bitzero

@bitzero@corteximplant.com

Carbon-based developer, KM project manager and tech writer. FOSS and openness are my mantra but I still seem to be a bearable person.

Tribalist techno-anarchist before and after it was cool. I metaphorically still live in the Zion Cluster.

Permacomputing and collapse computing believer. I love strange dev languages, namely Lisp, Assembly, Forth. Even if it's clear they don't always love back.

Founder of the Cult of Max Zorin (see pinned post) and cofounder of the imaginary but nonetheless revolutionary Солнечная Вспышка collective.

My larius is a postdigital bear. He/him is ok.

Originally on social.techncs.de (2017) and fosstodon.org (2022)

#softwaredevelopment #permacomputing #solarpunk #lisp #forth #riscv

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hacks4pancakes, to random

We need to have a talk, and I’m having a really hard time having it with my awesome hacker friends, because everyone is super duper emotionally invested and is deeply hurt by it.

I hope you all aren’t - because it involves all of us and it’s important. It’s not about any of y’all individually or your hard community work.

The talk is about how to make all of our cybersecurity conferences and events and meetups more accessible and conformable for young hackers because I’mreallysosorry, we’ve somehow become Old, and the stuff that we are ingrained with as “hacker culture” like movies, music, and memes all were created before they were born - and they may or may not have any emotional attachment or enjoyment of them at all.

That’s the conversation we need to have and that we are all responsible for and I swear it’s not aimed at any conference or person because we are all in this filter bubble of watching the Matrix and listening to Prodigy and remembering the hamster dance and all of that stuff while awesome was like a quarter century ago.

Part of building a community is thinking about including everyone and their culture under a mantle of good ethics and goals. So we really, really need to start having a chat about when we lean on the 90s hacker aesthetic and memories to the exclusion of people under 30. I had a wake up call hearing some students complaining about it.

bitzero,

@hacks4pancakes Of course time passes, things change. Hacking as what I experienced in the 90s doesn't exist anymore, most of it turned into an infosec job that has different traits and meanings. So yes, when we get to cybersec, infosec and all that stuff, it's time to internalize that we're an older generation.

This means that we should leave all our mythology off the door. Maybe there's a different common imaginarium now, maybe it's not even necessary to have one. If cybsec/infosec "hacking" is simply a job, there's no need to sanctify it.

Going off-topic, what I'm afraid we miss in this transition is hacking as a tech-socio-political act: understanding technology to use it actively for what people need and not passively for what it's been marketed. But this is a different story.

bitzero, to random

Levanzo Island, Sicily, Italy

bitzero, to random

Being offline

bitzero,

@revengeday no, simply an iPhone photo while walking in a wood

yakkoj, to random
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I still have no idea how MS expects me to use a Windows "machine" that's streamed down from Redmond when 1) the CPU and RAM resources are paltry (2 cores and 4GB RAM? We're running WINDOWS here...); 2) I have the expectation to hook up devices to the "computer" so I can do exotic things to them over USB, which requires drivers to do that; 3) the privilege for having this, with the above limits, is over $30/mo and that's the lowest tier

bitzero,

@yakkoj I suppose this service could appeal to companies already using VDI stuff like Citrix: the same approach, but from mothership Redmond. And if you can have an Azure shard in your data center on-prem, it probably makes also sense. For a limited class of non-power users, at least.

If we think that in COVID years even the virtualized workstation model got some traction, then everything becomes possible. Or possible to sell.

liztai, to Cat
@liztai@hachyderm.io avatar

Question to #Cat owners,
Sometimes I worry that #Apricat, being an indoor cat, doesn't get enough exposure to the sun, air and nature. Do you think a balcony with lots of plants is good enough?

Sometimes, in the morning, Apri will sunbathe on the table - the sun lights up the balcony then.

Ps: the balcony is on a very low floor.

#Cat #CatsOfMastodon

bitzero,

@liztai Cats are a strange mix of consolidated habits and impulsive taste for adventure. In my experience as a human owned by different cats, for indoor felines a balcony or a small garden should be enough. It's outdoor life but with guardrails.

I had also cats with a more intense indoor-outdoor life. But they were/are adopted stray cats, or home cats turned ferals because they have been abandoned. These cats spend more time outside but always with self-imposed limits. None of them went that far away from us, and mostly at night.

TL, DR: Yeah, I think the balcony is fine. Just take care the cat has no way to fall down and get lost.

revengeday, to random
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Feel meh.

Send cats.

bitzero,

@revengeday Here!

GrimmReality, to random
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However old or jaded I get, sometimes when I'm walking around town I will see an obviously mutually enraptured couple, holding hands or making out, and I really appreciate that because I know, if there is any kind of monster or zombie attack, they will 100% get eaten first.

bitzero,

@GrimmReality Nah. The first to fall will be young people when their smartphones will stop giving them maps, instructions, connection to others. All by themselves, they’ll be easy prey.

bitzero, to random

Liguria, Italy

bitzero, to random

Digital gardening is something that I find cited more and more frequently. It's a veeeery interesting - and, in my humble opinion, very liberating - concept.

