NerdResa @NerdResa@cybre.space
Network geek and researcher from Berlin. Queer feminist, bisexual, fights for social justice. She/her
Hello cybre.space, time for #introductions! :)
I'm a networking geek and researcher living in Berlin, currently working on a PhD in Computer Science. On a technical level, I like access networks such as WiFi and mobile networks, I like measurement and understanding performance, and I do low-level user-space programming in C. I sometimes talk about science, free software, and tech communities, among other things.
Another important take-away from my meetings already: calling MEPs is way more effective than e-mailing them.
E-mailing MEPs with a standard e-mail from a template can actually be counter-productive.
If you can, please *call* your MEPs. You can find your MEP here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html
If you'd rather e-mail, please write two-three paragraphs in your own words, from your e-mail address. Even if it's not as slick as the template, it will work way better!
Hey London ppl: can you or do you know anyone who can help me get some estrogen and tblockers, just to last a week-month. I just moved here and signed up for a GP and should be registered Wednesday but I'm going to run out of both before then, and hopefully I can get a same day appointment but they are usually taking 3 weeks :o
Boosts and help very very appreciated.
~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!
If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
irc is #500pieces on efnet
thank you (boosts very appreciated)
I just love Networking (the technical topic, often but not always the socializing aspect).
Explaining some basic subnetting, encapsulation, routing, and such concepts just makes me happy. <3
Also I feel like my academic knowledge is really useful here. :3
Tonight I gave a presentation about IPv6 and tunneling at the #HFYAO ("Hosting For Yourself And Others") meetup in Berlin. It was fun. :)
[Photo of a network diagram on a whiteboard]
TRANSPORTER // MITFAHRGELEGENHEIT
30/6: Berlin - Graz
über Leipzig - Regensburg - Passau - Linz (oder Dresden - Prag - Wien) -- genaue Strecke ist verhandelbar!
(beladen am Vorabend möglich)
2/7: ganz früh zurück nach Berlin!
Ich nehm euch auch gern als Mitfahrer_innen mit, ohne Gepäcksbegrenzung ;)
Bitte nochmal teilen und rumfragen, ich mag immer noch nicht leer zurückfahren :/
Danke euch!
Does anyone have any resources on the dangers of #OpenData / #OpenMapping in terms of threats/risks to human rights. Specifically #indigenous peoples, land rights, data extractivsm? Asking for someone else.
So many communities are held together with the strength of basically one person making all the invitations and remembering everyone's hobbies and taking the time to talk to new people
& that one person n e v e r gets the credit they should bc people don't recognize emotional labor as work
"What is 'lollipop project'"
It's an attempt to lower the friction of self hosting. Preferably on Raspberry Pi's, Orange Pi's and other lean, small ARM mini-computer boards.
I've been quietly working for the last 3 months on building a self-hosted cloud that's rarely online (only to get updates really) as well as provide services for myself and others while 'disconnected'. Services like contact/calendar/gpx track sync. GPX tracking. Blog, more.
As I've worked on the project a few very amazing folks have made suggestions about how it could be used to lower the barrier of 'just self host' for a LOT of people floating around the federverse.
After some thinking and quiet time I realized it's time to make this a real project.
The 'Lollipop Cloud' is born of a desire to self host when nomadic, facilitating sync when 'in the jungle' or just wanting to give 🖕 to the various corporate entities who harvest your data.
A cloud in a very small box is the goal. A box the size of a credit card or as big as a rack mount server. YOU decide.
More will be online/posted soon.
If your daring the current public 'stuff' is at http://git.lollipop.holdmybeer.solutions/
Hey #nonbinary friendos! One of my offline buddies is doing a research survey on nonbinary folks and infrastructure. Wanna participate? They’re also nonbinary fwiw, this is not a Cis Academic Doing Exploitative Research situation. https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/okeyes/355928
I just learned what a "411" is, because #Firefox attempts to educate its users by asking "What's the 411 on 404 messages?"
I knew what a 404 was, but 411... I mean, of course I thought it was an HTTP status code. And it is not. m)
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31451/411
Not sure how to judge this: Did their attempt to educate backfire because of using some American slang that international users like me don't get? Or is it genius because it educates both ways? :o
#Amazon treats its warehouse workers badly, pays very little tax and tracks its users. Its #Kindle platform will delete books that people have already bought.
Here are some updated ethical alternatives to #AmazonBooks, Kindle and #GoodReads:
https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads/
Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions for alternatives, if you have any more suggestions (or feedback on these alternatives) please reply to this post.
#Kindle #Goodreads #Privacy #DeleteAmazon #DeleteKindle #DRM #eBooks #Books
Project Wonderful was the single last decent advertising service and I will miss it dearly. It didn't do any tracking, it wasn't invasive, there were no "bad ads". It was an image and a link. Sometimes a GIF. You had 100% control over what happened.
And now it's gone.
The obituary is here; it's worth reading. https://www.projectwonderful.com/thanks.php
This is so true:
"Check on the caretakers, your stoic friends and lovers, the rocks, the healers and the one’s that are “just fine.” Remind them they are seen."
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Not everyone can self host software systems.
Not everyone wants to self host software systems.
Not everyone gives a shit about tech
Most people just want to go online, do their thing and move on with their day
If there is a mass exodus from GitHub / GitLab or others we people hosting our own infra need to be good about discovery, community building, community engagement and more.
We also need to figure out how to federate authn/authz. I'll skip over submitting small things if it means yet another account on yet another server run by yet another random.
Centralization isn't great but it does facilitate discovery, community and engagement.
We need to keep this at the back of our mind.
Get this in your head, free software isn't free if people can't use it. Lower the bars to adoption, help your community to install, or acquire services, don't just shame them for being unable to use Free Software. Bare lists of software that exists aren't nearly enough.
We already know there are shackles, we already know that keys to those shackles are somewhere else.
Instead, help people to navigate the complexity and difficulty of freeing themselves.
wow just signed up for fiverr because i desperately need some freelance work to get by... and it's a pretty scary place. freelancers "race to the bottom" in terms of wages.
does anyone know any good freelance sites for web devs...? or know anyone who needs wordpress, javascript, html/css, python, node.js, geospatial data, or some similar tech work done.
