Please enjoy the first zine produced by the People's Permacomputer Project.

It is intended for educational instruction for children.

Digital literacy is a very important life skill, and we hope to contribute to better human-computer interfacing.

https://permacomputer.solarpunk.au/?p=163

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #retrogames #retrogaming #basic

This week at Ridgewood Commons #nyc #nycevents #mutualaid #permacomputing

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Ridgewood Commons Schedule 4/13-4/19 Monday 13 8:00AM-10:30AM Food Pantry Distribution 7:00PM-8:15PM Yoga 8:15PM-9:00PM Meditation Tuesday 14 12:00PM-6:00PM Open Office Hours Come cowork on your own stuff or plug in and work on ours 6:00PM-9:00PM Permacomputing Meetup Demo of "jailbreaking" to get old devices running again, bring any old devices/phones/game systems you want to experiment with. 7:00PM-9:00PM Letter Writing to Political Prisoners 8:00PM-11:00PM Circuit Hacking Buy a project ($2-5) or bring something to work on. Food pantry delivery sorting 9:30PM-11: 30PM Wednesday 15 8:00AM-10:30AM Food Pantry Distribution Thursday 16 6:00PM-9:00PM Common Threads: A Solidarity Craft Circle Friday 17 9:00AM-10:00AM Meditation Saturday 18 10:00AM-1:00PM CSA Farmshare distribution CSA distro + fresh-brewed coffee, see ridgewoodfarmshare.nyc 12:00PM-2:30PM Youth Tutoring 2:00PM-8:00PM Mercado Caracol Sunday 19 2:00PM-4:00PM Clothing Swap 7:30PM-9:00PM Community Dinner See instagram for more info: @ridgewoodcomms_dinnerz 9:30PM-11:30PM Food pantry delivery sorting See site for event links and details - ridgewoodcommons.nyc

I'm looking for text editors/word processors for CP/M and especially MP/M (there are many, and some are quite decent) and came across VEDIT, which name I guess I remember, but never used. It was commercial and I used two I had access to as was common.

New in 1978, it was actively maintained up through the late 80s, and the SAME SOURCE TREE compiles the CP/M-80, MP/M-80, and MSDOS 8086 versions!! Talk about #permacomputing.

It's in 8080/z80/8086 assembly language. THere's 20 or so source files, and some get passed through more than once. It's wild.

It relies on the TDL/PSA assembler PASM, which I used for years, both CPU versions, though it's been so long I might as well have not used it as far as memory goes.

The authors have released source to it all. I may have successfully compiled it on the z80; tomorrow I'll see if I can tell.

Its complicated.

https://github.com/johnsonjh/VEDIT

It's pretty freakin' amazing that it persisted for so long, and still does, more or less.

Someone in the permacomputing XMPP chat just updated Linux on the Wii to 7.0

https://github.com/Wii-Linux/wii-linux-ngx/pull/13

👀👀👀

#permacomputing #wii #nintendo #foss

L.E.D.

Line-Oriented Text Editor Arnie Lee ABACUS SOFTWARE Published: Compute! Magazine; Feb, 1981. The LED is line-oriented as opposed to word-oriented. As such, it cannot be considered a true word processor although it does provide many of the same capabilities as many of the other commercially available word processors. In fact, a slightly modified version of the LED was used to create this article.

https://permacomputer.solarpunk.au/?p=117

#basic #retrocomputing #permacomputing

Trying to figure out how to love computing (and tech) again, at least in the way I used to be passionate about it. I'm finding #permacomputing was the thing that used to always hit so close to my heart, part of it just felt right somehow. But I never was able to find the kind of community I'm looking for, I've been to build clubs and hackerspaces and such, but they never felt like permacomputing spaces, instead they focused on the easiest way to get any project done, rather than trying to be the most effective in materials and power usage. Wondering if anymany else has had this experience, and if they found knowledgable communities they could learn from.

I know that there is a group on the fediverse connected to permacomputing, but it's more a format to occasionally see interesting things, rather than be able to effectively ask for tips with projects.

please enjoy the new Dandelion BASIC logo!

