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1 This website is a [[wiki]] dedicated to [[permacomputing]]. 2 3 We want to encourage discussions presenting an inspiring future as well as research and projects on how they can become reality. Permacomputing starts with questioning and reducing computer use, a focus on repair, and then designing future computing with the biosphere and human life in mind. 4 5 Is this for you? 6 ---------------- 7 8 Are you looking to understand the effects of computer use in your community, experiment with projects, create art about alternative futures, and/or join or organize local groups? Then yes! And there's more about these ideas in [[getting_started]]. 9 10 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 :) 11 12 13 How does the actual site work? 14 ------------------------------ 15 16 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. 17 18 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. 19 20 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. 21 22 23 HTTP vs HTTPS 24 ------------- 25 26 It is possible to consult this wiki on port 80, that is to say using <code>http://</code> instead of <code>https://</code>. The reason to keep providing such access is to allow modest but capable computers, as well as simple/legacy browsers, to access the content. Note that when registering, authenticating or editing, you will be redirected to port 443, <code>https://</code>. 27 28 29 Local/Offline copies 30 -------------------- 31 32 We use [[ikiwiki]] as wiki compiler. This wiki exists in fact as a collection of plaintext source files that are automatically turned into static HTML files whenever an edit is made to these source files. 33 34 Because these plaintext source files and HTLM files are very portable and easy to copy, you are encouraged to have local copies in order to be less dependent on [[WWW]] or individual server installations. 35 36 See [[cloning]] to learn how to make local/offline copies. 37 38 39 Install Notes 40 ------------- 41 42 If you are curious how this was all installed and configured, we took some notes on [[this page|installing]]. 43 44 Contact us! 45 ----------- 46 47 The Permacomputing wiki is facilitated by [[ugrnm]] and [[viznut]]. Its content is written by (in order of registration): [[neau]], [[thgie]], [[akkartik]], [[aw]], [[orx]], [[dusan]], [[katÃa]], [[luen]], [[suj]], [[cmos4040]], [[giz]], [[pixouls]], [[wakame]], [[decentral1se]], [[clwil]], [[brendan]], [[sister0]], [[kattrali]] 48 49 You can reach all of us at once by sending an email to: 50 51 **permacomputing / a t / bleu255 \ dot \ c o m** 52 53 54