A TERTIARY ADVENT CALENDAR
ENGLISH BELOW 🕴
L'année fiscale est bientôt finie 📈 L'heure de s’équiper, dépenser les budgets, approche 💸 Mais concentrons nous avant ça sur le matériel que nous avons amorti en cette année 2024 🗄
🎁 Petit cadeau avant l'heure, un Tribunal des Bureaux Spécial Noël 🎅
👨⚖ Un tribunal qui mettra l’accessibilité et la créativité à l'honneur 🤡
Que votre clavier soit mécanique ou pas ⌨
Que votre ayez une souris ou un trackpad 🖱
Un 🍎 ou un 🪟 !
Partagez votre environnement de travail 🫂
💼 All Desk Are Beautiful ! 🗑️
🖇🖇🖇
🫵 Pour participer ? Rien de plus simple 🤷
📧 Envoyez des photos de vos bureaux, établis, plans de travail à
[email protected]
📆 avant le 25 novembre 2024
(✍ objet: DOTY ADVENT CALENDAR 2024)
((la délation de vos amix est fortement encouragée,"à la française 🥖 🚲"))
🔨 Les bureaux seront jugés par nos soins sous forme de calendrier de l'avent entre le 01 et le 25 décembre☃️
(quoique cela veuille dire 🤸)
ENGLISH 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
The fiscal year is almost over 📈 The time to equip our setups and spend our budget 💸 But before that, let's focus on the equipment we've written off in this year 2024 🗄
🎁 A little gift in advance, a Court of Desktops Christmas Edition 🎅
👨⚖ A tribunal that will put accessibility and creativity in the spotlight 🤡
Whether your keyboard is mechanical or not ⌨
Whether you have a mouse or a trackpad 🖱
A 🍎 or a 🪟!
Share your working environment 🫂
💼 All Desk Are Beautiful! 🗑️
🖇
🫵 How to send your desk ? Easy 🤷
📧 Send pictures of your desks, workbenches, worktops, offices to [email protected]
📆 before november 25, 2024
(✍ subject: DOTY ADVENT CALENDAR 2024)
((denouncing your friendz is strongly encouraged, “à la française 🥖 🚲”))
🔨 Offices will be judged by us in the form of an advent calendar between the 1st and 25th december☃️
(whatever that means 🤸)
#computers #desktopOfTheYear #Tribunaldesbureaux #productivity #ergonomy #officespace #office #personnalcomputer #desksetup #opencall #matrix #adventcalendar #officedesign #setup #gamingsetup #theoffice #archive #internet #hermanmiller #officechair #pc
it's been 5 years since (𝘙𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛 𝘐𝘕) 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘍𝘌𝘌𝘓𝘚 closed. Time flies. More than 40 participants across a gallery show, a web show, talks, readings, screenings, workshops... It was a lot. It's kinda crazy to think how much has changed about cyberspace, digital culture, and culture at large, since then ; but we feel like we did a decent job at capturing a fragment of what it felt like back then, in 2020, between two COVID lockdowns.
We want to thank everyone who participated, made possible and took interest in the proposition.
The archives are available on the website, of course.
And like they say in the diagram...remember the good ! ̄\_(ツ)_/¯
yours,
Gabriel, Laurie & Martin
xoxo
Le permafrost de la Winterschool à grippé les serveurs du site de l'école... venez nous aider sous la glace a prendre soin et enrichir notre bout de web. 🥶
📍Où ? → Dans la galerie de l'erg
⌚ Quand ? → Les 22, 23, 24 Janvier de 10h à 16h
Pour participer il n'est pas nécessaire d'avoir des connaissances poussées en informatique !
Nous allons à la fois apprendre à utiliser le wiki (créer des pages, les modifier etc.) faire un état des lieux du : "déjà-là" mais aussi refaire une beauté à cet espace ! Mais aussi enquêter, passer des coups de fil, envoyer des mails pour documenter et archiver ce qui se fait et se faisait à l'erg.
