Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I brought my CO2 sensor prototype to #FOSDEM!

In K.3.401 (a tightly-packed dev room with closed windows), I measured a CO2 concentration of over 3000 ppm.

For reference: Outside air is currently ~420 ppm, and a common suggestion is to ventilate rooms to <= 1000 ppm.

Op zondag 9 februari doe ik een #mastodon-workshop (en dat mag ook een mastodon-meetup worden)

19u30, Sint-Salvatorstraat 5 (Flordi) in #Gent. Beginners (ook) welkom!

Men zegge het voort! Boosts worden geapprecieerd!

If things feel hopeless, please visit the FedNews subreddit for some reassurance. These folks are not rolling over, they’re not resigning, they’re standing together. Here’s just one thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ifdcp7/from_your_genderqueer_coworker_dont_quit_over_the/

Valuable lessons for those in #FOSS who tinker for fun and have a vast collection of gadgets

> Repairing stuff, however, is neither new nor that radical concept for me. In developing countries, repair is just a way to extend an object’s life. Repair is not necessarily seen as a political act, although it can and has been; it is another service that someone might offer as a non-expensive alternative to buying new. Here, technicians for all kinds of tech are abundant, at least in major city centers; and so having one’s broken stuff repaired will not break bank.

https://ohio.araw.xyz/neoluddism/

#fluConf

All have been taken in Bruxelles

Hi everybody! We've been inactive for a while, so it's maybe time for a reintroduction. HUP is a fully #openaccess university press. We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly literature, particularly in the #humanities and #socialsciences. All our publications are freely available on our website at: https://hup.fi/site/

We are looking forward to learning more about the #Fediverse!

Might switch back to saying LGBTQ instead of queer just to make sure everyone knows where I stand on the inclusion of the T

such a weird building

@fluconf gives us a third way, with a freedom of expression and access. There's a freedom of presentation and the subjects provided in the call for papers enabled the soul of the conference.

#fluconf feels radical in a way that the other two aren't. The other two can't provide a space because their organisational memory is fixed now. It's as much attitude as technology.

Whereas fluconf is beginning and has flexibility so it can adjust and change. It's open in a way the others aren't.

In the meantime there's a breadth of art and tech happening at #fluconf .

Blog articles and videos. Hypermedia commentary introducing us to new folks, new tech.

The kind of presentations we don't see anymore at other conferences, but are in our hackspaces and art spaces.

Tech and art have a long history together, and Fluconf helps to remind me of that.

Thank you @ansuz and @manisha and the others at @fluconf team and contributors alike.

I am looking forward to next year.

The thing about the #ICC (International Criminal Court - which holds individual people responsible for human rights violations) and the #ICJ (International Court of Justice - which holds countries accountable for human rights violations) is that they were founded as deeply colonial institutes. They were created as instruments for the Global North to police the Global South. For the first time in their history, both the ICC and ICJ are going after (leaders of) a country aligned with the Global North, and just watch the same Global North collectively ignore both courts, where up to now they were all about "rules based society" and shit.

The next #fluConf session is an article by ohio olarte (not on the Fediverse) titled "Neo-Luddism in a developing country can be odd"

https://fluconf.online/sessions/neo-luddism-in-a-developing-country-can-be-odd/

#fluConf2025 #Philippines

Do not hire WATs. Do not indulge WATs.They are not useful, and they are not helping. They will waste your time and burn your money.

Hire dirty, grubby, grime-under-their-fingernails engineers. People who are not afraid of a torch and a wrench. People whose primary skill is in *Iooking* at the world, then building to that reality. Folks whose disdain for developer tool marketing is palpable. Sceptics and dissenters. Hire *them*.

However we can 🙏