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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."
#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.
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.
@resl You might find some affinity with #PermaComputing - quite a few people dealing with these exact issues: https://permacomputing.net/
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.?
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 ???
@lumecolca there is a subset of the Internet that likes to keep web pages simple. Whether JavaScript should be used remains a contentious topic, personally I believe anything that won’t run well on a 30-year-old computer is not #permacomputing .
Check out https://neocities.org/ for an example of a place where you can just make whatever static web site you want. They do webrings too.
The Information Super Highway became the exact sort of monster its name describes. What we need is a Communication Scenic Bike Trail. I want to be able to see what my friends are up to and get comfortably from point to point while surrounded by beauty and wonder.
#introduction
TLDR: 
Trop souvent: 
Perdu au milieu d'un torrent de haine, de politique et de complaisances des problèmes écologiques j'essaie de trouver un peu de calme, de l'humour, quelques notes de musique, des idées et des allié·e·s pour "couler en beauté".
J'aime bien les beaux textes mais j'accorderais toujours plus aux actes (et la loi est n'est pas un beau texte) 
Just itching to build a cyberdeck but i dont know where to start,, anyone suggest a good board to base it around? 
(pics from the Cyberdeck Cafe discord)
Dyne has been backing Free Software for more than a decade...
With a focus on being genuinely open, useful "commons" tools for everybody.
They have a complete ecosystem of software, with hints of permaculture :)
also this:
A Just In Time compiler for C :)
see also: #Devuan #Suckless #Void #Antix
Lightweight unencumbered tools for your ready use.
[[ Now back to making a light for my bikes :) ]]
My favorite new technology is not new. It's a natural-language game engine for creating text-based interactive stories. (Inform 7)
The latest version was released in 2022. This excellent and completely usable book was published in 2011. The game engine was created in 2006, as a rebuild of a project which was introduced when I was still getting carded for cigarettes (1993).
This is a good and appropriate pace for technology.
@jeanvoguet il faut _vraiment_ arrêter avec ce terme IA/AI, qui est trop vague et juste du marketing, ça n'aide en aucun cas la nuance, juste à se faire rouler.
donc non à IA, qui n'est pas de l'intelligence, et oui à la recherche algorithmique raisonnée, frugale, soutenable ... #permacomputing #noAI
The XMPP permacomputing group has moved. It is now called appropriately permacomputing not lowtech.
Feel free to come by and say hi 
You can also find the room to join it on the permacomputing website.
https://permacomputing.net/Community/
xmpp:permacomputing@conference.macaw.me?join
