mara @mara@systerserver.town

Today I learned that many/most color laser printers layer an array of yellow microdots on top of documents 🔬

This Machine Identification Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code encodes a print date and a serial number unique to the machine. It only became public knowledge in 2004, ~20 year after deployment 😑

The Technical University of Dresden released a tool 2 years ago to layer on _even more dots_ to render the MIC unreadable and aid whistleblowers publishing https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda ✊

https://cyborgrrrls.wordpress.com/ started with a free software/hardware conversation and praxis group in hacklab chinampa with collectiva insubordinadas
https://insubordinadas.com/ renaming dominant technology with native feminist words

cyborgrrrls.wordpress.com/ with collectiva insubordinadas
insubordinadas.com/ on feminist
servers: an intro to different distribution systems!

#crise #COVID19 : mais que va-t-on devenir ?

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

- #KhalilGibran, from "On #Children" #poetry #parenting

good collections
http://wrasse.pw/joel/icons/

Catch it, bin it, kill it, and unionise to keep the world safe, comrade