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Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 19:36:12 +0200
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+<entry>
+<title>The lie of the "Third Place"</title>
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://hacktivis.me/articles/lie-of-the-third-place"/>
+<id>https://hacktivis.me/articles/lie-of-the-third-place</id>
+<published>2025-10-06T16:25:51Z</published>
+<updated>2025-10-06T16:25:51Z</updated>
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+
+<p>
+ "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place">Third Place</a>"
+ as a term and concept has always felt weird to me.
+ It feels it's ignoring either the workers at said place or ignoring
+ the people living there in the case of a home-shop or squat.
+</p>
+<p>
+ The concept is a place where it's not home or an extension of one,
+ and not a workplace.
+</p>
+<p>
+ Bars, Cafés, Gyms, Bookstores, Theaters are places made by workers,
+ and the other people are at least assumed or required to be consumers.
+ For parks, those are maintained either like a shared garden or
+ by professionals, and you might even have a guardian living there.
+</p>
+<p>
+ Hackerspaces are pretty much shared workshops for geeks like me,
+ with a bit of cybercafe legacy in some cases.
+ I'd be surprised if any couldn't be described as either extension
+ of work, or extension of home, or a mix of both depending on
+ the person going there.
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+ As the concept of "third place" has become more popular,
+ several coworking office spaces have embraced this concept as the basis
+ of their interior design.
+</blockquote>
+<cite>Wikipedia English, Third Place</cite>
+<p>
+ That should really highlight how utterly meaningless the concept
+ is if what's literally an office space can just copy the interior design.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ So, Third Place? It's a workplace that doesn't looks like an office,
+ or a shared extension of the home.<br />
+ Or maybe something like abandoned/nearly-untouched place like some
+ forests or caves but I don't see the city-dwellers that are using
+ the term "Third Place" accepting that.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+</content>
+</entry>
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build articles/libre-software-security-disclosure.html: article entry.xsl articles/libre-software-security-disclosure.xml
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build articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members.html: article entry.xsl articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members.xml
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diff --git a/feed.atom.in b/feed.atom.in
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<updated>2025-08-18T03:53:02Z</updated>
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diff --git a/home.shtml b/home.shtml
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<p>List of articles, newest first:</p>
<ol class="indexlist">
<!-- new.sh: new articles here -->
+ <li>2025-10-06: <a href="/articles/lie-of-the-third-place">The lie of the "Third Place"</a></li>
<li>2025-09-17: <a href="/articles/on-licensing">On licensing, around hobbyist projects</a></li>
<li>2025-08-18: <a href="/articles/no-noscript-element">The <noscript> element as a trap</a></li>
<li>2025-05-02: <a href="/articles/forgeless-ssh-signed-commit">Forge-less SSH-signed git commits</a></li>
