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Research needed… calling bullshit on the “for security reasons…” ongoing excuse for phone apps to advance AOS APIs

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The knee-jerk answer when an app pushes designed obsolescence by advancing the min Android API required is always “for security reasons…” It’s never substantiated. It’s always an off-the-cuff snap answer, and usually it does not even come from the developers. It comes from those loyal to the app and those who perhaps like being forced to chase the shiny with new phone upgrades.

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Reinventing How We Use Computers

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Nearly two years ago, I put into words the dream I had for a durable computer. A computer that would be built for a lifetime. A computer that would not do everything but could do 80% of what I expect from it. I called this idea the Forever Computer.

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The computer built to last 50 years

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How to create the long-lasting computer that will save your attention, your wallet, your creativity, your soul and the planet. Killing monopolies will only be a byproduct.

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Collapse Ready Operating Systems - OpenBSD

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From their intro post:

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Post Apocalyptic Computing

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First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released

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No need to circumvent anti-consumer mechanisms and risk bricking. This router is liberated by design.

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Coding for a Finite World

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Complexity and Accountability: A (Non-Environmental) Case for Rationing Computation

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ProtonVPN’s act of forced obsolescence + circumvention

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ProtonVPN did an API bump in this version: Version 2.7.56.1 (2021-06-18) which left everyone with an Android version older than AOS 6 in the dust. So I went to the archives and grabbed the version just before that one. Ran it for the first time, configuration wizard had no issues but as soon as I tried to reach out to the server it refused to stand up a tunnel saying my version was too old. Not only did they leave permacomputing folks behind for sustaining their still-quite-functional devices, but they proactively sabotaged us from the server side.

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The world is running out of sand

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I can hardly believe I’m not joking. And there’s chatter that “we are addicted to sand” (like the oil mantra).

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(permanetworking) uBlacklist -- a plugin to block bandwidth-abusing websites

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The enshitified web throws at us websites with autoplay videos that waste copious bandwidth. The waste is not just annoying and eco-hostile, but it sucks dry the credit of people on limited internet connections and grinds CPUs of #permacomputing folks to a crawl.

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Yeah, I have a PPC laptop that this happened to a few years back, which felt way too soon. It's in perfect working condition except for the battery.

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Yeah, I have a PPC laptop that this happened to a few years back, which felt way too soon. It's in perfect working condition except for the battery.

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Linux kernel will soon drop ~~i386~~ (32-bit) support

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The article title is “Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future” but according to the article Debian will drop i386 support because it will be dropped from the kernel. Seems like bad news for permacomputing folks.

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Metering bandwidth on a per-app/process basis, even website-specific

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Are there any Debian apps that will track bandwidth consumption on a per-app basis, and ideally website-specific when a browser with sandboxing has multiple tabs?

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Computing Within Limits 2023

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There’s another permacomputing community

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These two groups exist:

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An Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired From Permaculture

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Self-healing Systems & Permacomputing

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Digital pollution

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Old Computer Challenge 2023

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Optimize KDE for Long-Term Offline Computing

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This article sets out a vision for KDE (the free software desktop environment) written by Clinton Ignatov. It doesn't draw on permacomputing explicitly but it is nonetheless full of real-world examples of permacomputing principles, particularly less reliance on omnipresent networking. If you were on the techie end of the spectrum and looking for inspiration to put concepts into practice, IMO this is a great starting point.

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Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture

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From the Ninth Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS '23)

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