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.

When people die they may go to Paradise (or Hell), merge with the Universe, re-emerge in some other timeline or some obscure and transcendental destination.

But when *Websites* die, they can become one and only one thing: online casinos

Imagine you go to the library and nearly every older book you pull - even while keeping its cover intact - has had all its pages replaced with random spam content.

There should be a better way to die a digital death.

#enshittification
#permacomputing

"Es ist [...] so weit gekommen, dass viele von uns [...] viel Zeit damit verbringen, über natürliche Themen zu diskutieren, zu politisieren und zu lernen, während sie extrem künstliche Geräte anfassen und betrachten." sagt Brendan Howell im Interview mit @frebelt. Schönes Gespräch, das den Blick auf Techniknutzung weitet.

https://blog.campact.de/2025/07/permacomputing-ein-gespraech-mit-brendan-howell/

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

#thought about #permacomputing - why is there a focus on something like 8bit computers when the #amiga was for example a human understandable computer (https://www.retro-commodore.eu/2024/04/22/amiga-hardware-reference-manual-2/) ? wouldn't it be better to focus on something like a (fpga or custom build) amiga with aros as operating system (or a simpler amiga dos like os) instead of a basic 8bit like system?

I've been invited to talk about #permacomputing at Critical Signals next month! I'll try to introduce some of the ideas that I find most interesting via practical examples. Save the date!
https://criticalsignals.nz/programme/permacomputing-101/

Early notice: Next #permacomputing meetup in vienna will be on October 14th. Everything else still to be determined, and will be announced in good time. :)

(If you have topics you want to propose/bring in, gladly ping us!)

Once again having #PermaComputing thoughts and also feeling the frustration of just how much friction and sacrifice it would involve. I’m still hoping that if I think about it hard enough, I’ll find the right way in, and the right balance

#PSA Please when designing new tech consider that not everyone has a reliable 24/7 broadband internet connection, or a large screen, or a keyboard, or a mouse, or is able to get a domain name, or is able to run services from home, is able to power their home-server for the whole day, or can rent a VPS, or can have their ip-addresses be linked to an identity, or has one legal identity, or has one name, or has a recent computer, or has easy access to a debit or credit card, or has a bank account with either, or has a PayPal account, or has bitcoin, or one of many other things some and often many people just don't have, etc…

LAGUNA - Hacker Leisure time
NOWA SKOLA - Kopice (POLAND)
21-24/08

"A self-organized hackers camp to share skills, show &tell and chill amongst cyber-activists and techno-feminists. We will focus on:

- Digital infrastructure and how to configure & install networks responsibly & ethically
- Sustainable [low & perma] tech
- Online autonomy & security
- DIY - Radio and telecommunication
- Relations between [body & bran & machines]
- Leisure techniques - earth, sky, water, ..."

https://wiki.digitalcare.noho.st/index.php?title=Main_Page#21-24_/08_LAGUNA_-_Hacker_Leisure_time

Mir erscheint es erholsam ehrlich und realistisch, wenn mich eine Website wissen lässt, dass sie, genau wie alles auf der Welt, abhängig ist von Ressourcen. Das »LOW←TECH MAGAZINE« [1] macht das und informiert alle Online-Gäste:

> This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

https://blog.campact.de/2025/07/permacomputing-ein-gespraech-mit-brendan-howell/

[1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com #LowTech

@marieverdeil who else from the team is on the Fediverse?

I want to write in a paper that permacomputing enthusiasts dream of cybernetic meadows. I know is this is just crossing the streams for the sake of literary allusion, but is there anything that cites Brautigan as inspo?

Seid ihr auch genervt & gelangweilt von stumpfer, kommerzieller #Digitalisierung?

@praxeology zeigt uns reflektierte, ethische digitale Orte und Praktiken!

> #Permacomputing [ist] für mich ein Weg, an der… vernetzten Gesellschaft teilzuhaben und…, so zu handeln, dass es mit meinen Werten und ethischen Grundsätzen vereinbar ist.

Mit Bildern aus Brendan Howells „Screenless Office“!

https://blog.campact.de/2025/07/permacomputing-ein-gespraech-mit-brendan-howell/

Vienna's third http://permacomputing.net meeting is happening TODAY:

* Tuesday, July 15th 19:00-22:00

* We meet outside in the south-east corner of Auer-Welsbach-Park (U4 Schönbrunn, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/219906996#map=17/48.187656/16.319772)

* Look for a handful of people with a picnic blanket and a battery-powered Casio Keyboard from the 90ies

* "Battery-powered Casio Keyboard from the 90ies??" ... Yes! Because our topic will be batteries: Building open source batteries, batteries and the energy transition, lithium mining, ethical ramifications, and so on.

* Anyone interested in the topic(s) of permacomputing is very welcome, whether you're just curious or already a seasoned permacomputer, we're glad to have you!

Prendre soin de nos dispositifs techniques est une approche militante de l’édition · Entretien avec Antoine Fauchié, par Servanne Monjour

https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4701

Dans la revue Humanités numériques, Servanne Monjour m'a donné l'opportunité de m'exprimer sur les questions de permapublishing (permacomputing + édition), de sobriété technique et de low-tech, tout cela avec une approche critique. Merci à Servanne et à la super équipe éditoriale de @RevueHN

Dans ce même numéro de Humanités numériques ("Sobriété numérique"), il y a un autre entretien : @320x200 parle de la permacomputation (permacomputing en français).

https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4747

After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Cooperative Development Guidelines now have a Governance Document that can be used by any Organization/Foundation/Collective/Community/Project that wants to have a governance based on participatory, equity and permacomputing/accessibility principles.

Its time for us to finally start building participatory digital commons, that are developed by the community and for the community and the Governance document is part 1 of doing just that. (Decision making and Structure will follow after this).

I am also excited to announce that @queerspark has also been listed as a collective that adopted pieces of the Cooperative Development Guidelines.

https://codeberg.org/msavoritias/Cooperative_Development_Guidelines/src/branch/main/Foundation/Governance