Notices by Pixel :puppycat_pixel: (pixouls@post.lurk.org)

✨ Vaccine Reminder ✨
- Has it been 4+ months since your last booster?
- Do you know where your vaccine records are?

#CovidIsNotOver

:honk: it's a friendly remembly :honk:
to drink some water
and take your meds
and if you wants it
go to beds!

The game #TerraNil just released!

There are so many games where you are given the task to colonize, control, and conquer the land to build your capitalist kingdom.

Terra Nil, as a reverse-city builder, take a different approach. When faced with a barren wasteland, you can play a role as an ecological steward, restoring the land and letting nature take its lead.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593030/Terra_Nil/

The soundtrack is also available on youtube!

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=yG1OGoyqDb0

#steam #videogames #ecology

hello friends

I just got my final bill for my last year of college. $17,200. I only get about $2,000 in loans. That still leaves $15,200.

I currently live with my transphobic parents and cannot sustain living here after school. I've paid for all of my schooling through working up to five jobs at a time up to now, but with each year that passes by, the school has been rolling back my financial aid and it has been very difficult to keep up. I'm still living on a meal a day.

If you'd be willing to toss coin to a neurodivergent, queer, trans, east/southeast asian person, my handles are below.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/pixouls
https://liberapay.com/Pixouls/
https://account.venmo.com/u/pixouls

Thanks to everyone who has supported me thus far.

It's hard to make progress on an embedded system project if something is constantly accidentally hitting the reset button 😮💨

You guys are on the web
I am on the spider
We are not the same

📣 Are you, or do you know someone, who shares technical information in creative ways? Interested in a retreat for people who do?

Whether you're making zines, comics, infographics, etc: we'd love to bring together people bridging the education accessibility gap around topics of technology and programming. Help us plan the event or forward this to your favorite techie+artie.

https://focusretreatcenter.com/2023/zines/
#zines #retreat

dark sky is officially no longer in service, as was planned since their purchase by apple. i'd been using it for over 8 years. what you see in the current apple weather app are the scrambled remains of dark sky. took a look at the apple discussions page for this change. seems about right. https://discussions.apple.com/article/HT213526

If you need someone to give you permission to do the one big activity you don't want to do as segmented small activities with distractions you enjoy that make the whole thing more bearable in the end: here's that's permission

Live for pleasure not pain.

101 Ecological Board Games have been added to my new Board Games Geek List
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/309083/ecological-games

Many of these games are also great teaching tools :D

I've been collecting games with ecological themes for over a year. I've run out of space on are.na, so I've moved many of them onto this list!

I've also started an analog ecology list on Itch, which contains more games not on BGG.
https://itch.io/c/3001116/analog-ecology

All these links plus some more that weren't on BGG nor Itch can still be found my original ecological games unplugged are.na
https://www.are.na/pixel-oliver/ecological-games-unplugged

#games #boardgames #ecology

Here are some non-fiction #podcasts I enjoy created by or co-led by #BIPOC folx

"Take a Bao" by Chef Jun, a show about Asian Food (10-eps)

"Material Memory" by Council on Library and Information Resources
S1: Celebrating the year of Indigenous Languages
S2: Climate Change and Cultural Memory
S3: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Alliance Tour

"Working People" by The Real News Network and In These Times, hosted by Maximillian Alvarez, stories of working-class lives, solidarity, and union building

"Software Sessions" by Jeremy Jung, interviews about software development

"Good Fire" by Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff, conversations on global indigenous fire ecology and stewardship

"Think 100%: The Coolest Show" by the Hip Hop Caucus, hosted by Rev. Yearwood, climate justice centering Black and Brown activists and communities of color

"Atmospheric Tales" by Shahzad Gani, global stories of air pollution and climate change

"Organizing Ideas" by Karen Ng and Allison Jones, new librarian/archivists examining power in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, through interviews with others in the profession

"Command line heroes" by Red hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, internet history

"Two Crees in a Pod" by Amber Dion and Terri Cardinal, indigenous knowledge and ways of life

Here are some fiction #podcasts I enjoy created by or co-led by #BIPOC folx

"Historical Natives" by Mackenzie Taylor and Josef Stafford
technically also non-fiction, explores horror-themed culture and folklore, ending with a short story for each episode

"Control Alt Destroy" by Andrea Phillips and co-written by EC Myers, Jacqueline Koyanagi, and Maurice Broaddus
what do you do when the video game you've been secretly writing becomes a part of a video game used to compete over world resources? - written like an audio book

"Wolf 359" by Gabriel Urbina
stuck in the middle of space orbiting a giant star on a research station? gee, what could happen :P terror, adventure, shenanigans

"Roguemaker" by Emma Johanna Puranen, directed and edited by Rook Mogavero, edited by Shaoni White
stuck in space... with technology that could change the world? a whodunnit sci-fi mystery with awesome music

"Mabel" by Maybell Marten and Becca De La Rosa, a Mexican Indigenous supernatural drama, written like a poetic sound collage (there is a plot tho!)

"The Oyster" by Alexander Aldea and Adrienne Schaffler, executive produced by Logan Browning and Alex Cline, and co-written by Jordan Cobb
in a future where the earth is uninhabitable, humans live underground, depending on technology to cope

Feel free to DM for trigger warnings!!

"Recording a Video Podcast Remotely Using Free and Open-Source Software"

Learn how the “Pretty Good Podcast: Discussions on Digital Rights” is made using tools like #jitsi and #OBS

https://video4change.org/recording-audio-video-podcast-foss/

TogetherNet is an open-source software that invites groups of 10 or fewer participants to build community archives through practices of consent

This software is for you if you are an artist, designer, community organizer, technologist, researcher, educator, or student interested in –
- Exiting surveillance capitalism
- Participating in consentful communications on the web
- Building community-owned digital archives

https://togethernet.org/

i don't usually enjoy ads in my #podcasts but in the early days, and i suppose even now, podcast ads about other podcasts i might like were helpful: there wasn't much other ways to find other podcasts like ones I was already enjoying.

This color's show makes me cryyyy
love the craft in these bars

"HGU" by British Hip-Hop artist Loyle Carner #nowPlaying #np #lurkRadio

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=7zkmU47YTW8

Find him on #BandCamp https://loylecarnerband.bandcamp.com/

the closest not floss option I've found so far is
https://ellieplanner.com/

I say this because it has the to-do and calendar integrations I want and it has a one time purchase option

god I hate that we live in an age where one-time purchases are disappearing

that being said, the one time purchase option is a hefty $150.

I do not have $150. I want to have $150. If you find $150, thanks.

- generate events based on tasks so that they can be synced back onto other calendar platforms (otherwise I will be screwed or just make mistakes about my availability if I can't get to the necessary interface)
- be able to toggle views in case I'm working in public
- event and to-do notifications

I was looking at super productivity however, it recommends you use google drive or drop box for sync, as webDAV and local file sync haven't been fully built out
https://github.com/johannesjo/super-productivity/discussions/1633
*flip table*
though if I'm going to use webDAV, there's a lot more sysadmin stuff I don't know how to do that I'd have to learn

I wish I had something that was good enough even as a temporary solution that wouldn't require me to sell my soul and lose all my data at the end of it.

dreaming about my ideal calendar platform:

- FOSS
- multiplatform
- drag and drop to-dos into calendar
- record of to-do date written and date completed
- to-dos and events can be reoccurring
- to-dos can be tagged
- time spent in virtual meetings is tracked
- sync of other calendars, even if proprietary
- user can choose sync option of their choice, or if uses the platform's own cloud—allows clear export/import and how much storage is allotted