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**Friday morning:**
Getting started with Rosa
after some struggle with the internet we started instructing everyone who doesn’t have an account yet to make their own keys and and edit their config files.
Initially we had problems adding the generated keys, because of wrongly copied keys. Sometimes parts of the keys were missing.
Finally everyone who wanted to, was able to have their own acoount.
Some worked on rewriting etherpad-lite's standard messages, 'chat' became 'gossip space', 'loading' became 'what is time', 'force reload' became 'gentle reload'.
Also the 404 and 502 pages were reworked and customized, only to later realize this work had been done already. Now we have many customizations :) A local dialect of speaking to Rosa and Rosa speaking to us is developing!
A wish for audible feedback from Rosa was expressed, and a team worked on sound from Rosa. After some struggles, Rosa read us her syslog.
Then uploaded images from yesterday onto the server and decided which to delete. In the process we realised that there is a rather restrictive file size limit of max 1mb to the files.
Luke set up a local chat with weechat.
13:00 Food is ready!!!
where to customise the messages that the etherpad shows
/srv/etherpad-lite/src/locales/...
friend@rosa:/srv/etherpad-lite/src$ grep -iR "WHAT IS TIME"
. ./templates/pad.html: WHAT IS TIME....
./locales/en.json: "pad.loading": "WHAT IS TIME",
./locales/en-gb.json: "pad.loading": "WHAT IS TIME...",
We kept notes on https://hub.vvvvvvaria.org/rosa/pad/p/rosa-log (10 June 2022)
**Afternoon** Speculative Design
Plan:
- Assemble groups of 2–3 people. Pick people that you havn’t worked with so far, or peoplo you don’t know yet.
- Please read through the documentation of our discussion from yesterday to remember the ideas and concepts.
- Choose one topic from yesterday’s discussion. It can be anything you are interested in – something you have talked about or something other people discussed in their session.
- Think of a utopian future scenario somehow connected to your topic. It’s absolutely imaginary and doesn’t need to be realistic at all. You are free to choose a year – it can be the future in 100 years, but also one year in the future from now.
- Your scenario can be about the people and how they interact with each others or machines, how the government is structured, how people work and live their lives etc. From which perspective do you tell the story? Do you focus on a region/country or is your story situated somewhere in space? If you you also discover dystopian aspects during the process, please also capture these thoughts!
- Try to condense your thoughts into short stories. Please write them down. (it doesn’t have to be a master piece, its more about putting all the infos into a medium that can be easily understood.)
- Share your stories with the others at the end of the session.
Speculative utopia 'Will there be coffee?'
In 2035 the great great great great granddaughter of Ned Ludd learns about her infamous ancestor. Anthropologists discovered Ned Ludd was not a fictional character but a Papua New Guinea man that was taken captive and forced to work in a textile mill at the start of the 19th century in the North of Great Brittain. She started leading a neo-Luddite revolution that was based on a small Debbie Bookchin publication that had survived the ages. It was beautifully illuminated with old Bookchin 'thank you for Googling me' memes (https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1251831-google-murray-bookchin).
Coffeebean sat in his garden with a repaired terminal, thinking about how nice it would be to celebrate the success of the revolution with Spoon and Oatmilk. He started brewing a coffee and launched his local mesh network node. It started passing on stored encrypted messages that needed to still be forwarded. Oatmilk and Spoon were each about 25 hops away but with intermittent connectivity it was hard to tell when they would read each other.
In terms of communication systems, we still have global connectivity but it is organised in a radically different way. IXPs & ASes are democratically managed as co-operatives, there are no articifially imposed transport costs. The fad-based IoT economy has simply collapsed.
There is no more twitter.com but local things connected to other local things, connected to further away local things and so on. Mechanical energy is widespread and we have overcome the limitations of size and il/ecological design. People have access to small salt water batteries and where appropriate, mechanical water storage is used (not in the netherlands!).
Spoon and Oatmilk happened, almost by miracly, to be connected to their local nodes and all the in between hops were succesful. It was a windy and sunny day, which greatly improved the odds of reaching people. There was a lot of mechanical energy storage applied throughout the world but people decided to use them sparingly and all tech was built to resiliently respond to power outage and intermittent connectivity.
Spoon, Oatmilk and Coffeebean logged onto weechat on Rosa, their favorite node in the European mesh. The code of weechat was easily comprehensibly and well documented, while also being very lean and efficient, using a minimum amount of resources from wind powered Rosa. Weechat had slowly evolved into a software that could easily be adapted to diverse local circumstances. Spoon, Oatmilk and Coffeebean shared a remote celebratory coffee, whcih had become a luxury good, like champagne, yet was still circulating in Europe. The speed of innovation in agriculture had slowed down, following degrowth principles. Coffee was not genetically modified but was grown using slowly diversified old varieties. Beans were transported on sailboats. Sails beyond repair were used in permaculture gardens or smoked (we have developed an agent which triggers safe biodegradation of materials). The coffee and the chat were great.
