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* 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."

berlin.permacomputing.net

post.lurk.org/@praxeology/1141

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.

hackaday.com/2025/02/21/geneti

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.)

archive.org/details/artificial

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_win

Hackaday · Genetic Algorithm Runs On Atari 800 XLFor the last few years or so, the story in the artificial intelligence that was accepted without question was that all of the big names in the field needed more compute, more resources, more energy…

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 ???

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@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.

neocities.orgNeocitiesCreate and surf awesome websites for free.

#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) 😏

#permacomputing

Dyne has been backing Free Software for more than a decade...

With a focus on being genuinely open, useful "commons" tools for everybody.

dyne.org/

They have a complete ecosystem of software, with hints of permaculture :)

also this:

dyne.org/cjit/

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 :) ]]

Digital Community and Free Software Foundry
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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.

[rant]
Looking for nice software to selfhost on very moderate hardware these days is like:
"add this to your kubernetes cluster // terraform something....// This is your docker compose file..."

I just want an efficient program, bare metal, also not three reverse proxys in a row.
And also I'm not running some supercluster in the "cloud".
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.
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.
[/rant]
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 #permacomputing? I guess that's even much more basic and closer to the hardware?
#keepitsimple

#snac #prosody #xmpp #tinyweb #tinyfedi #rant #shitpost
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@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