NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town
Queer feminist from Berlin. Fights for social justice, does research about the Internet. Network geek. Bisexual. She/her
while #catalonia is facing opression through the central spanish goverment
there're a lot of great project building alternatives to dominant power structure.
#GuifiNet is one of them.
It's an attempt to create an alternative autonomous internet infrastructure.
"...a bottom-up, citizen-driven technological, social and economic project with the objective of creating a free, open and neutral telecommunications network based on a commons governance model"
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Guifi_Net
How would the following sound to you:
a federated plattform to let people share with each other free accommodation and events.
Bringing people from and through the fediverse (if they want) together irl.
Also remember that the event function in fb, was what made mass mobilisation via fb possible.
At one given point in future could that be very usefull. 😋
We could make that all be possible 
, but would it be also something of your interest?
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Hey so, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle with Patreon lately after a terms of service change that threatens all sex workers
There's now an open letter to Patreon to please not do that http://www.openlettertopatreon.com/
The idea of folks losing their livelihood overnight for reasons I cannot see as justified is terrifying, and there's no Patreon alternative either.
Update on the C programming course: I'm getting better at patiently explaining what the difference between declaring, defining, and calling a function is, while chasing segfaults with some other students who are already playing around with pointers and memory management.
It's not easy adapting to the learning speed of 1000 first semester students, but I'm happy about everyone's progress.
Mastodon users, new and old:
You can add a caption, or alt-text, to images you toot!
These captions make your toots more accessible, by giving people who can't see the image a description of what's in the image.
Just hover over the image over you attach it and type a description in the spot that says "Describe for the visually impaired" before you hit the TOOT! button.
Please also encourage Mastodon app authors to add caption functionality. And please boost. Thanks!
RT @AaronSwartzDay "Let’s try to figure out how we can mitigate our software systems from being misused." - @xychelsea https://www.aaronswartzday.org/technologists-please-pay-attention/ #Responsibility https://t.co/9yDZA37Q8Y
just say yes to legal sex work
Very good news from @nextcloud and @Purism : #Nextcloud partners with #Purism to provide a secure, open source and #privacy focused #mobile device
I'M A TERMINAL GIRL
IN A GRAPHICAL WORRRLLLD
WRAPPED IN BASH SCRIPTS
GNOME'S A TRASH PIT
Rather than instances and federation, which seem like such distant terms, why not think of neighbourhoods?
A town or city has lots of little neighbourhoods. They all have their own character. Some are big, some are small. Some are full of artists, others, blue-collar workers from the nearby factory.
There's a community notice board where the neighbourhood communicates, and a bigger one that a bunch of neighbourhoods get together on.
How's that sound for an accessible metaphor?
*idly wonders if there are people in the fediverse that talk about sustainable forestry and hobby tree farming of hardwoods*
Is there some kind of reasonably affordable Software Defined Radio out there that can sample and replay unknown 2.4 GHz signals? I've got a 2.4GHz smart light remote with a proprietary Chinese protocol that I need to sniff and spoof.
For those who haven't been at the conference, here's a recording of my talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2017-138-which_network_to_use_when_-_socket_intents
and here's my slides: http://theresa.someserver.de/socket-intents-2017.pdf
More resources are linked on the schedule page: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/en/ASG2017/public/events/138
Just presented some of my research called #SocketIntents at the "All Systems Go" conference on #Linux User-Space technologies.
Mentioned my Mastodon account: "It's like Twitter, but cooler." :D
Hope some people find me here as well. ^^
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34. Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig: Letzte Chance zum Einreichen - ...
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Teaching first semester students about C #programming is surprisingly hard. How do you explain the concepts of variables or loops when they didn't understand your first three attempts at it?