20 random bookmarks

post-growth, sustainability, computing & kin.

2025-05-16

50.

homebrewserver.club

homebrewserver.club/pages/about.html

The homebrewserver.club is a monthly gathering for those who (wish to) host their own online services from home, rather than using commercial and privacy unfriendly alternatives. Together we config and work on our homebrew server setups. These are low-cost, low-power, low-maintenance, high-fun computers through which we can host all of our online necessities and keep them out of the cloud. The club meetings are open for anyone, from more experienced users to interested beginners. During the homebrewserver.club meetings we exchange tips or look into particular topics together. As we gain more knowledge about a topic, we write and publish guides for others to share.

2025-05-15

49.

About smolweb

smolweb.org

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

48.

Wilderland

wilderland.ie/projects/permacomputing.html

The digital world we live in is full of excesses. We have come to expect fast speeds, 100% up-time, high resolution and always accessible digital media. The primary version of this website reluctlantly aims to meet those expectations, while highlighting some these issues.

The main version of this site is accessible at all times of the day, but is housed on a self-hosted server, made from recycled, consumer-grade computer parts, on a domestic internet connection, and domestic electricity connection.

The remote website is most precarious, relying on solar power and cellular network, the main version of the website is slightly less precarious.

2025-03-26

42.

EU seals 'historic' pact on Serbia's lithium deposits

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4yg09rl8lo

The EU hails a deal with Serbia on lithium mining as a “historic day for Serbia, as well as Europe”. […]
Mr Scholz was keen to ensure his country’s auto industry was at the front of the queue for supplies.
Carmakers will need ever more lithium for batteries, as the transition to zero-emission vehicles accelerates – and Rio Tinto’s Jadar project could provide as much as nine-tenths of Europe’s current lithium needs.

2024-11-25

38.

Hallucinating Data Factories - Papertrail

papertrail.world/blog/hallucinatingfactories

With pairs of comically oversized exhaust pipes pointing towards the sky and enormous stacks of grey cooling aggregates flanking its sides, AMS09 resembles a child's drawing of an exaggerated, imaginary factory. Despite being painted in a variation of “Go Away Green”, a colour engineered by Disney to draw visitors’ gazes away from technical facilities across its amusement parks, the building miserably fails to blend in with its surroundings.

2024-11-20

36.

heatdeath (@heatdeath@autonomous.zone)

autonomous.zone/@heatdeath/113496299351672815

demo working finally! soft sculptures with phones hidden in them sending orientation sensor data to touchdesigner, which is driving the lights

2024-09-14

31.

nika: "here’s my web server inspired by compost.party (@…" - Indieweb.Social

indieweb.social/@nonnullish/113136959490155095

2024-09-10

30.

Handbook

eco.kde.org/handbook

This handbook provides a brief overview of environmental harm driven by software, and how the Blue Angel ecolabel—the official environmental label of the German government—provides a benchmark for sustainable software design.

2024-08-09

26.

http://badge.kaimac.org/

badge.kaimac.org

This page is being served from a from an EMF 2022 TiDAL badge. The badge contains an ESP32 microcontroller and runs MicroPython.

2024-07-09

22.

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

2024-07-02

19.

Rek Bell — image optimization

kokorobot.ca/site/image_optimization.html

The use of images increases the size of a web page which considerably lowers the load speed of the page. To improve the speed of your website it is important to consider compressing or resizing images.

2024-06-27

18.

Is your phone really smart?

www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/your-phone-really-smart

Around 80 per cent of the carbon footprint of a smartphone occurs during the manufacturing process, with 16 per cent down to consumer use and 3 per cent accounted for by transport. And as demand for smartphones rises, the lifespan of devices shrinks.

2024-06-21

17.

The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling

www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.

2024-06-16

15.

Media Search - Macaulay Library and eBird

search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog

Explore millions of photos, audio recordings, and videos of birds and other animals; powered by Macaulay Library and eBird. The Macaulay Library collects, archives, and distributes wildlife media for research, education, and conservation.

2024-06-09

12.

About the Solar Powered Website

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website

This website is solar-powered and self-hosted. It has been designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

2024-05-26

10.

A Feminist Server Manifesto - SystersWiki

hub.xpub.nl/systers/mediawiki/index.php?title=A_Feminist_Server_Manifesto

2024-05-13

8.

Sun Thinking

solarprotocol.net/sunthinking/index.html

Sun Thinking is a group exhibition that brings together artists, writers, and researchers to explore the qualities and logics of solar power and solar powered computing networks. It presents a collection of network-based artworks, games, texts, and interviews and is the first exhibition project to be hosted on the Solar Protocol network.

2024-04-11

5.

Oil in the Cloud

www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/oil-in-the-cloud

How Tech Companies are Helping Big Oil Profit from Climate Destruction

The world's biggest cloud providers and the world's biggest oil and gas companies are deeply interwoven, and machine learning algorithms and computational resources are accelerating extractivist capitalism.

4.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

2024-04-07

3.

permacomputing

www.permacomputing.net

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

In a time where computing epitomizes industrial waste, permacomputing encourages the maximizing of hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focusing on the use of already available computational resources.