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Discussion about permacomputing, small computing, post collapse computing, and related concepts. Considering the clearly related subs on bubble, I guess this sub acts as a place for higher level coordination of ideas in this space.
Gemini over LoRaWAN? — I'm fascinated by the idea of running a smolweb over LoRaWAN. Imagine a decentralized network of FLOSS-hardware devices, solar-powered, each running a gemini capsule and a relay (HAM radio style) to transmit data on to other points on the LoRaWAN mesh network. It's not a fast way to communicate, but smolweb gemini doesn't need to be. If LoRaWAN can reach 56.6kbps, it'd feel like the days of dialup, but... decentralized, solar-powered, and resistant to censorship. Has...
thinking about the idea of fault tolerant networks and protocols. There's a certain amount of overhead to sync-style protocols, and one aspect of this is that updates are tracked. They must be in the protocol, otherwise old versions may propagate. gemini specifically seems to have a gap here, in terms of versioning and proxies.
When it comes to arbitrary, "realtime" composability, the Unix model of files, streams, and processes has yet to be topped. GUIs are vey rarely composable, and also hard to script. It makes me think maybe composability has to be one dimensional, and textual. This idea that a keyboard is fundamental to a computer but a different pointing device doesn't feels slightly off. I wonder if there is an elegant multi dimensional method of composability which simplifies down to simple compute models and...
I managed to get a gemini capsule running on an old phone! it only starts listening on its port when I tell Agate where its content folder is, and goes down when I cancel that command. Not sure why. at least SSH works too, programming on a Blackberry keyboard is not easy. Still a fun way to use old phones.
A potential mental model: we cannot communicate. I need to *imply* a computer program by giving you a file to parse, based on the file contents, but I also need to create the file contents based on what you would also want the file contents to be given that we have the shared goal of independently writing a program to parse the file. Therefore we do not need to share anything and can write the program. Is this possible?
There are a lot of permacomputing adjacent subs but no actual permacomputing sub? I guess it makes sense because centralisation of terminology is a bad thing in a bottom up diverse ideology, but complexity also abounds from the Tower of Babel that bottom up systems create. I'm still trying to understand what I'm looking at and how. But jealous of, say, u/stack just straight up messing with Forth. I don't know how a permacomputing world can hang together.
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