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offline<p>* No Upgrades: The Pleasures and Possibilities of Refusal * <br>Sunday, March 16th starting at 7pm</p><p>"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 <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/Permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permacomputing</span></a> things of recent interest."</p><p><a href="https://berlin.permacomputing.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">berlin.permacomputing.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@praxeology/114159982838242067" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">post.lurk.org/@praxeology/1141</span><span class="invisible">59982838242067</span></a></p>
Hart of the Wud<p><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> Meet-Up</p><p>*No Upgrades: The Pleasures and Possibilities of Refusal*</p><p>16. March 2025 at 19:00<br>- offline.place -<br>Lichtenrader Str. 49</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://berlin.permacomputing.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">berlin.permacomputing.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://offline.place/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">offline.place/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
मोक्ष / untrusem ⁂<p>Yay! My refurbished thinkpad t480 is in my hands!!</p><p>This is more than enough for me I was using a 4gb ram machine, so 16gb is like a whole another level for me.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a></p>
Raphaël Bastide<p>I am trying to offer a 2010 ipad a second life with PHP&nbsp;and webdav / nextcloud. Not an easy task as I feel like a golden retriever looking at his reflection in front of a webdav API documentation.<br>It is impossible to install new apps on the old iOS, almost impossible to use the https web, the built-in web browser with insecure http is the last door remaining open of a very closed hard and software. My goal is to create a very basic access to nextcloud files so I can make it a media center. Any experience, help welcome.<br><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79500163/webdav-listing-files-and-folder" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.com/questions/79</span><span class="invisible">500163/webdav-listing-files-and-folder</span></a><br><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/recomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recomputer</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/oldipad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oldipad</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextcloud</span></a></p>
Hart of the Wud<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@resl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>resl</span></a></span> You might find some affinity with <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a> - quite a few people dealing with these exact issues: <a href="https://permacomputing.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">permacomputing.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Biophilic Network<strong>Kerminy</strong><br>Web: <a href="https://kerminy.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kerminy.org</a><br><br>#<a class="hashtag" href="https://biophilicresearch.net/search?tag=France" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">France</a> #<a class="hashtag" href="https://biophilicresearch.net/search?tag=agriculture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">agriculture</a> #<a class="hashtag" href="https://biophilicresearch.net/search?tag=art" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">art</a> #<a class="hashtag" href="https://biophilicresearch.net/search?tag=permacomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">permacomputing</a> #<a class="hashtag" href="https://biophilicresearch.net/search?tag=farm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">farm</a> #<a class="hashtag" href="https://biophilicresearch.net/search?tag=publicevents" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">publicevents</a>
Amin Girasol<p>Via the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@ataripodcast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ataripodcast</span></a></span>: in a 25-minute video, Jean Michel Sellier, Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University, demonstrates the use of an <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari800XL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari800XL</span></a> to train a neural network using a genetic algorithm instead of the memory-hungry technique of gradient descent.</p><p><a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/genetic-algorithm-runs-on-atari-800-xl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/02/21/geneti</span><span class="invisible">c-algorithm-runs-on-atari-800-xl/</span></a></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.)</p><p>(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.)</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/artificiallifequ0000levy_l1x2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/artificial</span><span class="invisible">lifequ0000levy_l1x2</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#The_setbacks_of_the_late_1980s_and_early_1990s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_win</span><span class="invisible">ter#The_setbacks_of_the_late_1980s_and_early_1990s</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/geneticalgorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geneticalgorithms</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ArtificialLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialLife</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESCREAL</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genetics</span></a></p>
Problem FoxI need a bigger media drive, but can't afford one right now.<br><br>After a week of looking at new drives today my brain suddenly realised that I should just repurpose the 8TB drive currently used for Mac TimeMachine backups. I've never used TimeMachine to recover lost data, and have separate on-site and off-site backup plans already. <br><br>Well that'll save some cash.<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://corteximplant.net/tag/repurposereuserepair" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepurposeReuseRepair</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://corteximplant.net/tag/permacomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#permacomputing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://corteximplant.net/tag/practicalsolarpunk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#practicalSolarpunk</a>
Rachel Simone Weil<p>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, <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a>, etc.?</p>
Hacker News<p>Permacomputing — <a href="https://permacomputing.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">permacomputing.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Computing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Future</span></a></p>
Olm-e<p>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 ? </p><p>au moins ça limite les perditions, ton magasin local est accessible ✨ (html / gemini + taler ) </p><p>que faut il de plus ??? </p><p><a href="https://tchafia.be/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a></p>