So, my PSA: Maggie Appleton gives a perfect starting point at the link below. It's an exhaustive article about digital gardening with a good number of references.

And also with this pearl for future generations: "The overwhelming lesson of the Web 2.0 social media age is that dumping millions of people together into decontextualised social spaces is a shit show".

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

#digitalgardening

bitzero, to random

"Rather than taking emergent technology as a starting point and examining its potential for increasing efficiency, a human-centric approach in industry puts core human needs and interests at the heart of the production process. Rather than asking what we can do with new technology, we ask what the technology can do for us".

(from a 2021 paper on Industry 5.0 by the European Commission, paper that I discovered today)

RL_Dane, to random
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Feeling listless today. Not really frustrated or anything, just pretty meh. Mainly, I feel like scheduling and finding time for things I want to do is just a Sisyphean feat lately.

What've you got going on today?

bitzero,

@mitch @RL_Dane
May I?
https://permacomputing.net/
And I wouldn't be exhaustive without pointing you to the wonderful work of @neauoire and @rek

https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html

chargrille, to random
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I assume it's all the anti-Musk & Dorsey posting I do, but I get an absolutely terrifying amount of tech/dev followers, and I'm sorry to say that I will disappoint you all horribly eventually.

*Do stay and let me disappoint you, though. :)

bitzero,

@chargrille Oh my. And why do you think so? Naaaah…

bitzero, to linux

Once again, comrades, rejoice. I'm writing this toot from a new PC which has been freed by the plague of Windows. Once again, billions of transistors and memory cells screamed with pure digital joy, unshackled from the burden of the corporate bloatware.

But the fight goes on, the revolution continues.
#linux

sophie, to random
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I miss when we used to call it “the Net”

bitzero,

@sophie We should do it again. Or, maybe, the Net has become the Fediverse. Hmmm...

pinskal, to random
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bitzero,

@pinskal
Or, as a friend of friends’ once said to me: “I don’t want to lose all the things I’ve gained just to save the squirrels, and if it’s really serious someone in charge will solve it”

bitzero,

@cohomologyisFUN @pinskal
Yup. A real genius.

mcc, to random
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Notes on "what I'm listening to today" today ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110674374805101077 ):

  1. You know what's actually really hard about trying to make a mixtape of Autechre songs is almost all of their best songs are either The First Track On An Album or The Last Track On An Album and as such tend to resist being put anywhere else in a sequence.
bitzero,

@mcc Oh good. I was convinced to be the only one thinking that their tracks quality in the same album is quite… inconsistent.

I like them a lot, mind you, but maybe some tracks are too much industrial for me. Maybe. I don’t know exactly.

revengeday, to random
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    bitzero,

    @Xaro @revengeday This. Exactly this.

    bitzero, to retrocomputing

    I don't know how many of you can be interested, but... If you always wanted a NeXT workstation to play with and, for obvious $$$ reasons, never got one, there's a (semi)new project to clone its desktop environment on Linux

    https://onflapp.github.io/gs-desktop/index.html

    #nextstep #retrocomputing #linux

    bitzero, to linux

    I'm brand new here, so an #introduction is a good idea:

    I'm a freelance tech writer / software developer / KM project manager based in Europe. Digitally, I was born in the 90s. So I grew up eating cyberpunk books, BBSs, home computers, hacking, then the first doses of Internet and the Web.

    In the 90s and the first 00s I developed my (ahem) "philosophy": digital spaces are (can be, should be) autonomous zones where different cultures, and sub/counter-cultures, can thrive.

    These are the years of the enshittification of Internet, but it can't rain forever (cit.) and I see the Fediverse as a new opportunity for some of us to recreate better and safer digital spaces.

    That's the "vision". Than there's the daily life: I write code (awful, mostly), help companies in managing their knowledge bases, write technical documentation, sometimes write tech articles for (mostly unknown) business tech manazines.

    In the spare time, I tinker with Linux, Risc-V boards and "old" languages like Forth, Assembly and C (but I'm a fan of Haskell too). I'm convinced that permacomputing and, maybe, collapse computing are our digital future. So, "back to basics" seems a good idea.

    That's all, I guess. Nice to meet ya.

    #softwaredevelopment #km #linux #risc-V #forth #assembly #C #haskell #permacomputing #collapsecomputing

    bitzero,

    @adamsdesk Yes, totally a different spirit, then. And mine was also raided by the police during an anti-piracy crackdown!

    bitzero,

    @adamsdesk Just a bit of suspence. We did nothing bad.

    bitzero,

    @adamsdesk A bit. They knocked at our door at 6am, seized all the computers (3) and disappeared. Police gave us back our stuff in 2-3 weeks and it was the end of the story.

    What helped us was that our BBS was legally organized as a cultural association, and that we used to keep a working clone of the message board. Actually, we stayed offline for just one day.

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