the best thing about #permacomputing is that you can just not read your e-mails and call it praxis
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hi @johl@mastodon.xyz, i found the definition of #permacomputing really well put that you gave in https://blog.johl.io/permacomputing/:
> Permacomputing is a term that combines “perma” — as in permaculture — with “computing,” signaling an effort to rethink digital technology not as a disposable commodity but as a domain that can be part of sustainable, cyclical, and regenerative practices. Instead of equating technological progress with ever-increasing performance, bigger infrastructures, and rapid replacement cycles, permacomputing asks how digital systems can exist within ecological and planetary limits and still remain meaningful and functional.
I appreciate you publish your posts as cc0 and I think this can be a good description to succinctly introduce people to the concept. Thank you!
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thank you all who came today, and thank you all who contributed with their own experiences and questions. it was lots of fun, and really sweet to see how many people were moved and inspired!
permacomputing 🤝 feminist servers
making ecofeminist anarchist futures worth dreaming about
found a super nice #svg tutorial that interactively teaches you how to draw bezier curves https://www.nan.fyi/svg-paths/bezier-curves
Reminder that there'll be a #permacomputing meetup in Berlin next Sunday, 19.4 starting around 16:00. Come say hi, it's going to be fun!
this is the picture that pops up in my head whenever someone says "sovereign" unironically
i have some embedded devices, esp32's, and some smartphones running iOS or android. i want to set up a network between those devices and involve no servers if possible. they will be physically spread out. how do i do this without reinventing the wheel?
europeans love to be smug like "the metric system is so great" but then a minute has 60 seconds wtf
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@dougmerritt sorry if i'm giving "somebody's wrong on the internet" vibes, but "the tragedy of the commons" is not a real phenomenon. it's a malthusian eugenicist's phantasma, and he used it to explain his ideas about how the world should work: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/109449321743230309
in actual history people often manage the commons quite nicely.
@robpike
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@tommi@pan.rent what exactly do you want to use it for? i like https://uberspace.de it's not a set-up-your-vps-from-scratch offering, but it's shared hosting with shell access. pricing is based on a sliding scale, and while not exactly a cooperative they seem to be working without a boss as far as law allows in germany (in the end one person is legally responsible here). for me it's pretty good, works well for small services, but i wouldn't use it to, say, host a nextcloud for a small org.
is there a linux app that's as good as newpipe for listening to music on different platforms? soundcloud doesn't even allow me to skip into a set anymore without an account 💀💀💀
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@copy@mamot.fr i still didn't manage to put the one for how this particular setup works together, but you should check out https://wiki.comphost.club/ which should give you a lot of the required knowledge and may be easier to do because it doesn't require installing a whole different os
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@alex@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social @404media@flipboard.com @samleecole@journa.host i'm now watching the full episode and i just want to say i *do* appreciate the little rant on the "average mastodon experience" that follows the facepalm in this clip. thanks for the episode, it's great!
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@pocketvj das kabel wird nach wie vor jeden tag manuell ein- und ausgesteckt. ich hatte in der zwischenzeit die idee, dass es vielleicht auch etwas mit den paneltypen zu tun haben könnte, also dass diese billigen campingpanels nicht für wechselnde witterungsbedingungen gemacht sind, habe das aber nie überprüft.
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@jackperkins yeah, we're going to do one at x-hain on april 19! announcement should be going out tomorrow
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@entreprecariat@post.lurk.org my positive reading of this is that computing is one of the few things that to me still feels at least potentially abundant. even throwaway vapes contain computers that would have been supercomputers a couple of decades ago. because they are so locked down they are basically uninteresting for most purposes and literally discarded, but at the same time it provides so many devices that you can just pick up from the trash, and it's hard to grasp what you *could* do with them if you freed them, meaning free as in software. it's a big *could*, because these things need to be painstakingly reverse-engineered and pried open, but it makes me excited about postmarketOS and projects like that
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@adz rust memes in my timeline
https://gts.apicrim.es/@awoo/statuses/01KJ63PQJVH2MH1F87B0K4VW9T
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if this does not exist, is there a benchmark that one could use to compare different implementations?
hi @ljudmila@tldr.nettime.org 👋 can you say if there's supposed to be a confirmation mail after applying for pifcamp, or do you know where i could ask? i have submitted the form earlier and now i'm wondering if i botched the e-mail address.
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@mariusor is a minute called a scientific decimal minute on that clock or does it have another name?
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@jackperkins wait but didn't the @postmarketOS people build something to run android apps on linux?
@johl@mastodon.xyz i didn't know about the history of lua that you talked about today, do you know where i could read more about that?
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@Mabande@mastodon.social @becha@social.v.st @Daojoan@mastodon.social do you still have the interview? i'd be interested in the perspective they are arguing from. the free market internet brought us popup ads, malicious seo, pervasive tracking, and now auto-generated content mills with generative models.