte

#fedihire #art #job #design #education #communityserver #publishing #infrastructure

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..

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 practice through a series of workshops, a meetup, and a concluding day of public presentations with guests. Join us to explore permacomputing futures!"

https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/permacomputing/

#workshop #selfhosting #datacenter #recycling #electronics #plants #amsterdam

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@post.lurk.org @fcr@post.lurk.org and myself work (current agenda is intersectionality and degrowth with lots of things related to the commons, performing arts, neurodiversity, autonomy, organisation, digital infrastructures, computational culture, ecology).

https://www.hogeschoolrotterdam.nl/hogeschool/werken-bij-hr/vacature-overzicht/vd/manager-onderwijs-en-onderzoek---willem-de-ko/556746/

If you have questions about the job, there is a contact on the page!

Deadline: 7 Dec 2025.

#fedihire #job #art #design #netherlands #hogeschool #rotterdam #wdka

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@social.v.st and @l03s@post.lurk.org 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://top.permacomputing.net :permacomputing:

#permacomputing #cloud #infrastructure #environment

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 helping artists and designers materialize and contribute to alternative modes of organization and production based on strong ecological and cooperative/collaborative values. It seeks to help students to reflect on, experiment and engage with such alternatives while bringing the urgency of the climate crisis and climate justice to art and design education. The Practices invite students to critically reflect on consumer activism, technosolutionism and the language of circularity and sustainability frequently found in today’s products and services."

https://www.hogeschoolrotterdam.nl/hogeschool/werken-bij-hr/vacature-overzicht/vd/commercial-practices-program-leader-06-fte/410455/

DEADLINE: 18 December 2022

:boost_requested: boosts appreciated! :boost_requested:

PS: I'm working there, in the research department, if you have questions, send me a DM!

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