Trying to start to rearrange my channels in Aperture to move towards Ton’s style of information strategy (https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/07/my-ideal-rss-reader/). In short, making me more likely to read things from people I know (for some value of ‘know’), and less likely to get overwhelmed by a big feed of information that I could never really get through.
Kind: Notes
The Open Data Institute has just launched a guidebook on collaborative data maintenance. They’ve built a patterns catalogue from looking at various collaborative data projects, looks pretty handy.
https://theodi.org/article/launching-the-collaborative-data-maintenance-guidebook/
Reading the chapter ‘Technological Utopianism Is Dangerous’ in Future Histories.
Technological utopianism ‘sees technological progress as the means to bring about a perfect society.’
On Utopianism: ‘a map of the word that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at’
but: ‘Utopianism can abridge our capacity to imagine what true emancipation might look like’
kobakant has a load of cool and nicely documented e-textiles projects, like DIY data gloves and an interactive alpaca t-shirt
Unless you use a part provided by Apple, and a repairer certified by them, you’ll get a warning about your replacement screen.
"More broadly, this restriction is the kind of gradual progression toward repair fear and uncertainty we were afraid we’d see after Apple’s independent repair program announcement. It allows Apple to further restrict the repair market to those who buy their parts and sign up for their certification."
https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-discouraging-screen-repair-with-an-iphone-11-genuine-warning
I get a message at emacs startup telling me that:
> Package html2text is obsolete!
It’s because I have an old version of mu and mu4e (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/42343/package-html2text-is-obsolete). I’m on 0.9.18, which is the version that is in the Ubuntu 18.04 repos (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maildir-utils), and hence what Mint 19.2 has. There doesn’t seem to be a PPA with a newer version.
It’s possibly an argument against using Mint for my personal desktop. I don’t need the stability that a server or office machine might need. I like Mint, I think it does a number of things well, but I may switch to Debian again for rolling releases (for example, in Debian Bullseye, mu4e is on 1.2.0 (https://packages.debian.org/testing/lisp/mu4es.debian.org/testing/lisp/mu4e)).
#IndieWebCamp Amsterdam this weekend!
Sat 28/9 unconference sessions on all things #IndieWeb
Sun 29/9 building your own next step on the IndieWeb.
Register and get more info at https://indieweb.org/2019/Amsterdam
And now can’t wait for the Festival of Maintenance in Liverpool this Saturday….
Really great schedule of talks lined up – spanning maintenance of tech, infrastructure, clothing, data, our relationships with each other, everything.
https://festivalofmaintenance.org.uk/upcoming/schedule/
Honestly, blind growth and productivity is dead. Forget the cult of disruption and ‘innovation’. Repair and maintenance is where the cool kids are at these days.
#FestivalOfMaintenance #Maintenance
Back from an awesome #FixFest in Berlin last weekend.
3 days of repair activists sharing knowledge, experience and advice.
As well as the launch of the European #RightToRepair campaign!
The overarching theme this year was Repair For Climate. Keeping devices lasting longer can have a huge effect on emissions, so we need to keep pressuring manufacturers and policy makers to let us do it.
Hot diggity, I’ve been listening to SomaFM Cliq Hop station for a while, but not really explored the other stations. Just tuned in to the DEF CON station and damn it’s kickin’. Totally happy to be a subscriber to them.