#38C3

Dinner and a walk through a park festival at day 0 of #confconf in #Sofia, #Bulgaria

Just in those photos you see people who made #FOSDEM, #DENOG, #DebConf, #PromCon, #GrafanaCon, #CCC / #38c3, #WHY2025, #IndiaFOSS, #COSCUP, #FOSSASIA, and others happen. And more people will come tomorrow.

We're looking to have a packed agenda over this coming weekend, and I will try and do my best to update this thread with tidbits and information.

Very cool!

"Typing Culture with Keyboard: Okinawa - Reviving the Japanese Ryukyu-Language through the Art and Precision of Digital Input" by Daichi Shimabukuro (FediVerse: @daichi@social.nifeeden.com ) presented at #38c3:

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-typing-culture-with-keyboard-okinawa-reviving-the-japanese-ryukyu-language-through-the-art-and-precision-of-digital-input#t=0

I realize, I am rather late to this, since it was originally presented on December 27th, 2024 and uploaded to media.ccc.de on 2025-01-08 apparently! However, this talk just showed up on the media.ccc.de YouTube channel. Probably better to not watch it on YouTube and contend with all their tracking and advertising?

Regardless, a fascinating exploration of the challenges of language preservation and a little bit of what goes into creating an IME (Input Method Editor/Engine) specifically as related to 琉球諸語「ryūkyūsyogo」which is to say Ryūkyūan language(s) (distinct, historically, politically and culturally from Japanese up until the late 1800s when Japan annexed the Ryūkyūan islands and began to culturally colonize them as well, no surprise that such efforts were linguistic too).

I am vaguely heartened to learn that while endangered, there are still living Ryūkyūan speakers with estimates numbered in the tens of thousands!

I know that Ainu (which Japan's government only officially recognized as Indigenous peoples circa 2008) had two of the three known dialects die off entirely? There were very few (maybe two?) living Ainu speakers last I checked. Ironically, though perhaps more endangered than the Ryūkūan language; I think Apple already includes an Ainu IME in macOS?

Hopefully Daichi's efforts to create an IME and carve out some sections of Unicode to Ryūkyūan orthography will help with language preservation and revitalization!

#DaichiShimabukuro #Ryūkyū #Ryūkyūan #琉球諸語 #琉球語 #琉球語派 #琉球諸語 #島言葉 #Lewchewan #Luchuan #38c3 #ChaosCommunicationsCongress #Languages #IME #InputMethodEngine #InputMethodEditor #Unicode #Typography

Am 06.06.205 treffen wir uns wieder - diesmal zusammen mit der Fachgruppe #Ethik der #GI - IRL in #Berlin & #online für alle, die es nicht in Persona zum Treffen schaffen.

Es freut uns, euch mitteilen zu können, dass Max Schnetker, der an der Uni Bonn zum Thema #Longertermismus promoviert, zu uns kommen wird. Seine #Forschung betrachtet unser Jahresthema digitaler #Autoritarismus aus einer für uns interessanten Perspektive.

Infos zum Referenten:

Max Franz Johann Schnetker promoviert an der Uni Bonn über den Zusammenhang von digitalem #Kapitalismus, #Technologien wie künstlicher Intelligenz und neuen #Ideologien wie #Transhumanismus. Man erreicht ihn auf #Mastodon unter @MSchnetker

Zur Vorbereitung unseres Treffens empfehlen seinen Vortrag vom #38C3 https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-longtermismus-der-geist-des-digitalen-kapitalismus und den #TESCREAL Artikel von @xriskology auf #truthdig https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/

Weiterhin begleitet uns der Text #Urfacism von #UmbertoEco

#Antifaschismus