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<p>A timely talk ...</p>
<p>Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow<br>
12pm-1pm, Tuesday 18 November 2025<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tuccampaigns.typeform.com/to/cWeW7uQ2#link=utaw">https://tuccampaigns.typeform.com/to/cWeW7uQ2#link=utaw</a></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/10/2025 19:58, m3shrom wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi there, </p>
<p>I just wanted to post the notes here. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Autumn_2025#APCC_-_Anarcho_Primitivist_Computer_Club"
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and here <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/apcc-keep"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://pad.riseup.net/p/apcc-keep</a></p>
<p>and say that there are some flyers for the Retro Eco Computer
Club starting in Todmorden on 17th Nov (practice 10th Nov) up
here<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/</a></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Just email me if it doesn't work
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moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/retro-computer-club-flossmanuals.net</a></p>
<p>Thanks<br>
Mick</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/09/2025 14:29, m3shrom wrote:<br>
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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>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 wrote:<br>
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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" <a
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<b>To: </b><a
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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 gathering<br>
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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
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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. <br>
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<p>nice one<br>
Mick <br>
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