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#art #ecology #infrastructure #permacomputing #shadowIT #repairculture #cannotrepairculture #postfreeculture

Posting about computational and net culture/politics/infrastructure, software art, ecology, repair culture, permacomputing, fantastic mpv screenshots, unsolicited pro tips, completely random stuff, maybe cats, hi, this scrolltext is getting long.

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cian, to random
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Permacomputing seems like a solution searching for a problem. I really don't see how it helps, except in the vague sense of maybe reducing consumption.

TBH, the older I get, the more I think we need fewer computers rather than more. In fact less stuff generally.

320x200,
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@cian I think there's a misunderstanding :) from the wiki:

"Most importantly, there is no kit to buy. See permacomputing as invitation to collectively and radically rethink computational culture. It is not a tech solution searching for a problem."

A huge problem we see is that any attempt to counter the dominant ICT industries, is somehow expected to be also operating at a technosolutionist level. It's a paradox but also is at odds with a link we make with degrowth practices, and wile we're not in favour of going back to the water clock, we surely think we could do with way less computation and screen time in our life. More specifically in a way that get rids of harmful, exploitative, extractive forms of computation.

It's an incredibly difficult ambition, and that's why we position pmc at three levels https://permacomputing.net/three_levels/ : collective problematisation, practical degrowth now, and thinking/making for tomorrow.

If you're into HCI, then I could imagine that the last level could be a space more relevant, and there are already some people trying out things, for instance @permacomputer, @jakintosh @praxeology and a few more.

Bottom line, it's an incentive to try things and join forces with a roughly shared agenda. There's not going to be a one-click install to a better computational culture :)

yaxu, to random
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What are some nice tracks that have everything hard panned either left or right? Particularly tracks beyond the early stereo era when crazy panning was the default. Orbital's input out is one example but there must be more examples.. People should do this more

320x200,
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@yaxu https://www.discogs.com/release/107299-Merzbow-Ladybird-Balance

320x200, to environment
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TRACES OF POWER

FREE EVENT
Thursday March 7 16:00—18:00
DeWillem at WdKA
Wijnhaven 61, 3011 WJ Rotterdam

At times where it is becoming urgent to understand at long last the materiality and energy usage of the digital, we've asked Benjamin Czaja, @becha and @l03s to help us follow these traces of power, and share with us some of the insights needed if we really want to rethink the role and environmental impact of computation in tomorrow's (dis-)connected worlds.

more info https://top.permacomputing.net :permacomputing:

320x200, to random
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Syncthing and other similar software are great, but sometimes you just want a simple, lightweight, and fast way to mirror things, specially if the remote and/or local machines have limited resources.

Here is my ultra minimalistic set and forget (I hope) 2-in-1 rsync based mirror script that can be used in a cron and called manually at the same time. If there is a problem with the transfer, you even get an email.

https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/One_way_fast_and_lightweight_file_mirroring

#rsync #ssh #shell #backup #mirror #sync

320x200,
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Been following further the rabbit hole of setting up simple things for small scale networks. This time tackling file sharing on LAN with WebDAV.

https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Simple_LAN_filesharing_with_WebDAV

320x200, to VideoGames
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Watt-Wise Game Jam

"Build delightful games that use as little energy per second as possible in order to make games and computing more sustainable, and to discover new directions for software aesthetics. [...] We are developing both hardware and software estimation techniques for measuring energy consumption. Participants can use our open source power estimation tooling while developing their games to optimize for using less power. "

https://wattwise.games

320x200, to art
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All Wrongs Reversed™

15.02.2024, 11:00–17:00
Ventilator Bar (OT301, Amsterdam)
Free / on donation (~10€)

Next week, Thursday 15th Feb, I'm giving a small workshop about licenses and alternative copyright statements in collab with Spookstad, an experimental publishing platform focused on radical politics. We will dive into the incredibly messed-up world of copyright alternatives, from forgotten underground publishing trivia to FLOSS and the more recent post-open source/post-free culture practices. Then in the afternoon we make zines.

More info + registration: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/XMp+7guvylz5IvMMsWbxqclOjS32Nn8uUZGrUlB0wn0/

320x200, to Amsterdam
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Hey we're a small group who put together a FREE programme of presentations around low-tech, permacomputing, collective tech practices, extraction, and ewaste.

Saturday 2 December, Amsterdam

:permacomputing:

https://whatis.permacomputing.net

:permacomputing:

Come and join us, listen to talks, ask questions, hang around and plot together about pmc and related practices.

with: Abdelrahman Hassan @cmos4040 @latentspace @l03s @marieverdeil @michal @neajul @praxeology Shailoh Phillips, Sunjoo Lee @unbinare

FOMO alert: nope it's not streamed and probably won't be recorded, but surely you know a lot of cool people around you doing connected things, :unwanted_thinking: what about you try to organise something local as well? See https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/

320x200, to amiga
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Amiga ASCII Art

"In my thesis, I study Amiga ASCII text art. Amiga ASCII is a form of text art where the composition of letter characters set in the Amiga computer's font forms a two-dimensional representation or image. The Amiga scene is a subculture of computer enthusiasts that was popular in the 1990s. At its core are the logos and other visual materials created for BBS systems and the competitive rivalry among artists who create text art over their image-making prowess."

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/amiga-ascii-art/

#amiga :amiga: #ascii #asciiart #text #fonts #colly #bbs #diskmags #scene

douardda, to random
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Hi @320x200 ,

we (SWH) are a long-term archiving and preservation effort for software source code.

Being an universal archive, we aim at retrieving all the source code we can. So we are archiving source code from big players (GH, gitlab.com, etc.) but we also (actively) targeting small projects and small platforms.

