[HacktionLab] Retro / Eco Computer Club

[brentc]

A timely talk ...

Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow
12pm-1pm, Tuesday 18 November 2025
https://tuccampaigns.typeform.com/to/cWeW7uQ2#link=utaw

On 29/10/2025 19:58, m3shrom wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I just wanted to post the notes here.
> https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Autumn_2025#APCC_-_Anarcho_Primitivist_Computer_Club
> and here https://pad.riseup.net/p/apcc-keep
>
> and say that there are some flyers for the Retro Eco Computer Club 
> starting in Todmorden on 17th Nov (practice 10th Nov) up here
> https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/
>
> And a mailing list to chip in ideas from near or afar here. Please do 
> sign up if you think you want to know how it goes and might have ideas 
> to share.
>
> Just email me if it doesn't work 
> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/retro-computer-club-flossmanuals.net
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
> On 15/09/2025 14:29, m3shrom wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks for those thoughts Patrice
>>
>> I have to give credit to Mike Harris also for starting me down this 
>> path recently as well.
>> I wanted to get other people's ideas of how this might work so I've 
>> put together a web page - and done a rebrand to Retro / Eco Computer Club
>>
>> https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/
>>
>> The context for this is doing a 2 hour regular drop in at the 
>> Todmorden Makery from October. Probably starting with a End of 
>> Windows 10 events.
>>
>> I would appreciate any ideas or links to similar projects
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mick
>>
>> On 21/08/2025 19:48, Patrice Riemens wrote:
>>> 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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