Ramin Honary<p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://kolektiva.social/@lumecolca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lumecolca</span></a></span> 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 <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/permacomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#permacomputing</a> .</p><p>Check out <a href="https://neocities.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://neocities.org/</a> for an example of a place where you can just make whatever static web site you want. They do webrings too.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/software" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/internet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a></p>
Lúmëcolca<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a></p>
Mr Jack<p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <br>TLDR: 🫥 🚲 🎶 🌲 <br>Trop souvent: 🌊⛵🌩️</p><p>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".</p><p>J'aime bien les beaux textes mais j'accorderais toujours plus aux actes (et la loi est n'est pas un beau texte) 😏 </p><p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/vegetarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vegetarian</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a></p>
bounding_star<p>Just itching to build a cyberdeck but i dont know where to start,, anyone suggest a good board to base it around? :cyberheartlesbian: </p><p>(pics from the Cyberdeck Cafe discord)</p><p><a href="https://adlsolarpunk.net/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://adlsolarpunk.net/tags/cyberdeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberdeck</span></a> <a href="https://adlsolarpunk.net/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://adlsolarpunk.net/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://adlsolarpunk.net/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://adlsolarpunk.net/tags/making" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>making</span></a></p>
Emus for Entropy<p><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> </p><p>Dyne has been backing Free Software for more than a decade...</p><p>With a focus on being genuinely open, useful "commons" tools for everybody.</p><p><a href="https://dyne.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dyne.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>They have a complete ecosystem of software, with hints of permaculture :)</p><p>also this:</p><p><a href="https://dyne.org/cjit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dyne.org/cjit/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A Just In Time compiler for C :)</p><p>see also: <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Devuan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devuan</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Suckless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suckless</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Void" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Void</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Antix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antix</span></a> </p><p>Lightweight unencumbered tools for your ready use.</p><p>[[ Now back to making a light for my bikes :) ]]</p>
𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒔 🌨<p>My favorite new technology is not new. It's a natural-language game engine for creating text-based interactive stories. (Inform 7) </p><p>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).</p><p>This is a good and appropriate pace for technology. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Inform7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inform7</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a></p>
Menel[rant]<br>Looking for nice software to selfhost on very moderate hardware these days is like:<br>"add this to your kubernetes cluster // terraform something....// This is your docker compose file..."<br><br>I just want an efficient program, bare metal, also not three reverse proxys in a row.<br>And also I'm not running some supercluster in the "cloud".<br>Seems everyone virtualizes everything and abstracts everything, containers in containers in VMs. Even "normal" mastodon hosters, I mean I understand if people use it for running something like running Instagram, OK.<br>And then many still have quite often some downtime because (I guess?) in all this complexity, that exists to add reliability, there are config errors or incompatibilities.<br>[/rant]<br>I Love I've found snac and the prosody xmpp server, they run on a potato, snac only since this year, prosody since 10y, started on a raspberrypi1b. And they have no downtime. I want more like that. I don't know the right Hashtags. Is this <a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#permacomputing</a>? I guess that's even much more basic and closer to the hardware?<br><a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=keepitsimple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keepitsimple</a><br><br><a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=snac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snac</a> <a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=prosody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prosody</a> <a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xmpp</a> <a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=tinyweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tinyweb</a> <a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=tinyfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tinyfedi</a> <a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a> <a href="https://snikket.de/social?t=shitpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shitpost</a><br>
Olm-e<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jeanvoguet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jeanvoguet</span></a></span> 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.</p><p>donc non à IA, qui n'est pas de l'intelligence, et oui à la recherche algorithmique raisonnée, frugale, soutenable ... <a href="https://tchafia.be/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://tchafia.be/tags/noAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noAI</span></a></p>
MSavoritias<p>The XMPP permacomputing group has moved. It is now called appropriately permacomputing not lowtech.</p><p>Feel free to come by and say hi 😀</p><p>You can also find the room to join it on the permacomputing website.</p><p><a href="https://permacomputing.net/Community/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">permacomputing.net/Community/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="xmpp:permacomputing@conference.macaw.me?join" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">xmpp:</span><span class="ellipsis">permacomputing@conference.maca</span><span class="invisible">w.me?join</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/Permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/PMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PMC</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/Jabber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jabber</span></a></p>