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project page
for more loose thoughts go to Timekeeping device

Cerealbox, a server running on a Raspberry Pi, in the XPub studio

ideas

glossary on bash commands --> as starting points for exploration of connections, words, software, hardware, time labor
cerealbox opening page with stats
- a small server manifesto for cerealbox
publish in the terminal --> weasyprint

Intro

$ uptime is a command that returns set of values involving, the current time, and the amount of time system is in running state, number of users currently logged in, and the load time for the past 1, 5 and 15 minutes respectively (on linux the command comes with options).
Running $ uptime on your local terminal will output these values for your computer. logging into a server and running $ uptime will respond with the servers stats.
Uptime is generally used as a measure for system reliability (yes please question that).
Turning to cerealbox, I recognize it as a highly temporal server. Not only for the fact that it goes down often, it also has a determined moment of initialization (ironically also called birth) which is the start of our years program, and an equally determined life end (year 24/26 graduation).
Another layer of time is created through the servers micro-material temporality (geological history and futures).

In that sense multiple time layers connect a community that use the server, the servers own operations and its material relations.

Cerealbox

what do we use cerealbox for?

files
learning / testing environment
only few dependencies/ programs run on it (API's)

Raspberry Pi

which model do we use? Pi 4B

Materials


Material	Application (on the raspberry pi)	Source	Method of sourcing	Reference	Timescale (circle)
Silicon Dioxide (from Sand)	Semiconductor chip (CPU + GPU) Broadcom BCM2835 ^[1] + Circuit Board (fiber glass)	coastal + riverbed areas Worldwide ^[2]	mining	"Raspberry Pi LifeCycle: Materials", Iyesha Puri 2016 ^[3]
Copper	Circuit Board (conductive pathways)	Chile world’s largest copper producer (supplying 27% of the global supply in 2021) others are Peru, Mexico, Congo ^[4]	extraction: mining / smelting		Copper from Atacama: 9 million years old ^[5] recycling without loss of quality (80% of all copper ever mined is still in use today ^[6])
Tin	Solder / plating		extraction: mining / smelting
Silver			extraction: mining / smelting
Palladium
Gold	(wire) connects components on circuit board	China, Russia, Australia (largest producers) ^[7]	extraction / mining		65 million to 3 billion years old ^[8]

↑ a crystal is grown from the purified silicon (silicon ingot). then cut into a "wafer", ultrathin layer which builds the basis for semiconductor chip
↑ on the biological impact of sand extraction and why it is scarcer than one might think https://www.greenfacts.org/en/sand-extraction/index.htm#1
↑ https://www.designlife-cycle.com/raspberry-pi
↑ see list of worlds largest copper mines: https://www.mining-technology.com/marketdata/ten-largest-coppers-mines/?cf-view
↑ https://lemag.ird.fr/fr/lage-du-cuivre
↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#Recycling
↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_mining#Statistics
↑ https://www.geologyforinvestors.com/age-matters-exploration-and-the-dating-of-rocks/ and https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?articleid=1772

server (concept)

Peripheral Centers and Feminist Servers SI

feminist server manifesto (a version of)

A Wishlist for Trans*feminist Servers

A traversal network of feminist servers

circulations (splinter) by constant

mobile local server, files

a comic on splinter project: https://calibre.constantvzw.org/read/209/pdf

Splinter is our travelling local server that gets activated in workshops and worksessions. It responds to two different needs / desire we had: first of all the urge to keep away from cloud-based corporate extractive platforms for the sharing of our files and notes, secondly the desire to materialize the infrastructure we would use to document a situation as something visible and touchable, in the very same place. This curious presence in the room allows users to get closer to the server they are using, to try things in an environment where it is easier to experiment without fear of messing up stable systems.

Artists Running Data Centers servus-at

publication, server infrastructure

Artist Run Data Centers (ARDC) refers to a series of virtual machines (VMs) within the server cluster that artists and collectives use as an experimental production space.

Vo Ezn: The server is out of capacity, we will go elsewhere (p 72) about f00f.fail

visible through an introverted interface, xouna (the server) reflects on (human-machine-) capacity and burnout by being open about its memory in use, asking people to leave after 5 minutes have passed...

irational.org: half the risk of data loss is accident (p 82) a server introduces itself

Hi there, I am a server encapsulated in a small plastic case, people call it Raspberry Pi, it’s like a small computer. Every day and night, I process multitudes of data on request of my clients. Actually, there is no day and night for me, just more or less regular change of intensity in which I receive requests from the clients I serve. Also, they are not really my clients, I got to learn more about some of them with time and we established some relations…

Access Server

paper, e-mail server

by MELT, Ren Loren Britton, is an e-mail server that anonymizes, collects and financially compensates access requests that disabled people send to cultural institutions

server (literally) takes the role off (freudian typo, of and off are both true) an access facilitator (interface)

publishing

since a servers most 'natural' way of interfacing might be the terminal, is it possible to make a publication (mainly) working in there? it could maybe still have other outlets, web or print

I remembered that martin at Pre Post Print used vim to format text, here is a translated quote from the event pad

Martin's text editor: vim (https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/vim ) -> ASCII art? Toilet: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet (other tools: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ASCII_art ) Computers can no longer grep/read text information in ASCII art, but we humans can, it's quite interesting.
Single-width space justification: !par tool to make the width x characters wide = single-width justification (adds double or triple spaces) Columns... WOW <3 it's crude but fun. PAR: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Par_text_reformatter

resources

minerals: Copper Mining Documentary
mapping: calculating empires map; bureau de etudes

[1] rystal is grown from the purified silicon (silicon ingot). then cut into a "wafer", ultrathin layer which builds the basis for semiconductor chip

[2] the biological impact of sand extraction and why it is scarcer than one might think https://www.greenfacts.org/en/sand-extraction/index.htm#1

[3] ttps://www.designlife-cycle.com/raspberry-pi

[4] see list of worlds largest copper mines: https://www.mining-technology.com/marketdata/ten-largest-coppers-mines/?cf-view

[5] ttps://lemag.ird.fr/fr/lage-du-cuivre

[6] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#Recycling

[7] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_mining#Statistics

[8] ttps://www.geologyforinvestors.com/age-matters-exploration-and-the-dating-of-rocks/ and https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?articleid=1772

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 ==ideas==
 * '''glossary''' on bash commands --> as starting points for exploration of connections, words, software, hardware, time labor