Vienna's third http://permacomputing.net meeting is drawing closer - 4 days to go!

* Tuesday, July 15th 19:00-22:00

* We meet outside in the south-east corner of Auer-Welsbach-Park (U4 Schönbrunn, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/219906996#map=17/48.187656/16.319772)

* Look for a handful of people with a picnic blanket and a battery-powered Casio Keyboard from the 90ies

* "Battery-powered Casio Keyboard from the 90ies??" ... Yes! Because our topic will be batteries: Building open source batteries, batteries and the energy transition, lithium mining, ethical ramifications, and so on.

* Anyone interested in the topic(s) of permacomputing is very welcome, whether you're just curious or already a seasoned permacomputer, we're glad to have you!

#wien #permacomputing

Wow. I never thought I'd live to see a remodel of the (NeXT?) font picker panel

The hardest part was setting up a python venv

✅ Successfully migrated from authy to ente auth with the help of mitmproxy

@katjaftw Besser vor als während des Bewerbungsgesprächs

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community

🔗 https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/

Upcoming #permacomputing meeting (edition 3) in #vienna!

- Tuesday, July 15th 19:00
- This time we'll meet outside at Auer-Welsbach-Park (close by Schönbrunn)
- "Batteries included!" (scnr) because ... our topic will be batteries: Building open source batteries, batteries and the energy transition, lithium mining, ethical ramifications, and so on.

Anyone interested in the topic of http://permacomputing.net/ is very welcome, whether you're just curious or already a seasoned permacomputer, we're glad to have you! :)

Exact meeting spot in the park is still tbd, but our batterista of the evening @Ansimorph will be able to supply it at some point between now and the meeting itself, so keep an eye out for that (I'll relay it too then).

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A few words on #faircamp and the future °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

1. A patch release is coming ~tomorrow, including a small but notable fix for browse/search as well as some translation tweaks.

2. With all @nlnet supported work completed I'm currently evaluating options to fund future developments:

* For one there are big things on the horizon that I believe at this point will still require institutional support to achieve. For this I'll be writing grant applications and see if some work can be funded that way (fingers crossed!)

* Until that is under way however (and these things take time), there's also numerous self-contained plans to pursue, and I'd like to try getting some of these directly funded by you the community if you're up for it. ;) More on that in the coming weeks and through summer probably!

3. For the time being and while I'm working almost exclusively on my own funds (save for donations - cheers everyone for your support!) I'm also investing a few days to design and develop tooling that will greatly help with release communication, and I eventually intend to release that to the public as free software as well! Things are already far enough that the upcoming #faircamp/#hyper8 releases will be assisted by this - attached I'm excited to share some screencaps! More info in this thread: https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/114631198105328899

My former employer is looking for an experienced web developer to join their team in #Vienna – highly recommend working with them! :)
https://www.fluxguide.com/jobs/
#fluxguide #jobs #webdev #FediHire #php #vue

Calculating water/energy usage for "AI" per token is a bit problematic: A data center has a massive base load even if nobody uses it just by sheer existence. And since we have no actual data for any of the popular platforms all numbers floating around are problematic and not very useful.

Like how much power does one of those servers+NVIDIA cards really save if its utilization is only 50%? And are the overhead costs actually counted?

LGM 2025 - Permacomputing: Fermenting Regenerative Aesthetics

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/6941db2d-31d7-4009-a76a-c66385f7e25b

Microsoft’s sustainability report that covers 2024 is now available - and it contains some interesting highlights so let’s dive in!

However, let’s start with what the report does not provide. Despite well over 100 references to “AI” the report does not provide much useful insights in how AI specifically impacts Microsoft’s sustainability report.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/05/29/environmental-sustainability-report/

Ein enorm wichtiger Vortrag zur Aktualität von #Faschismus auf der #rp25 #republica war von Natascha Strobl, "Vom Schwarzhemd zu TikTok. Postmoderner Faschismus".
Hier nachschaubar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPl_06J00h4

@Natascha_Strobl

📢 I have a big anouncement to make 📢

https://briefs.video/videos/introducing-webbed-sites/

Today I learned in order to write automated tests for iOS apps containing web views, the accessibility tree of the website is used to identify UI elements.
Which is the reason people recommend using aria-label and role to set non-human-readable IDs to facilitate these automated tests :/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33080796/how-to-add-accessibility-identifier-to-ios-cordova-webview-in-html#61888429

Vienna people: End of july/start of august there'll be a free workshop (a "two-week journey into the world of electronics") offered for girls and young women - sharing details below and in the attached flyer!

"This summer marks the launch of the free workshop "Volt&Byte"!
University lecturer Sonja Schobesberger will guide girls and young women of any knowledge levels and cultural or educational backgrounds on an exciting two-week journey into the world of electronics.

Designed to be culturally inclusive and gender-sensitive, this hands-on workshop welcomes participants who may have had little or no prior exposure to tech. Whether you're just curious or already a tinkerer, this is a space where everyone can learn, create, and experiment together.

This course in German, English or Farsi will take place at the Wissensraum of the ScienceCenter-Network and the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, including coding, building circuits, and making music with Arduino boards!

Registration:
Phone: +43 664 3900823

Email: voltandbyte@protonmail.com"

The little editor that could (ed)

https://slrpnk.net/post/22379065

@lawik I'm happy with https://www.inwx.de/en

@dave Semi-recent, but I keep coming back to Moin for Sophie Al-Marias lyrics and their own take on slow guitar loops
https://m-o-i-n.bandcamp.com/album/you-never-end

This guy isn't screwing around. https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection