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The slow web is faster. Deux semaines de boulot pour écrire un billet qui n'intéressera pas grand monde mais qui m'a fait beaucoup de bien…
@tcrouzet je vais peut-être dire une ânerie, mais est ce qu'il y a une différence entre slow web et #smolweb ?
https://smolweb.org/
(Je demande parce que j'utilise notamment les valideurs smolweb pour refaire mon propre site statique, et s'il y'a d'autres ressources, je suis toujours preneur)
@urlyman Very inspired by e.g. https://small-tech.org and #smolweb , I have thought a lot about “human scale systems” the last few years. One of my most interesting observations, is that not even web search needs to be web scale. We tend to think of web indexes as huge beasts which need parallel processing to scan, but take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website) , to quote Wikipedia “As of July 2024, Pinboard contained 288 million bookmarks for 233 million URLs.” That probably contains all the pages you're actually interested in hitting, and that could even be searched with reasonable performance using a single system.
Many moons ago, at a water cooler talk where I worked back then, engineer A made fun of the tiny car engineer B used to get to work. I looked at engineer A and asked why it was stupid _not_ moving two extra tons of steel just to move yourself. And, remember, these were engineers, so that question hit the spot.
I agree: Too many things are too big and too much. And they often only need to be so... because _they_ need to be so, not because _we_ need them to.
…Yesterday, I left the funeral directors on my bicycle and directly outside had to sit on my bike at some traffic lights for several minutes in the early pre-weekend rush hour traffic.
I was surrounded by cars that are too big doing all kinds of stupid moves to try and get through the lights.
The racists are not the only problem. They’re just the obvious face of it. Everything that is too big and too much is also the problem. And we have to face that
@urlyman Very inspired by e.g. https://small-tech.org and #smolweb , I have thought a lot about “human scale systems” the last few years. One of my most interesting observations, is that not even web search needs to be web scale. We tend to think of web indexes as huge beasts which need parallel processing to scan, but take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website) , to quote Wikipedia “As of July 2024, Pinboard contained 288 million bookmarks for 233 million URLs.” That probably contains all the pages you're actually interested in hitting, and that could even be searched with reasonable performance using a single system.
Many moons ago, at a water cooler talk where I worked back then, engineer A made fun of the tiny car engineer B used to get to work. I looked at engineer A and asked why it was stupid _not_ moving two extra tons of steel just to move yourself. And, remember, these were engineers, so that question hit the spot.
I agree: Too many things are too big and too much. And they often only need to be so... because _they_ need to be so, not because _we_ need them to.
It has been 6 months since I passed my viva, yet I forgot to share my thesis here 
(due to it feeling unreal af... until... today 😊
It's called 'The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth'. In it I describe communities which give voice and shape to different definitions and roles for technology within the polycrisis: permacomputing, computing within limits, collapse informatics, salvage computing, slow tech, redundant technology, low-tech, feminist technology, convivial computing, disability driven development and more.
With contributions by so many amazing people! Including @ccl @alcstrt @anglk @amelia @decentral1se @cmos4040 @p_p @mara @reni @diacritter @constant @snisioi @rra @320x200 @wendy @kattrali @praxeology @michal @viznut @sister0 @pixouls @msavoritias @jonuriarte @smmrcr @hellocatfood @neauoire @rek @dougschuler @solderpunk @titipi @xocffoeg @aaaannet and more!
#happy #phd #permacomputing #lowtech #feminist #tech #smolweb #sustainability
It has been 6 months since I passed my viva, yet I forgot to share my thesis here (due to it feeling unreal af... until... today 😊
It's called 'The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth'. In it I describe communities which give voice and shape to different definitions and roles for technology within the polycrisis: permacomputing, computing within limits, collapse informatics, salvage computing, slow tech, redundant technology, low-tech, feminist technology, convivial computing, disability driven development and more.
With contributions by so many amazing people! Including @ccl @alcstrt @anglk @amelia @decentral1se @cmos4040 @p_p @mara @reni @diacritter @constant @snisioi @rra @320x200 @wendy @kattrali @praxeology @michal @viznut @sister0 @pixouls @msavoritias @jonuriarte @smmrcr @hellocatfood @neauoire @rek @dougschuler @solderpunk @titipi @xocffoeg @aaaannet and more!
#happy #phd #permacomputing #lowtech #feminist #tech #smolweb #sustainability
Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.
Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.
Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.
[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches
#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc
Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.
Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.
Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.
[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches
#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc
I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD
I still fire up #LibreWolf ( #firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.
I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD
I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD
I still fire up #LibreWolf ( #firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.
I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD
This is not okay.
I wonder if they also go after people who publish on their own websites instead of using big tech platforms.
#bigtech#smolweb
RT: https://noauthority.social/users/newman/statuses/115135482619274520
Je suis toute excitée d'annoncer
Il s'agit d'une plateforme d'écriture anonyme et minimaliste !
Avec :
Des thèmes hebdomadaires pour inspirer des textes courts de 300 à 1000 caractères.
Des publications quotidiennes des écrits de la veille qui créent des moments littéraires collectifs à 6h UTC.
Pas de création de compte nécessaire, juste des signatures facultatives.
Un contenu multilingue (sous-domaines EN/FR, et d'autres à venir).
Flux RSS pour une lecture plus "slow"
Compatible SmolWeb !!!
#SmolWeb #Ecriture #Fediverse #Litterature #Anonyme #Privacy #ViePrivée
Je suis toute excitée d'annoncer
Il s'agit d'une plateforme d'écriture anonyme et minimaliste !
Avec :
Des thèmes hebdomadaires pour inspirer des textes courts de 300 à 1000 caractères.
Des publications quotidiennes des écrits de la veille qui créent des moments littéraires collectifs à 6h UTC.
Pas de création de compte nécessaire, juste des signatures facultatives.
Un contenu multilingue (sous-domaines EN/FR, et d'autres à venir).
Flux RSS pour une lecture plus "slow"
Compatible SmolWeb !!!
#SmolWeb #Ecriture #Fediverse #Litterature #Anonyme #Privacy #ViePrivée
Excited to announce https://writes.casa/
This is an anonymous, minimalist writing platform!
With:
#SmolWeb #Writing #Fediverse #Literature #Anonymous #Privacy
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
