Simon ReppAaand the next Vienna #permacomputing meetup is happening on:
July 14th, 19-22h (potentially outside, everything else tbd)
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Forum Informatik für Frieden„Neben der Debatte ums große Ganze wurde es auf der Konferenz in kleineren Seminarräumen auch konkret und praktisch: Das Projekt compost.party wirkt wie ein digitales Biotop. Im Kern handelt es sich um einen experimentellen Webserver, der auf einem alten Smartphone läuft und ausschließlich durch Photovoltaik betrieben wird. Anlass war ein Telefon mit defektem Display und ein geschenktes Solarmodul. Mit #PostmarketOS wurde aus dem Android-Gerät ein Linux-Server auf einem Dach in Berlin.
Das ungewöhnliche Setup ist nicht nur technische Spielerei, sondern programmatische Haltung: Das Projekt versteht sich als Teil #Permacomputing-Bewegung, also dem Ansatz, der digitale Technik im Sinne nachhaltiger, kreislauforientierter Praktiken neu denkt und dabei Fortschritt nicht über Wachstum und Austauschzyklen definiert, sondern über ihre Vereinbarkeit mit ökologischen Grenzen und langfristiger Funktionalität."
https://www.heise.de/news/Konferenz-Cables-of-Resistance-Widerstand-gegen-Big-Tech-11255512.html
barningLook i even wrote a blogpost about it!
https://niklasbarning.de/2026/04/14/in-defense-of-the-family-computer/
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/116392453149343715
Vienna #permacomputing meetup is happening today from 19:00!
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Note that Björn is jumping in for Bjorna (which we hope will get well soon!) for today's talk, otherwise we're sticking to the plan: Talk about computing that is more humane and future-compatible for us and coming generations!
tom jenningsI'm looking for text editors/word processors for CP/M and especially MP/M (there are many, and some are quite decent) and came across VEDIT, which name I guess I remember, but never used. It was commercial and I used two I had access to as was common.
New in 1978, it was actively maintained up through the late 80s, and the SAME SOURCE TREE compiles the CP/M-80, MP/M-80, and MSDOS 8086 versions!! Talk about #permacomputing.
It's in 8080/z80/8086 assembly language. THere's 20 or so source files, and some get passed through more than once. It's wild.
It relies on the TDL/PSA assembler PASM, which I used for years, both CPU versions, though it's been so long I might as well have not used it as far as memory goes.
The authors have released source to it all. I may have successfully compiled it on the z80; tomorrow I'll see if I can tell.
Its complicated.
https://github.com/johnsonjh/VEDIT
It's pretty freakin' amazing that it persisted for so long, and still does, more or less.
Ridgewood Commons
Aaro KoskinenAttempting to fix USB gadget DMA regression on OMAP1 15xx, after 21 years or so: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-omap/ad0[email protected]/T/#u
'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_Someone in the permacomputing XMPP chat just updated Linux on the Wii to 7.0
https://github.com/Wii-Linux/wii-linux-ngx/pull/13
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People's Permacomputer ProjectWRDPRO
Word Processing Text Editor Rev. 1.1
John W. Swain
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INC. Brown, R.W. (1977) Basic software library. 7, professional programs Vol 7. Key Biscayne, Fla: Scientific Research Inst.
This program is designed to allow owners of micro-computers the capability of rearranging text material and then printing it out in a variety of formats. While this version is not quite as comprehensive as our WWP rev:30 program, it should easily run on most systems with disk extended Basic and 15K Bytes of free user memory for execution.
