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Re: "i have this feeling about lowtech (not permacomputing) that..."
so that house is vernacular, independent, lowtech.
Aug 08 · 3 weeks ago
🐙 norayr [OP] · Aug 09 at 00:01:
so there are technologies that are standardized, polished, but they are also authorinarian, enforced, imperialistic.
gemini, on the contrary is a human scale design. walkabre space, where you don't need a car to explore it. simple bicycle is more than enough.
🐙 norayr [OP] · Aug 09 at 00:09:
not standardized environments, unlike facebook or even mastodon, are weird, so the mind starts to raise questions and think of things that it wouldn't be thinking of in the standardized non-weird environment.
🐙 norayr [OP] · Aug 09 at 00:13:
so mind is engaged with important quetions.
that is arno the reason why authoritarian regimes are trying to fence the citizens from weird things.
this is actually almost a quote of paul tillich, on cities
Maybe you should scc:
It is mostly written by one person (which I happen to know personally) and builds ISO C99 programs with qbe.
i have this feeling about lowtech (not permacomputing) that gcc is not lowtech. however, tcc is. we feel that c is lowtech, because it has a small syntax and it is possible to write efficient code with it, but we forget that the c we use has lots of corporate investments, lots of language extensions, and the compiler compiles in hours. tcc is lowtech, because it supports standard c without extensions and it is easy to compile it. however, it is not possible to compile linux kernes with tcc....