So, about 20 miles away, there was a brilliant 19th century-era working village... Complete with a #blacksmith shop and old school #printing press! But sadly, it was disassembled and the land sold...
https://www.pressherald.com/2011/07/19/historic-gem-may-be-lost_2011-07-19/
Archived version:
https://archive.md/NwqMt
#Blacksmithing #TraditionalArts #LostArts #ForgottenArts #NoTech #LoTech #OldSchool #PrintingPresses #OldSchoolTech #Maine #Willowbrook
New-to-me, from University of Pittsburgh: The Text and ConText Lab’s Columbian hand press was added to a global database. “The Columbian hand press in the Text and conText Lab — a collaboration between Pitt’s Center for Creativity and University Library System — was recently added to the Association of European Printing Museums directory. The database has indexed the location and […]
@calisti @pluto @jak2k @alexis_roussel also it ridicules #ASIC use as well it's #centralization!
@[email protected] @[email protected] what makes #Bitcoin the real #shitcoin (along with basically everything that isn't #Monero) is that it's not only #PoW (#ProofOfWork) but also basically #ASIC-based, so that means literal metric tons of #eWaste get created every year producing those. - And since ASICs ain't like #CPU|s, #GPU|s & #FPGA|s, one can't even #reuse & #upcycle them for different workloads (like #Rendering and general-purpose #Compute) as they are absolutely inflexible in their use-case.
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