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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

the latest wandering update from lichen.page/blue-paper the artwork was created by my friend frsw (www.instagram.com/frsw_franz)

a pixel art drawing of blue person halfway submerged in water with a face reflecting out of the water

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

my roommate just finished making a canoe

picture of see-through canoe in the sunlight propped up against a wall

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

wrote an article with thoughts about atproto, AI agents, P2P, malleable software and permacomputing here, lichen.page/green-paper.html the website also includes some beautiful pixel art by www.instagram.com/frsw_franz based on a fork of […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

Pixel-art illustration of a person, sunflower, stones, cat-like creature, mushroom and tree. Created by https://www.instagram.com/frsw_franz/

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

⚘ nyc coop cloud convergence #2 ⚘ this thursday february 19th at ridgewood commons from 8pm to 11pm this one will be more hands-on than the first one we will be looking at the ridgewood commons coop cloud deployment (to give a helping hand) and getting to […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

a flyer image of a terminal with pixel art flowers in the background. the terminal shows a user typing commands in natural-ish language and getting errors from bash:

please just deploy me some infrastructure, save me from Google
bash: please command not found

no surveillance, no ads, looks nice, works well, no mistakes pls
bash: no command not found

oh also community-operated and in a federated network with other tech co-ops
bash: oh command not found

ideally none of those "message failed to decrypt" warnings but ill take what i can get
bash: ideally command not found

dang this isnt working is it, i may need to use co-op cloud
bash: dang command not found

please also make it cute and gay, ty
bash: please command not found

another flyer image of the terminal with flowers in the background. it shows the event information in a cat command:

cat <<EOF

coop cloud nyc convergence

thursday feb 18 8pm to 11pm

@ ridgewood commons

5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385

<3

EOF

a third and final flyer image of the terminal, shows figlet command outputs which create ascii art text of the inputted strings

figlet "co-op cloud"

figlet "on thursday!"

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

⚘ permacomputing meetup nyc ⚘ this tuesday february 10 in nyc at ridgewood commons from 6pm to 8pm there will be a conversation about permacomputing and then aftewards a L5 Contributors meetup, working on the language and documentation of the […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

if you are in nyc or nearby, come join this sunday for the first ever nyc co-op cloud convergence, at 2:30pm at ridgewood commons ❄️ co-organized with @3wordchant and paul flyer created by @halopoem more info about co-op cloud at coopcloud.tech

“Flyer titled ‘NYC Co-op Cloud Convergence’ in blue text on a white background with abstract black ink drawings resembling roots or flowing branches along the edges. Event details read: Sunday, January 18th at 2:30 PM at Ridgewood Commons. Schedule: 2:30–3:30 PM, tech co-ops and co-op cloud; 4:00–6:00 PM, co-hacking; 6:00 PM onward, cooking and dinner.

Flyer titled ‘NYC Co-op Cloud Convergence’ in blue text on a white background with abstract black ink drawings resembling roots or branches along the right side. Bullet points read: Learn what Co-op Cloud is and learn about tech co-ops; Meet Co-op Cloud co-operators; Donation-based dinner afterwards; Masks required before 6 PM, masks optional after 6 PM. Text at bottom reads: Come for any or all parts. Location: Ridgewood Commons, 5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385.

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

sometimes feels like silicon valley has never read wittgenstein arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

screenshot of paper

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

i made a thing with some other people and im not entirely sure how to explain it but the website tries to do that gateway.commoninternet.net

infamous slide of ssl added and removed here meme

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

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 gateway.commoninternet.net

image of the infamous ssl added and removed here slide (source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ssl-added-and-removed-here)

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025

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)

output of vnstat showing network taffic by day

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

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]

screenshot of website showing class links to class projects

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

always a lover of the accidental intermediary stages of things in the process of making them

screenshot of lichen-markdown UI showing the background of a web page weirdly repeated many times

screenshot of solidarity infrsastructures website with Miete? nein danke. repeated many times

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025

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

screenshot of patchwork connecting to two different pubs

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2025

@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

screenshot of flowers.commoninternet admin interface

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025

this release also includes the ability to rename files and folders (spent some time making it look pretty)

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025

I was looking back at the beloved "How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?" (solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/h…) and I'm having trouble understanding the table where they list "Embodied energy in oil […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

Table showing embodied energy in oil equivalents (L / year) and carbon emissions (kg / year) for different solar setups*

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2025

working at a cafe, channeling inspiration from older person i saw shamelessly playing starcraft with a mouse at the public library ten years ago

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

a lot going on in this page from "gay berlin: birthplace of a modern identity" by robert beachy

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

this thread could be seen as an argument towards more solutions like @cblgh social-norms-based crdt-replacement idea

screenshot of cblgh interface where "you pass the word" between authors

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2025

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]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2025

> 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]

image of page of resiilience journal showing notes and data visualization in a circular format

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2024

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

screenshot of memory footprint of ncspot and spotify

ncspot: 46m
spotify: 1000mb

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2024

excited to share that lichen-markdown is now in the yunohost application catalog ⚙️ 🌿 apps.yunohost.org/app/lichenmarkdown

screenshot of lichen-markdown installation page in yunohost

screenshot of lichenmarkdown_ynh github readme which shows its CI testing score of level 7

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024

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

Image of small circular 50 year calendar

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024

the new round of sfpc class for winter '25 is out now, classes are from january 12 to march 27 sfpc.study/sessions/winter-25 * Narrative Constellations: Exploring Choice, Time, and Location-based Storytelling * Relational Reconstructions * Drawing […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

image of a cd with the names of the different sfpc teachers around it

image of a cd cover for sfpc winter 25 class graphic flyer

flyer for "solidarity infrastructures" class

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2024

one strange detail of this mission was using python to change the background color of this gif

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2024

leaked image of the inside of a laptop after its been flashed with debian

computer parts resembling a cross with jesus inside of it

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2024

Excited to share infrastructures.us A website archiving the first two sessions of Solidarity Infrastructures, a class at The School For Poetic Computation looking at and experimenting with analog and digital infrastructures in various forms. The first […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

A screenshot of a page from the website describing the physical server hardware used for the class

A screenshot from a page of the website showing thumbnails for each of the student projects

A screenshot of the home page of the infrastructures.us website

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2024

enjoying seeing album art inside of something cmus-like in this screenshot as well as other things about this unixporn.tumblr.com/image/174988842…

screenshot of operating system that has simple lines and very simple interface

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