Dark ages are often quite durable.

The Latin West likes to forget that the Roman Empire didn’t fall with Rome, but staggered on like a golem for 1100 years under their fascistic new regime. The emperors were worshipped as semidivine figures anointed by God; you can still see the haloes on their ikons in Orthodox churches.

Under the brutish rulers’ absolute authority, the Christian empire long outlasted the old civic life of res-publica it burnt to the ground. The police state torched Saracen ships with Greek fire as eagerly as they did heretics and “pagan” academies.

No one dared to stop it. No one either in or against the novo ordem did, at least. The people had forgotten how, forgotten how to think beyond the hegemonic order of the Abrahamic world-state. Yet somehow some canny archives survived in monastery back rooms, mouldering on wormy shelves, copied as samizdat by the rare contrarian or cosmopolitan scribe.

Our archives must likewise be built to last for generations, to ensure learning endures such epochs. It goes without saying so far we are very unprepared.

I just saw this one shared on the “Orange Site.” A few of them were written in Common Lisp.

I know Gwen Weinholt has built her Loko Scheme for running on bare metal, I wonder if that should be listed on this site as well?

A little lightning talk at CERN about #permacomputing and #uxn.
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2931835

Are there any good resources or research on long-lived components? Most of the #permacomputing articles I've seen have been somewhat high-level. For example, I didn't see much discussion of ceramic capacitor aging or the lifetimes of electrolytics. If I wanted to build a device that would run for 200+ years, is there a good source to guide me around the pitfalls?

While reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Theory of Water I'm coming to see that part of the reason why the #permacomputing community seems so compelling to me is that it offers a way of practicing computing outside of capitalism and colonialism. That like water (Nibi), the logos of computation is fundamental to what it means to be human. I guess I'm thinking here with Ron Eglash, Arturo Escobar, Lisa Nakamura, and (honestly) a bit of Earl Fontainelle.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2533-theory-of-water

When #FLOSS devs get in a “let’s be disruptive, yay” mood it really turns me off. The strength of FLOSS should be in #permacomputing, pursuing the long view of continuity, sustainability, and backwards compatibility. If you’re not helping keep the production loops long, you’re failing the Earth.

No rando VC is going to fall in love with your project, guys. It’s just not on.

After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Core Governance document is now ready for wider feedback.

This document describes what JoinJabber does and what we aim to achieve. It also describes what our values are and a way to make proposals to the entire community.

Feel free to share and read/respond to the document.
https://codeberg.org/joinjabber/collective/src/branch/governance/Governance/Governance.md

I was thinking of buying a new-to-me #Thinkpad next month, but I think what I'll do instead is try to spruce up my #PinebookPro:

• Get new rubber feet
• Get a bigger SSD
• Install #pmOS and finally have #FDE on the thing
• Put some proper locktite on the screws so it's not falling apart all the time

I need to look up some videos on applying threadlocker to screws. It's much looser stuff than the typical locktite and it tends to make a mess.

I'm debating just dribbling locktite (regular CA) on top of the screws as well to try to make them a little more permanent. Not a great solution, but the thing just loves to fall apart.

It's always best to try to #reuse! <3

This is such a neat idea: a Belgian company is upcycling old smartphone motherboards (#Fairphone 2) into tiny embedded computers https://liliputing.com/this-pocket-sized-pc-is-made-from-an-old-smartphone-motherboard/ #upcycling #permacomputing

This is some high quality #solarpunk writing right here.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops

Made my first post on the new #permacomputing forum
https://bbs.permacomputing.net/thread/6/documenting-re-usability-of-vapes-found-on-the-ground--1/

Hola. Como sabéis estoy apunto de terminar mi libro (voz de Paco Umbral) sobre Permacomputación y minimalismo digital. En el capítulo de sobre Solarpunk, en vez de explicar lo que es, he hecho un relato de solarpunk para que se entienda la idea. ¿Si os gusta la ciencia-ficción y la literatura podríais echarle un ojo? Os lo agradecería muchísimo: https://maxxcan.flounder.online/relatos/permacomputacion/solar-punk.gmi y gemini://maxxcan.flounder.online/relatos/permacomputacion/solar-punk.gmi #solarpunk #permacomputing

One aspect that I like of the programming language I use daily is its robustness, it'd be hard for it to become unrecoverable.

The language itself relies on a runtime that can be emulated in about 150 lines in most languages(including its own language), and a 2300 bytes self-hosted assembler. There is a bootstrapping toolchain that allows me to recover an assembler from a hex dump on an operating system without `cat`, or `xxd`, or even with an implementation of the runtime without a file system.

I've added a few notes on how it all works:
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/drifblim#bootstrap

Welcome to the Permacomputing Forum .. Share your projects, start discussions, ask questions, & post events related to #permacomputing in all its diversity.

https://bbs.permacomputing.net/about

Hey, so it looks like we have a #permacomputing web forum now?

https://bbs.permacomputing.net

greetings from @320x200 annaa @cmos4040 @decentral1se @jveenk @kattrali @latentspace @l03s @leoscarin @michal @msavoritias @pixouls @praxeology @sandu @sister0 @viznut

Since my life circumstances recently changed, perhaps now is a good time for a formal #introduction.

I've been here for many years but hello Fediverse!

I live in a caravan with my wife and two young kids. We are currently traveling in southern Europe (Spain, etc.) in the hopes of finding a new place to settle down.

I am a former software developer, currently interested in #degrowth, #permaculture, #OffgridLiving, #anarchism, #unschooling, #spirituality, #ConvivialSoftware and #permacomputing.

#introduction (repost and edit from my old profile)

Hi, I'm Allie! I'm a queer transfeminine nonbinary person in the PDX area. I live with my nesting partner, our kiddo, and two cats.

I'm into #retrocomputing/ #permacomputing, reading, teaching, amateur radio, gardening, cooking, baking, making electronic music, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

hey, London friends -

@anmeisel is getting a London-based #permacomputing club going.

from Ana:

Here's the event sign-up for the 7th of April with more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/permacomputing-club-tickets-1290371077629?aff=oddtdtcreator

The first session requires an RSVP to help estimate attendance. For all following sessions, people are welcome to join on a drop-in basis. It'll happen every Monday at SET Social, 6:30 pm.

Hey #permacomputing people!
Would any of you like to share photos of your setups? I need to draw something for my comic and image search won't give me usable results.

What I imagine for the comic is something like:
- small solar cell, maybe external battery and phone with broken screen in a box to protect it from rain.
It's supposed to be part of a small peer-to-peer network that sends data via several hops to other villages/cities.

Doesn't have to be exactly that, I just need inspiration!