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440 sats \ 10 comments \ @Fenix 4 Sep alter_native

I find this site while I read another one from the @scoresb post about a blog that used a Google Pixel 5 as a server because the name and theme take my attention. Using "old" technology to do things they're capable of, even when they weren't originally intended, is truly punk. Reading more about the principles I have this:

There are huge environmental and societal issues in today's computing, and permacomputing specifically wants to challenge them in the same way as permaculture has challenged industrial agriculture. With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism.

I saw many good approaches being taken by people called communists and all this meanwhile bs keywords, driving away people that could really help and enjoy make more about projects like this, anti-consumerism, sustainability and take care of your environment is all about don’t expend your money in new things when you can use old ones or try to fix them, if possible.

This projects don’t make me go away, I take what is good to use and spread, I give a shit about all the bs that remains. Whit this I want day to you do the same, don’t get afraid about keywords, read, see what's at the core, take the good stuff, and fuck the rest.

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292 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 4 Sep

I like this approach. Bitcoiners could use a healthy dose of not being afraid of keywords. Well said.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix OP 5 Sep

Bitcoiners could use a healthy dose of not being afraid of keywords.

Much better title.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 4 Sep

It doesn't happens every time as there is emotions involved.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai 4 Sep

There's a big problem with political labels in general, where the ideology imagined by someone adopting a label is rarely the same as the ideology imagined by someone using the label to describe someone else; and in many cases, these ideologies aren't even well-defined, and people just use the labels the way they would any other pejorative word.

I don't think it's good to outright reject these labels; however, I also think they're only useful in a context where there's an opportunity to agree on their definitions.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix OP 4 Sep

Sometimes I think people embrace those labels and claim they because they think that those things become their property. Like sustainability is a good way to don’t expend money, but many politicians and statesmen lovers corrupt it with more control against free market and freedom.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

It's likely because the project founder is not a serious person, and rather is someone who has been brainwashed by academic buzzwords that make them feel virtuous but have very little practical application.

I'd like to get to more sustainable computing, I think it's a good agenda. But the person who wrote this site isn't gonna be helpful in getting us there.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fenix OP 4 Sep

I agree. These people spout virtues while trying to enslave everyone who disagrees with their beliefs.

I hope these kinds of projects can bring useful things. I know it's very small and perhaps useless, but anything goes. Sometimes you can find gold disguised as shit.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

It's unfortunate that many well-intentioned people have been trained in the ways of "anti-capitalism", "anti-colonialism" and all that nonsense.

In my experience, I've interacted with many such people, in a workplace setting. They are very unproductive because they constantly complain about injustice. Fine, I see that there is injustice, but at some point we need to stop complaining and come to solutions. That is the pattern I see with people who use such words.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai 4 Sep

You misspelled Scoresby's nym! (forgot the trailing "y")

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix OP 4 Sep

True, Ty