schmorpel

schmorpel OP , 11 days ago to In Person Activism in Where does the compost go? A town hall mystery

Yes, that and a lack of people who could work a local plant, apparently (but then again a lot of youngsters move away for work, go figure). The huge (not that huge really) company running both trash and water is quite interesting. They run at a loss since they exist and get good amounts of EU money, the directors are the town halls of the entire region, the company is listed on the stock market? Doesn't look like the transparent entity I'd like to entrust my water and trash to ... but then also, I admit I have zero clues about weird economic entities or composting on a commercial scale, just getting into it. Microplastics were mentioned - apparently it's challenging to keep them out of the finished product. Then again, agricultural biowaste seems to be regulated differently? More research work to do.

Living in a tiny town has great advantages, it's not difficult to just walk into the town-hall and ask all sorts of stuff. They are very un-bureaucratic here, and really seem to be trying to make things work. Then again, you find strange constructs like this private water and trash company where a suspicious lot of local power accumulates. Asking a lot of stupid questions and digging for financial reports is always entertaining and elucidating for sure.

schmorpel , 14 days ago to Technology in Online Content Is Disappearing

It's a technological and a physical issue. We just can't store every bit of information plus a picture of everyone's cat. We can't guarantee that no information ever gets lost. We've also not really stored and archived every shopping list, advertising, pamphlet, silly poem, ugly drawing etc. since the time of the printing press and that's okay.

It might be a good idea to store and archive some written material as time passes but we want to be a bit picky about what we store. That said, I wouldn't mind to find more shopping lists and less posh documents in museums.

schmorpel , 15 days ago to Technology in Online Content Is Disappearing

Yeah, just like most material that was ever printed or carved into a clay tablet. It's the way of things.

schmorpel OP , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in suv

It's supposed to be for print out, cut out, stick on cars.

schmorpel OP , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in suv

Yup, this. And because old habits tend to die hard. To redesign this without body shaming I am looking for other, non-genital related associations that make suv drivers just as fucking mad

schmorpel OP , 1 month ago to In Person Activism in suv

Thanks for reminding me kindly, guess you are correct. I would want to create a small(ish) sticker that might go unnoticed for a while, but I'll definitely get back to the drawing board with this. Old habits die hard sometimes.

I would be happy for other suggestions that fit 'suv' so I can redesign this

schmorpel , 1 month ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in “It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications.”

Trauma is the grounds on which more trauma grows.

schmorpel OP , 1 month ago to Self-hosting in Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms

It's great to be able to run a server with functioning stuff on it when one doesn't know anything about servers. Anything else around self-hosting would have been too much of an intimidating learning curve for me, but in the meantime I've picked up a lot of knowledge and terminology just by running the YH. It's like training wheels, it's great if you know a bit of tech stuff, but not enough.

I think it will last me a while before I outgrow it, don't have enough time to really sit down and study server administration to the point where I feel safe to not fuck it up. I'll let you know 😅

schmorpel , 1 month ago to In Person Activism in Brandalism's subvertising manual

Ironically this well done instruction makes me feel sad there's none of those glowing surfaces in my town.

schmorpel OP , 1 month ago to Self-hosting in Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms

Are they anti-container or just anti-Docker, I wonder?

schmorpel , 1 month ago to Self-hosting in Karrot - Start a group, become a community

Just before your post about Karrot I finally (re-)installed Agora on Yunohost as a collaboration suite. First few users onboarded and praying it works. It's a bit ugly but does the job. Karrot looks to be more map-focused than Agora from a very fleeting look, I don't think I've seen it in the Yunohost catalogue.

schmorpel , 1 month ago to Self-hosting in Karrot - Start a group, become a community

Is this a self-hostable platform? I just see a signup option.

schmorpel OP , 1 month ago to In Person Activism in Looking for resources - community center

Wow, that's mega-kind. I feel honoured that you remembered us! If we had a place and team already I'd love to have a source for electronics as they can be a little hard to come by around here. I find even the most vile crap is still sold for stupid prices. However, we are still much more of a theoretical project: we are a tiny group without dedicated electronics team and have no space to work in yet. If we manage to materialize into something more concrete I will happily get back to you!

schmorpel , 2 months ago to solarpunk memes in The straight pride flag looks gay AF

Who is writing this timeline - please stop it's insane! I want more kittens, less 4chan gay flag waving idiot nazis.

schmorpel OP , 2 months ago to In Person Activism in Looking for resources - community center

I've changed it, thanks!