Peripheral Centers and Feminist Servers/TL;DR

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This page documents the tl;dr project part of Peripheral_Centers_and_Feminist_Servers 

tl;dr researches ways to make sense of the hidden labour that goes on in a feminist server through log files and unlogged effort / activity. 

In a seamless world, awareness of techno-social infrastructure surfaces only when it's not working. But when you upload a photo, install an application, move a file, a technology serves, works, labours to execute what you've asked of it.

Inaccessible files track this work as data. These files are inaccessible in two ways: they're hard to retrieve and hard to decipher. While these hidden files contain the not so hidden infrastructures of a server, they only manage to show a portion of it. After all, log files have a bias towards the technological ecology, prioritizing the labour of machines.

The actual infrastructure consists of much more: the people maintaining (rebooting, organizing, meeting) for the tech to work. A feminist data center acknowledges and fosters the infrastructure surrounding this technology; the physical labour, the decisions about shared spaces, the different knowledges that depend on each other for the network to exist.

Project description

[describe project matter of factly] [photos of project in varia during launch]

Motivation and evolution

[describe problem]

[initial idea]

[comments by Joseph and Manetta]

[updated idea]


Design process

[sketches go here]

[describe how sketches led to the following designs]

First digital mockup, version a
First digital mockup, version b

[describe 2024-03-13 meeting between Senka and Thijs that led to the following updated design]

cap

As the TL;DR can be previewed on an e-reader at varia, we'd like to test what we can do in terms of HTML/CSS/Javascript with the e-reader. A test page was created, that includes some scrollbars, some font stylings, some javascript scroll tracking, some animations, etc.

html/css

Html: 


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
    <meta name="viewport"
    content="width=device-width,
    initial-scale=1.0"/>
    <title>tldir</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="tldir.css" />
</head>
<body>
 <div class="everything">
    <h1>tl;dr</h1>
    <h2>too log didn't read</h2>
    <div class="logs">
     <div class="slider">
        <p class="time">time</p>
        <div class="button"></div>
     </div>
     <div class="log">
        <p class="main-text">
            10.0.0.1 - - [05/Mar/2024:14:27:39 +0000] 
            "GET /~murtaugh/__lab__/api/sessions?1709648858744  
            AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
            10.0.0.1 - - [05/Mar/2024:14:27:39 +0000] "GET /~murtaugh/__lab__/
            api/kernelspecs?1709648858775 HTTP/1.1" 200 540 
            "https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~murtaugh/__lab__/lab/tree/public_html/
            T2_Assessments.ipynb" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36
            (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 
            <span>a new user was added, a network of trust grew</span>
            lic_html/T2_Assessments.ipynb" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) 
            AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
            10.0.0.1 - - [05/Mar/2024:14:27:39 +0000] "GET /~murtaugh/__lab__/
            api/kernelspecs?1709648858775 HTTP/1.1" 200 540 
            "https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~murtaugh/__lab__/lab/tree/public_html/
            T2_Assessments.ipynb" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36
            (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
            <span>there's a peak users logged into the server, if everyone uses 
            it, th eserver might crash</span>
        </p>
     </div>
    </div>
 </div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Css: 

body{
    background-color: #D1D1D1;
    color: black;
    font-family: CascadiaCode VTT;
 }
@font-face {
    font-family: DuctusRegular;
    src: url(fonts/DuctusRegular.otf);
}
@font-face {
    font-family: CascadiaCode VTT;
    src: url(fonts/CascadiaCode_VTT.ttf);
}
.main-text{
    /* width: 40vw; */
    padding-left: 15px;
    font-family: CascadiaCode VTT;
    color: white;
}
h1{
    padding: 0;
    font-family: DuctusRegular;
}
h2{
    padding: 0;
    font-family: CascadiaCode VTT;
}
span{
    font-family: DuctusRegular;
    color: black;
    background-color: white; 
}
.everything{
    top: 2rem;
    left: 2rem;
    position: absolute;
}
.slider{
    width: 90vw;
    height: 15px;
    border: solid black 1px;
    /* box-shadow: inset 0 0 5px black;  */
    border-radius: 30px;
    display: float;
    position: relative;
}
.button{
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 10vw;
    height: 15px;
    background-color: white;
    border: solid black 1px;
    border-radius: 30px;
}
.time{
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    position: absolute;
    float: right;
    color: rgb(97, 97, 97);
    font-family: DuctusRegular;
}
.logs{
    position: relative;
    left: 2rem;
    width: 90vw;
    height: 80vh;
    display: float;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    background-color: rgb(174, 174, 174);
}
.log{
    background-color: rgb(97, 97, 97);
    width: 80vw;
    height: 70vh;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 20px;
  }
  
  /* Track */
  ::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
    box-shadow: inset 0 0 5px black; 
    border-radius: 30px;
  }
   
  /* Handle */
  ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    background: white; 
    border: solid black 1px;
    border-radius: 30px;
  }

The code has been merged and is now accessable via the GIT repo, and this (temp) URL.

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