Berlin #permacomputing Meet-Up is on Monday 25.03. - 20:00 at offline.place. Please join us for a convivial discussion of Platform Detox, e-waste redemption and design for de-growth:
i need a new repair and restoration project like i need a third butthole.
but i couldn’t say no to this poor old IBM Selectric rotting in a government surplus warehouse for $5. once the pride and joy of some government office, it is completely gummed with sawdust and old lubricant.
besides, there’s something so wonderful about the premium burgundy/wine ones. i can’t wait to get the grime off and see the original colour. this will become a piece of functional artmaking equipment when it is done.
Please join us for the next monthly offline friends KüFa (solidarity kitchen) - this Thursday, March 7!
We will launch the first offline #zine 🧃, give talks about our #permacomputing meetup 💡 and a large cooperative producing their own vegetables #solawi 🎃 .. and of course there will be very jummy food!
Please invite along your friends and bring a side dish and/or drinks to share. All proceeds will go to help sustain offline. Hope to see you there! 🥳
what does #permacomputing networking look like? how would extremely simple computers like collapseOS etc talk to each other to exchange data?
there's the connection itself, like use skywave radio, actual wires, proxmity wireless?
and assuming we get some occasional connections with each other, do we need a Fidonet of the 21st century that runs on reclaimed IOT lightbulb CPUs? what are we even trying to send to each other? post-apocalypse email, updates to bespoke sofware, weather forecasts?
#Debian with #Gnome Flashback is actually pretty damn cozy. Firefox ESR runs surprisingly well too, on a #netbook nonetheless.
I think I'll make this my low-effort can-actually-get-work-done-on-this #permacomputing setup.
FREE EVENT
Thursday March 7 16:00—18:00
DeWillem at WdKA
Wijnhaven 61, 3011 WJ Rotterdam
At times where it is becoming urgent to understand at long last the materiality and energy usage of the digital, we've asked Benjamin Czaja, @becha and @l03s to help us follow these traces of power, and share with us some of the insights needed if we really want to rethink the role and environmental impact of computation in tomorrow's (dis-)connected worlds.
Are you interested in #permacomputing and are in #Berlin? Would you like to meet other people who are also interested this movement? Then come to this inaugural #meetup organized by @praxeology in our lovely community space next week!
Berlin Permacomputing Meetup
Wednesday, February 28th at 8pm
Lichtenrader Str. 49, 12049 Berlin
Please come to the inaugural #berlin Permacomputing Meet-Up:
Berlin Permacomputing Meet-Up
Wednesday 28.02.2024 at 20:00h
generously hosted by offline (the collective, that's their name) https://offline.place/
Lichtenrader Str. 49, 12049 Berlin
Please spread the word and join us!
If you have things you would like to present, try or discuss at a future meeting, please let me know.
My kid, a computer science major, said that the way programming is taught is "too capitalist" because it emphasizes efficiency and time saving over everything else, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.
@TeamMidwest@katykaty I'm a slow programmer that's for sure, and getting slower every day, just ask my coworkers :-)
But seriously, this is great to hear new people in the field are sensitized to these issues. I think the #permacomputing community is trying to change the course of an industry obsessed with growth and speed towards one that's oriented around simplicity and sustainability. Your kid should also check out https://computingwithinlimits.org/2024/ !
I'm trying to envision a #permacomputing OS designed for users who are visually impaired.
What if there was a super simple OS designed with strict resource limitations that optimized feedback through an audio interface instead of a graphical interface?
The UPS for my home network started going bad this week, and apparently it isn’t designed to “fail open” to operate like a power strip / surge protector — it started cycling power instead, presumably because the lead acid battery is no good after many years of service. One little reminder that I’m no where near #permacomputing if I can’t even keep this running without having to buy replacements. (Future UPSes should be based on some heavy, long-lived battery chemistry!)
"Build delightful games that use as little energy per second as possible in order to make games and computing more sustainable, and to discover new directions for software aesthetics. [...] We are developing both hardware and software estimation techniques for measuring energy consumption. Participants can use our open source power estimation tooling while developing their games to optimize for using less power. "
Next session of the #IETF e-impact group for decreasing "#environmental impact" of networking technologies is meeting up 15-16. February! It's online & open to all; we will talk about protocols & #sustainability, drafts & carbon-aware routing ... and all the topics that you might bring, such as #DeGrowth, #permacomputing, planetary #limits, #ClimateJustice...
After lurking since 2021, here's my belated #introduction.
I'm James, from the #uk though I don't feel strongly about nationality. I'm He/Him/They. Also a father and #softwareengineer
I come here to understand what's going on in the world, especially #climatechange, #degrowth and #permacomputing without the filter of mainstream media or techbro algorithms.
Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, Element... vous n'y connaissez rien et vous demandez que choisir et quels sont les enjeux ?
Déjà ce qui différentie Element / Signal de Telegram : ils sont chiffrés de bout en bout.
Quand tu envoies un message sur Telegram, la coquille est chiffrée, donc n'importe qui peut pas écouter ton réseau et ouvrir ton message. Par contre, ton message est envoyé aux serveurs de Telegram, qui eux peuvent le lire (pas de chiffrement de bout en bout).
@maeool Historique intéressant, évidemment je suis un peu triste que tu ne mentionnes pas #xmpp qui contrairement au FUD, existe toujours, est une solution viable pour la messagerie instantanée, et a une organisation démocratique et ouverte. C'est fort dommage, car il me semble que l'écologie est dans tes préoccupations, et que niveau #permacomputing, on ne fait pas mieux ! (et on ne fait pas pire que Matrix).
So my Raspberry Pi 5 arrives tomorrow but I don’t have a good use case for it 😅
I have a home server that I use for self hosting that still has capacity.
Any suggestions on what I could use the Pi for specifically? I’d like it to be useful to people other than myself. I have my home server for my personal uses.
One of the problems of digital systems is that they pretend to represent infinite resources. So we end up collecting gigabytes of media, scrolling endlessly and opening hundreds of tabs. It's very hard to know when to stop so you eventually feel overwhelmed, confused, tired and freaked out.
And since these systems are based on individualized, interactive choices we tend to blame ourselves for bad choices or poor self-discipline. But we are dealing with stuff that is cognitively hostile. It's designed, in many cases, intentionally, to constantly cut off our ability to reflect and process our thoughts and emotions or to see them in a broader social context.
But we are human and don't have infinite capacities. You can't expect yourself to become a zen monk just to get a few things done with the computer!
As I see it, the way forward is to try to put ourselves in different situations where we don't need super-human powers of self control and concentration. An interface (digital or not) should be limited and mirror our own abilities to think. #permacomputing and related approaches are helpful because they have more human scale limitations built-in and frame these constraints not as a problem, but a virtue.
Hey we're a small group who put together a FREE programme of presentations around low-tech, permacomputing, collective tech practices, extraction, and ewaste.
FOMO alert: nope it's not streamed and probably won't be recorded, but surely you know a lot of cool people around you doing connected things, :unwanted_thinking: what about you try to organise something local as well? See https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/