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"
via la_mettrie on pmc IRC chan
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Posting about computational and net culture/politics/infrastructure, software art, ecology, repair culture, permacomputing, fantastic mpv screenshots, unsolicited pro tips, completely random stuff, maybe cats, hi, this scrolltext is getting long.
This mess will be delivered as EN posts, some FR, seldom NL.
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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 👍"
what is your problem?
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
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!
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
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/
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.
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.
Micro Music Media Library (2019)
by @protodome@mas.to
"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, abstraction and clever writing, these compositional methods generate music far more complex than the medium would, at first impressions, indicate..."
https://phd.protodome.com
#chiptune #pwm #bytebeat
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
#fedihire #art #job #design #education #communityserver #publishing #infrastructure
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...
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..
current mood
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PS:
This year we will start implementing better infrastructural support for all the existing and new groups, and develop a governance model to help support it all through collective practices and mutual aid. If your email asking to contribute to the wiki or the web forum has not been replied yet, it's because we're completely redesigning our onboarding workflow, we will get back to everyone eventually :)
Meanwhile, go check the other 12 scores from "13 Scores Against Tech Fascism" collected and supported by @Error417
https://error417.expectation.fail/13scoresagainsttechfascism
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@untrusem@merveilles.town@kishy@merveilles.town@j3s@merveilles.town
what about saying it's 1. a sort of digital jugaad for everyday tech practices 2. a way to collectively think how to (or if we can even) design digital infra/tools in the public interest (and without destroying the enviro in the process) 3. with a strong feel for computational degrowth 4. an international network of people contributing their different contexts/povs/perspectives on these matters as opposed to impose a one-size-fit-all roadmap. And because it's a debian conf, maybe you could also try to poke the audience with the fact that a lot of people in pmc are users/contributors of FLOSS but are also interested to critically reflect on its actual capacity to function as an alternative as opposed to an accelerator of harm. You could combine all this with what @kris@outmo.de was suggesting in the chat: concrete examples of tech failing to show the urgency (and you could expand the failure from various aspects, from functionality, to harm).
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@buherator @qaris @hobbs
Some context and info regarding permacomputing: https://permacomputing.net
In a nutshell it's a decentralised community of practitioners trying to figure out if tech can be less harmful, less extractive, and less shitty (we're also interested in what could make it emancipative and joyful). In our experience so far, and for those who think this is an important or relevant topic, we saw that organising (collective practices and collective action) about this topic is a very important first aspect of it all. Like literally creating IRL groups or safer online spaces. So this score/recipe/guide can hopefully help those who do not know how/where to start.
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).
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
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@despens @l03s hard to reply meaningfully in a few words 😅 Let's say that I was not surprised when NVIDIA started to defend shadow libraries. Makes complete sense to me. From what I've seen/experienced in the past decades, there is usually a significant overlap between digital commons activists and pirate digital data hoarders. IMO, it is usually justified by a mix of cherry-picked libertarian ideas that can be used to retro-rationalise what could be seen as hypocrisy or cognitive dissonance. More generally though I think the many forms of piracy would also need to be unpacked further to revisit how it operates and what could be learned from them in this context. I am specially thinking of small size specialized private torrent trackers (for its strong and dedicated attachment to the materials shared/curated), and the scene (for its governance and transaction system). These models have been often overlooked by digital commons activists, specifically because of their lack of public interface, which is seen as a kind of excluding practices, but I think this is a weak critique, specially given how the net has turned into a dumpster fire of corpo extraction.
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:
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."
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.