with Ineke, Mascha, Weronika, Gloria, Mark, Mckinley, David, Supi, Dez, Samira, Tommy, Cliona, Nica, Ines, Onur and Davide
Notes were collected at this etherpad https://etherpad.servus.at/p/challenge-workflows
in this websitezine:
The workshop was held by Onur Olgaç and Davide Bevilacqua, at NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2022 noschoolnevers.com.
This webtoprint is made with the great knowledge and help of Lucile Haute. https://lucilehaute.fr/.
Anthony by Sun Young Oh from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr Minipax By Raphaël Ronot from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr
This coversation is about digital tools. Every tools comes with and generates some technological, but also social dependencies. Here we try to unpack these.
consciousness on tools is not always easy
Mainstream tools and platforms are infused with capitalist values, modernist ideas of progress and dreams of seamlessness
They generate digital discomfort, rage / anger towards tools, literacy on digital tools is needed
Seamlessness of interfaces, one solution fits them all
Education of tools, not tecniques (adobe)
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant
Institutions seemingly accepting that own computational practice depends on the fortunes of Sillicon Valley billiardaires
Self-hosting is the act of providing or serving digital content or an online service, typically delivered by a business
Important to notice: a server is always another person's computer.
This computer is only slightly different to the one you have at home.
Political motivations of self-hosting
Self hosting as an alternative to:
traffic and communications (user behavior)
or data storage (data-ownership)
anything you are allowed to host yourself is most likely licensed as FLOSS
although sometimes there are 3rd party dependencies and/or closed parts
Considering hardware implications
also old consumer-grade devices can be easily used.
old enterprise-grade hw is another way to go. they do not have many interchangeable parts with consumer grade, they are usually very powerful, built to run 24/7.
ARM architecture -> for raspberry pi and other (usually) smaller devices. not only ubuntu, but also other OSs are built and available for the ARM architecture
auto-troubleshooting & less black boxes
Data-loss is something to consider when hosting your own data
companies that take care of it, 99.99% reliable
if you do it, you are the responsible one
321 principle: 3 backups, 2 locations, 1 should be offsite
Which service are you most dependent on?
What is least working?
Where is your community mostly active?
Another overlapping community is the privacy-oriented community.
A nice resource to use as an entry point from that community is: https://www.privacytools.io/
Keep in mind to always verify projects/tools from multiple sources, never trust a single source.
These communities stay together over different channels: IRC, Matrix, also other non self-hosted tools and nuch of their knowledge can be found here:
Awesome self hosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Licenses MIT Apache or ... determine how the tool can be used
Counter argument for suite - Risk on tool bloathing processes being initiated.
Being a tool maker could solve that, but it brings along the difficulties of maintening these tools.
Changing a tool might require relearning the interfaces.
Sometimes choice of proprietary systems happens for the hope of richness of tutorials.
Also proprietary software evolve in non-logical way and sometimes get trashed.
Some alternative tools have 1 or 2 people behind, for many after a few years it is difficult to sustain the project.
In frontend to backend workflows, the practice of compartimentalizing tasks generates a lot of miscommunication and blackboxing.
We set up adelio, an old dell laptop as server to host something from home.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
server operating system:
linux is the kernel - communicates between OS and hardware.
ubuntu has a server distribution ubuntu server comes without a desktop environment, but with common packages useful for server, headless.
server-client terminology
the device itself becomes a server
ADDITIONALLY there is also specific software services installed in the server that also act as a server (webserver, mailserver...)
Replacing proprietary software is complicated in collaborative processes, where tools are used across various areas / teams. eg within drama production
Alternatives to old workflow might require the constructions of new worflows
There is difficulty in finding alternative tools for doing vector work like autocad
Often there is the need of being proficient with the industry.
As professor, feeling the responsibility of training students with specific software also to make sure they can they can pay back their student loan with what they learn.
Alternativeto.net does not provide many options for software or platforms bound to specific fields (eg film studies). There is often also open questions about the inclusivity* of curated lists. From who are they curated and for whom? And a final thought on languages used in these communities / offered by these tools.
How would selfhosting in an existing network and/or infrastructure work?
localhost "localhost is a hostname that refers to the current device used to access it"
127.0.0.1 loopback address
You can actually host something locally on your own computer and work directly with localhost
TCP/IP stack
protocols used in computer-based communication and the internet
Consider the politics of the workflow. Often proprietary standards adopted by institutional bodies are very difficult to find alternative to / eg acrobat forms only adopted by adobe, but no other way to generate the same formats
More in general, it would be important to undermine the cultures of suites and the machinery of burocracies. Solutions suites are mostly something that in the end generates the problems
open source not necessarily ethically better
A difficulty is having big institutions using open source or alternative software.
Tools such as Canvas contribute generating a constant feedback, self-monitoring practices on students who expect life-feedback on how they are performing. They bring up also problems of ownership in regard to the materials that are uploaded. And are also excluding external people into looking at the syllabus.
at some point apple will jump too much and force me to change the text editor I am using since 1995
webapps vs websites: react has a different ethos.
