[bccdee]

> There are huge environmental and societal issues in today's computing, and permacomputing specifically wants to challenge them in the same way as permaculture has challenged industrial agriculture.

Permacomputing seems like a body of values and practices that is extremely grounded in a particular political perspective.

It's odd to regard permaculture, degrowth, anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, etc. as completely orthogonal. They're all part of a shared tradition of thought—not an "omnicause," but an ecosystem. You won't find a lot of people who love intersectional feminism but hate decoloniality. Appropriately enough, plucking a single plant from the earth and then dismissing the rest of the garden is exactly the type of blinkered thinking which permaculture discourages.

[hitekker]

I'm unconvinced. https://duskos.org/ doesn't tell a story about fashionable ideologies fused-together for the greater good. Dusk/Collapse OS does what it says on the tin, minus moralizing and metaphors.

In any case, I detect an omnicause because people are sloganeering on its behalf below:

"If you see this as political, you should fix yourself", "computing is related to colonialism", "everything is political" etc.