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.
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.
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.
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).
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
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.
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
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:
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.
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.
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.