Saw this comment on a fic on Ao3 and i was like: Is this a fic about working remotely in tech? or is this a fic about my space gays
Eriol Fox
@erioldoesdesign.bsky.social
Privacy, Security and Human-rights centred designer for OSS https://erioldoesdesign.github.io/ https://lockdown.systems collective member Open Source Design wrangler/maintainer @opensrcdesign They/them 🏳️🌈 🌻 D&D Nerd 🎲
An amazing read of course but I'm devastated that colonisers still require so much from the people that they colonised in order to believe the exploitation that happens in the pursuit of 'innovation'. data-workers.org/Mojez
“Just Send us Pictures of Your feet”: Consent and Biometric Extraction in the AI Supply Chain, by James Oyange
The boundary between labour and personal resource has disappeared: the human body becomes raw material.
data-workers.org
I updated my personal "hey this is me and the kind of work I'm looking to do" Zine this last weekend! I love giving out a zine instead of a business card!
This week I got notice that I was accepted to be a resident at www. watershed.co.uk/studio/ I cannot wait to make some of my creatives in open source software projects come to life while being a resident! very excited!
Pervasive Media Studio
The Pervasive Media Studio hosts a brilliant community of over 100 artists, creative companies, technologists and academics exploring experience design and creative technology.
watershed.co.uk
ahhhhh i also forgot i got to meet Cybertiger who did this amazing talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcK-... ESP32 as counter-surveillance platform! which has inspired me to pick up more ESP32 tinkering for countering surveillance!
DEF CON 34 - ESP32 as counter-surveillance platform - Cybertiger, Colonel Panic, The Wrew
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
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OH I forgot! over the conference time last week too i had several amazing conversations with feminist technology orgs across the global fighting against online gender based violence OGBV and a better future for women, trans and non-binary folks.
Spent an amazing long weekend with Internet freedom, open source and digital human rights folks. Talking about how we build tools for everyone's global rights to privacy, security and safety.
TODAY! If you're at the Global Gathering, come see Lockdown Systems! ⭕️🐢 Our member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social is there to talk about @cyd.social! Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance When: Friday, September 4th, 15:30-17:30 Where: Spyware Village, Booth 57 We have stickers!
Normalised Fascism In Open Source
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...
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Not even past the first chapter of this book and so much of it is helping me reconcile the dysfunction in software teams. excited to get to the parts that don't just unpack the problem, but present ways to challenge painful (to developers too) behaviors. Cat Hicks the psychology of software teams
For any #globalgathering2026 attendees I'll be there running two circles! one about Cyd (as mentioned below!) and one about User Research and Design in Digital Human Rights. I'll also be handing out cool stickers and ready to chat about anything OSS + design + Human Rights Also beach time!
Lockdown Systems@lockdown.systems · 3w agoIf you're at the 2026 Global Gathering this week, come meet Lockdown Systems! ⭕️🐢 Our member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social will be there to talk about @cyd.social! Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance When: Friday, September 4th, 15:30-17:30 Where: Spyware Village, Booth 57 1/2
If you're at the 2026 Global Gathering this week, come meet Lockdown Systems! ⭕️🐢 Our member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social will be there to talk about @cyd.social! Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance When: Friday, September 4th, 15:30-17:30 Where: Spyware Village, Booth 57 1/2
I trained up and was approved to deploy on international humanitarian support missions with www.re-act.org.uk back in September 2022. Before that I had deployed domestically in the UK to rapidly respond to the COVID needs as well as flood relief.
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
Amazing support for open source! We love to see orgs and companies put the finances up to ensure essential OSS can remain updated, secure and maintained!
CodeRabbit@coderabbitai.bsky.social · 4w agolangflow. bun. ant-design. nuxt. vue. mermaid. pnpm. trpc. Over 600,000 GitHub stars between them, and CodeRabbit reviews it all, for free. Next stop: more than $10M into OSS over the next year, counted at what it costs us. Heres the how and why 👇 www.coderabbit.ai/blog/codera...
Started playing in a Voidheart Symphony game today and I'm loving exploring more TTRPG structures that are much more about collaborative story-building rowanrookanddecard.com/product/void...
Voidheart Symphony - Rowan, Rook and Decard
Fight back the darkness in Voidheart Symphony, a tabletop roleplaying game about mundane people diving into a demon-filled labyrinth to save the ones they love.
rowanrookanddecard.com
"Clenching My Jaws Until I Grow Fangs." 🩸 There is only so much you can endure, my dear creature. #darkart
Come along and be part of the conversation about open source, decentralised tech and design! luma.com/17sotawb?tk=... #decentralised #oss #design
Folk Tech Connection Call - August 2026 - Open Source & Decent Design with Eileen Wagner and Eriol Fox! · Zoom · Luma
Folk Tech is a solidarity-based movement among designers, developers, and people in communities who want digital technology that supports their daily life and…
luma.com
In other cool OSS news womenofopensource.org has been updated!
Women of Open Source – Welcome to the Women of Open Source Community.
womenofopensource.org
My heart is very full from #FOSSY I saw familiar faces I had missed since FOSDEM and met fantastic new friends and collaborators in abundance.
THIS AFTERNOON at FOSSY Vancouver! 🌳🐢 Don't miss our member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social's talk today! Designing attestations UI: The Security and Safety of OSS package supply chain When: Sunday, August 9th, 3:00pm Where: UBC Campus, Macleod building Room MCLD 2002 2026.fossy.ca/schedule/pre...
FOSSY 2026 | Presentation: Designing attestations UI: The Security and Safety of OSS package supply chain
2026.fossy.ca
Eric Schultz's talk "Magnifica Humanitas" and FOSS was a fantastic way to finish out saturday at #fossy 2026.fossy.ca/schedule/pre... ngl pope leo is kinda based for putting out this encyclical. You can watch the livestream from the talk here: ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
MCLD 3002 - Aug 8 - 130
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This was a great conversation! a must listen for anyone interested in OSS funding and sustainability.
SustainOSS@sustainoss.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin us for the launch of the Software Stewardship Lab (stewardshiplab.org)! @vlad.website is on the podcast with hosts @richlitt.bsky.social, @abbycabs.dev & @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social to talk about promoting research for OSS maintainers and sustainers. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/292.
Come watch our member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social's talk at FOSSY Vancouver this week! Designing attestations UI: The Security and Safety of OSS package supply chain When: Sunday, August 9th 3:00pm Where: UBC Campus, Macleod building (2356 Main Mall), Room MCLD 2002 2026.fossy.ca/schedule/pre...
FOSSY 2026 | Presentation: Designing attestations UI: The Security and Safety of OSS package supply chain
2026.fossy.ca
I'm at FOSSY this week! speaking on Sunday August 9th at 3.30pm in MCLD 2002 about designing attestations UI & how different developer users understand essential package security from the UI clues that package registry pages have for packages! 2026.fossy.ca/schedule/pre... #oss #fossy #opensource
Spicy(?) DnD take: I keep trying to play at DnD tables thinking 'I'll eventually find a table that likes to play like how I play: co-operative, collaborative, non-individualistic, character-driven, respectful and normal about the game'
What people think GMing is: Improv, planning, prep, building classes, monster stats, math etc. What it really is: drawing bad shark to show where on shark thing characters need to get is
Happy #NonBinaryPeoplesDay 💛🤍💜🖤 Pls be nice to your nonbinary friends today, and for the other 364 days of the year. #nonbinary #kidlitart 🎨
