Организуем фестиваль для хакеров

Дорогой Хабр, сегодня я пиарюсь. Я хочу анонсировать фестиваль под названием "Undefined". Моя задача - завлечь посетителей, показать, как устроен фестиваль изнутри, с точки зрения админа, а также попробовать найти спонсора.

Если коротко, Undefined - это конкурс компьютерного искусства (т. н. демосцены), конференция, хардварный хакатон, выставка самодельной электроники и робототехники (в том числе, ламповой и электромеханической) от частных коллекционеров, музей ретро-компьютеров и приставок. Фестиваль носит неофициальный характер и делает акцент на самодельные приспособления (от английского DIY, или Do It Yourself).

Чтобы статья не была пустой, я расскажу, как управлять гигантскими часами-табло с помощью микроконтроллера, либо Raspberry Pi.

10NES

Seriously, don't sign a CLA

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-zRN7XLCRhc?start=2483

SourceGraph is making their product closed source, abandoning the Apache 2.0 license it was originally distributed under, so once again we convene in the ritual condemnation we offer to commercial products that piss in the pool of open source. Invoking Bryan Cantrill once more:

Bryan Cantrill on OpenSolaris — YouTube

A contributor license agreement, or CLA, usually (but not always) includes an important clause: a copyright assignment. These agreements are provided by upstream maintainers to contributors to open source software projects, and they demand a signature before the contributor’s work is incorporated into the upstream project. The copyright assignment clause that is usually included serves to offer the upstream maintainers...

2023-07-04

slstatus 1.0 released: download

Social media and "parasocial media"

A few months ago, as Elon Musk took over Twitter and instituted polices that alienated many people, some of these people fled towards federated, free software platforms like Mastodon. Many people found a new home here, but there is a certain class of refugee who has not found it to their liking.

I got to chatting with one such “refugee” on Mastodon today. NotJustBikes is a creator I enjoy watching on YouTube Invidious, who makes excellent content on urbanism and the design of cities. He’s based in my home town of Amsterdam and his videos do a great job of explaining many of the things I love about...

Burnout and the quiet failures of the hacker community

This has been a very challenging year for me. You probably read that I suffered from burnout earlier in the year. In some respects, things have improved, and in many other respects, I am still haunted.

You might not care to read this, and so be it, take your leave if you must. But writing is healing for me. Maybe this is a moment for solidarity, sympathy, for reflecting on your own communities. Maybe it’s a vain and needlessly public demonstration of my slow descent into madness. I don’t know, but here we go.

Yesterday was my 30th birthday. 🎂 It was another difficult day for me. I...

Звучащий код — пишем музыку на языке ByteBeat

Дорогой Хабр, через два месяца мне предстоит организовать и провести фестиваль компьютерного искусства, поэтому я уже сейчас собираю информацию про необычные проявления демосцены, на которые обычно никто не обращает внимания. Язык программирования для генеративной музыки ByteBeat — это как раз то, что я ищу.

Как вы догадались, глядя на заглавную картинку, сейчас будет нечто, очень похожее на язык программирования Lisp. Все примеры рабочие, их можно запустить прямо в браузере.

Послушать пример из заглавной картинки: [sarpnt][greggman]

Reforming the free software message

Several weeks ago, I wrote The Free Software Foundation is dying, wherein I enumerated a number of problems with the Free Software Foundation. Some of my criticisms focused on the message: fsf.org and gnu.org together suffer from no small degree of incomprehensibility and inaccessibility which makes it difficult for new participants to learn about the movement and apply it in practice to their own projects.

This is something which is relatively easily fixed! I have a background in writing documentation and a thorough understanding of free software philosophy and practice. Enter writefreesoftware.org: a comprehensive introduction to free software philosophy and implementation.

The goals of this resource are:

Good Vibrations

Throwing in the towel on mobile Linux

I have been tinkering with mobile Linux – a phrase I will use here to describe any Linux distribution other than Android running on a mobile device – as my daily driver since about 2019, when I first picked up the PinePhone. For about 3 years I have run mobile Linux as my daily driver on my phone, and as of a few weeks ago, I’ve thrown in the towel and switched to Android.

The distribution I ran for the most time is postmarketOS, which I was mostly quite happy with, running at times sxmo and Phosh. I switched to UBports a couple of months ago. I...