Kind: Notes

interlude at Towards Collapse last night

Musique concrete meets concrete mixer. Particularly enjoying the use of old CRTs playing VHS of e-waste and flytipping.

On a scale of utopian to dystopian I’d give it a solid dystopian. That said, everyone seems very friendly.

https://towardscollapse.bandcamp.com/

Also at the Science Fair was Project Lantern, a great project making devices that can be deployed in a disaster zone for building an information sharing network. Built on a thing called LoRa. 3D printed casing.

https://www.lantern.works/

#mozfest

At the Science Fair met the awesome Ash from the Highlander Center in Appalachia. As part of Southern Connected Communities and with the University of Tennessee they’ve set up a community ISP that gets far better speeds in their rural area than any of the commercial ISPs ever gave them (and for less cost). Looking forwards they might turn it into a coop.

https://www.highlandercenter.org/

#mozfest

Had a great time at #MozFest last weekend.. got to try and document it a little before I forget.

(side note: currently doing this offline while on the tube with Indigenous, to be posted later… awesomeness from #indieweb swentel)

Nae Pasaran was really good. Shows that principles matter, solidarity matters. What might seem a small gesture could have big repercussions.

Also I feel unbelievably angerered every time I see anything about the coup in Chile, the complicity of foreign governments and corporations in the atrocities they committed, pretty much to protect financial interests, is sickening.

Anyone used/set up gollum wiki or fedwiki?

I like the fact that gollum is just a git repo behind the scenes – makes it easy for me to understand how the distribution works. And the interface is very simple.

fedwiki I always feel a little confused by. But admittedly I have never dug deep into it.

I think I’ll donate $4.20 a month to Soma, and probably switch off the personal Funkwhale instance I set up. Cool as it is, if I’m streaming music from internet radio, and listening to albums I own when offline, I might as well just copy the files to my phone directly, rather than the Funkwhale/Subsonic Rube Goldberg machine. Saves me hosting fees per month.

It’s nice to get LineageOS weekly updates automatically from within the OS, no need to download from an external site.

The update process is not as intuitive as it could be – reboots to TWRP, then I had to select ‘Install’ and find the update package at /data/lineageos_updates.

Don’t know what has changed (is there a changelog?). Noticed it has bumped up to October 5th patch level which is nice, caveats about what that actually means aside…

Hey maybe I’ll view that as an opportunity actually. A return to more considered listening of favourite artists and albums, rather than a constant stream of new tracks. Ooh yeah that works.

RadioDroid (and in particular the SomaFM cliqhop station) has me kicking myself I used a big streaming service for so long. Ticks all the boxes I need for music discovery and streaming background music.

I’m not quite there with offline listening yet… the funkwhale / subsonic set up still has a bit of friction I’d like to remove. I’ve got like 8 tracks available that I’m listening to on solid repeat when out and about at the moment…