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2 days ago@plutocrash @mortn @opensource
Replacing billboards with screens, public info displays, advertising dissplays…
Niko Sagiadinos
I am the son of a partisan smuggler and vendor lock-in is the enemy. Been writing digital signage software for 15+ years, now mostly open source, and co owner of a company in an industry that sells communication tools but can’t really communicate. I am part-time digital nomad and a full-time obsessive coder.
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@plutocrash @mortn @opensource
SMIL is a typical underrated format. Wrote an article some time ago on my blog.
It was re-discovered in 2010 for digital signage from IAdea, but:
The industry is super sales-driven.
Technicians have no influence and must defer to marketing. There’s hardly any “nerd” or “maker” scene.
Nearly everyone thinks they have to reinvent the wheel into the next big SaaS thing. Myself included. *lol*
For a few years now, I’ve been taking a different path.
It is specializing on Digital Signage with SMIL. :)
@eager_eagle
Yes, against claud vampires.
First it was the idea of naming a set of apps after herbs I like: thyme, basil, oregano, cannabis…
Like apple did with early osx systems ( Pathet, Leopard, Lion…) . And the browser was “the” Safari.
But after writing basil-proxy I realized there is already a proxy with this name and the I stucked on garlic.
And honestly; Who would trust a sensimilla- player, haze-launcher, kush-hub and bong-signage? 😂