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

remote.wilderland.ie/events/pe

"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 :boost_anim_vanilla: :unwanted_happy:

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

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, ..."

wiki.digitalcare.noho.st/index

@celesteh@lgbt.io @neauoire@merveilles.town may know more about Brautigan in #permacomputing thought. The surface imagery is very compatible, but ultimately I don't imagine that strain of cybernetic utopianism is particularly related to the ideology.

Maybe check out All Watched over by Machines of Silent Grace? [Bishop 2011] (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-011-0044-5) if you're looking for direct reference: a contemporary retrospective on the poem and mass surveillance.

I'd be curious to know how the writing shapes up, please share how it goes!

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

blog.campact.de/2025/07/permac

[1] solar.lowtechmagazine.com #LowTech

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

Campact Blog · Permacomputing – ein Gespräch mit Brendan HowellPermacomputing vs. Wegwerfkultur: Brendan Howell zeigt, wie nachhaltige Computertechnik funktioniert und warum Bildschirme wie Drogen wirken.

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“!

👉 blog.campact.de/2025/07/permac

Campact Blog · Permacomputing – ein Gespräch mit Brendan HowellPermacomputing vs. Wegwerfkultur: Brendan Howell zeigt, wie nachhaltige Computertechnik funktioniert und warum Bildschirme wie Drogen wirken.

Vienna's third 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, openstreetmap.org/way/21990699)

* 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!

permacomputing.netpermacomputing

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

journals.openedition.org/revue

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).

journals.openedition.org/revue

journals.openedition.orgPrendre soin de nos dispositifs techniques est une approche militan...Servanne Monjour. Le secteur de l’édition, en particulier celui de l’édition numérique, n’est pas le premier auquel on songe lorsqu’il est question des enjeux environnementaux. Si l’on compare l’em...

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.

codeberg.org/msavoritias/Coope

Summary card of repository msavoritias/Cooperative_Development_Guidelines
Codeberg.orgCooperative_Development_GuidelinesCooperative_Development_Guidelines

Most of my work is informed by field research on the use of everyday technologies under extraordinary circumstances. ... I am currently working on the development of anarchist technologies for the Rojava Revolution in North-East Syria (more info on my Telegram channel: @rojavatech).

https://t.me/s/rojavatech

TelegramRojava TechSome peeks into ordinary things, everyday technologies and other quotidian aspects of the revolution -- reader 'Towards Democratic Technologies': https://t.me/rojavatech/133 -- www.daniploeger.org

Heads up #PermaComputing Berlin friends. Our next Meet-Up is approaching:

# permacomputing & postmarketOS #

13. July 2025 at 19:00
@offline
Lichtenrader Str. 49

Artist and Designer Chaline Bang ( @chalinebang ) will talk about her personal adventures and collective experiments in permacomputing. She is a member of the Rotterdam-based research group _permacomputing evenings_ and will share how they learned to build servers out of obsolete smartphones using postmarketOS. The group conducted experiments into practical techniques and aesthetic approaches as well as organizing public events with outside researchers.

berlin.permacomputing.net