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commit 00ee0aa412305b03cb876320b2ab735e6748c1fd
parent d72afb86c6f957692f86f5257983c1376722b9fc
Author: ugrnm <ugrnm@web>
Date:   Wed,  4 Nov 2026 19:10:16 +0100

merged

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diff --git a/issues.mdwn b/issues.mdwn @@ -15,12 +15,10 @@ following a harmful agenda, these would probably be their design principles: * destroy communities * achieve monopoly -While the industry is rarely discussed in this way, there are increasingly -well-documented issues in the dominant computational cultural paradigm which all -together help better explain how such a harmful agenda can emerge explicitly or -implicitly. +While the industry is rarely discussed in this way, there are countless +well-documented proofs that the dominant computational cultural paradigm greatly accelerates harm. -Additional topics to explore: +The properties of such systems are: * **inaccessible:** [[greenwashing]], [[Californian ideology]], [[otherness]], [[pseudosimplicity]] @@ -33,11 +31,23 @@ Additional topics to explore: * **extractivist:** attention economy, capitalism, [[Big Tech]], neoliberalism -Properties of permacomputing systems ------------------------------------- +Permacomputing systems +---------------------- -The principles concretely manifest themselves in various forms so as to -highlight the following properties: +The design [[principles]] of permacomputing systems are: + + * Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst + * Care for All Hardware — Especially the Chips + * Observe First + * Not Doing + * Expose the Seams + * Consider Carefully the Interaction Between Simplicity, Complexity and Scale + * Keep It Flexible + * Build on Solid Ground + * (Almost) Everything has a place + * Integrate Biological and Renewable Resources + +The properties of such systems are: * **accessible**: well documented and adaptable to an individual's needs. * **compatible**: works on a variety of architectures.