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<p>Hi all, <br>
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<p>Thanks for those thoughts Patrice</p>
<p>I have to give credit to Mike Harris also for starting me down
this path recently as well. <br>
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<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/">https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/</a></p>
<p>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. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I would appreciate any ideas or links
to similar projects<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks<br>
Mick<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/08/2025 19:48, Patrice Riemens
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<div>Hola Aloha All,</div>
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<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>
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<div>Cheers, p+2D! </div>
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<div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"m3shrom"
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<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 21 August, 2025 13:26:44<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [HacktionLab] Themes for this autumn's
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<p>Hi there, <br>
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<p>I'd be up for leading one on something like. <br>
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<p><i>Anarcho Primitivist Computer Club / Deep Dark Green
Computing <br>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology</a>
to current situation. <br>
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<p>- I really liked finding out about Tilde Club - <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tilde.club"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">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.
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<p>nice one<br>
Mick <br>
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