commit ad55e83af5906659823144a8271a563470be0f69
parent a27613f8c6ccae77a3b06342175ae186b6a7c4ef
Author: brendan <brendan@web>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:17:23 +0100
add a bit more about with some technical background
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diff --git a/about.mdwn b/about.mdwn
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ Are you looking to understand the effects of computer use in your community, exp
At the same time, we're not here to help you [[greenwash|greenwashing]] your new "sustainable" technology startup, green AI, ecological web3 funding, circular crypto carbon credit program, and other nonsensical technosolutionist forms of climate denial and white [re]centering privilege. For these cases, please go elsewhere :)
-Contact us!
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+How does the actual site work?
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-The Permacomputing wiki is facilitated by [[ugrnm]] and [[viznut]]. Its content is written by (in order of registration): [[neau]], [[thgie]], [[akkartik]], [[aw]], [[orx]], [[dusan]], [[katía]], [[luen]], [[suj]], [[cmos4040]], [[giz]], [[pixouls]], [[wakame]], [[decentral1se]], [[clwil]], [[brendan]], [[sister0]], [[kattrali]]
+This site and a few other Permacomputing sites run on a small (1GB) VPS generously donated by [[Servus|https://core.servus.at/]]. The physical hardware is located in the [[Statdwerkstatt|https://stwst.at/]] in Linz, Austria.
-You can reach all of us at once by sending an email to:
+We strive to make the site reflect the principles we articulate here, so you probably notice a somewhat "bare bones" design with very few images and no custom fonts or fancy interactive features.
- **permacomputing / a t / bleu255 \ dot \ c o m**
+The site uses a [[static site generator]] to build HTML versions of the pages only when they are edited. The only dynamic components are the editing and search functions. For our system administration, this makes things much simpler to understand and maintain.
HTTP vs HTTPS
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ Install Notes
If you are curious how this was all installed and configured, we took some notes on [[this page|installing]].
+Contact us!
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+The Permacomputing wiki is facilitated by [[ugrnm]] and [[viznut]]. Its content is written by (in order of registration): [[neau]], [[thgie]], [[akkartik]], [[aw]], [[orx]], [[dusan]], [[katía]], [[luen]], [[suj]], [[cmos4040]], [[giz]], [[pixouls]], [[wakame]], [[decentral1se]], [[clwil]], [[brendan]], [[sister0]], [[kattrali]]
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+You can reach all of us at once by sending an email to:
+
+ **permacomputing / a t / bleu255 \ dot \ c o m**
