I believe it is one of our missions, as antifascist nerds, to break the myth of an inaccessible and complex technology. The tools, services, and software we all use everyday are the more or less indirect outcome of broader socio-political and economical dynamics. Therefore, we can and we should bring forward a massive resistance as we do on other fronts.
How do we do burst the bubble?
How can we practically unmask the politicality of technology to people outside the digital sector?
How do we popularize digital media critique?
What forms of art, workshops, and formats could take advantage of?
On Wed 11 June, at 14:00 UTC, I will be hosting an online round-table session with @transparenttech to discuss and try to answer these questions.
I will be briefly sharing my experience and my ideas after making Knitting Our Internet. Above all, though, I want to welcome any kind of contributions to address this mission in a multifaceted, intercultural, intersectional, and decolonial way.
Free attendance! Register here ⬅️
#OurNet #CITR #IndependentTech #IndependentTechnology #Technology #PoliticalTechnology #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetCritique #Fediverse
¡He escrito un libro! 💫
Va de #internet, y de qué vamos a hacer para recuperarla (por supuesto, tiene un capítulo dedicado al #fediverso). Ojalá os resulte interesante y sea útil impulsar tecnologías libres y más justas.
El 20 de mayo llega a librerías. Vamos a presentarlo en #BCN, #Sabadell, #Sevilla, #Bilbao, #Santander, #Gasteiz, #ACoruña, #Santiago, #Vigo, #Lisboa, #Madrid, #Zaragoza y #Donosti: https://redesnuestras.net/
Si me ayudáis a que lo conozca más gente, os lo agradezco mucho. 🙏
Not one to hold back, @pluralistic talks to @mike about “enshittification,” explaining why the internet feels broken and what we can do about it. This episode of @dot_social is sharp, funny and provocative. Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/cory-doctorow/
#CoryDoctorow #DotSocial #Podcast #Enshittification #Internet #Technology #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #PicksAndShovels #FediverseHouse #SXSW
Tooting in English and Czech from #Praha #Prague #EU.
#books #games #craftbeer
#kindle #steam #untappd
#rugby #baseball #cricket #floorball #softball
#literature #politics #publicaffairs #internet #tech #music
#recruitment #startups #it
That's my #introduction, folks. Let's discuss stuff over a pint!
Tolik moje intro. Pivko? 🍻
This morning, I took my wife to the hospital for routine blood tests that had been scheduled for some time. Everything was going smoothly: check-in, number, waiting room. Suddenly, everything came to a halt and shut down. I was connected to the hospital’s public Wi-Fi and noticed that my connection also went down.
Having managed a couple of similar facilities, I immediately understood what had happened. I saw the staff panicking and calling the technicians, but they quickly reorganized within 10 minutes. They managed to process everyone who already had a number and then proceeded with the others in the order of their arrival. Despite the ten-minute delay (even though people started complaining right away), they were extremely efficient.
I later confirmed that the entire booking, check-in, and queue system is “in the cloud.” The hospital experienced a connectivity interruption, and all related services stopped. The staff no longer had access to anything, so a technician sent the lists to a manager via another channel, and everything resumed manually.
For years, I’ve insisted that certain things MUST be local. The healthcare facilities I manage have all the necessary systems for the operation of the facility internally, including patient records. External services like websites, emails, etc., are secondary.
Everything essential must always be accessible locally and, in special cases, it should be possible to physically access the servers and connect directly to them, bypassing any network/switch failures.
There has been only one interruption in the past, due to human error. Today, we have redundant servers (not HA on virtualizers, but two machines running the same software with replicated databases - on separate power lines) so such an issue shouldn’t happen anymore.
Not everything can be anticipated, but history is a great teacher. The Internet connection will eventually be interrupted :-)
When it comes to the health and survival of people, there are no compromises.
#IT #Internet #Networking #Outage #Health #HA #Cloud #CloudComputing #OwnYourData
En el blog - Adiós a WordPress: a pelo en el ciberespacio
https://miguelmaiquez.com/blog/adios-a-wordpress-a-pelo-en-el-ciberespacio/
Gracias a @editora, @angeles, @aperalesf, @victorhck y tanta gente más de la que me iré acordando, por su inspiración y ejemplo en estas cosas.
#WebSencilla #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #blogs #internet #minimalismo #WebEstática
Goedemorgen! Leuk dat je er bent. 😁
Ben hier een kleine Mastodon server gestart en dit account aangemaakt. Ga een tijdje kijken hoe dit werkt en vanaf hier de Fediverse koppelen.
Mijn interesses: #kunst, #internet, #politiek, #literatuur en #poëzie, en #web #development.
🧶 La Nostra Rete in tour! 🇮🇹
(English version in the following post)
Da domani partirà il fantasmagorico imperdibile tour de La Nostra Rete, che porterà il workshop in giro per l’Italia! ⛵
Se sarete nei luoghi in cui si terrà il laboratorio siete assolutamente invitatз, 🆓 l’ingresso è libero e gratuito. Se non foste nei paraggi, condividete appppalla con amicз tecnoscetticз, tecnoinnamoratз, tecnoasceticз, tecnorepellenti o tecnoindifferenti. Sono tuttз benvenutз 💕
Grazie alle persone stratopiche che mi ospiteranno! @collettivodemand @reclaimthetech
✨ Nota speciale: mentre sarò a Bologna, ci stiamo organizzando per trovarci di persona e partecipare collettivamente al @fediforum, tuttз insieme da Scift, la nuova officina che aprirà domani a Làbas!
