Vienna's third http://permacomputing.net meeting is drawing closer - 4 days to go!

* 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

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.

http://berlin.permacomputing.net

La permacomputation est une littératie écologique · Entretien avec Aymeric Mansoux, par Servanne Monjour (2025)

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

Un peu plus tôt cette année j'ai eu le plaisir d'être invité par @Servanne_m pour un entretien publié par la revue Humanités numériques @RevueHN

Un grand merci pour cette opportunité, sa patience (!), ainsi que le travail éditorial et de traduction.

Cette publication numéro 11 intitulée « Sobriété numérique – Varia » contient également un entretien avec @antoinentl sur l'édition numérique: Prendre soin de nos dispositifs techniques est une approche militante de l’édition.

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

@iffybooks "offers a small selection of #books and #zines on hacking, free culture, gardening, and adjacent topics.

At Iffy Books we believe in empowering people to be less reliant on #BigTech companies."

https://iffybooks.net/

email list:
https://iffybooks.net/email-list/

https://setspace.uk/event/london-permacomputing-club-presents-computer-movies/

The #London #PermaComputing club is presenting a screening of computer-generated films on 19 July 2025, including some produced by one of the members via retro-tech methods. The venue is Set Social in Peckham!

I finally have setup a new #permacomputing environment, a #raspberrypi 3B+. Right now I'm just running raspbian on it. Maybe I'll try another OS on this. #netbsd would be cool

Thanks to a book recommendation by @bert_hubert [1], I went on a tangent learning more about the absolutely fascinating history and workings of core memory (and core rope memory, its read-only version). Some of this also very interesting for #PermaComputing and giving me ideas for future art projects...

Apollo Core Rope Memory (restoration and read out of 50 year old memory from the Apollo Guidance Computer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0

Core Memory Explained and Demonstrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwsInQLmjXc

[1] https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/114760790691965256

Data Ecofeminism
by Ana Valdivia
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732027
#permacomputing

hi #permacomputers, #hackers, #bricoleurs

Starting to tinker with old/disused smartphones to self-host. However, upon buying a couple second-hand phones, I'm often faced with Google's FRP protection: you can only use the phone by connecting to the previous owner's google account. Factory reset doesn't solve this.
Do you have any trustworthy resources on bypassing this? terminal tools? forums?
Seems essentials to increase phone's lifespan.

thankssss

End of 10

If you know someone, friend, family, colleague, etc, stuck on windows 10, and you are nearby Amsterdam, De Versterking can help you switch to Linux at their anarchist repair café!

Tuesday, 24 June, 2025 - 18:00

"Support for Windows 10 is ending in October, and many older computers cannot upgrade to Windows 11. Installing Linux on your old computer can prolong its lifespan and help reduce e-waste. Bring your computer and we'll help you with the installation process."

https://radar.squat.net/en/event/anarchist-repair-cafe/2025-06-24/end-10

Upcoming #permacomputing meeting (edition 3) in #vienna!

- Tuesday, July 15th 19:00
- This time we'll meet outside at Auer-Welsbach-Park (close by Schönbrunn)
- "Batteries included!" (scnr) 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 of http://permacomputing.net/ is very welcome, whether you're just curious or already a seasoned permacomputer, we're glad to have you! :)

Exact meeting spot in the park is still tbd, but our batterista of the evening @Ansimorph will be able to supply it at some point between now and the meeting itself, so keep an eye out for that (I'll relay it too then).

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If you're not on Wayland make sure to install plasma-x11-session to avoid hiccups when upgrading to Plasma 6.4. One of my machines is a very old i7 from around 2012 running #nvidia 4xx driver that can't run #wayland.

This absolute gem of a talk deserves millions of views and likes!

AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing
https://youtu.be/pdYT1vUrj34
Recorded Fri 12 Jul 2024
Uploaded Fri 22 Nov 2024

by rolltime @rolltime

Slides, references & links:
https://rollti.me/hope2024

Help save Philly's local solarpunk bookstore! Iffy Books, which has offered everything from books on permaculture to first aid workshops to open hours for soldering assistance, needs your help. Please share this letter widely!

I've been grateful for the opportunity this space offered me to rekindle my relationship with digital art for merch and run solar art and queer zine workshops. Iffy Books is irreplaceable in our community. To keep offering programs and resources that foster climate activism, right to repair, and skill sharing in Philly, we need to take action now.

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