An excavator has struck.
The cloud system of various universities in the state of Northrine Westphalia, Germany, is offline. It’s an unfortunate timing, we shared all our workshop texts for tomorrow there. But it’s also a perfect fit: planetary actions and knowledge meet.
#tech #sts #infrastructure
Through Cory Doctorow’s recent linkdump I learned about the charming non-standard standardisation story of the #fediverse. It was a lucky punch, very unlikely to happen. But here we are with a capable, open, acommercial system.
None of the big players… no one took us seriously. No one saw [the SocialWG] as a threat. No one expected it to go anywhere…. The feeling was, it was small beans, and it wasn’t worth their time.”
fossacademic.tech/2023/10/1… pluralistic.net/2023/11/1… mamot.fr/@doctorow
#sts #tech #MastodonMigration
My blog is now my not-so-secret home for casual writing, all posts here and elsewhere reside on stefanlaser.micro.blog. Replies are fedi integrations™. It works like a charm.
Manton describes the main idea of POSSE quite beautifully: book.micro.blog/cross-pos…
Social networks may come and go, but the canonical version of our posts live at our own indie microblog.
#tech #blogging
Coffee review.
#waste #history
