Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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Eternal Software Initiative: Preserving Today's Technology For The Nex 1000 Years (github.com)

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

I kinda don't believe they will be successful in this. Like it's just one guy, and the goals are extremely huge. But maybe he makes it.

[–] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I’d imagine Nix (or even GUIX) would be a great tool but predictably they aren’t using it.

Here’s an article I remember reading a while back where the author revives a 15 year old package using nix: https://blinry.org/nix-time-travel/