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Author: ugrnm <ugrnm@web>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 19:02:23 +0100
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-There are several issues in today's computing.
+Computational systems today
+---------------------------
If the information and communications technology (ICT) industry was purposefully
following a harmful agenda, these would probably be their design principles:
@@ -30,3 +31,23 @@ Additional topics to explore:
* **failing:** [[silver bullet]], [[planned obsolescence]], [[wishcycling]],
[[software rot]]
* **extractivist:** attention economy, capitalism, [[Big Tech]], neoliberalism
+
+
+Properties of permacomputing systems
+------------------------------------
+
+The principles concretely manifest themselves in various forms so as to
+highlight the following properties:
+
+* **accessible**: well documented and adaptable to an individual's needs.
+* **compatible**: works on a variety of architectures.
+* **efficient**: uses as little resources (power, memory, etc) as possible ([[minimization]]).
+* **flexible**: modular, portable, adapts to various use-cases.
+* **resilient**: repairable, [[offline-first|offline first]], low-maintenance, designed for disassembly, [[planned for longevity|planned longevity]], [[maximized lifespan|lifespan maximization]], descent-friendly or [[designed for descent|design for descent]]
+
+Some additional concerns are of indirect interest because they impose costs on the entire end-to-end process of software creation:
+
+* it's [[bootstrapped|bootstrapping]] from machine code without circular reasoning (bootstrappable builds)
+* it's obvious what source code went into it (reproducible builds)
+* it's easy to audit its source code, including all dependencies
+
