liberatory technology walk-in hours NEW SEASON
Come to Petteflet on a monday evening to discover the freedom of hacking software and hardware and reclaim your digital autonomy. All skill levels welcome and no previous experience required. Bring a funky gender and sprinkle some social awkwardness on top. This is your walk-in hours for everything remotely computing related. Except issues with Windows/macOS. That shit's beyond repair.
The event is focused on two things:
- a helpdesk for people wanting to migrate off of big tech - i.e. learning to obtain media in non-conventional ways that don't require subscriptions, escaping genocide-enabling and data-harvesting companies (google, microsoft, spotify etc.), first steps with linux and grapheneos and more.
- building community networks and general decentralised infrastructures. Regular attendees are into reticulum (https://reticulum.network), meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org) and meshcore (https://meshcore.co.uk), there's also enthusiastic sysadmins and all other types of nerds.
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We plug in the ethernet cable into the wi-fi antenna we just set up and watch the LEDs light up. Six blue lights, full troughput. We sense the data pouring trough the fiber veins of the city. A digital mycelium network of pulsating light, information exchange - right under our sidewalks, houses, roads. Data flowing trough undersea cables, copper wires, and the ether, finally terminating in a small box attached to the roof of the squat. Data - immaterial, untouchable, abstract and immune to the cold December wind that's been bothering us for the last hour.
On another roof down the street an identical wi-fi antenna senses a new presence. The loneliness is over, time to say hi, perform a handshake and begin a quiet radio conversation. Six blue lights.
Do you dare to take control of the infrastructure you and your communities rely on? To float through the rotting arteries the information superhighway? To tune into the repulsive control exerted by the 'smart' city, by the neoliberal sanitation of the old joyous internet? To make it your playground? Abandon your human senses and become the machine?
No matter where you go, everybody's connected.