@raffaele @zacchiro

320x200,
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@douardda

Is it correct that you are also helping put together large AI dataset from the forges you are archiving?

@raffaele @zacchiro

320x200,
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thanks @thgie :)

So @douardda
what's the procedure to have a forge removed? A friend of mine told me that you ignore the robots.txt directive.

@raffaele @zacchiro

320x200, to fediverse
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Software Heritage archival notification for somewhere.onthe.net

Hey I suppose many of you are also getting these email notifications and heads up regarding automated archiving of your self-hosted repos. Anyone knows a bit more about what's up with this project/initiative?

:boost_requested:

320x200, to ai
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Copy Far "AI"

"Copy Far 'AI' - A license close to copyleft, but far from the so-called 'Artificial Intelligences'."

https://copyfarai.itcouldbewor.se/

320x200, to random
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For your pleasure, out of context powerful and profound pro quotes with cool Bob from the accounting department.

The weakest area at the moment is the applications software for non technical users.
I knew in my heart of hearts that once they got on UNIX, they wouldn't be able to do any better with the experience and the schedules they had.
It is not that difficult to build things under UNIX

320x200, to Netherlands
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Job opening at NLnet
(Junior and senior) technology assessors

"NLnet is looking for enthusiastic, knowledgeable and people oriented technology assessors. For you, libre technology is a labour of love. If so, this is a unique opportunity to take things one level up. As assessor, you have a critical role at the cutting edge of free and open source software & hardware, open standards, open data and open science."

https://nlnet.nl/foundation/jobs/assessor.html

#FLOSS #grants #funding #NLnet #job #netherlands

320x200, to zerowaste
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Practising Permacomputing: Call for workshop participants

"This autumn is dedicated to Practising Permacomputing; a concept and a nascent community of practice-oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology derived, among others, from permaculture principles. As part of this community, space is offered to makers and thinkers in digital culture (and other connected areas) to put the fundamentals and applications of into practice through a series of workshops, a meetup, and a concluding day of public presentations with guests. Join us to explore permacomputing futures!"

https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/permacomputing/

320x200, to random
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>Whether it’s giving a newborn the special gift of a domain and lifetime home on the web, or something you put in your will to make sure your website and story are accessible to future generations, I hope this plan gets people and other companies thinking about building for the long term. https://wordpress.com/100-year/

lol

320x200, to modularsynth
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MODULAR MATTER
by Jian Haake [ohjian]

"MODULAR MATTER is the attempt to re-think desktop publishing through the concept of modular synthesis. The outcome is a tool with several independent and combinable hardware modules, each of them performing a specific operation with an operation-specific physical interface. MODULAR MATTER can be played like an instrument in order to generate unexpected printed outcome. The process of making the tool as well as the unfamiliar experience of using the tool hopefully sparks critical conversations around tool ecologies and helps to break open engrained ways of working."

https://project.xpub.nl/modular-matter/
https://media.xpub.nl/2023/thesis/modular-matter-Jian_Haake.pdf
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Ohjian/Final_presentation

320x200,
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@praxeology you're in her thesis btw

320x200, to art
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Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture

This coming wednesday 14 June, @praxeology @sandu @viznut and myself will give a quick overview of a paper about at the Ninth Computing within Limits 2023 workshop.

Paper can be found there: https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1 and the whole collection of LIMITS 23 papers is avail there https://limits.pubpub.org/ninth-computing-within-limits-2023

Our paper is a personal take on the potential and... limits of the current permacomputing practices in the context/constraints of and production.

I will attend the workshop at the Amsterdam LIMITS hub hosted by @dosch

https://doc.pondr.nl/s/wt7vmXF0v#

Big thanks to our reviewers Eli Blevis, Birgit Penzenstadler, and Robert Soden for their helpful feedback. We also thank
the different groups and people currently gravitating around the term permacomputing for contributing to a growing number of rich discussions and debates. We are particularly grateful for the suggestions from @Greta @michal and @neauoire as
well as to @creativecoding for providing us with a platform to share an early reflection on permacomputing aesthetics. Finally, we would especially like to thank @loriemerson and @l03s for their substantial and stimulating comments! <3

320x200, to random
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having once again inspiring exchanges on the fedi and being reminded once again how limiting the masto UI/thread/TL interface is, to keep track of the various levels of forking taking places in one discussion.

320x200, to art
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Why is Palantir sponsoring the Dimensions art exhibition in Leipzig?

"Palantir is a US-based data analytics company whose business model seems to be the pushing and exceeding of any ethical and legal boundaries that stand in the way of a fully “transparent humanity”. Some questions come to mind. What was the reasoning behind Palantir’s decision to sponsor the Dimensions exhibition in Leipzig? What exactly were the role of art impresario Walter Smerling and the association Foundation for Art and Culture e.V. (Bonn) which he heads, after his efforts were stifled in Berlin? What role do art, curators and artists play in such an exhibition?"

https://artwashing-leipzig.de/open-letter/

via @databasecultures

320x200, to random
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History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today

"Many tried, few remain...

The loss of browser diversity since the rise of Chromium has been greatly lamented. Below you can find a graph that shows the historical and present browser engines (not browsers, but the HTML rendering engines), as well as from when to when they were developed. For the bigger engines, the market share is indicated by a coloured shape."

https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm

320x200, to random
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The final ROM of What Remains is out! 🎉🎊

What Remains is an 8-bit interactive fiction and adventure video game for the about environmental issues, the manipulation of public opinion, and whistleblowing.

https://iodinedynamics.com/whatremains.html

video/mp4

320x200,
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Manual for What Remains is basically... done?
Was there anything left to do?
Will there ever be a physical release?
🙃

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