Notices by a libi rose (rose_alibi@post.lurk.org)

beginnings of a scrappy low-power water turbine

i now have both a trash wind turbine and a trash water turbine and i love them

the wind turbine generated at it's most .5v, but it was a success in that now i am certain i can scale the design up on my own and definitely duplicate the geowind results. important factors: it definitely needs a stabilizing frame, the connection points between dynamo or whatever power generation need to be built in and not external, the whole thing needs to be slightly flexible

the water wheel was even more successful, especially considering it was all trash and scrap built, plus a motor from an anemometer. 1v max output, but with a chonky joule thief inline that was enough to charge a power bank. definitely need to spend more time on frame stability and also water delivery next iteration, but charging a battery bank is awesome.

was able to get to Racunalniski Muzej in Ljubljana with just a little time to spare, and they have such fun stuff in their (massive) collection https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/computer-history-museum-slovenia-home-page/

more of this

a thing i have found younger researchers of the late 90s internet don't really appreciate is the number of ephemeral websites made by literal children. i was 12/13/14 making websites on freehosts for fun and i knew easily a dozen other people my age doing the same. the person who hosted the forum i was part of in high school started it at 15 on a server under his bed. there was no concept of age verification. if you had an internet connection and lax parental supervision you were good to go.

i found a bunch of old toslink cable and i am using it to make a starry light out of a wooden vase (part of the lights series i am working on) and it just makes me so happy to look at

@MLE_online fucking same here and it drives me absolutely bananas

text of the short talk i gave today at the Temple U electronics faire:

The Media Archaeology Lab at CU Boulder is by necessity a site of continual repair. Our mission, broadly speaking, is to give hands-on access to functional, obsolete technologies to anyone who visits. To do that, we have to keep those obsolete technologies functional. And when I say we, I often mean me but I always mean the community of collaborators and knowledge holders that the MAL has become.

I have managed the day-to-day operations in the MAL to ever-greater degree over the past 9 and a half years, and often find myself in charge of either doing or coordinating repairs on everything from typewriters to 40 year old desktop computers to game consoles. But the lab constitutes a network of connections, both near and far, both more and less involved. I can and do call on all of that generously given information and time constantly.

breaking news: Palantir has moved out of Denver! salute to the constant noise protests that have been happening at their offices, and fuck the bastards forever

wrong size wrong system still Mario

i need to move my video work somewhere other than vimeo, i hate YouTube, and my experience of peertube stuff has been... not good. other thoughts?

*edit: for hosting art, not content. i occasionally need to be able to pw protect videos for festival or gallery submission*

@miblo yeah it just... doesn't fit with hosting video art, especially not if you need to occasionally password protect stuff for festival submissions or whatever

@MLE_online take it take it take it

@MLE_online jade plants are irresistible

"You have signed out of Outlook" no i haven't, you absolute dumpster fire. you randomly decided to log me out, in spite of my having clicked the "stay logged in" box every day of my everloving life, and to prevent me from logging back in until i clear my cache for no discernable reason other than that you appear to have been written by sheltered little freakazoids who sit at the same desk with the same internet connection all day long and have never considered that other people might be in somewhat different situations.

did you know, Outlook, that the whole point of a laptop computer is to carry it around with you? and that generally that means you'll connect to several different networks throughout the course of a day? that is, in fact, a pretty standard part of day-to-day life for... a lot of people. and i know, your webmail is garbage because you want me to use your infernal desktop app. but this is my personal computer, and i don't want to install you, because you are trash.

rlly love that some people read Brave New World and 1984 and went "¿porqué no los dos?"

anyway, repeating a q from elsewhere: does anyone have a good "your ring doorbell is a danger to your community" flyer or do i need to write one?