It has been 6 months since I passed my viva, yet I forgot to share my thesis here (due to it feeling unreal af... until... today 😊

It's called 'The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth'. In it I describe communities which give voice and shape to different definitions and roles for technology within the polycrisis: permacomputing, computing within limits, collapse informatics, salvage computing, slow tech, redundant technology, low-tech, feminist technology, convivial computing, disability driven development and more.

https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/publications/the-image-at-the-end-of-the-world-communities-of-practice-redefin

With contributions by so many amazing people! Including @ccl @alcstrt @anglk @amelia @decentral1se @cmos4040 @p_p @mara @reni @diacritter @constant @snisioi @rra @320x200 @wendy @kattrali @praxeology @michal @viznut @sister0 @pixouls @msavoritias @jonuriarte @smmrcr @hellocatfood @neauoire @rek @dougschuler @solderpunk @titipi @xocffoeg @aaaannet and more!

#happy #phd #permacomputing #lowtech #feminist #tech #smolweb #sustainability

It has been 6 months since I passed my viva, yet I forgot to share my thesis here (due to it feeling unreal af... until... today 😊

It's called 'The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth'. In it I describe communities which give voice and shape to different definitions and roles for technology within the polycrisis: permacomputing, computing within limits, collapse informatics, salvage computing, slow tech, redundant technology, low-tech, feminist technology, convivial computing, disability driven development and more.

https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/publications/the-image-at-the-end-of-the-world-communities-of-practice-redefin

With contributions by so many amazing people! Including @ccl @alcstrt @anglk @amelia @decentral1se @cmos4040 @p_p @mara @reni @diacritter @constant @snisioi @rra @320x200 @wendy @kattrali @praxeology @michal @viznut @sister0 @pixouls @msavoritias @jonuriarte @smmrcr @hellocatfood @neauoire @rek @dougschuler @solderpunk @titipi @xocffoeg @aaaannet and more!

#happy #phd #permacomputing #lowtech #feminist #tech #smolweb #sustainability

Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.

Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.

Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.

[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches

#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc

Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.

Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.

Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.

[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches

#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc

I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD

I still fire up #LibreWolf ( #firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.

I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD

#SmolWeb

I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD

I still fire up #LibreWolf ( #firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.

I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD

#SmolWeb

This is not okay.

I wonder if they also go after people who publish on their own websites instead of using big tech platforms.

#bigtech#smolweb

RT: https://noauthority.social/users/newman/statuses/115135482619274520

Je suis toute excitée d'annoncer

https://writes.casa/

Il s'agit d'une plateforme d'écriture anonyme et minimaliste !

Avec :

• Des thèmes hebdomadaires pour inspirer des textes courts de 300 à 1000 caractères.

• Des publications quotidiennes des écrits de la veille qui créent des moments littéraires collectifs à 6h UTC.

• Pas de création de compte nécessaire, juste des signatures facultatives.

• Un contenu multilingue (sous-domaines EN/FR, et d'autres à venir).

• Flux RSS pour une lecture plus "slow"

• Compatible SmolWeb !!!

#SmolWeb #Ecriture #Fediverse #Litterature #Anonyme #Privacy #ViePrivée

Je suis toute excitée d'annoncer

https://writes.casa/

Il s'agit d'une plateforme d'écriture anonyme et minimaliste !

Avec :

• Des thèmes hebdomadaires pour inspirer des textes courts de 300 à 1000 caractères.

• Des publications quotidiennes des écrits de la veille qui créent des moments littéraires collectifs à 6h UTC.

• Pas de création de compte nécessaire, juste des signatures facultatives.

• Un contenu multilingue (sous-domaines EN/FR, et d'autres à venir).

• Flux RSS pour une lecture plus "slow"

• Compatible SmolWeb !!!

#SmolWeb #Ecriture #Fediverse #Litterature #Anonyme #Privacy #ViePrivée

Excited to announce https://writes.casa/

This is an anonymous, minimalist writing platform!

With:

• weekly themes to inspire short texts of 300–1,000 characters.
• Daily reveals of the previous day's writings that create collective literary moments at 6 UTC.
• No account creation required, just optional signatures.
• multilingual content (EN/FR subdomains, with more to come soon).
• RSS feeds for slow reading
• SmolWeb compatible!!!

#SmolWeb #Writing #Fediverse #Literature #Anonymous #Privacy

Excited to announce https://writes.casa/

This is an anonymous, minimalist writing platform!

With:

• weekly themes to inspire short texts of 300–1,000 characters.
• Daily reveals of the previous day's writings that create collective literary moments at 6 UTC.
• No account creation required, just optional signatures.
• multilingual content (EN/FR subdomains, with more to come soon).
• RSS feeds for slow reading
• SmolWeb compatible!!!

#SmolWeb #Writing #Fediverse #Literature #Anonymous #Privacy