Notices by Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

"In 1958 [Daphne Oram, "visionary pioneer in electronic music"] co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a studio set up to create sound effects and electronic scores for radio and TV. On the wall she pinned a passage from Francis Bacon’s 17th-century utopia New Atlantis about imaginary sound-houses where scientists manipulate echoes, invent new instruments and transmit sound “in strange lines and distances”."

https://theconversation.com/5-things-to-know-about-daphne-oram-the-visionary-pioneer-in-electronic-music-266591

#music #history

A nice list of online places where you can find human-curated music.

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2025/12/16/nx-s1-5628939/music-streaming-alternatives-without-algorithms

#music #NoAlgorithm #spotify

And we have a ton of music sites, blogs, directories, and people making mixtapes right here in the fediverse!

- a directory of independent artists: https://indieart.support
- The Indie Beat Radio https://theindiebeat.fm
- The https://www.audiointerface.org online radio
- NHAM: https://nham.co.uk/
- Ether Diver's Other People’s Music playlists https://www.etherdiver.com/tag/other-peoples-music/

And more!

https://nham.co.uk/category/community/distribution-platforms/

#music #fediverse

Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

#internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history

Nice! @JoinFediverseWiki has a collection of onboarding resources for the fediverse, and we're all invited to contribute!

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_onboarding_resources

Original call to action, in German: https://social.biblioco.de/objects/66fc0b30-8b67-4ae5-8c20-bdd957d10843

#fediverse #guides #writing

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

Solidarity with the trans community on this Trans Day of Remembrance, and every day ✊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance

#TransRights #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Nice! You can now easily browse blogs running on Ghost that have federation enabled -- meaning that you can follow them right here in the fediverse.

https://explore.ghost.org/social-web

via https://john.onolan.org/.ghost/activitypub/note/61fa1ab7-8612-4780-a894-7d5d63062efd

#fediverse #blogs #SocialWeb

After nearly 10 years, Eugen Rochko is stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon.

"There are too many examples of founder egos sabotaging thriving communities, and while I’d like to think myself an exception, I understand why people would prefer better guardrails."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

"I think that taking a step back, realizing this isn’t just mine anymore — now other people are involved, other people are responsible for this — is going to allow me to restore some balance in my life."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

#mastodon #fediverse #news

"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."

https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born

https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html

#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@floppies/115510122335927016

Please enjoy.

Help people stuck in long lines by getting them free pizza.

https://polls.pizza

#GOTV #pizza

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115248681369581437

Just a reminder of what's at stake today.

#USPol #NJ #NewJersey #election #GOTV

On this day, 56 years ago:

"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

#arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology

Also, did we celebrate one billion fediverse posts having been made? I might have missed that!

Shout-out to everyone who has contributed!

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/109909025848772528

#fediverse #OneBillion

Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers.

https://fedi.wrm.sr

#fediverse

My #FollowFriday recommendation for this week is @aral and @joynewacc's list of authentic, verified accounts of people in Gaza, who all need our help.

https://gaza-verified.org

#FF

"In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick’s informed belief that global centralized moderation is a dead end. And if centralized moderation isn’t a plausible way forward, then experimentation toward genuinely community-led governance of decentralized networks is necessary."

https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/

by @kissane

#SocialMedia #essay

@kaia There is a plugin that lets you add ActivityPub support!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@nycviewsbot/115396008663332562

Today, @nycviewsbot will be posting views from Time Square every 30 minutes.

✊

#NoKings #NoKingsDay