<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hey both, <div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Autumn_2025"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:228px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Autumn_2025" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="228"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:228px;background-color:#8C847C;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="228"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:228px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:304px;" width="228" height="304" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="HL_Sheffield_2023_Programme.png" src="cid:DD1FBD02-E2D3-4D61-AC06-A372474E8418"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#8C847C" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="228" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(140, 132, 124, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Autumn_2025" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);">Workshops for HacktionLab Autumn 2025 - HacktionLab: A UK-wide network tech-activists providing meet-ups, events, workshops, national skillshare gatherings and hacklabs</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Autumn_2025" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(235, 235, 245, 0.6);">hacktionlab.org</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike.</div><div> <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Mike Harris</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+44 7811 671 893</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17pt;">https://mbharris.co.uk . https://xtreamLab.net</span></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">El 21 ag. 2025, a les 19:50, Patrice Riemens <patrice@puscii.nl> va escriure:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hola Aloha All,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>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!</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Cheers, p+2D! </div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"m3shrom" <m3shrom@riseup.net><br><b>To: </b>hacktionlab@lists.aktivix.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 21 August, 2025 13:26:44<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [HacktionLab] Themes for this autumn's gathering<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><p>Hi there, <br>
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<p>I'd be up for leading one on something like. <br>
</p>
<p><i>Anarcho Primitivist Computer Club / Deep Dark Green Computing
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<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>This would be a more welcoming / accessible version of the "<i>00's
Open Publishing News CMS Survivors group"</i> that often used to
happen on Sundays at Hacktionlab. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
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. <br>
</p>
<p>Here are some related ideas. But I suppose just applying the
principles of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology</a>
to current situation. <br>
</p>
<p>- I really liked finding out about Tilde Club -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tilde.club" target="_blank">https://tilde.club</a> - I would like to lead workshops on using that
set up for email, simple websites, and usenet! :)<br>
- Really simple static website workflows <br>
- Craft Podcasting - recording audio podcasts with old equipment
and hand writing RSS files<br>
- Give up your computer for a while - and have a email set up on a
USB stick you carry around and borrow other computers<br>
- And the old classic - put linux on old Windows computers. <br>
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<p>nice one<br>
Mick <br>
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