David Emerson @d@merveilles.town

RETURN · Is a research project designed for the experimental disclosure and artistic investigation of Amazon's return infrastructure ..

👉🏻 https://return.gruppe5.org

@steve @ritualdust @rek also has a little page on this topic: https://kokorobot.ca/site/leanimages.html

I do some amateur photography as a hobby, and thought I'd share some photos from time to time. These were taken from two trips this month: Cape Disappointment and Olympic National Park.

I anticipate spending a LOT more time in the National Park.

"it seems busier than usual"
yeah a little

Okay, I can't keep the urge of making my own spreadsheet program at bay any longer.

Let's get started.

My today's game is now on Itch.io

https://rsolene.itch.io/z-hack

itch.io is a platform for indies video games. First time I join it as a creator, my new game Z-hack is modest but it exists and I'm proud of it

You can find many good games there, most of them are free. A few gems like Celeste, Noita, Amon Us or Urtuk ended on more common stores such as Steam when they got popular.

#gaming #indie #itchio

This is so Merveilles it even hurts: https://simonstalenhag.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-dos
"A collection of ambient tracks, composed with Impulse Tracker, running on a Pentium 266 Mhz. Tracks use mostly samples from Casio SA21 and Yamaha Portasound PSS280. I also sampled a few patches from my Reface DX, and imported some data files from my DOS disk".

Software Doldrums
by Rek and Devine of Hundred Rabbits.

This talk, which was featured as a keynote at LibrePlanet 2022, is about the dangers and shortcomings of relying on always-online proprietary platforms. Hundred Rabbits will share how they reimagined their software to encourage the reuse, repair and maintenance of existing hardware.

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/software-doldrums/

The #OpenBSD webzine issue 7 is out! https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-7.html

university compsci clubs in the 90s: we host our own IRC server, email infrastructure, ftp, shared UNIX computer, NNTP...

university compsci clubs in 2022: google suite is too hard so someone here has a Discord you could join if you know who to ask

We spoke with the FSF, and we found an arrangement so we could have access to a somewhat reliable internet connection for the event, and so we'll be happy to give a keynote at the upcoming LibrePlanet, March 19 and 20!

https://www.fsf.org/news/artist-collective-hundred-rabbits-to-keynote-libreplanet-living-liberation

Sigrid just added post references, see the about page on how to use them
https://forum.merveilles.town/about

@d @cblgh You can report it here: https://forum.merveilles.town/thread/4/about-this-forum%2c-and-what%27s-to-come/

If you wan to help fixing the issue: https://github.com/cblgh/cerca

@d @cblgh prolly the github

💬 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
🗣️ Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

💬 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
🗣️ Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

💬 "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
🗣️ Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

💬 "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will."
🗣️ Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal messenger, 2022