Some architecture studio pay more for software than for the salary. They are very dependent on archicad autocad vectorworks. Those are very heavy programs, which also force the user to change computer every 2 years to keep up with the software updates.
public IP addresses are usually not handed out to individual ISP customers but rather to institutions, businesses etc.
local Network * gets other IPs (subnet)
DNS (Domain Name System): mapping domain names to IP addresses
https://www.fixrunner.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image5.jpg
Tools can be community-run, like using independent mailservice and build around fairer values
We need better public transportation apps, with better multimodal connections, as well as bike focused maps?
Many DIY or activist groups organize on fb, it would be great if they could build their own spaces outside of it, simple password protected websites eg to exchange their ideas. We could make a zine to show how to do it
A strong reason to explore alternatives is that many digital products are quickly not available anymore
identify formats that are useble to document and sustain time. EG midi is very sustainable, we can access file done in the 1980s.
devlogs could be used also for design and other parts of the workflow
"etherpad as a place where everything meets" (see Varia & constant etherdump and etherpump and octomodebr
Problem of addressing
As consumers we get IP addresses behind NAT (or even 2 NATs, aka double NAT).
https://i.stack.imgur.com/K2mIw.png
NAT: Network Address Translation
solution to isolate private/home networks and later an important tool used against IPv4 exhaustion
why would I use open source software?
Why would we want to do change our workflows?
An attitude for radical compromising or critical pragmatism might be needed
Not everyone can be a sysadmin!
We should find a way to control also the impetus to find replacements for things that work fine.
As a researcher is very difficult to avoud google maps. I tried using and make my own 3d environmetnts, but I always end up with google maps
due to visibility issues not really easy to eliminate insstragram from the workflow of an artist, but google can be abandoned more easily.
Someone can be happy in their software stack - there is a general awareness of paying vs "free but you are the product", so the motivation to switch needs to be strong
Modem -> termination point for the ISP's connection coming in
Router -> does the routing of a network: specifies where traffic goes - gateway routers deal with WAN -> LAN connections
Access Point -> deals with wireless networks
Switch -> receiving and forwarding data to devices via ports
https://assets.aten.com/product/image/es0152.kvm.ip-based-matrix-switches.45.jpg
The first 3 are usually consolidated into a single product for home use
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We did not go into this during these days, but don't forget to check the world of self-hosted, decentralized and community maintained social media!
Ports -> internet protocol define which ports shall be used.
Port needs to be defined for the communication to happen.
Ports for http(s) requests
http:// 80
https:// 443
localhost is arguably the fastest way to test something on your own device
if you'd like a service you're hosting at home to be exposed to the internet, then you need to find a solution to the NAT
ISP usually don't give public ip address
"Exposing the port": between the private and public layers we need to map and define which request goes where.
It can be done through port forwarding or VPN tunnel
Separation between the definition of a Virtual Private Network and a commercial VPN service is important.
https://openvpn.net/wp-content/uploads/vpn_server_resources/layer-3-routing-diagram-step-8.png
https://blog.sucuri.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/image1-3-600x398.png
ngnix is one of the most popular web servers; quick and easy to setup for simple web sites
The common local server space on Davide's old laptop "adellio" is ready. The ethernet port is a bit loose and wonky, so I'll try to set it up as stable as possible, but please try not to move it much.
When you're on the NOWIFI network inside the workshop venue simply go to:
http://10.0.0.10
user: noserver
pass: NOSCHOOL2019
Feel free to share presentations, workshop material, notes, bookmarks, links, photos or whatever you'd like to share with everyone else.
There's ~900 GB available. But I'd like to remind everyone again that it's a volatile and temporary storage space that (in the best case scenario) will go away at the end of the week. And it's not to be considered reliable in any way as it's a very old laptop. Have fun!
aws -> backup on tape ?
photoshop saved as tif
digital preservation / - file fixity (if file is really the fine). checksum. there is a gap lower down the scale in file fixity / verify the file.
some filesystems NAS Network Attached Storage - nas specific
bitrot, one bit will flip, you won't realize but
dropbox is gettings worse, best dropbox was in 2011.
how to get solutions within artistic practices / with unreliable fundings.
Alternatives to onedrive, integrates to your system, you don't know what is online or offline
filetransfer and syncronization. / "syncthing" as a peer-to-peer * backup solution
The workshop was held by Onur Olgaç and Davide Bevilacqua, at NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2022 noschoolnevers.com.
This webtoprint is made with the great knowledge and help of Lucile Haute. https://lucilehaute.fr/.
Anthony by Sun Young Oh from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr Minipax By Raphaël Ronot from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr
The workshop was held by Onur Olgaç and Davide Bevilacqua, at NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2022 noschoolnevers.com.
This webtoprint is made with the great knowledge and help of Lucile Haute. https://lucilehaute.fr/.
Anthony by Sun Young Oh from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr Minipax By Raphaël Ronot from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr
The workshop was held by Onur Olgaç and Davide Bevilacqua, at NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2022 noschoolnevers.com.
This webtoprint is made with the great knowledge and help of Lucile Haute. https://lucilehaute.fr/.
Anthony by Sun Young Oh from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr Minipax By Raphaël Ronot from Velvetyne Type Foundry http://www.velvetyne.fr
