Post by @lrhodes@merveilles.town

Here's an interesting paper that breaks sustainable computing down into five principles:

1. minimization of unnecessary abstraction layers;
2. reduction and exposure of background processes;
3. support for attentional continuity;
4. prioritizing clarity over feature expansion;
5. enhancing predictability.
https://ijecs.in/index.php/ijecs/article/view/5492

International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science

This paper argues that retrocomputing constitutes a conceptually productive model for rethinking sustainability in contemporary computing. Early computing systems operated under strict hardware constraints, necessitating efficiency, clarity, and minimalism in both software and interaction design. In contrast, contemporary systems are frequently characterised by computational excess, software bloat, and attention-fragmenting interfaces. Drawing on examples from early home computing and command-li

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tante

@tante@tldr.nettime.org 2 days ago

@lrhodes kinda wondering where the slopp image comes from. It's not in the paper and not on the site?

aspragg

@aspragg@ohai.social 7 hr. ago

@tante @lrhodes In that case, is there a reasonable chance that the paper itself isn't slop? Given the preview image, I was going to just skim the "urgh, slop" comments here and skip the paper entirely.