fileneed @fileneed@toot.si

A lot of Mastodon's users joined in August last year, so now is the time of many fediversaries.

You can find your first post on Mastodon by opening your public profile with ?min_id=0 appended to the URL!

Alternate social media, by Sheng Lam

https://shenglam.artstation.com/projects/zADNeZ

RT @MattisLind@twitter.com
Logging into my Linux laptop from my Lorenz Lo15. Case sensitivity is a bit of a problem when having a baudot terminal.

"On 10 April, astrophysicists announced that they had captured the 1st ever image of a #blackhole.

No headlines mentioned that the image would have been impossible without open-source software: #Matplotlib, a #Python library for graphing data.

Just 5 days later, the NSF rejected a grant to support that ecosystem, saying that the software lacked sufficient impact.

#opensource is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

I've seen a lot (!) of weird keyboards, but the ErgoWarp takes the cake.

https://github.com/pseudoku/ErgoWarp

#MechanicalKeyboards

Further mapping out the current mastodon universe around #opensource digital art software

These folks are already here

@GIMP
@Krita
@inkscape

These folks are hashtagged alot

#p5js
#processing

Those are the hashtags people generally use

#mastoart
#creativecoding
#algorithmicart
#generative
#generativeart

Obviously I might be missing some, this is a quick search

Since the whole #HackerNarratives blogpost would be unseemly long, I decided to publish the first chapter - on popculture:

https://alxd.org/how-elon-musk-takes-wikipedias-place.html

"For years, we've been accepting the capitalistic and individualistic narratives on technology, painting an invention as a work of a single, exceptional individual - not years of work of the whole scientific community or a group of engineers."

#popculture #freesoftware

I don't know if I posted about my latest blogpost:

Hackers in popular culture - the curse of being an eternal rebel

https://alxd.org/hackers-in-popular-culture-the-curse-of-being-an-eternal-rebel.html

> Using "computeromancy" as an aesthetic makes true hacking much more tame and hackers' criticism of our capitalist culture - toothless. They're dangerous because they're skilled criminals / geniuses, not because they see more than us or raise valid points against how we use technology.

Did I mention my brother is an insanely talented artist?

You can (and you should) check him out here: https://www.artesekeko.com
#mastoart

A "joke" that I like :-)

🐧

Breaking: The text of #Article13 and the #EU #Copyright Directive has just been finalised

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

Please reshare widely and **take action**. This has the potential to endanger the #internet as we know it, making it more and more composed of only large platforms.

This has the possibility of killing #alternative #socialmedia projects and small #startups trying to compete with the big #corporations.