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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 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!

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 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,...

A smartphone is lying on a window sill. A part of the milky and colorful window behind it is open, and a solar charger is hanging outside. A small post-it note asks readers to please leave everything as it is.
5 August at 19:22 | Open on post.lurk.org
Tristan Nitot✓

@computersandblues Incan go to Berlin but I’d be very interested to get in touch with someone knowledgeable about permacomputing who also speaks French. Any contact to recommend?

5 August at 20:06 | Open on framapiaf.org
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i'm really excited to show compost.party to the world! it's a web server running on an old, broken phone, getting energy from the sun using one of those portable solar chargers that you may also have lying around.

it's a real oddity and a real beauty

a cellphone with a broken screen is lying on a dirty concrete floor next to a solar charger
6 June at 15:49 | Open on post.lurk.org
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Kira, feral fox 🦊 🏳️‍⚧️

@computersandblues Fantastic. ☺️ This is such a great used tech combo, since the phone's battery, I assume, let's it last through the night.

I rigged up my old phone's google speech recognition tech in airplane mode to do local-only speech control tasks.

13 June at 2:23 | Open on sunbeam.city
indyradio

@computersandblues I have not seen postmarket. I'll have to look at it. This reminded me, I did boot debian on an old Motorola. It was stolen from me at a drivers license center in California. Rotten bastard.

15 June at 20:27 | Open on kafeneio.social
Oohshiiiny
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happy 1700000000 to all who celebrate🎈

14 Nov 2023 at 22:15 | Open on post.lurk.org
Patrick Johanneson 🚀

@computersandblues

I missed it by 735, but then again I didn't realize it was coming up.

14 Nov 2023 at 22:26 | Open on mstdn.ca
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this sounds like the second good reason to take a closer look at #forth i've found within a week:

"I'm starting a series of articles that aims to hand-hold my former self, a regular web developer, into the rabbit hole leading to the wonderful world of low level programming. Hopefully, I can hand-hold you too.

The general goal is to broaden your perspectives on the subject of computing. I intend do to that through story arcs leading, step by step, to some nice and shiny objective. I also intend to work into a gimmick where in each episode, I get to tell one corny joke."

tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/

this sounds like the second good reason to take a closer look at #forth i've found within a week:

"I'm starting a series of articles that aims to hand-hold my former self, a regular web developer, into the rabbit hole leading to the wonderful world of low level programming. Hopefully, I can hand-hold you too.

7 Nov 2023 at 12:18 | Open on post.lurk.org
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i know that people brought up the story of google supporting xmpp in google talk for just as long as it suited them in the current #meta discussion. what i didn't see brought up: facebook chat actually supported xmpp as well (… for just as long as it suited them). the reasoning behind it was to "integrate it everywhere", i.e. make it harder to avoid it.

developers.facebook.com/blog/p

23 Jun 2023 at 9:58 | Open on post.lurk.org
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i think limited.systems/articles/fruga by @wim_v12e is one of the most important texts i read recently. even though its premise is grim - that "[b]y 2040 emissions from computing alone will be more than of half the emissions level acceptable to keep global warming below 1.5°C" - its promise is a very bright one. that by reducing, reusing, maintaining and recycling, everything old may become new again.

8 Feb 2023 at 15:21 | Open on post.lurk.org
Wim🧮

@computersandblues Thank you for reading! It is as you say, with business as usual it could be grim. So it's up to us to create the change that will avoid this.

8 Feb 2023 at 15:38 | Open on scholar.social
LisPi

@computersandblues Legislation & regulation to make e-waste incentivizing business practices will have to be part of it. Companies won't stop doing that shit without being forced to.

craphound.com/news/2022/05/30/

@pluralistic

Regarding efficiency per watt though, I think we'll see purpose-specific & semi-analog accelerator hardware make a come-back more generally.

As for data centers, disposable servers must be stopped.

#RightToRepair #ReduceReuseRecyle #StopSoftwareBloat #Upgradability

@computersandblues Legislation & regulation to make e-waste incentivizing business practices will have to be part of it. Companies won't stop doing that shit without being forced to.

craphound.com/news/2022/05/30/

@pluralistic

Regarding efficiency per watt though, I think we'll see purpose-specific & semi-analog accelerator hardware make a come-back more generally.

8 Feb 2023 at 18:50 | Open on mastodon.top
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this is a screenshot of a text-only page from the official typescript documentation* proudly displaying that it takes more than an entire second to load. again: text only. some very highly paid engineers worked on this, creating tools for thousands of others. all those wasted cpu cycles…

* typescriptlang.org/docs/handbo

Screenshot showing: "Last updated: Feb 01, 2023 This page loaded in 1.008 seconds."
6 Feb 2023 at 17:25 | Open on post.lurk.org
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