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Heterodox computing technology: alternatives to Windows, MacOS, Android, Linux, Intel, ARM, HTTPS, Facebook, etc.
Heterodox Technology Atom feed
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)
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