Notices by Tommi 🤯 → 39C3 (tommi@pan.rent)

@liebach @cwebber Here it is: https://spui25.nl/programma/we-can-change-the-defaults-building-networks-of-consent-and-spaces-of-joy-in-the-ruins-of-social-media

I will now log off and fully savour the talk so here are the first 5 minutes of @cwebber tonight in Amsterdam

Sorry for no alt text but it’s basically just Christine talking

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Spritely

Queen @cwebber in conversation with @jboy is something you do not want to miss 👀👀👀👀

Come to Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults! Free attendance, registration required.

#Amsterdam #event #Fediverse #Spritely #social #socialMedia

@jcape @wingo @fraxinas I did consider it, but I have a lot going on right now. I would have done it only for performative reasons and to tell myself “wow, you had a private conversation with Framework’s CEO!” not to actually try to change things, because I would have had no energy and no time to prepare as I should have.

@bonfire @aral THANKS this is a great example

We are Tommi and Fraxinas, Framework Linux Community Ambassadors since September 2024.

We apprehensively followed the developments and the debate concerning Framework’s endorsement and support of Omarchy. We have no direct experience with this Linux distribution, its community, nor with the political environment around it. We did not speak up before now because learning about all of it and keeping up with all the commentary would have been a full-time job. Unfortunately we do not have the time to read every single comment on the dedicated forum thread.

Despite our admittedly limited and superficial understanding of this matter, we believe we have witnessed and read enough to make an informed decision and take a clear position.

The statements from Framework and from Nirav Patel (its CEO) made it very clear for us that Framework is not a company we feel represented by any more, and surely not a company that we want to represent as Ambassadors.

To be frank, it is not even necessary to dive into the petty drama about the recent events in order to provide an explanation of our decision. We are deeply disappointed by a company that is self-proclaimed as the resistance of the tech industry, the good David that intends to stand against the big tech Goliaths that are devouring it. Framework’s behaviour brought to surface an embarrassing and absurd inability to take an explicitly political position, blinded by the Western patriarchal narrative that technology in itself is not political. By trying to keep everyone happy (or at least not to make anyone mad) inside a fictitious “big tent”, the company proved to be no better than any of its Silicon Valley peers, dismissing comments about DHH, and comments about fascism and racism as not strictly related to the main mission.

We were proud to be ambassadors because we believed that Framework not only made products that empowered those who purchase them to fully own and repair their devices, but most importantly because we wrongly expected that this would imply changing the paradigm and the narrative about tech companies altogether.

We were offered the possibility of having a 1:1 conversation with Nirav Patel. We did not take it, because it is self-evident that our opinions are in contrast with the statements that he already made. Too bad, Framework is going to lose much more business than it would have if it simply acknowledged a mistake, took a deep inward look, and questioned its own values and stance.

In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be “less evil”, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others. We wanted to be ambassadors of a company that does not see fascism and proprietary software as two distant topics, but that recognised the entanglement of politics and technology, of capitalism and authoritarianism. It seems that this is not the case.

Farewell, Framework. We will miss the shining brave idea we had of you.

— @tommi and @fraxinas

The following statement was cross-posted on Framework’s Community Forum.

#Framework #politicalTechnology #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology

On Digital Zionism and Code Against Genocide, by @leoscarin at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.

#Palestine #CodeAgainstGenocide #CodeAgainst #Gaza #DigitalZionism

Tomorrow: collective #FediForum attendance at the @xpub studio, in Rotterdam!

See you there 🌻

https://post.lurk.org/@xpub/115288194356395689

Yesterday the @internetarchiveeurope opened its new headquarters, in Amsterdam.

To celebrate this historical milestone, together with @brewsterkahle we officially added the Internet Archive Europe on OpenStreetMap 🎉

A new era begins! 🚀

Thanks @yawnbox for the video 🌻

(Also proudly showing off my shiny @frameworkcomputer)

@openstreetmap @internetarchive #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #Amsterdam #OSM #OpenStreetMap #OpenKnowledge

@steter @thibaultmol Looks like I am not connected to the internet since 1.1.1.1 returns full packet loss.

I don’t think this low-level networking stuff differs among distros, but you’re being very helpful in any case!

Can’t connect to public WiFi via Linux

I am using Fedora 42, and I am unable to access the captive portal of inOui TGV. I can connect to the WiFi with no problems, but I can’t get access to the Internet.

I have tried everything:

1. Connecting to 192.168.1.1, to http://neverssl.com, to http://wifi.sncf via browser
2. Running sudo dhclient -r and rebooting the device
3. Running systemctl restart NetworkManager
4. Also other stuff I tried in the past with other public WiFis. I am sure there is something wrong with my specific device configuration, it’s not this network.

Nothing works 😩

Can somebody who understands this stuff help me?

#help #mastoAiuto #Linux #LinuxNetwork #Network #CaptivePortal #WiFi #PublicWiFi #HTTP #HTTPS #troubleshoot #LinuxHelp #Fedora #Fedora42

We are making a typeface, and there is one glyph that cannot be missing.

Sofi made it 💕

#typography #fontForging #font #typeface #asterism #FediverseSymbol #Fediverse

Just finished an incredible conversation with @andypiper.

I am so glad the Fediverse has people like Andy working for it, and it has been really wonderful to discuss about many many different topic but that can be boiled down to:

let’s defeat billionaries’ oppression thanks to the power of communities!

A huge public thank you for your work, Andy, and to the whole team at @Mastodon for making the Internet a better place (but in particular to @ClearlyClaire for maintaining Mastodon Glitch which is the most beautiful soft-fork ever made)

@quillmatiq @bonfire I think many of us are, but only few of us actually know how to. In any case, probably there will be more activity once v1 stable will be released.

@j12t B, absolutely!

This is all your fault, @adhd_coffee 🫠

(Thank you @Framasoft for making meme creation so easy, I love Framamèmes 🌻)

#ADHD #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #shrink #therapy #THISISSOME

I believe it is one of our missions, as antifascist nerds, to break the myth of an inaccessible and complex technology. The tools, services, and software we all use everyday are the more or less indirect outcome of broader socio-political and economical dynamics. Therefore, we can and we should bring forward a massive resistance as we do on other fronts.

How do we do burst the bubble?

How can we practically unmask the politicality of technology to people outside the digital sector?

How do we popularize digital media critique?

What forms of art, workshops, and formats could take advantage of?

On Wed 11 June, at 14:00 UTC, I will be hosting an online round-table session with @transparenttech to discuss and try to answer these questions.

I will be briefly sharing my experience and my ideas after making Knitting Our Internet. Above all, though, I want to welcome any kind of contributions to address this mission in a multifaceted, intercultural, intersectional, and decolonial way.

Free attendance! Register here ⬅️

#OurNet #CITR #IndependentTech #IndependentTechnology #Technology #PoliticalTechnology #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetCritique #Fediverse

@cwebber ending her presentation at @fediforum talking about PRIDE and JOY, and (implicitly, my words) RESISTANCE.

This is the kind of political and empathetic awareness we need and I look for in social networks.

Thank you 💕

#FediForum #resistance #pride #joy #Fediverse

Woah, #FediForum on fire from the very beginning

@fediforum

The next #FediForum’s program (June 5–7) looks rad!

First time with keynotes presentations, big ones, by @cubicgarden, @cwebber, and @pluralistic! 😍

https://fediforum.org/2025-06/

#FediForum #Fediverse