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<h1>Preface</h1>
<p>In a seamless world, awareness of techno-social infrastructure surfaces only when it's not working. But when you upload a photo, install an application, move a file, a technology serves, works, labours to execute what you've asked of it.
Inaccessible files track this work as data. These files are inaccessible in two ways: they're hard to retrieve and hard to decipher. While these hidden files contain the not so hidden infrastructures of a server, they only manage to show a portion of it. After all, log files have a bias towards the technological ecology, prioritizing the labour of machines.
The actual infrastructure consists of much more: the people maintaining (rebooting, organizing, meeting) for the tech to work. A feminist data center acknowledges and fosters the infrastructure surrounding this technology; the physical labour, the decisions about shared spaces, the different knowledges that depend on each other for the network to exist.
TL;DR researches ways to make sense of the hidden labour that goes on in a feminist server through log files and unlogged effort / activity. In particular, it investigates the activity surrounding the community server chopchop. Chopchop is a Raspebrry Pi that is configured, maintained and used by XPUB1. They work in collaboration with chopchop, for example in their Prototoyping classes, to collaboratively work on websites, to share and store files and to play terminal games together, among other things.
The multiplicity of chopchop and the inseparable part it plays in the community of XPUB1 cannot and should not be understated. However, this role is intangible and can be hard to grasp. Chopchop, like any other server, logs activity. This EPUB is a generated compilation of such logs, together with annotations that provide extra context to the situatedness of this technology. With one book a day, a diary of chopchop (and by extension: chopchop's surrounding community and the invisible work they perform) is kept, stored and shared.
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TL;DR researches ways to make sense of the hidden labour that goes on in a feminist server through log files and unlogged activity.
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Log files are inaccessible files that track the work a server performs as data. They're both hard to retrieve, hard to decipher, and have a bias towards the technological ecology, prioritizing the labour of machines.
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chopchop is a a Raspebrry Pi that is configured, maintained and used by XPUB1 as a community server.
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The unlogged activity of a server includes the physical labour, the decisions about shared spaces, the different knowledges that depend on each other for the network to exist.
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This EPUB is a generated compilation of logs with annotations that provide context to the situatedness of this technology. With one book a day, a diary of chopchop is kept, stored and shared.
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