New Gemini search engine

https://slrpnk.net/post/26410481

You can watch my recent talk for Critical Signal,
it's an introduction to #Permacomputing ideas from first principles.
https://inv.nadeko.net/embed/BNYxAdjl1f0?

Finding myself intentionally buying things that can be repaired more easily.

Buying new (to me) computers or my next phone that are designed to be maintained, both hardware and software.

I'm tired of throwing things away if they stop working. Heck, tired of buying new things period once I have something that is solid and useable.

In the personal vehicle area, I really like standup eKickscooters for example. The common scooters are not intuitive to repair though. Everything is hidden inside tubes and its a pain to take apart, diagnose, and repair.

But electrified standup bikes and kickbikes fit my needs wonderfully. Everything is easily accessible, replaceable, or repairable.

Traditional bikes are absolutely the gold standard of repairability with a lot of tooling and parts available. So standup bikes and kickbikes are able to use a lot of that standard tooling as well.

An interesting observation: If its designed to be electric (even an eBike) its often more difficult to repair than an "electrified" bike. The aftermarket modifications are easier to maintain than factory designed ground up.

tl;dr i have a raid nas in a closet w/network stuff. it's been cobbled together from parts over the years (virtually zero rebuying parts other than new drives). ive been #permacomputing since before it had a name i guess!

anyway these drives were snaked around in the case and running at high temps all the time (45-50C). i printed a 6 bay drive mount (cant buy them for this case anymore), ziptied it to the case, and hold in drives with bungee cable.

it's shit, but it's honest shit!!

We all know what’s going on, but we can determine where we go from here. Like mycelium, we can decompose the rot and make new life.
#permacomputing #solarpunk
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/our-resistance-will-become-our-persistence

Uxn - La machine virtuelle de 100 lignes qui fait tourner des apps sur votre Game Boy
https://korben.info/uxn-machine-virtuelle-100-lignes-fait.html

Le #permacomputing devient "mainstream" en francophonie, si même Korben en parle.

Was ist euer Fazit zum netzpolitischen Sommer 2025 soweit?

#Microsoft #Meta #Palantir #CPB etc. – alles Themen, die sich mit anderen Menschen viel besser verarbeiten lassen als alleine.

Darum: Köpfe zusammen stecken – nicht in den trockenen Boden. Hier sind dafür geeignete Community Events im August bis Dezember (#Auswahl):

https://blog.campact.de/2025/08/digital-konferenzen-koepfe-zusammen-stecken/
@campact

How much compute power does one need to live the good life? (Not counting video games.)

Romans built their roads and waged their wars without benefit of computers.

Chinese empires had the abacus.

We slung rockets with slide rules.

They used to run multi-national corporations and universities on computers less powerful than your phone.

Do digital #sustainability experts have a good source or thoughts on this? What about image- and video-generating AI?

https://mastodon.online/@frebelt/115014626128079082

@wim_v12e
@gerrymcgovern
@MichaelEMann
@bitsundbaeume_berlin
@bmftr_bund
@Weizenbaum_Institut
@RainerMuehlhoff

To fellow locals in the Wellington region, this will be a talk you'll not want to miss.

@neauoire of 100 Rabbits will give a (remote) talk on Tuesday on the critically vital movement of #permacomputing, & with plenty of time for Q+A after.

There are still a few seats left.

Register here: https://criticalsignals.nz/programme/permacomputing-101/

Well, my personal site (UK) for selling and giving away stuff is not getting a lot of enquiries so far. I guess it's just reach.

I have updated it with the next lot of objects though.

Slippers! Vintage Computing! Power supplies! DIY music gear salvage! Headphones! random crap!

If you are in the UK please look!

https://epic-attic.co.uk/

EDIT: Näille löytyi nyt uusi koti. Kiitos jakamisesta; viesti levisi tehokkaasti ja nopeasti Fedissä.

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Tarvitseeko kukaan 32-bittisiä Raspberry Pi kortteja esim. varaosiksi vanhoihin projekteihin? Itse en enää tarvitse, joten lähtee postimaksun hinnalla:

- 2 kpl Raspberry Pi Model B (2011.12)
- 1 kpl Raspberry Pi Model B+ V1.2 (2014)
- 2 kpl Raspberry Pi Model 2 B V1.1 (2014)

from a fresh #PostmarketOS install from a Chromebook.
Is pmOS #permacomputing ?

Watching "The Big OOPs", new 1h50m talk by Casey Muratori about the long and meandering history, mistakes & shortcomings of OOP and looking for better/alternative ways forward...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI

(Also very interesting for some #PermaComputing & KISS aspects)

if you have affinity with #permacomputing and you find yourself in and around #rotterdam please head on over to https://rotterdam.permacomputing.net as we start to roll the ball down the hill...

I love to hear about interesting accounts to follow for #FPGA, #riscv, #oshw, and #permacomputing.

Some update. A large batch of cartridges was just made, thanks to Broke Studio

Trying to wrap it all up now.

Everything is produced by repurposing old cartridges, PCBs, and EPROMs.

Permacomputing August: making light websites

https://slrpnk.net/post/25169921

Online #permacomputing workshop announcement: On Wednesday 6 August, join me for the final "Permacomputing for #Wilderland" workshop on making smol websites!

https://remote.wilderland.ie/events/permacomputing-august-small-websites.html

"From considerations of content management tools, to content export, static site generators, external resources, lightweight media and hosting methods, we'll look at tools to analyse website content (using browser inspector tools), figure out what they require (using traceroute), how to build small websites, and ideas of how to reduce the weight of existing websites."

This is the last of a three-part workshop series, the first looked at small-scale power generation, the second considered how to repurpose portable devices (for web hosting and more) and this final one is about #smolweb. See you on the 6th! Please do