catrionagold , to AcademicChatter group
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An academic/activist crowdsourcing request:

Who is critically researching, writing or doing cool activism on the environmental impacts of AI?

I’m particularly interested in finding UK-based folks, but all recommendations are appreciated 💕 🙏

@academicchatter

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@catrionagold @academicchatter here are many links I collected: https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/AI_is_ecocide & https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability#Cloud

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@becha @academicchatter I missed this among my notis! Thanks so much 🙏

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Explore KDE and Free Software, learn about e-waste, and register for the upcoming "Bring It Back!" workshop!

Visit us this Saturday at "Long Night of the Sciences" () in , Germany.

joins the German Environment Agency and 60 other scientific institutions hosting exciting experiments and science shows.

Where: Umweltbundesamt, Corrensplatz 1 (U3, )

When: Sat. 22 June, 17h-24h!

@kde

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Old hardware with new software at "Long Night of the Sciences" () with German Environment Agency ().

The oldest: 21 years old with and up-to-date version of for children to play.

The newest: 11 years old with Spin.

In 1st image you can see the handbook (2023) in :

https://eco.kde.org/handbook/

In the 2nd the e-book "20 Years of KDE (2016) in :

https://20years.kde.org/book/

Amigurumi dolls and a had fun with us too!

A second image from KDE Eco's stand at the "Long Night Of The Sciences" at the German Environment Agency offices. The computer on the left is 17 years and is running Linux Mint. If you look closely, you can see a cat video playing. The computer on the middle is 21 years old, running Haiku OS. An up-to-date version of GCompris was running on it, which children could play when coming to the booth. The computer on the right is 11 years old running Fedora KDE Spin. The e-book shown is the "20 Years Of KDE" book, which was presented on Arianna e-book reader. The smartphone is a FairPhone 4 running Ubuntu Touch. A cuddly stuffed animal Gnu is seen on the far right of the table. "Environmentally-Friendly Software" leaflets and amigurumi Konqi dolls are distributed around the table. A KDE drop cloth can be seen on the table.

Image from KDE Eco's stand at the "Long Night Of The Sciences" at the German Environment Agency offices. The computer on the left is 21 years old, running Haiku OS. An up-to-date version of GCompris was running on it, which children could play when coming to the booth. The computer on the right is 11 years old, running Fedora KDE Spin. The PDF shown here is the KDE Eco handbook. The left smartphone is a PinePhone running postmarketOS with Plasma-Mobile. The right smartphone is a FairPhone 4 running Ubuntu Touch. "Environmentally-Friendly Software" leaflets and amigurumi Konqi dolls are distributed around the table. A KDE drop cloth can be seen on the table.
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    • be4foss , to KDE
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    Opt out? Opt in? Opt Green!

    50% of consumers buy new devices due to unsupported software, while the "tsunami of " continues to rise.

    can keep those devices in use and out of the landfill. Today!

    Say hello to the new project ": For Sustainable Hardware".

    https://eco.kde.org/blog/2024-05-29_introducing-ns4nh/

    You don't need new hardware for a secure, up-to-date device; you just need the right software!

    @kde

    be4foss OP , (edited )
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    @MageInBlack @kde Some background: KDE Eco has funded projects supported by the KDE e.V. and community. The name is derived from the website eco.kde.org, originally created for the FOSS-oriented project "Blauer Engel For FOSS" (BE4FOSS). Since 2021 we've been in contact with many FOSS projects/communities as well as people working on measuring software's energy consumption, digital sustainability, etc. Much is still work in progress and as newsworthy things happen we make sure to post about it.

    18+ Tionisla , (edited )
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    @Bro666 @d3Xt3r Ran EndeavourOS/Plasma 6 and FreeBSD/ Plasma5 on a similar specced machine (Dell Inspiron 1525 with a slightly slower CPU but upped RAM to 3GB, ssd and faster wifi ) all fine.

    Firefox, libroffice, thunderbird, dolphin, kate... All ok. No gaming but retro stuff (baldursgate 1+2, scummvm, platformers), no 4K streaming, tho :)

    Only thing was, No blur effects due to hw limitations of the Intel gma GPU

    Toying around with OpenBSD and Plasma on that machine, now.

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    Digital sustainability workshop in Berlin 3 June!

    KDE Eco and the Berlin groups of (@fsfeberlin) and (@bitsundbaeume_berlin) will host an installation workshop from 18-21h CEST at @cbase in .

    At the workshop we'll dive deeper into the topic of digital following our joint table at the in April.

    To accommodate all participants, contact us to confirm your attendance.

    See you there!

    @kde

    The flyer for the workshop distributed at Umweltfestival. The text in German says: "Digitalisierung nachhlatig gestalten. Erfahre mehr darüber: 1. wie man alten Smartphones und Computern mit Freier Software ein längeres Leben schenken und damit die Elektroschrottberge reduzieren kann, 2. wie offtene Standards helfen den Lock-In Effekt zu verhindern und was das mit Sozialen Netzwerken zu tun hat. 3.6.2024 ab 18 Uhr c-base, Rungestrasse 20, U+S Bhf Jannowtizbrücke." The English translation is: "Making digitalization sustainable. Learn more about: 1. how to give old smartphones and computers a longer life with Free Software and thus reduce the mountains of electronic waste, 2. how open standards help to prevent the lock-in effect and what this has to do with social networks. 3 June 2024 from 6 pm at c-base, Rungestrasse 20, U+S Bhf Jannowtizbrücke." At the bottom are the logos for Bits & Bäume, FSFE, and KDE Eco.
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    FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!

    Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new will eventually lose support. Thanks to the impressive work of project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/fedora-asahi-remix-40-is-another-big-step-forward-for-linux-on-apple-silicon-macs/

    Great to see as the default desktop environment!

    @kde
    @fedora
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