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decentralization, permacomputing, solarpunk, etc

2026.08.02@252 No.19
how do you all feel about the ethos of these things?

at least aesthetically, I've been pretty enamored with things like uxn (https://100r.co/site/uxn.html) and basically everything by 100 rabbits.
tl;dr: it's a (very) small vm, 64kb of memory, two 256 byte stacks, 16 "devices" under the idea that it functions as a "universal virtual machine that can be expected to remain compatible with any software that has ever been written for it". it's ~100 lines of C89

permacomputing generally is "a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture" (https://permacomputing.net/), very much in line with this vibe.

and then of course there are decentralized networks like the og secure scuttlebutt (https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/). recently i've been following https://willowprotocol.org/ and they recently launched http://sneakerweb.org/ which seems super neat
2026.08.02@261 No.20 « >>23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYp7jZEgYw
its cool but gives schizo (urbit kind) vibes, I interacted with them on /g/ around 2018/19.

i don't know what i should do to regain this type of curiosity in programming; the only thing that matters to me is making shit go as fast on as big of a scale as possible (${biglab} gpu psychosis); I've stripped it all bare and now I am left with just a shell; the emperor has no clothes.
2026.08.02@264 No.23
>>20
>i don't know what i should do to regain this type of curiosity in programming; the only thing that matters to me is making shit go as fast on as big of a scale as possible (${biglab} gpu psychosis); I've stripped it all bare and now I am left with just a shell; the emperor has no clothes.

i am trying to recapture this for myself. it's very hard. i think that's part of why i made this forum and weft - it was a nice creative exercise with basically 0 stakes
2026.08.02@673 No.26
>decentralization
a shame that this was sort of tainted by the whole crypto grift but imo this is fundamentally a beautiful idea that has been lost. big reason why i am so excited when you showed me weft

what is missing rn is making the "decentralized" options as accessible to everyone as the centralized counterparts. imo github should not have been a thing in the first place
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2026.08.03@268 No.74
i also remembered cabal chat exists (https://cabal.chat/implementors-guide.html). other cool things to look at include https://www.iroh.computer/ and it's always fun to see what https://www.inkandswitch.com/ is up to.

and checking back in on ssb, patchwork (the client everyone uses) has been frozen and "deprecated" since 2021 with the hope that some other clients would take over, but no one ever really built anything as good. but thankfully within the last few months someone resurrected it as Poncho Wonky (https://github.com/soapdog/patchwork) with bugfixes and new features. looks like there's still a community on ssb, however small

how do people feel about bsky and atproto btw? I love atproto, I think it's exceptionally well designed and solved a LOT of problems that things like ActivityPub (what the fediverse mostly runs on) suffer from. but i find the actual community on bsky insufferable

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