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experiments in online gardening

permacomputing, mycology, queer poetry

all labels are temporary

[bridged from https://sunbeam.city/@notplants on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
sometimes feels like silicon valley has never read wittgenstein

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
from october 6th
October 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
i made a thing with some other people and im not entirely sure how to explain it but the website tries to do that

https://gateway.commoninternet.net/
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
if you can say “tailscale funnel and cloudflare tunnel” five times fast, without thinking of the edward snowden “ssl added and removed here!” meme, then you don’t need gateway co-op

https://gateway.commoninternet.net
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
mastodon probably also wants to see this https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lufqktym522f
July 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
for reasons I don't yet understand, it appears my home server network traffic increased by around 5x on 5-28-25 after pretty consistently being ~1gb per day before then

may need to start breaking this down by domain somehow to actually understand this (output of vnstat -d)
June 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
excited to share the third round of class projects from solidarity infrastructures: from local archives of neighborhood street art, to an rfc for maintenance dinners, to a self-hosted signal directory, and many other experiments and reflections on servers and […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
June 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
always a lover of the accidental intermediary stages of things in the process of making them
May 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
the year is 2025, perhaps surprisingly im still in patchwork, connecting to a little private network of pubs through various tunnels

-- more explanation coming soon
May 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@liaizon so the site is made with lichen-markdown, and @chillygorilly.bsky.social and I share a login to the admin interface. so we can both add and edit pages. we sometimes chat about it, or just spontaneously add things and tell the other. so far just the two of us, but thinking to grow
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
this release also includes the ability to rename files and folders (spent some time making it look pretty)
April 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I was looking back at the beloved "How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?" (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/) and I'm having trouble understanding the table where they list "Embodied energy in oil […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
March 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
working at a cafe, channeling inspiration from older person i saw shamelessly playing starcraft with a mouse at the public library ten years ago
March 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
a lot going on in this page from "gay berlin: birthplace of a modern identity" by robert beachy
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
this thread could be seen as an argument towards more solutions like @cblgh social-norms-based crdt-replacement idea
January 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
weird computer thing:

(my tiny version of uncovering the xz exploit)

while looking into a very specific bug in lichen-markdown, encountered a weird thing in inspector where stylesheet link was being replaced with this weird string that mentions […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
January 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
recurring relevance in different waves

https://xkcd.com/743/
January 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
> The Resilience Journal uses the idea of data-tracking as an objective tool for holding space for illness. The data is neither good or bad, it just… is. I wanted to show to myself and others that living with chronic illness/ disability is not always something […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
January 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
somehow used ncspot for months assuming you had to use keyboard shortcuts and there was no mouse interaction ... then yesterday realized you could use the mouse and was happy about it lol
December 29, 2024 at 7:24 PM
excited to share that lichen-markdown is now in the yunohost application catalog ⚙️ 🌿

https://apps.yunohost.org/app/lichenmarkdown
December 7, 2024 at 7:51 PM
🌿
December 5, 2024 at 5:11 AM
according to this fifty year calendar, in 48 years, in 2052, the calendar year will be the same as 2024, and november 5th will also be a tuesday and also an election day assuming the continuation of the current us election cycle
November 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM
October 29, 2024 at 7:51 PM
the new round of sfpc class for winter '25 is out now, classes are from january 12 to march 27

https://sfpc.study/sessions/winter-25

* Narrative Constellations: Exploring Choice, Time, and Location-based Storytelling

* Relational Reconstructions

* Drawing […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
October 29, 2024 at 7:50 PM