Next #forth project: Super barebones (but useful) #willow protocol implementation.
Following with the post-apocalyptic aesthetic and everything around things like #permacomputing and #collapseos I see an opportunity for a decentralized easy to use way to share data between isolated communities through something like the #willow protocol.
I don't know why I'm so attracted to this aesthetic but it's a bit of a current obsession.
ADELA International Festival of Generative Arts
DATE: 28 May through 2 June 2024
LOCATION: Kino Šiška, Slovenska kinoteka & osmo/za, Ljubljana, Slovenia
For about a week, in between Kino Šiška, osmo/zo and Slovenska kinoteka, you will be able to catch a glimpse of Adela – a transitional state that, in its unravelling of generative systems, will this year lean towards the practices of sustainable computing (#permacomputing), establishing a media-archaeological dialogue with machines and invoking the latent potentials of analogicity.
Production: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (2024)
Coproduction: @creativecoding Utrecht, Kino Šiška, Slovenian Cinematheque, Razpotja magazine (DHG)
Coorganisation: osmo/za, servus.at
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana. Adela Focus Country: The Netherlands is co-financed by the Creative Industries Fund NL. The Virtual Ground exhibition artworks are part of the Shaping the Future project, co-funded
Permacomputing seems like a solution searching for a problem. I really don't see how it helps, except in the vague sense of maybe reducing consumption.
TBH, the older I get, the more I think we need fewer computers rather than more. In fact less stuff generally.
@cian I think there's a misunderstanding :) from the wiki:
"Most importantly, there is no #permacomputing kit to buy. See permacomputing as invitation to collectively and radically rethink computational culture. It is not a tech solution searching for a problem."
A huge problem we see is that any attempt to counter the dominant ICT industries, is somehow expected to be also operating at a technosolutionist level. It's a paradox but also is at odds with a link we make with degrowth practices, and wile we're not in favour of going back to the water clock, we surely think we could do with way less computation and screen time in our life. More specifically in a way that get rids of harmful, exploitative, extractive forms of computation.
It's an incredibly difficult ambition, and that's why we position pmc at three levels https://permacomputing.net/three_levels/ : collective problematisation, practical degrowth now, and thinking/making for tomorrow.
If you're into HCI, then I could imagine that the last level could be a space more relevant, and there are already some people trying out things, for instance @permacomputer, @jakintosh@praxeology and a few more.
Bottom line, it's an incentive to try things and join forces with a roughly shared agenda. There's not going to be a one-click install to a better computational culture :)
Making software that runs repeatedly or continuously, like CI jobs, more efficient also means less energy. If you’re working on OSS or internal projects at work that you can make similar changes to, please look into it! It’s not exactly #permacomputing but it feels like a tangible computing thing that we all can help with in corporate jobs.
Today’s inspirational talks at #AMRO24 : Valentina “applying informal practices on technical artefacts through political frames”; Patricia on feminist, tactile, recycled tech : #clayPCBhttps://radical-openness.org/en/programm/2024/clay-pcb ; Ava quoting Denson about “death spiral” & Aymeric (#permacomputing practitioner) promoting @unbinare ‘s work on e-waste hacking & repurposing ;; cc @servus
#AMRO24 - Day 3 “Away from the “Internet of Ecocide”: inviting radically open participation in Internet protocols standardisation” with @becha
In this lecture, Vesna is going to both issue catastrophic warnings, and invite utopian hope; I will introduce IETF, ICANN, W3C, RIPE, DNS and many other acronyms - and invite you to “consider the squirrels”.
Vesna proposes avenues for activism and change, including #permacomputing, digital rights activism, and scientific rebellion.
She suggests translating anarchist principles and awareness of power dynamics into interspecies cooperation, highlighting the interconnectedness of nature and the need for sustainable approaches to technology.
As discussed on hashtag in the last few weeks, but from the other direction: What are the aesthetics of permacomputing as art? Do constraints matter / make it? Is it just nostalgia? Does using more-powerful computers to create promote the extraction/exploitation/wastefulness of their creation? Mulling over.
theluddite.org is under heavy traffic right now, and I want to take this opportunity to point out how much compute and energy the tech industry wastes.
I host theluddite.org on the absolute smallest linode server available, for $5/month, along with several other websites. It's currently receiving well over 10 requests per second, and has been for many hours.
Join us this Tuesday, April 23rd for the 3rd edition of the #Berlin Permacomputing Meetup! It starts at 19:00 (also known as 7PM)
We will hold an informal discussion of ideas and real-world practices around #permacomputing. And this week we will have @mntmn exploring some "tangents" around the MNT Reform
Unfortunately the #permacomputing Berlin meet-up on 25.04. is going to be moved to another date.
No meeting on Tuesday but we will make it up some time soon (prolly mid-May).
Bg : I’m in the process of upgrading my internet, switching to full fibre rather then old broadband.
I’ve now got a spare old router which should run #openwrt (plusnet 270N), I’ll likely upgrade the ram chip as a side project and perhaps the rom as it’s technically fairly easy.
But the question is what to actually do with it, I’ve already got most of the projects you find on the internet, any off the wall ideas? I’ll have serial, 1/2
As far as I can see, Perma Computing community is too focused on the artistic aspect of computing. Which hardly covers the most energy intensive, ubiquitous parts of the computing world.
Unless the conversation is taken to tackle higher impact fields, the output of the community is more like the conceptual fashion shows:
a vanity demonstration. A limited proof of concept.
@prma it somewhat feels like #permacomputing could use a forum structure for discussions and give the aesthetic conversations a dedicated area to be expressed without crowding out larger conversations about sustainable/resilient practices, collapse computing, &c.
i cannot get over how good this piece of writing by @neauoire is. this is (i think) the first time i've been brought to tears while reading about technology
Not liking other alternatives, such as "Icecreaming" (too vague), "Drink your own champaign" (too posh), and "Eat the food you cook" (too long).
A definition may be:
> Self Delivery is a continual improvement method whereby the creator of a solution is also a client that uses it, gaining insight in how the solution conforms to stated needs, that are fed back into the design proces.
In yet another link to The Photographer's Gallery, I found this project "The Image at the End of the World" showing a great diagram (2021) of "Less is more" #sustainable technologies.
The project focuses on finding alternatives that help bring down the carbon footprint of our networked environment. Diagram is a great way to visualise relationships to #Solarpunk#PermaComputing#MeshNetwork and connect to various communities and projects that exist.
Watt-Wise Game Jam started yesterday, and the submission deadline will be on April 22nd.
Interestingly, the introductory text has been written from the point of view that the entire frame would be recalculated on every screen refresh. This is actually an approach that sometimes annoys me a lot. Especially in turn-based games that waste CPU cycles even when waiting or paused.
Hey #Berlin! We're hosting a #permacomputing Meet-Up, tomorrow on Monday the 25th @ 20:00 lead by @praxeology!
Please join for a convivial discussion of Platform Detox, e-waste redemption and design for de-growth: