Today @DigInfFund published my final report where I try to answer the question: What comes after FOSS?

In the report, I provide some inklings based on conversations with technologists working on #permacomputing, server collectives, and decentralized networking technologies.

jboy.space/blog/what-comes-aft…

Many people on the fediverse helped me think this through, both knowingly and unknowingly: @ckelty @Biella @inquiline with their ethnographies, @ntnsndr @l03s @rra @320x200 @Femke @CoralineAda @jwyg @lbngr @kissane @aparrish @nayafia with smart things they've written, @r00tkate with incisive comments & encouragement, and Code as Critique workshop participants including @darius @infinite_scroller @cwebber @by_caballero @tommi @kaeru @latentspace @sejo.

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Online #permacomputing workshop announcement: On Wednesday 6 August, join me for the final "Permacomputing for #Wilderland" workshop on making smol websites!

remote.wilderland.ie/events/pe…

"From considerations of content management tools, to content export, static site generators, external resources, lightweight media and hosting methods, we'll look at tools to analyse website content (using browser inspector tools), figure out what they require (using traceroute), how to build small websites, and ideas of how to reduce the weight of existing websites."

This is the last of a three-part workshop series, the first looked at small-scale power generation, the second considered how to repurpose portable devices (for web hosting and more) and this final one is about #smolweb. See you on the 6th! Please do

Heads up #PermaComputing Berlin friends. Our next Meet-Up is approaching:

# permacomputing & postmarketOS #

13. July 2025 at 19:00
@offline
Lichtenrader Str. 49

Artist and Designer Chaline Bang ( @chalinebang ) will talk about her personal adventures and collective experiments in permacomputing. She is a member of the Rotterdam-based research group _permacomputing evenings_ and will share how they learned to build servers out of obsolete smartphones using postmarketOS. The group conducted experiments into practical techniques and aesthetic approaches as well as organizing public events with outside researchers.

berlin.permacomputing.net

Successful #permacomputing expriment: an android phone as a web server.

remote.materialsmatter.ie

Termux doing all the heavy lifting here, but going through the setup has been quite good fun.

- Samsung Android phone
- Termux + the various other needed packages, primarily Termux:Boot, termux-api-*, cronie
- IPV6rs - wireguard for http access
- Tmate for deterministic remote ssh access (could not get ssh to work with IPV6rs, unclear why)
- Networking is via the onboard Sim Card.

To-do / question:
- why does it not work from cellular connections? Assuming there is an issue in the IPV6rs configs, but cannot figure out why, works fine from non-cellular connections
- publish documentation / cite sources
- test out in Wild Nephin National Park, plugged in to solar rig at Ballycroy

Somehow I can't reach the etherpad now, but since I promised to post it here anyway, this is a link to the project I mentioned yesterday during the #permacomputing conversation:
research.radical-openness.org/…

As part of the Research Lab 2015 leading to AMRO 2016 (not 2018), in a project initiated by @kairus , artists were given harddrives retrieved from Agbogbloshie, Ghana, the largest e-waste dump in the world, and invited to explore how much data they could resurface to use in art projects. The artists were actually surprised by how much data they were able to recover, leading to ethical questions about the use of personal data without the knowledge or consent of people who believed that data had been destroyed.