ℹ️ Per info aggiornate, visitate https://ournet.rocks/it/
#LaNostraRete #LaNostraReteTour #OurNetTour #Milano #FaLaCosaGiusta #Napoli #Roma #Velletri #Làbas #UrbanArtLab #Bologna #Bolo #Verona #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetHistory #Web #DWeb #Zero81 #Fediverse #decentralization #decentralizzazione #Demand #laboratorio #lab
The #Internet needs to be more volunteer-run and fan-supported. I encourage everyone tech-savvy to make an effort to replace an ad-bloated website in their field of interest with a free #GitHub page, #Netlify, or something similar. You don't need to spend much money to create a difference.
Else volunteer for or financially support people/projects who can do so.
#Introduction: I started building #worlds on the #internet nearly 30 years ago. I’m an expert in #AR, #VR, #AI, and #ARGs.
Over 2 years ago, I started exposing the people abusing the digital world to #radicalize people and destabilize global #liberal #democracy.
I was banned from the #birdsite w/60k followers and smeared by hundreds of sadistic trolls because I exposed #MikeFlynn, #QAnon and the #insurrection
Grateful for #mastodon and my new home toad.social. 💙🙏🇺🇸🏴☠️
#ArrestMikeFlynn
today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!
Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!
you could write about:
* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!
you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.
if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
(please boost if you can! <3)
I couldn't find an existing list of Canadian alternatives to American Internet services, so I've started one:
https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives
Please spread far and wide, and let me know if you have any updates for the page!
#canada #cira #internet #cloud #alberta #british_columbia #bc #manitoba #new_brunswick #newfoundland #labrador #newfoundlandlabrador #northwest_territories #nwt #nova_scotia #nunavut #ontario #prince_edward_island #pei #quebec #saskatchewan #yukon
Kurz erklärt:
Der Thymos bezeichnet seit der griechischen Antike das Streben nach Status.
Die Timokratie bezeichnet in der Staatstheorie die Herrschaft durch Geld.
Die Thymokratie bezeichnet dagegen die Herrschaft durch das Internet.
Sie löst gerade an immer mehr Orten die Demokratie ab.
#Thymos #Status #Timokratie #Kapitalismus #Thymokratie #Internet #Demokratie #Philosophie #Politikwissenschaft #Geschichte https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/begriffsklaerung-thymos-oligarchische-timokratie-ki-digitale-thymokratie/
Web 2.0 failed. True online sharing died a long time ago. So start taking. Take your ideas, your words, your work–and go home.
https://pjonori.blog/posts/own-whats-yours/ #Internet #OpenWeb #IndieWeb
Buenas! Pues llevo ya unos días por aquí, así que ahí va mi #presentación:
En el Fedi desde hace un tiempo. Llegué por el #softwarelibre, y me quedé por su comunidad.
🌊 Después de un breve periplo por .social observando las olas he decidido venirme a un nodo más pequeño y cercano. ¡Gracias, @rober!
🧑💻 Mi vida es teclear: código en el trabajo, acordes y arpegios en mi tiempo libre y algún que otro párrafo cuando puedo.
🦥 Me gusta disfrutar de un #internet sosegado y asíncrono. Puedo tardar días en contestar.
🗣️ A veces doy la chapa hablando de #diseño #libros #musica #fanzines #ruido #sintetizadores y cosas #viejunas
My core value is personal #freedom. I’m for #FreeSoftware and dream of a world in which free software is the default basically everywhere. I’m for a free and open #Internet, against #censorship and intellectual monopolies. #Decentralization is better than centralization. I hate #hierarchies of #power. ✊
I have a low tolerance for #bullshit and zero tolerance for anti-intellectualism. Critical thinking is important to get things done. If you find bullshit in my posts, tell me. 💩
"Mark Zuckerberg just announced sweeping changes to the social internet, all in line with the desires of President Trump and Trump voters.
Out with the fact-checkers that conservatives deride. In with more permissive rules for posting opinions that conservatives hold dear."
~ Brian Stelter
#MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Trump #ElonMusk #MAGA #internet
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1736258187390305f2629135c/raw
1850: #nEwSpApErS wIlL rUiN ThE wOrLd.
1920: #rAdIo ShOwS wIlL rUiN tHe wOrLd.
1950: #tElEvIsIoN wIlL rUiN tHe WoRlD
1990: tHe #InTeRnEt WiLl RuIn ThE wOrLd
2020: #aI wIlL rUiN tHe WoRlD.
Faux outrage constitutes generational trauma.
An #ITU study https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-internet-traffic/ reports that we transferred over 7 zettabytes of #Internet traffic in 2024. However, the authors do not describe what all those data actually were.
Therefore, I have performed extensive research to classify every byte, and I can now share this summary of the purposes of all the year's traffic.
Happy New Year!
Happy birthday, CSS!
"The first CSS specification to become an official W3C Recommendation is CSS level 1, published on 17 December 1996."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS
"CSS stood out because it was simple, especially compared to some of its earliest competitors."
The #internet is crumbling under corporate greed. Search results, social feeds, and platforms are now just ad-riddled, AI-generated noise. We deserve better than this digital #wasteland. #BigTech has betrayed the web's original promise.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91246383/its-the-end-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine #InternetCulture #Tech
In the spirit of a recent post on making the #Fediverse a more welcoming place, renewing a post I had on my old profile but apparently not here: ask me anything! I can't guarantee I'll have all the answers or be fast to reply but lll try to at least say something. Some things I can talk vaguely usefully about include:
#DNS #Google #InfoSec #SRE #SysAdmin #Internet #Unions #Organizing #Baseball #Web #Tor #Privacy and probably a billion more.