Si vous avez des connaissances en CSS n'hésitez pas, votre aide peut aussi être précieuse pour créer des thèmes !
Pour plus d'informations : https://wiki.erg.be/w/Workshop_:_WIKI_MAINTENANCE
Well, we haven't posted in quite a while...
Just a simple (took us almost three hours 🤦) diagram trying to sort some shoes out.
Of course this is subjective, simplistic and dumb, almost problematic.
Tonight we'll be doing the same for artistic mediums ... watch out 👀 🐶
This as to be one of my best kept secret tools.
I've never felt I was good at writing (just have a read at theses gibberish riddled insta posts 🤦♂️)
Few years ago, digging deep into various productivity techniques and methods, I stumbled accross an "app" with an intruiguing name → The Most Dangerous Writing App
Well, behind this clickbaity name, was just a simple minimalist online text editor "with a twist" ... if you stop writing for too long, your whole work dissapears 😱
There are various options such as a timer (i like to use the 5mn one, just to get into the right headspace), a dark mode, and an hardcore mode.
My stance on productivity enhancement tools in a productivity driven world where "everything is content" ? As for any tools, it doesnt encapsulate no moral fallacies → it's just HOW you use it that's important IMHO.
If you're using pomodoro timers, productivity trackers and tools, in order to write the next anarchist manifesto that'll radicalize TikTok users all around the world, have a go !
👆 If you're using it to bootlick your boss and to get into the copywriting business to enhance the SEO of your shitty dropshipped non FDA approved product → you might even be using the superior vim editor in a tracker free Arch Linux installation → I'll not be pleased 😡
Good Time is a simple pomodoro timer 🍅
I guess that you might be familiar with this technique, as you might be a cogwheel of this big capitalist machine that taunts us constantly to increase our so called "productivity" 🤸 (if ur not, it justs consists in setting timers in order to focus on a specific task, then take a small break, re-focus on the task, repeating that until you take a longer break 😤 With an usual ratio of 25mn of work and 5mn of *break* ☕)
## What IS productivity anyway ? 🤔 "Productivity is a crucial factor in the production performance of firms and nations." states my favorite website...
Imo it's kind of a way to quantify how much you produce, how much you work 💪
So, can I use productivity techniques for something else than icreasing my country GDP ?
Is it like posting anticapitalist content while using a product of said capitalism (say an iPhone), trying to destroy the master's house with its own tools 🏚️ Or posting about free software on proprietary and data captive social networks... 🤐
In a way, focus is a great defense against attention capitalism 👀 On a daily basis, I use signal discord whatsapp sms matrix messenger twitter instagram email github 🌬️ many reasons to be notified out of a worksession 🙄. But after timing my *work*, I started timing other activities such as reading,leisure, gaming, or even alcool consumption and meeting people, "déformation professionelle"
I suppose 🤷 🔍 If your into data visualisation, and self quantization, know that you can export all your timed data in a `.csv` table. You can also set up different time ratio ⌛
You can ⬇️ download Goodtime on F-droid (and on G\*ogle Pl\*y St\*re). Give it a try !
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(on the topic of time mangement, i'll be dropping soonish an very special handwritten ASCII thermal printed calendar for 2022 if u need one 📆)
😵💫 for all the software of this advent calendar, Duck Duck Go has to be the one with the shittier name: it will be abreviated DDG in this document. It was created in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg, a web entrepreneur 🤓
🦆 DDG is an *hybrid* search engine, as it relies on various vendors API (Bing, primarly) But it doesn't store anything on you, doesn't monitor you: it is what a search engine should be (a search engine). It provides unfiltered results, and promises to get you out of your filter bubble 🧋
For the majority of your searches David, it turns out, is just as good as Goliath, but what I like about DDG is that a lot of other websites are on the tip of my finger 🤌 Nowadays, internet is quite well indexed 📇 and many of our online searches are quite simply answered: being a restaurant, the wikipedia page of some obscure person or the notice for a random gadget.
