Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

Definition and purpose of permacomputing: http://viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html

XMPP chat: https://movim.slrpnk.net/chat/lowtech%40chat.disroot.org/room

Sister community over at lemmy.sdf.org: [email protected]

There's also a wiki: https://permacomputing.net/

Website: http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html

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Firefox is a waste of global resources. Move everything back to TTY. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Don't use Firefox, use Lynx.

Better yet, boycott http etc entirely.

Gopher or die.

Why are you still using a backlit display? Pipe your terminal into a passive character LCD and go to bed when the sun goes down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOaahWFfug

Alt-ASCIIart image for those already on a 20x4 display (modified to fit in a 20x4 display):

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This is your life now.

Modern computing has revealed itself to be mostly unreasonable.

Go outside; potatoes need harvesting, the birds are eating your tomatoes, and the chickens haven't been fed yet.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think we definitely need to drop the browser in a trash can... But HTTP/1.1 should be salvageable just like JSON. Personally I feel the Java Applet was the USP of the browser. The JVM is the emulator!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You are making compelling arguments, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Newsletter? Surely you meant their BBS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know this is a joke but this is oddly appealing to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It started as a joke, finished as a journal entry.