Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian is an independent researcher who works on both the theory and practice of co-created citizen science and peer production. Overall, his research centers around how open source/science technologies can be used to empower individuals and communities to engage in their own knowledge production. He does so by bringing together applied and theoretical methods from computer/data science, human-computer-interaction and critical science & technology studies.
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Despite it being a good two years since I’ve made vim my only text editor again, I hadn’t really gotten deeper into using more terminal (or text-base) user interface (TUI) for a while. With Gemini I started reading gemtext, but that was...
To mark the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, commemorative events, marches and protests took place across the country on Tuesday, March 24. Human rights organizations organized events under the slogan “More than ever:...
My dislike strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented. But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it seems that more and more developers,...
During our trip down in Patagonia last week, we passed by many road signs, barriers at viewpoints, trash cans etc. that were sticker bombed by the many visitors that pass by. Typically, it’s an eclectic mix: People put stickers of their...
At the end of February, I was privileged to spend a week in the Los Glaciares National Park down in Santa Cruz in Argentine Patagonia. Beyond a nice amount of regular hiking, we also got to do a guided tour on the Perito Moreno glacier,...
Over a long weekend, between February 14-16, the 19th Tricota Cultural took place in Villa Ani Mi, a small village just north of where I’m currently living. As part of the local Carnaval celebrations in the Sierras Chicas, folks play...
This post is an adapted/expanded version of an abstract that I have submitted for a track on Open, collaborative and participatory science: rethinking knowledge legitimacy, policy and science futures at the EU-SPRI Annual Conference Over...
tl;dr: You can now serve map files for CoMaps from your own servers, including local ones. I made a small and simple command-line tool to help you download the maps to your computer and serve them in a local network. CoMaps is a mobile...
A couple of days ago - in light of Mozilla (once again) doubling down in poor decision making - I was saying how it’s a good idea to donate to alternative projects instead, every time Mozilla fails us. But all joking aside, given the...
A couple of days ago, I stumbled over a Mastodon post by @johl, in which [he shared vimwiki](https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki) as his approach for taking notes in vim. Which immediately piqued my interest, as I have so far been just...
For the first half of November, I’ve been in Peru to do some hikes close to Cusco with friends: First, we did a 5 day trek to the Inca site of Choquequirao and back. After a day and a half of rest back in Cusco, we then did the 4-day...