Event though I advocate for a shift in computer usage and understanding, I'm quite used to google products 🤦
Every single time I'm looking for something online this go as follows:
* i switch to firefox 🦊
* i open a new tab (ctrl+t)
* i type "my question"
* → followed by a duck duck go MODIFIER
* !g is for google
* !gi is for google images
* !gm for google maps
* !gn for google news (never understood that one)
* !f for .. flickr ! lol
* !w is for wikipedia
* !wfr is for the french version
* !rapgenius is for .. well of course
* !ig for instagram (what can u even search on there ?)
* !a for amazon
* !afr for amazon france
* and so on...
* (there are more than 13,000 !)
So one might argue that I'm not reaaallly using the 🦆 duck duck go search engine: and I'm not (for my defense it is almost as shitty as their name 🙅)
I strongly recommend your start applying these good pratices on a daily basis. It is quite simple to start. Just select DDG as your default search engine on your web browser (we'll talk about Firefox soonish). Forget you've changed from google and start getting unusual results... then remember what I told you: while using duckduckgo, the "!g" modifier you shall add to every request !
It is also recommended to browse the web with their ➕ addon btw.
http://ddg.gg ^^
🌃 Aurora is an alternative to the G\*ogle Play store, but you can find all of your favorites apps on it (unlike F-droid which we discussed last week).
Why would anyone care ? 🧐
Google is the main adverstising provider of the world 🌐, when TikTok, Apple or whatever want to advertise you something, they ask Google. The very act of downloading an app gives Google a clue of what ad is the best for you... so if you download TikTok (or any app for that matter) on the Aurora Store, Google wouldn't know you had it.
Hence, as I scroll Instagram or am forced to watch an ad to remove a watermark from a fremium app 🤑, I often get TikTok advertising. As I already use that service, the advertising has a minimal effect on me 🤷
Aurora aims to reduce the scope of information Google has on you.
It also gives information about potential trackers found on the app code, a blacklist to *hide* apps from your phone, and a device spoofing option (simulate like you own another device so you can dowload restricted content). The dev team behind Aurora also built an F-droid client, with a smoother interface, but I don't understand the point though 😶🌫️ You can also find open source software (mainly F-droid repository) on the Aurora Store !
We can read on their website "Unlike Google's Play Store, Aurora Store doesn't track your downloads or the apps you use. We respect your privacy. Aurora Store is also unaffected by Google marking your device as uncertified or lacking of necessary Google apps. Play Protect is not present, as this is a Play Store only feature." 🛡️
IMO the best option to install it is by using F-Droid, information about this *app* is avalaible is a previous post (+via the link in bio ofc 🔗)
Not much more to say about this software.
Reclaim your tools, you bought your phone, you're supposed to OWN IT ✊! Install wathever u want, break it, unistall what you don't need and configure it to your pleasing 💅 I don't want to live in a homogeneous hell where even computers are being IKEAZED 🪑 💙
My dream computer world holds plethora of "app stores", lists containing quirky and freaky software, big and small, productive and unproductive 🌻
Did u know Etherpad was acquired by google in 2008 ? 🤔
There is a quirky tale about free software an open source licensing from these days... 📜 Etherpad, which was spelled EtherPad at the time, was using the 'jsmin-php' library (a port of Douglas Crawford JSmin) in order to minify and unminify javascript code. But the library was published under an alternative MIT license, which icluded the following → ☯️ "The software shall be used for good, not evil" 👼👿 The library was promptly removed from G\*ogle Code (which only hosted truly "free" software), and google asked EtherPad dev to find an alternative library in order to publish the source code under the Apache License in 2009. The main argument is that enforcing "no to do evil" isn't considerer free software pratice: it limits arbitrarily the reach of the final user ! What's ur opinion about that ? ☝️
Today we take collaborative editing of a document for granted, but as so many features of our modern internet, there is an history behind it. Editing a online file with multiple cursors seems pretty common nowadays. But *pads* had to be i n v e n t e d 💡 Etherpad's principle are quite simple. Each "pad" has a unique URL, a lifetime, access management, a version history and an integrated chat. It has classic formating options and can be edited simultaneously via various users.