123 Blow up pipelines? Tadzio Müller and Andreas Malm on what next for the climate movement
https://podcast.dissenspodcast.de/123-climate
ooooo, nlgk and dywen
a log file of rosa server
an a m a z i n g performance !
strt, reni, ccl, maggie
Yesterday night, there was this old laptop from 1995 sitting on the table in a narrow dimly lit room. It looked like a brick and it weighed about a kilo. Alice said her friend gave her a weighted blanket that has weight pads woven into its fabric. It helps to soothe and comfort you when you try to sleep. Maybe many would need such a weighted blanket, she said, because of being kept awake by worries and sorrows about the future. When we managed the laptop to come to life, it started to move its fan and hard drive with a humming noise, and you could feel the machine's body warm up, a tangible sign of internal activity. Six of those laptops would make about six kilos, which equals the weight of one weighted blanket. In a possible future, computers are not only an extension of human cerebral activity. Resources are scarce and all of them - be it heat, organic mass, minerals, energy, hardware, raw materials - are tightly integrated into an ecosystem of re-use, repurpose, recycling and exchange. Folding the age of our laptop into the future time domain, we are in the year of 2047 and its humming warm mass of one kilo is part of a warming blanket spread out on my body that helps to comfort me whenever the situation of digital work stresses me out.
You could say the old laptop is still unbearably slow compared to a newer one. Yet in the time we are speaking about, there is no hierarchical concept of time. Machinic speeds are no longer defining the rhythms and speeds of natural and human lives, rather they are alle merged into a temporal multiplicity. Different speeds, degrees of definitions of time, and diverse movements and personalities of time coexist in one machine. Several users on one computer can communicate and work with time on their own diverging domains: reboot when the sun is standing high behind the house - meet Reni tomorrow - see you in three Maggiehours - send me an email but slowly... A computer operable by a snail would operate on snailtime, with slowly winding processes and it would be completely okay like this because the ephemerality of its soft wet trails would still remain long enough on the metal surface to generate sparks of energy that get then collected and shared for powering another machine process happening in another time domain, operated maybe be a human, a tree or another being.
In terms of hardware, time seemed to always go forward. Old devices create nostalgia because we remember our own lives attached to them. In 2047, planned obsolescence is considered a strange outdated concept. No old laptop is thrown away because of being slow or being made of no longer functioning hardware. Rather they get passed on as precious gifts, part of family heritage that is kept dear not only for its functions but also for their personal value by future generations. Intergenerational computation involves modularity, and our old laptop will become a module of another machine, as computers are not anymore produced always anew, conceived of as shortlived monoblock-ish devices in which you cannot even change the battery. In an intergenerational computer, different modules of different generations work together, sharing their memories and resources across diverging time domains, different hardware and functionalities. Nostalgia may be the feeling of longing towards something that seems lost or got abandoned, but in the future technology will be part of the lasagna of time in which layer by layer, module by module, time and experiences are shared, accumulated and lived across families, communities and generations.
there is no story, there is just a setting
25 years from now (the computer we saw yesterday at murat was from 25 years ago)
decomputing, de-gitilisation, seasonal computing
a time where computers are no longer produced, but we repurpose
Schaumbad
https://schaumbad.mur.at/
event tonight
https://schaumbad.mur.at/index.php/event/gift-dt-engl/
Here. Now.
By Antonia, Alexander, Mario Romera, César Escudero Andaluz, Nina
It is now. Wich is the year 4689 in our (human) concept of time. We are here, because there is no other place anymore. In our terms of geology would be called Alaska. The world has changed rapidly. 1200 years before now a massive Sunstorm destroyed all digital media. All the people who heavily relied on Technology died out – only small populations of people survived. They where forced to move up north where climate is still habitable.
What is now The permacomputer revolution has evolved into an interconnected system of rizomes.
There is a symbiosis between what we would call plants, humans and animals. A fusion of fauna and flora occured. The need for vocal communication has vanished – it happens throuth enzymes, pollen etc. now. We are able to connect with plantlife and vice versa. There are no thoughts, because comunication is not how comunication was understood anymore, what we call feelings cannot directly be transferred to their states of being, but if we observed the situation now, we would say they are having an eternal party. sex, no idea, death, doesnt look like a drama. maybe because all conciousness is anyways shared in one.