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #basic

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@praxeology/116359342933769761

the next #berlin #permacomputing meetup is coming up featuring @exquisitecorp and its happening at @xHain_hackspace!

lee boosted

Hart of the Wud » 🌐 2026-04-06
@praxeology@post.lurk.org

The next Berlin #PermaComputing MeetUp:

L5: A Creative Coding Response to Permacomputing

with @exquisitecorp

19. April 2026 at 16:00
- xHain hack+makespace -
Grünberger Str. 16

L5 is a creative coding library in the family of Processing languages, implemented in Lua with LÖVE. It attempts to reckon seriously with principles of permacomputing, including design and documentation for offline use, suitability for older hardware, design for longevity, and exposing the underlying infrastructure. After a brief presentation and discussion of the project, we'll discuss where it aligns and where it strays from permacomputing.

https://l5lua.org/
https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
@xHain_hackspace

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some pixelated permacomputing inspired pixels

The next Berlin #PermaComputing MeetUp:

L5: A Creative Coding Response to Permacomputing

with @exquisitecorp

19. April 2026 at 16:00
- xHain hack+makespace -
Grünberger Str. 16

L5 is a creative coding library in the family of Processing languages, implemented in Lua with LÖVE. It attempts to reckon seriously with principles of permacomputing, including design and documentation for offline use, suitability for older hardware, design for longevity, and exposing the underlying infrastructure. After a brief presentation and discussion of the project, we'll discuss where it aligns and where it strays from permacomputing.

https://l5lua.org/
https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
@xHain_hackspace

Early explorations toward #permacomputing from the theorem proving research crowd!
https://khoury.northeastern.edu/~cmartens/papers/plateau26-itfp.pdf
https://khoury.northeastern.edu/~cmartens/talks/plateau-itfp-talk-slides.pdf

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Have you ever tried to read or run someone else’s mechanized development from more than 5 years ago? Keep your hands up if you succeeded.

👩‍🎤…I still got some #punk rock cred! So, it's last session after 3 days of #UndoneCS. I admit I zoned out, had trouble concentrating on Nils Bonfils' talk “Cultivating a Historicist Sensibility through Permacomputing”.
Through my mind haze, I hear Nils say the word “#anarchist”, then, “#anticapitalist”. Suddenly I'm wide awake & completely focused.
#PunksNotDead

I'm glad too as this #permacomputing stuff is extremely interesting & definitely important to future of #FOSS.

https://www.undonecs.org/2026/abstracts/UndoneCS26_abstract_47.pdf

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In a drawing in red and white, the lead singer of the UK Punk Band, The Exploited, holds a microphone with his mouth wide open and a mohawk that reads "Exploited". Stylized text of "Punk's Not Dead" appears in the far right corner.

Is there such a thing as high-performance #permacomputing ?
On one hand, HPC implies centralization. On the other hand, some important tasks like weather prediction or build farms benefit everyone and require centralized infrastructure.

Here are some pics from my permacomputing talk at minidebconf; I had another talk about "How i got into Free Software / Prav", It was so much fun , I didn't know I looked this cool , all thanks to @ravi @NLBRT @badri for clicking the shots

read the alt text on pics, they are fun

Many people were asking me for slides, here you go, yes they are rad - https://codeberg.org/untrusem/Talks

#permacomputing #debian #fedi

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A cool looking person (Me) introducing themself, I am standing there, directing my right hand to my presentaiton that shows my introduction slide (this was the 4 slide actually)

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Me presenting a slide about how sam altman wants to scan irises of every human being and why he wants to do it. The picture is shot with a 2009' nikon camera, its has movie look to it

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B/W Side shot of me explaining about .. actually I forgot, will need to check the talk recording, it looks so cool !

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This is me talking about how billions of dollars are not enough for billionaires and why they need more money, in the slide, there is a meme that reads "Why u no, give me money?" , The shot has pinkish feels to it.

#permacomputing

EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OK
Implementing a tiny virtual machine, assembler, and compiler

The thesis of Tre O’Neal
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7765&context=theses_etds

#uxn #permacomputing

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Finally, and arguably most importantly, this project reflects an interest in creativity and independence in computing. Building an entire software ecosystem, from a low- level virtual machine to an assembler and compiler – can be both educational and empowering. I bring up a lot of the reasons behind why I took specific approaches while creating the software for this thesis, but by far the most important aspect was that I was having fun – it is entertaining to make things, whether they are software or other creative activities like writing or painting or music – and by the end of it, you have a cool project that you created entirely by yourself, that is just as fun to play around with as it was to make

#uxn #permacomputing #solarpunk :)

transcript at 100r.ca

#permacomputing

#uxn #permacomputing #assembly

#lowtech #permacomputing