Heterodox computing technology: alternatives to Windows, MacOS, Android, Linux, Intel, ARM, HTTPS, Facebook, etc.
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Heterodox Technology subreddit (maintained by the author of this capsule)
Every weekend, 5 links from the /r/HeterodoxTechnology subreddit are randomly selected and auto-posted as the "link log" here in Gemini space.
Many people have put together lists of multiple different desirable qualities in computing and communications systems. Some are linked below:
Desiderata of the broader movements around alternative computing
Cambridge Criteria (how computing should be)
Nobody Told Us Tripod and Angelfire Would Be the Last Bastions of the Old Web
Low-budget P2P content distribution with git
Offmini, My Dream of Making Gemini Offline and Distributed
Offmini (part 2): Designing a Simple Offline and Decentralised Mail and Web
If you're interested in working on developing something different, I'd recommend contributing to any of these three efforts:
Articles and essays about individual desirable qualities in computing systems:
The computer built to last 50 years (also ploum)
Slow Software (contains links to other movements)
chötrin's wiki: smol internet
Jon Goerzen on Old and Small Technology
Some thoughts about the small web
Tech Independence (seting up own server)
Towards aristocratic computing
https://github.com/chee/automerge-repo-solid-primitives
Redecentralize (strictly, about an adjacent phenomenon)
Silas Brown's account of the SRCF
Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space!
Happy Birfday, Zaibatsu-kun! Or, Wages of the Smolnet
Discarded idea re Gemini and DNS