Accessing mastodon on a low resource computer like the Raspberry Pi is painful. The web UI is bloated and apps are either equally unresponsive or very minimalistic. 😢

The #dillo web browser however is incredibly fast and efficient but can't access mastodon as it doesn't support Javascript. So I'm experimenting with my little Dillo plugin in Python to access the API. It is very basic. It can't post or search, maybe it never will. But it even loads long threads in an instant. #permacomputing

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:
https://research.radical-openness.org/2015/

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.

I'm a little bit tired of Z80, I'm taking a break and I'll be learning #uxntal by the great @neauoire

Join me !! https://www.twitch.tv/astatinchan/

#vtuber #twitch #uxn #uxntal #permacomputing #happyBunny

AstatinChan - Twitch

✨ I'm Astatin ! I'm developing a Gameboy game live on Twitch ! ✨ Feel free to come hang out in my chat 🍵 I'd be happy to talk with you about anything !

^Twitch

I am a newcomer to the computing world and an aspiring programmer

I've been following the rewriting systems paradigm for quite some time, but @wryl wonderful talk taught me the basics, I tried to use modal by following @neauoire modal article, it is so rewarding.

It surely can build intuition overtime.

So Thank you to both of you and also @capital, @sakiamu

Also, Is there community elsewhere than discord that I can join?

talk - https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=OfnEfFb8yks&t=5169&quality=360

#rewriting #modal #permacomputing

Handmade Seattle 2024 - Day 2

Find out more about Handmade Cities at: https://handmadecities.com/ Discover meetups in your area: https://handmadecities.com/meetups Watch previous talks, demos, and more anytime at: https://handmadecities.com/media

^{Handmade Cities | Invidious}

What is a good place to start reading about permacomputing?

https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/

?

#permacomputing #permaculture

Hi fellow permacomputer!

If you're in #berlin next Sunday and interested in sustainable computing, you should come to the #permacomputing meetup! We're meeting on 11 August at 19:00 at @offline. We'll have a chat about https://compost.party, a weird web server that I built from scraps that were lying around and that's running completely on solar power. Take that AI data centers! Please join us for an informal discussion of ideas and real-world practices around Permacomputing. Non-nerd-identified, newbies and perma-curious are especially welcome!

Bring food and snacks to share if you want, see you there!

New *Damaged Earth Catalog* entry: Redundant Technology 🛠️ going way back to 1997:
https://damaged.bleu255.com/Redundant_Technology/

Lots of thanks to @jameswallbank for insights into the motivations and strategies at the heart of the Redundant Technology Initiative ❤️ #permacomputing #lowtech #SmallWeb #sustainability #tech

The #Berlin #Permacomputing meetup is tonight at 19:00!

@mntmn will tell us the story of building up hardware and software stacks from scratch with the goal of making a computer designed for longevity, flexibility and openness. There will be hands-on demonstrations and a super-sweet keyboard.

We want to expand our community. Non-nerd-identified, newbies and perma-curious are especially welcome!

https://offline.place

offline ~ home

A community space in Berlin

^offline

Our Networks: Does not (cloud) compute
Vancouver, BC July 27, 2024
https://ournetworks.ca/

Upcoming event at the intersection of #permacomputing and #localfirst.

Our Networks

Conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures.

^{ournetworks.ca}

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

https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html

absolutely beautiful

#computing #sustainability #permacomputing #repairability #elegance #simplicity

(images are licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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.

#permacomputing #wattwisegamejam #wattwise
http://wattwise.games/

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:

https://offline.place/events/2024-03-25-permacomputing-meetup/

For reasons unknown I’m resharing these things I wrote about #permacomputing

https://eli.li/of-vast-distances-connection-over-them-and-being-made-to-feel-alone-of-water-catchment-soil-and-bits

https://eli.li/of-array-programming-lightsabers-and-some-thoughts-on-permacomputing

Oatmeal - of vast distances, connection over them, and being made to feel alone; of water catchment, soil, and bits

Anomie, a word for your consideration. The dictionary of cyborg anthropology defines anomie, in part, with this anecdote: In everyday life, the

^eli.li

Watt-Wise Game Jam

"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. "

https://wattwise.games

#permacomputing #lowtech #videogames #energy

Dear #Frankfurt, we hope to see you tonight at our NODE+CODE #Meetup #13 on #Permacomputing and #Sustainability 💚

📆 Thursday 8th, February 2024, 19:00:
📍Crespo Foundation, Berliner Str. 27, Frankfurt am Main
🎟️ free entry & 🍲 free yummy soup!

See you tonight!

Hey we're a small group who put together a FREE programme of presentations around low-tech, permacomputing, collective tech practices, extraction, and ewaste.

Saturday 2 December, Amsterdam

https://whatis.permacomputing.net

Come and join us, listen to talks, ask questions, hang around and plot together about pmc and related practices.

with: Abdelrahman Hassan @cmos4040 @latentspace @l03s @marieverdeil @michal @neajul @praxeology Shailoh Phillips, Sunjoo Lee @unbinare

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, what about you try to organise something local as well? See https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/

#lowtech #permacomputing #ewaste #amsterdam

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by @neauoire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM

#StrangeLoop #permacomputing

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega

In this session, I will explore some playful low-power, sometimes analog, computation systems and esoteric programming languages, designed to work offline, o...

^YouTube

Practising Permacomputing: Call for workshop participants

"This autumn is dedicated to Practising Permacomputing; a concept and a nascent community of practice-oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology derived, among others, from permaculture principles. As part of this community, space is offered to makers and thinkers in digital culture (and other connected areas) to put the fundamentals and applications of #permacomputing into practice through a series of workshops, a meetup, and a concluding day of public presentations with guests. Join us to explore permacomputing futures!"

https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/permacomputing/

#workshop #selfhosting #datacenter #recycling #electronics #plants #amsterdam

One thing that stood out to me at #ComputingWithinLimits yesterday was that the "Back to the Trees" talk seemed to (accidentally?) deeply engage with the #Permacomputing topic, without mentioning it at all.

https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/sapyi15v/release/1

When our little Malmö hub discussed PC we got stuck on how creating hardware is an inherently destructive process, and using what already exists is great, but not the same as the regenerative abundance that permaculture aims for. We didn't see a way out of that

Just remembered that I've got a linkhut account (best/closest thing since/to del.icio.us!) and have collected a list of further reading materials for the 3-day "Limits-aware creative computing" workshop I started teaching earlier this week. More will be added over coming days. Sharing here for others interested:

https://ln.ht/~toxi/ws-hsa-02

cc/ @adamgreenfield @danielrothaug

#PermaComputing #Transdisciplinary #Degrowth