There are also pugins available, like a video call one, illustrated with a fake call between the 🎺 whistleblower Edward Snowden and the free software prodigy Linus Torvalds 🐧
With the rise of web 2.0 and plateform econony, we tend to associate a software with a company. But as an open source software, Etherpad is installed in so many places, by various people for different purpose. Here is a small list of websites where you can host your own pads ↓
* https://pads.erg.be/
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* https://pad.education/
*(you can find a more comprehensive list via the link in bio) I know, the website is still messy, but i'm working on it! If u have any suggestion design or content wise, just hit me up !
🪦 *As today we honor the tragic death of Aaron Swarz, I could have share a lot of things: RSS, Wikipedia, Reddit, or even some of his texts...* But today we'll talk about Markdown. 📝
## what is markdown ?
Markdown is a minimal formatting markup language. Ever stumbled across a file ending with a `.md` extension ? 🤔 Yup, that's markdown. It uses readily keyboard available characters (`#`, `*`, `>`, `[, `]`) to enforce hierarchy in a text Being software agnostic, you can use it anywhere, even on paper ! 🗞️
It is a shame we can no longer use this kind of tools here (see the FIGlet post for instance) 🖕 But there is online place where markdown is still common such as:
* Github 🐙
* Reddit 👽
* Stackoverflow 💡
* and of course our beloved Wikipedia ! 🌐
* (many more of course)
> Apparently the co?creator of Markdown, Josh Gruber, states that Aaron was rather his muse at the time than the actual co-whatever. This doesn't change much though. 🥱
On a side note, there are plenty of markdown flavor 🍦: wiki, github, multi markdown and more... There are/were standardization efforts, like CommonMark, among which team we can find Jeff Atwood, one of my computer idols 🙏
These kind of tools (or *standards* in this case) help us rethink design, and overall information production, distribution and consumption. Using markdown is an alternative to design and coding style waves. It provides a bridge between *power users* that rely on command line interfaces and *users* bathed in a bootstrap vectorial consumerist world. ✊
![*As today we honor the tragic death of Aaron Swarz, I could have share a lot of things: RSS, Wikipedia, Reddit, or even some of his texts...* But today we'll talk about Markdown. ## what is markdown ?Markdown is a minimal formatting markup language. Ever stumbled across a file ending with a `.md` extension ? Yup, that's markdown. It uses readily keyboard available characters (`#`, `*`, `>`, `[, `]`) to enforce hierarchy in a text Being software agnostic, you can use it anywhere, even on paper ! ️It is a shame we can no longer use this kind of tools here (see the FIGlet post for instance) But there is online place where markdown is still common such as:* Github * Reddit * Stackoverflow * and of course our beloved Wikipedia ! * (many more of course)> Apparently the co?creator of Markdown, Josh Gruber, states that Aaron was rather his muse at the time than the actual co-whatever. This doesn't change much though. On a side note, there are plenty of markdown flavor : wiki, github, multi markdown and more... There are/were standardization efforts, like CommonMark, among which team we can find Jeff Atwood, one of my computer idols These kind of tools (or *standards* in this case) help us rethink design, and overall information production, distribution and consumption. Using markdown is an alternative to design and coding style waves. It provides a bridge between *power users* that rely on command line interfaces and *users* bathed in a bootstrap vectorial consumerist world.](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6827713125127048586443_0_22136b14682b00ccda7d568611f5c42b.jpg?o=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&h=ea2466446eaf797b89f77372f9cc4ddf)
