Hart of the Wud

https://post.lurk.org/@praxeology

Artist, Reluctant Engineer

Web: http://wintermute.org
Office Hours: 19–22:00 Mon-Thu. & by appointment
Research Interests: [#permacomputing](https://post.lurk.org/tags/permacomputing ) [#screenless](https://post.lurk.org/tags/screenless ) [#woodworking](https://post.lurk.org/tags/woodworking ) [#foraging](https://post.lurk.org/tags/foraging ) [#bikebuilding](https://post.lurk.org/tags/bikebuilding )

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2026-09-10 17:59:31 UTC

Announcing the next #permacomputing Berlin Meet-Up
# Local Area Network Party #
> Mom can we get network? We have network at home.
Network at home is a LAN!
Join us for very local experiments with local-only networking: files, streaming, useful tools, databases and games. Bring a nice device. Bonus points if it has an actual wired Ethernet. People of all skill and interest levels are very welcome. But do note this event is exclusively for local-area-present people: If you want to enjoy it, you gotta be there!
15. Sept at 19:00
Hosted by /rosa
Heidelberger Str. 28
12059 Berlin
@npub1qpt…wz5d
https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
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2026-06-16 17:29:54 UTC

Hey Berlin #PermaComputing people!
# BYOD - BRING YOUR OLD DEVICE #
Go open that drawer where you put those old electronics that you saved because they "might be useful" some time in the future. That day has come! Gather your gadgets join us in a collective hacking and tinkering session. We can put our collective knowledge and skills together to see if some of the old techniques might be pleasant or profitable in our modern era. Or try to teach an old dog new tricks.
23. June. at 19:00h
Ultrabold, Blücherstr. 22
Court 3 – Entrance no. 6, 2nd level
10961 Berlin
https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
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2026-05-12 18:38:42 UTC

We're happy to announce the next #permacomputing #berlin meetup with the https://endoflife.date project:
** Software life, death and resurrection **
on Sunday May 17th, 18h00
at xHain, Grünberger Str. 16
Project initiator Nemo will share how and why this archive tracking soft- and hardware life-cycles was started, grown and maintained.
We are happy about curious minds and discussions around the PermaComputing perspectives on digital life, death and undeath: everyone interested in any of these subjects on any level is cordially invited to join us.
https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
[@xHain_hackspace](https://chaos.social/@xHain_hackspace )

2026-04-16 18:28:00 UTC

I made a smaller rustic chair for the kiddos. It's hazel sticks with a pear seat.
#woodworking #lumberpunk
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2026-04-11 16:22:23 UTC

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But I'm basically hoping to find something like what you describe.

2026-04-11 16:21:43 UTC

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I found some that have LiFePO4 batteries but they don't appear to be user-serviceable. Can you point to one that is?

2026-04-11 15:45:19 UTC

Does anyone know of a powerbank that has replaceable LiFePO4 batteries? I'd like to find something that's less disposable.

2026-04-06 19:11:09 UTC

The next Berlin #PermaComputing MeetUp:
L5: A Creative Coding Response to Permacomputing
with @npub1nyf…u6g0
19. April 2026 at 16:00
- xHain hack+makespace -
Grünberger Str. 16
L5 is a creative coding library in the family of Processing languages, implemented in Lua with LÖVE. It attempts to reckon seriously with principles of permacomputing, including design and documentation for offline use, suitability for older hardware, design for longevity, and exposing the underlying infrastructure. After a brief presentation and discussion of the project, we'll discuss where it aligns and where it strays from permacomputing.
https://l5lua.org/
https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
[@xHain_hackspace](https://chaos.social/@xHain_hackspace )

2026-04-03 17:57:46 UTC

I made some more progress on my woody cargo trike today.
Still need to finish the brakes and rear wheel but it feels great to push it around the parking lot for a test ride.
#bikebuilding #carryshitolympics
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2026-03-13 19:35:36 UTC

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Nice to see your pushback worked.
Now maybe somebody can explain the tragic irony of an organization called "Open Source Europe" choosing the open source platform… erm… Discord?!?! for all their support and news comms.
https://opencollective.com/europe/updates/big-updates-for-open-source-europe

2026-03-02 10:38:55 UTC

I recently got these rather fancy, but quite nice hall-effect rotary sensors. They basically work like potentiometers but they can rotate continuously. Since they don't have a mechanical wiper contact, they have an incredibly long lifespan.
Anyway, they have these rather nice looking but, to my eyes, rather over-dimensioned gold-plated lug contacts. I've never seen these before but I know there are designed for industrial applications and maybe this is just to seal the case from moisture/fluids.
So, I wonder if anyone knows what the best practice is for wiring them up. Are there some clips that can fit this or do I just need to get em real hot and solder some wires directly on?
#electronics
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2025-12-30 19:17:56 UTC

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:
- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains
As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:
"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."
In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

2025-10-19 11:02:32 UTC

The Berlin Indie Web Camp '25:
https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin
Looks like it might be fun. Anyone planning on going?

