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Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

Definition and purpose of permacomputing: http://viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html

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[–] wildcherry@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago
  1. We had a perfectly fine system to download videos without the need for polluting data-centers but capitalism took it from us. Remember gnutella (shareaza). Remember the pirate bay.
  2. What they are advocating for ("Energy efficiency, human efficiency, financial efficiency") sounds liberal to me. The Lean movement was something along the line of taylorism to squeeze more money out of the worker.
  3. Seriously I am all for decreasing consumption in data-centers. Now we all had this guy who takes planes and take his cars everyday and produce more plastic than a family of four being like "curious, you're on your computer, did you know that pollutes too?". Sounds like deflation to me.