[HacktionLab] Themes for this autumn's gathering/ AT

[Chris Clemson]

Great!

Looking forward to the one about the DIY PV system too!

On 22/08/2025 09:39, Mike Harris wrote:
> Hey both,
>
> This is all really great stuff.  My take is to add a session on 
> smashing our computers to pieces with sledge hammers (or lump hammers, 
> axes, picks, anything really), or perhaps, more usefully, using them 
> to build the walls of mud huts in our anarcho-primitivist escape-Eden.
>
> Anyway, I’ve put up a couple of proposals on the wiki, as I know have 
> a couple of others, so things are taking shape:
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike.
>
> Mike Harris
> +44 7811 671 893
> https://mbharris.co.uk . https://xtreamLab.net
>
>
>> El 21 ag. 2025, a les 19:50, Patrice Riemens <patrice at puscii.nl> va 
>> escriure:
>>
>> 
>> Hola Aloha All,
>>
>> Appropriate Technology (AT) has a long history as detailled in the 
>> Wikipedia article. It was going great in the Global South in the 
>> sixties-eighties, the age of 'import substitution' economics where, 
>> once the initial imports were made, further developments had to be 
>> done pretty much autonomously, that is without help, or even under 
>> active opposition by the Northern corporations who saw it as a threat 
>> to their (export) business. IT, esp the F/OSS movement initially 
>> boosted this approach but than, like in so many areas, interest and 
>> motivation was lost in favor of more 'modern' mainstream options. 
>> Keeping the knowledge and furthering the development of AT has become 
>> the more urgent in a time that the polycrisis (aka 'clusterf***') 
>> makes it necessary to seriously prepare for a world without just too 
>> many things we tend to take for granted to think about. As the great 
>> Montenegro pop star used to sing: Don't Happy, Be Worry!
>>
>> Cheers, p+2D!
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From: *"m3shrom" <m3shrom at riseup.net>
>> *To: *hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org
>> *Sent: *Thursday, 21 August, 2025 13:26:44
>> *Subject: *Re: [HacktionLab] Themes for this autumn's gathering
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'd be up for leading one on something like.
>>
>> /Anarcho Primitivist Computer Club / Deep Dark Green Computing
>> /
>>
>> For people who used to love the non-corporate nature of the early 
>> Internet but now think the world would be a better place if we moved 
>> towards turning them all off.
>>
>> This would be a more welcoming / accessible version of the "/00's 
>> Open Publishing News CMS Survivors group"/ that often used to happen 
>> on Sundays at Hacktionlab.
>>
>> It's the moving towards which is significant here, as I'll still use 
>> them for a while. But leaning into more low power, low complexity ways.
>> AND spreading the word about that way of working too. I'm getting 
>> back into doing community / youth workshops again so I want to bring 
>> this retro way of doing things into that.
>>
>> Here are some related ideas. But I suppose just applying the 
>> principles of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology to 
>> current situation.
>>
>> - I really liked finding out about Tilde Club - https://tilde.club - 
>> I would like to lead workshops on using that set up for email, simple 
>> websites, and usenet! :)
>> - Really simple static website workflows
>> - Craft Podcasting - recording audio podcasts with old equipment and 
>> hand writing RSS files
>> - Give up your computer for a while - and have a email set up on a 
>> USB stick you carry around and borrow other computers
>> - And the old classic - put linux on old Windows computers.
>>
>> nice one
>> Mick
>>
>>
>> /
>> /
>>
>>
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