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Simon Forman<p>I suspect that Prof. Wirth's Oberon RISCV (not to be confused with RISC-V) is the simplest open well-documented 32-bit CPU:</p><p><a href="https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC-Arch.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-</span><span class="invisible">relatedWork/RISC-Arch.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://projectoberon.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">projectoberon.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Yes? No? Other candidates?</p><p>👉 Simple<br>👉 Open<br>👉 Well-documented<br>👉 32-bit</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a></p>
eyes<p>Just learned about this sick feminist hacker group that made a technique for creating PCBs out of locally harvested clay instead of plastic! Ofc the PCBs will have to be pretty simple, but ill bet you could totally make an arduino with this!</p><p>Really want to test this out and do a workshop at Sandbox (our local hackerspace) if this works!</p><p><a href="https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feministhackerspaces.cargo.sit</span><span class="invisible">e/Clay-PCB-Tutorial</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sandboxatl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sandboxatl</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hackerspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackerspace</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a></p>
Petrus Hilarius<p>The MIDI standard was introduced in 1983 and it's still in use today. Think about THAT when you design your next protocol. The MIDI standard allows digital musical instruments from different manufacturers to work together, doesn't matter if one is from 1985 and the other is from 2025. Think about THAT when someone tells you to force obsolescence in your product or to violate standards in the name of "innovation" as it were.</p><p>Now granted, most big musical instrument companies have been sabotaging MIDI quite a bit in recent years. They've mostly done this by neglecting the requirement for comprehensive documentation of their MIDI implementations. That's terrible, but it's still possible to reverse engineer their shit. At a huge and completely unnecessary cost, but hey, that's what we get.</p><p>Most importantly so far no company has dared to release a commercial digital instrument (that I know of) that explicitly does NOT support MIDI. (Although some seem to have only USB MIDI anymore?) Seems like a victory for standards and digital longevity to me.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/midi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>midi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/plannedobsolescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plannedobsolescence</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>Of course anthropologists wouldn't know, and they don't have to know, it's not their métier... but twist that 90 degrees and it's a directed acyclic graph.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/khipus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>khipus</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>By the way, Khipus are fascinating. If you're so inclined, these New Scientist articles are excellent. Not sure much progress has been done since then, but I will dig deeper.</p><p><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931972-600-we-thought-the-incas-couldnt-write-these-knots-change-everything/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/mg239</span><span class="invisible">31972-600-we-thought-the-incas-couldnt-write-these-knots-change-everything/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725135-000-inca-bean-counters-used-string-theory/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/mg187</span><span class="invisible">25135-000-inca-bean-counters-used-string-theory/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/khipus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>khipus</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>In essence, you’d have a hybrid machine:</p><ul><li><p>Electronic control from retrocomputing hardware.</p></li><li><p>Symbolic storage in textile knots (khipus).</p></li><li><p>Cultural continuity with both Jacquard and pre-Columbian computing.</p></li></ul><p>Tried and true. At least the last 500 years or so.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rc2014</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/harlequin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harlequin</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ZxSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZxSpectrum</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>A Harlequin or RC2014-based Khipu-weaving symbolic persistence device would do three things at once:</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rc2014</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/harlequin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harlequin</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZXSpectrum</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>Big idea: a Harlequin or RC2014-based Khipu-weaving symbolic persistence device.</p><p>Wouldn't it be nice if such theoretical device were possible? And it would reunite electronic and electro-mechanical computers with some of their tangential ancestry of the Jacquard loom in some ways.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/khipu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>khipu</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/khipus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>khipus</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>Stockpiling components under the right environmental conditions would make a huge difference in how long they survive and remain usable in a no-new-production world.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>Big Picture:</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a></p>
Ramin Honary<p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://oldbytes.space/@haitchfive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>haitchfive</span></a></span> hashtag <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/permacomputing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#permacomputing</a></p>
Stephen<p>This brings new meaning to the word vapourware! It should be possible to serve a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bespokejs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bespokejs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/slideshow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slideshow</span></a> from one of these suckers:<br><a href="https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/p</span><span class="invisible">rojects/vapeserver/</span></a><br>Or, for that matter, any of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@caolan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>caolan</span></a></span>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permacomputing</span></a> Servers with Personality:<br><a href="https://caolan.uk/links/servers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">caolan.uk/links/servers/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
gábor ugray

Bogdan, who is sadly not on Mastodon, built a web server from a disposed vape.

On the one hand, what has the world come to, treating 32-bit processors faster than our youth's computers as disposable...

OTOH, the sheer amount of cool we can do by just repurposing the trash shat out by rampant consumerism!

bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/p

#Permacomputing FTW

BogdanTheGeek's Blog · Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable VapeSomeone's trash is another person's web server.
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ruri

#linux #wii #permacomputing

Some more photos I took when I was using NetSurf on wii-linux-ngx to see what modern websites still worked:
* a friend's website (ahti.space/~nortti/)
* lobste.rs
* pretty much any static, JS-less site

I _kinda_ want to use this thing as a daily driver. I might need to use an older version of Debian for lighter packages, but this actually has zram which helps a bundle

NOMA Calendar

PermaComputing _Wild Wiki Workshop_ with Well Gedacht Publishing

Offline, Sunday, September 14 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

PermaPublishing Collective Hacking Session
September 14th
14:00 – 18:00 at Offline
Lichtenrader Str. 49, 12049 Berlin

A PermaPublishing session exploring the complete pipeline from collaborative wiki content to physical publications using low-tech, permacomputing approaches. Well Gedacht Publishing will share their wiki-2-print workflow that they used to create their latest zine publication, Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit. Starting with DokuWiki markdown files, we'll walk through the entire process of script-based conversion with pandoc until you have a print-ready PDF.

The hands-on session focuses on our relatively simple workflow, together with DIY print formats. We'll work with dot-matrix line printers to create zines, develop useful, polemic and fun how-to guides, and explore alternative publishing methods that bridge web-2-print and community publishing practices.

The workshop welcomes DIY publishers, wiki enthusiasts, all those who are curious about low-tech printing, zine makers, and anyone interested in permacomputing approaches to publishing. We'll discover practices of semi-automated content conversion, experience with alternative printing techniques, and (hopefully) leave with a collaboratively created publication.

Bring a laptop if you have one, along with any content which you can use for wiki-2-print. We'll have one or two dot-matrix printers, and provide conversion scripts, the pandoc setup, and printing materials.

https://publishing.wellgedacht.com/
https://toolkit.wellgedacht.org/

calendar.noma.garden/event/per

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