The next Permacomputing NYC meetup takes place Tuesday April 14 @ 6pm.

https://nyc.permacomputing.net/

Jailbreaking Old Devices

> At this meetup Sam Heckle will lead us in a demo of “jailbreaking” to get old devices hampered by planned obsolescence up and running again (think old phones, media players, game consoles). We will be looking for ways to play around with the existing hardware and re-incorporating them back into serviceable devices, running a web server, media player, and more. We'll also continue our discussions on permacomputing and ways we can hack existing devices to extend their longevity and limit our own production of e-waste. Devices are planned to become obsolete, and it is our job as soft(ware) custodians to maintain, cultivate, and care for these old and forgotten tools. Please bring your old devices/phones/game systems. The talk will demonstrate jailbreaking iOS devices but you are welcome to bring what you have.

Pleased with this little weatherproof #meshtastic build, with the RAK Wisblock and a few sensors, a little 1200mAh LiPo and built in solar panel. Initial readings show that with good placement it should not run dry across a few heavily overcast days but will see.

I drilled a hole for the SMA antenna connector and mounted it facing down to avoid humidity build-up.

Reception is good with that little stock 900MHz omni, seeing many nodes in our neighbourhood, some kilometers away direct (0 hops).

Come and have a chat with your local feminist server! With our DIT (do-it-together) and low tech approach, actinomy seeks to disrupt the everyday techno-capitalist relations. In this session of Salon Digital we share about our technofeminist practices of shared terminal sessions and solar-powered micro computers and invite you to stretch our hyphae together towards situated techno practices and extra-earthly backend creativity.

Salon Digital @ hfk 5.5. 18 h

#bremen

https://www.hfk-bremen.de/de/veranstaltungen/salon-digital-actinomy/15583

As parts of my research on Robotron I wrote a text (in German) titled "Socialist Co-Innovation. How the relational database DABA-1600 was developed in the GDR"

Open Access: https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/sozialistische-co-innovation

It discusses the relational database DABA-1600, which was jointly developed by VEB Robotron and the TU Dresden in the 1980s.

Through this analysis, the paper discusses how the databases of the socialist GDR came to bear strong similarities to those of the capitalist West.