2025-09-08 18:13:24 UTC

The next #PermaComputing #Berlin meet-up will be a _Wild Wiki Workshop_ with @npub10jv…xxqx
This Sunday 14, Sept.
14-18:00h
@npub1ajs…40ga
Lichtenrader Str. 49, 12049 Berlin
Please join our collective publishing experiment.
More details: https://blog.wellgedacht.org/wgp/permapublishing-collective-hacking-session
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2025-07-06 20:18:41 UTC

Heads up #PermaComputing Berlin friends. Our next Meet-Up is approaching:
# permacomputing & postmarketOS #
13. July 2025 at 19:00
@npub1ajs…40ga
Lichtenrader Str. 49
Artist and Designer Chaline Bang ( @npub1pcg…72lr ) will talk about her personal adventures and collective experiments in permacomputing. She is a member of the Rotterdam-based research group _permacomputing evenings_ and will share how they learned to build servers out of obsolete smartphones using postmarketOS. The group conducted experiments into practical techniques and aesthetic approaches as well as organizing public events with outside researchers.
http://berlin.permacomputing.net
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2025-06-27 19:25:54 UTC

My latest refreshing creation: Firmematé
Hits the spot on those 30+′C dog days.
#fermentation
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2025-05-13 20:51:18 UTC

The next #PermaComputing Berlin Meet up is this Sunday 18. June:
## DITHERING HEIGHTS ##
Image dithering was once a clever trick for digital imaging on limited hardware in the 1980s. It largely faded from memory as higher power graphic hardware become more ubiquitous. But recently, among those of us interested in a smaller more efficient web, it is having a bit of a renaissance. However, it's not without its critics. This PMC Berlin session will demonstrate and discuss techniques and styles for making images as small as possible. Florian Stolzenhain will bring his ancient Mac and show us some possibilities. We will have a general discussion of limited-palette aesthetics, dirt-style compression and dithering discontents.
https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
at @npub1ajs…40ga
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2025-04-09 09:42:57 UTC

An organic, fair-trade, community-governed, collectively-owned, open-source oil rig is still an oil rig.
Intentions, governance, ownership, etc. are all super important, but you also need to be honest about what the thing does and the consequences.
I'm lookin' at you "Open-Source Local LLMs".

2025-03-24 14:52:00 UTC

I'm not the first one to notice this, but just now thinking about citations and provenance… Beyond all the debates about copyright, LLMs are very anti-academic. Their makers seem to feel that source and context don't matter; that knowledge is just a big homogeneous soup of text.
They also seem to have missed all the intellectual pleasure of digging into the references. You find so much cool, interesting stuff that way and have to consider the perspectives of the authors. The deep-dive through citations is one of the exciting parts of research.

2025-03-09 13:13:33 UTC

Our veggie dealer gave me some Chicory roots (Belgian endive) this week. I will try to roast one to make chicory coffee but I thought I would do a little #fermenting experiment.
I chopped the root up and threw it in with some yeast, lemon, sugar and a sprig of sweet clover. I suspect this will be super bitter but it's fun to work on my goal of making some DIY root beer / Malzbier.
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2025-01-30 14:49:05 UTC

Baby steps.
I made a little #rustic step-ladder for the living room using a maple yoke piece that I ripped down the middle. And I added a removable slide for the junior woodworkers to have a some indoor playground fun.
#woodworking
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2025-01-20 19:15:09 UTC

It's actually fine to not look at the news.
Ignore the news for a day, a week, a month or as long as you need to. It's completely fine.
You might feel a sense of responsibility as an informed citizen to keep up to date on current events. But subjecting yourself to constant exposure to upsetting minutiae about things that are far away that you have no influence or control over can be traumatic. And avoiding that painful experience is not the same as avoiding a direct personal problem that you need to face and deal with. It's actually a healthy, sensible choice to make.
Read a book, take a walk, bake some bread, call a friend, whatever.
Just don't look at the news if you don't feel up to it.
The world will be fine if you are not up to date on the latest shameless palaver. You might instead focus on some of the many really important and nice things that you actually can manage and negotiate that are much closer to home.

