Starting Permacomputing Club on the 7th of April and every following Monday 6:30 pm at SET Social, London!
Come join if you want to work on and discuss small tech and sustainability <3
Sign up + more info here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/permacomputing-club-tickets-1290371077629
#permacomputing #solarpunk #lowtech

I'm sorry to tell you all that they got me.

I am currently rehabbing an old laptop to become a ProxMox server.

Some friends started a #selfhosting club/class facilitated by a former colleague who often works as a SysAdmin.

Realized I had this 2017 HP Laptop that had upgradeable ram and ssd ports. So some new parts make this dinky little laptop into a nice little custom server.

Still not sure how I'll put it to use, but Jellyfin and PhotoPrism for sure!

@janboehm, nach Sendung zu #MedFluencer & #Erdbeerkinn – wann Sendung zu #Müllfluencing & #Permacomputing?

https://blog.campact.de/2022/11/muellfluencing-abfallfabriken-im-internet/

"Die Gemeinschaft des #Permacomputing wendet die Prinzipien der Permakultur auf Technik und Videospiele an. Wenn sich das Gaming von der nachhaltigen Landwirtschaft inspirieren lässt, entsteht Low-Tech und 8-Bit-Konsolen werden zweckentfremdet, um sich von den Tech-Giganten zu emanzipieren."

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/119473-022-A/tracks/

＊ Ｎｏ Ｕｐｇｒａｄｅｓ： Ｔｈｅ Ｐｌｅａｓｕｒｅｓ ａｎｄ Ｐｏｓｓｉｂｉｌｉｔｉｅｓ ｏｆ Ｒｅｆｕｓａｌ ＊
Sunday, March 16th starting at 7pm

"Please join us for a low key discussion around the practice, problems and culture around constant "upgrades" and what happens if we refuse. We will also have a general discussion of #Permacomputing things of recent interest."

https://berlin.permacomputing.net

https://post.lurk.org/@praxeology/114159982838242067

#PermaComputing #Berlin Meet-Up

*No Upgrades: The Pleasures and Possibilities of Refusal*

16. March 2025 at 19:00
- offline.place -
Lichtenrader Str. 49

Please join us for a low key discussion around the practice, problems and culture around constant "upgrades" and what happens if we refuse. We will also have a general discussion of Permacomputing things of recent interest.

https://berlin.permacomputing.net
https://offline.place/

Yay! My refurbished thinkpad t480 is in my hands!!

This is more than enough for me I was using a 4gb ram machine, so 16gb is like a whole another level for me.

Via the @ataripodcast: in a 25-minute video, Jean Michel Sellier, Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University, demonstrates the use of an #Atari800XL to train a neural network using a genetic algorithm instead of the memory-hungry technique of gradient descent.

https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/genetic-algorithm-runs-on-atari-800-xl/

I've had a soft spot for Artificial Life for a long time. During the last AI Winter in the mid 1990s, I was spurred to get back into education and onto a career in commercial software development by Stephen Levy's book "Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation". I loved that Artificial Life researchers borrowed well-understood mechanisms from genetics and implemented them in software to converge iteratively on solutions, in contrast to AI research, which was attempting to build models of categories which were not understood at all (and largely still aren't) - intelligence (whatever that is) and perception.

In subsequent years I wondered why I wasn't hearing any hype about Artificial Life; it turns out practitioners have been quietly getting on with solving problems using the technique. Meanwhile, yet again, AI boosters have blustered their way into the consciousness with another round of overcooked hype.

The Stephen Levy book is still worth a read, if you can find it. (IIRC Danny Hillis and the Connection Machine folks get a mention too.)

(I don't know if any of the genetic algorithm folks turned out to be supporters of eugenics, as many of the current crop of AI boosters seem to be.)

https://archive.org/details/artificiallifequ0000levy_l1x2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#The_setbacks_of_the_late_1980s_and_early_1990s

Just got my Technician-class amateur radio license (US); now studying for General so I can play with HF. Anyone doing HF/UHF/VHF transmissions in the world of niche protocols, slow networking, #permacomputing, etc.?

Permacomputing — https://permacomputing.net/
#HackerNews #Permacomputing #Technology #Sustainability #Innovation #Computing #Future

et quoi, tu ne sais plus accéder à ce site de [megacorp025] avec ton navigateur ultra-libre ? c'est quoi la cohérence là , osef non ?

au moins ça limite les perditions, ton magasin local est accessible (html / gemini + taler )

que faut il de plus ???