There's a solar-powered webserver and small web design workshop happening in Guelph! So awesome!

https://edvideo.org/blog/workshop/how-to-build-a-solar-powered-web-server/

"In their ongoing research and creative practice, Clendinning draws from media artist Carrie Hott’s Slow Internet ethos and the energy-responsive design strategies developed by the Solar Protocol Network, to advocate for web design that prioritizes the use of limited colours, fonts and lower resolution images."

#guelph #smolnet #slowinternet #solarprotocol

The Taliban has cut Wi-Fi in Mazar-e-Sharif and fiber optic internet across Afghanistan, citing "morality" concerns. High-speed internet restrictions may expand, impacting daily life, business, and access to information. 🌐 #Taliban #InternetRestrictions #Afghanistan #DigitalRights #SlowInternet

https://kokcha.news/8604/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

🌱 Planted myself in me.dm
If you’re into slow feeds and good thoughts, let’s orbit.

#Introduction #Fediverse #Mastodon #SlowInternet #WritingCommunity

If there is a website that requires you to register for no reason you can use https://bugmenot.com/ 🐞🚫 for an account-less experience.

#enshittification #slowInternet

Following on from yesterday's post, we thought we'd share this from @thecreativeindependent.com‬ 🐌

"...in the midst of the state of things, it’s nice to remind ourselves of the slow and quiet corners hiding in the folds of the net—like the Wilson Towercam—and to hope that we might continue to build them."

https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/on-observing-time/

#Articles #SlowInternet #Article

Downloading "Split Fiction" through the EA App made me face the issue of slow downloads once again. Now I figured it out and the download speeds are much better!

Fixing slow download speeds on Windows 11: https://samimaatta.fi/en/fixing-slow-download-speeds-on-windows-11/

#gaming #slowInternet #slowDownload

@lumecolca

We need a project like #Gemini (the protocol, not the dystopian massively-parallel-value-extractor) to establish protocols and services that work well at 128kbps.

That would be crazy cool.

We have #Gemini, we have the #SmolWeb, now we need #SlowInternet (on purpose).

Background: about half a decade ago, I purchased a pre-paid SIM with unlimited "2G"-speed internet connectivity.

I thought 128kbps would be more than enough for my needs.

Nope. Almost entirely unusable. Stuff would just fail gracelessly left and right, even though it was slowly-but-steadily getting the job done.

I had paid for a year in advance X'D

Using Amtrak's #wifi and reading news on #NPR and #CNN's text-only websites. They are much faster to load than the full version.

#smolweb #slowinternet

I have installed a fresh Operating System on my PC today.

I wanted to do that for a couple months already as my now old Manjaro installation showed some weirdness. (The install is from 2020 and was in daily use.)

What prompted me to now do it was Factorio stopped starting suddenly. Diagnosed the problem but could not find a way to get it working again. The game complained about a missing shared library but it was installed everywhere where steam and the game was looking.

This time I installed Feodra 41 KDE. Installation of the system was done really quick around 10min.

What took time was before installation of a new empty nvme ssd as I wanted to keep the old installation just in case.

And now what takes the longest because of slow internet: updates and installing all my programs. Still downloading stuff. I started at around 3pm and its now 10pm.

Slowly getting stuff setup and running again.

#Linux #Fedora41 #KDE #slowinternet #factorio #thefactorymustgrow #steam #SteamDeck

Looking at downloading MacOS 15 (Sequoia) - quite an upgrade from my MacOS 12 (Monterey). And boggling at just how many hours it would have taken to download the nearly 15GB update file on our home broadband before we upgraded to part fibre recently, and downloads increased tenfold ... #Broadband #ADSL #Fibre #PartFibre #Mac #MacOS #MacOS15 #MacOSSequoia #Sequoia #slowInternet #HomeInternet #HomeBroadband #slowBroadband

#Internet speeds in the country have dropped by 30-40% over the past few weeks, according to the Wireless and Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan (#Wispap). #IT companies say it has cost #Pakistan businesses hundreds of millions of dollars.

Pakistan businesses reeling from #SlowInternet blame testing for firewall
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/21/pakistan-businesses-reeling-from-slow-internet-blame-testing-for-firewall

Submarine Cable Fault Disrupts Internet Service in Parts of Pakistan.

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#InternetOutage #Pakistan #SubmarineCableFault #InternetDisrupted #PTAAlert #SlowInternet #InternetServicesDown #PakistanTelecommunicationAuthority #FaultyCableCausesOutage #topclaps

Ha! Fortune reads:

“Before you marry a person, you should make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”

Babe, my first modem was 300 baud. Then 1200, 2400, 2400 MNP5, 9600, 14.4k v.32bis, Telebit Trailblazer 19.2k, 28.8k, 56k…

I’ve see it all. Come at me.

#slowInternet #dialup #modem

🧊 Engineering for Slow Internet
by brr
#Antartica #SlowInternet #EngineeringSlowInternet #download

https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet

Running #GenerativeAI like #StableDiffusion with #DiffusionBee on my local machine reminds me of the days downloading #pr0n at 9600 bps with a dial-up modem. While the images would slowly load, I could get an idea if there was nudity. Unlike #text2image, where the entire process has to finish to see if it's [disfigured] or has [bad hands]. A nostalgic reminder of the days when we had to exercise patience in the face of slow internet speeds. #Nostalgia #DialUpDays #SlowInternet #AIArt

@szczezuja @bacardi55 I think there have been some nice community, federated and decentralised approaches emerging with #GeminiProtocol

Some cynicism may have kicked in from outsiders but the principles underpinning the protocol are there and there remain creative developments and articulate writings there.

So its all good, #SlowInternet rules - the clusterfuck from mainstream internet isnt abating, there will be alternative approaches waiting for all refugees.

Everyone knows that person 😂
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#chenelno1 #quoteoftheday2023 #slowinternet #angermanagement #quote

Offroader is an Android app that uploads media files to Wikipedia's media archive even if (for example in a catastrophic area) only a very slow and shaky internet connection is available and can also resume a broken upload over another connection or with another device and with minimal data usage.

#Offroader #Android #Wikipedia #Upload #Tempest
#SlowInternet #Stockfoto #MediaRepository
http://adp.gg/R/P/OFROAD

fwiw....
I was having #SlowInternet issues, and narrowed it down to some issue with a #BluetoothMouse, but was stuck with 6mbps speeds instead of my usual 80-120ish rates.

On a hunch and brief reference to something I didn't quite understand on a tech site, I logged my laptop into that mysterious "5G" channel my wifi offers (as opposed to its default 2.4g channel) - channel's probably not even the right word, but ANYway...

Speeds now jumped to 120 mbps or better.

Lesson learned!

@Aranjedeath I almost always browse with uBlock set to halt loading of any media larger than 1024KB and it's amazing (in a bad way) how much crap is bigger than a MB when it has *absolutely no reason* to be. Avatars, icons, mostly-transparent header images, etc. All sorts of junk. It's a disease.

And in the wild world of mobile apps, you typically don't even have that much control over what's being pulled down and why.

Maybe we could start some sort of Razzies-style anti-award for the worst, most flagrant misuse of users' bandwidth? Start naming and shaming sites, apps, and developers for their terrible behavior. Maybe staying off the Shit List would be a little bit of a motivator to scale those images, reconsider that font, think hard about that "cool" JS library, test that app on a 56kb simulator, etc.
#bandwidth #slowInternet #software #iOS #Android