2025-01-04 21:19:37 UTC

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I don't know of any good apps but I can suggest some books of flora that are very systematic. They have these sort of flow-chart questions that can help you narrow down which plant you're looking at within a taxonomic family. The added benefit is that you actually start to learn to recognize patterns of plant anatomy.

2024-12-13 12:24:50 UTC

Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*.
"Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while."
"Right on."

2024-12-07 13:50:57 UTC

For some last-minute, end-of year #permacomputing joy, please join us in Berlin for a workshop:
## POST:COM:POST
** Regenerating rotting devices.**
* A Permacomputing Berlin Workshop *
15.12.2024 from 12-17:00h
kindly hosted by:
/rosa
Heidelberger Str. 28
12059 Berlin
In this workshop, we will attempt to install the Linux-based PostmarketOS on "obsolete" Android devices and find convivial new uses for them. This event will be more of a collective hacking and experimentation session than a traditional pedagogical instruction format. We can't promise to make every old device work again but we can offer a fun, informative and supportive environment.
For sign-up and more info: https://berlin.permacomputing.net/
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2024-11-23 09:52:46 UTC

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Are you sure that's allowed? That sounds like a ToS violation.

2024-11-22 10:38:13 UTC

What is your lifestyle?

2024-11-20 10:54:46 UTC

The Next #permacomputing #Berlin Meet-Up Will Happen
29. November, 2024 at 19:00
Lichtenrader Str. 49
https://offline.place/
This meet-up presents BesserAlsNeu, a project to support people in the neighborhood and beyond to use their digital devices sustainably with the help of free software.
"We provide support in setting up and using Linux operating systems on laptops or Android custom ROMs on smartphones and tablets. We also collect any old devices, up-cycle them and then give them out free of charge, for example to those in need or to cultural or social projects in the neighborhood."
BesserAlsNeu is a project by Resi - the resource shop in Alt-Treptow at Bouchéstraße 79 B.
https://resi-ressourcen.org
We will begin with a short presentation of the project, followed by discussion. Afterward, there will be an open session with recycled devices to check out and advice for anyone looking to repurpose an old laptop or phone. There will be a few USB install sticks for those excited enough to try it on their own device.

2024-10-20 17:21:27 UTC

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Ursula le Guin - "The Word for World is Forest"
als le Guin - "The Dispossessed"
Thomas McMahon - "Loving Little Egypt"
Roy Underhill - "Calvin Cobb Radio Woodworker"

2024-10-05 18:36:53 UTC

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Seems to work for me in the Hometown web client. Does it not work in the native app?

2024-09-13 09:03:55 UTC

There's a line of argument that is very popular right now when talking about digital consumerism that I find really problematic. It goes something like this:
"Sure, yes, all those little alternative things are cute, but what we really need is regulation!"
And in one fell swoop, we have dismissed the idea of individual agency. We have dismissed the idea of collective action and we've thrown away the notion that doing things differently might even have a personal, individual benefit in our quality of life.
Instead we, probably without realizing it, imply that _we_ are not responsible. Somebody else, far away in some place of power oughtta make a law. And having said that, we return to our platform normativity.
If you belittle any direct action and attempts to try alternatives, you are, like it or not, _enforcing the status quo_ and I don't think that's actually what we want.
Maybe think about that before dismissing somebody's dumb phone, alternative network, weird free software or low-tech solution. They are trying and perhaps even having a nice time of it. You might even try a few things yourself.

2024-08-09 07:42:24 UTC

The next #permacomputing Berlin Meet-Up is on Sunday 11.08.2024 at 19:00 .
The meeting is at @npub1ajs…40ga:
https://offline.place/
Our special guest is @npub10nj…ncx0
For this meetup we'll discuss 🌱📱🌱 https://compost.party 🌱📱🌱, which is a smartphone that could have gone to waste, but instead turned into a weird server running solely on solar power. There will be a brief presentation and subsequently a discussion of the project, what works and what didn't, and how it relates to permacomputing principles.
We want to expand our community. Non-nerd-identified, newbies and perma-curious are especially welcome! Please join us for an informal discussion of ideas and real-world practices around Permacomputing.
https://permacomputing.net/