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deuill

Are there any good resources out there for how to help start/grow a community of people looking to break away from #BigTech, and perhaps digital technology in general, with an emphasis on helping non-technical people?

#Solarpunk/#LowTech/#Degrowth is definitely the right destination, but it's hard, I feel, to translate that into some sort of roadmap for people not already technically literate.

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Zorg

Pour me changer les idées d'#osm, je me suis créé un site qui se veut #smolweb avec gohugo.io afin d'y basculer toutes mes #recettes de #cuisine.

Avec un site léger, les temps de chargement sont incroyablement brefs. J'aime bien #nextcloud et #cookbook, mais d'abord on ne peut pas rendre publique les recettes, et ensuite ce sont vraiment des pages obèses.

Il me reste quelques centaines de recettes à basculer 🥴 mais c'est en route 😋
alterzorg.fr/recettes/

#hugo#lowtech
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Kudra :maybe_verified:

The very fashionable @Tatjna posted about this book that was Kickstartered last year. I pledged, it looked cool. It arrived last week.

It's a beautiful book, and I think a few people I know here may find it interesting and useful (@pjf I expect and likely more!): it shows historical context & archaeological evidence, and provides how-to's for fibre making, tool making, and garment making.

chronocopia.se/books/bog-fashi

Cover of the book Bog Fashion showing someone standing in a bog facing away from us wearing a woven shawl, and details of bog fashions below.
One page pair from within the book showing pattern and guide for a simple tunic plus pictures of front and back
#BogFashion#lowtech#fibrearts
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JD

A few years ago, I started keeping a paper running journal for 90% vain reasons. When I die, whatever online system I use will just … linger. No one’s gonna know it even existed. But half a shelf of notebooks? *Someone’s* gonna have to do *something* with them, and maybe they’ll open one and be like “whoa, Uncle J did some *really* stupid shit!”

#running#mortality#lowTech
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winduptoy

When I build an earth house, I won't have the luxury of a large crew of helpers most of the time. I'm struggling to figure out how to get a big load of dirt 8 to 12 feet up in the air more easily than one 5-gallon bucket at a time.

The farm tractor I have access to won't reach that high with its bucket.

Anybody aware of any #lowtech designs for cranes or lifts? The catch is that it has to be portable because it needs to be repositioned as I build each wall, so I can't just sink a telephone pole in the ground and call it good.

I'm thinking a block and tackle would come in handy but I just can't picture the machine...

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Raphaël Ventura

Bonjour Mastodon ! Une courte #Introduction après avoir passé un bon moment en observateur 👀.

Je viens des #Maths appliquées, et continue à m’intéresser aux sujets liés à la tech, quand elle me semble politiquement émancipatrice : #LowTech, #DIY, #LogicielLibre, #DonnéesOuvertes, etc.

Au quotidien, beaucoup de temps passé à farfouiller de la #Musique, un peu de #Cyclisme et de la #Cuisine 🤤

Mes pronoms : il/lui

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Hello Mastodon!

A brief #Introduction post after some time as a fediverse observer 👀.

I come from applied #Maths, and am still quite interested in related tech topics when they lead to more freedom and emancipation: #LowTech, #DIY, #FreeSoftware, #OpenSourceSoftware, #OpenData, etc.

In everyday life, a lot of my time is spent digging (and sometimes playing) some #Music, a bit of #Cycling, and #Cooking 🤤

My pronouns: he/him

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karmawheels
A Cannondale "Beast of the East" that was saved from the bin the cleaned and polished.
I then made an unicrown fork and minibullmoose stem and buildt it with a mix of second hand and bin parts.
The custom framebage was made out of old Thomson bag by local bag maker Chloé from C.Pouki (https://c-pouki.be/) whose workshop is a few streets away from ours.

#framebuilding #4130society #handmade #restomod #framebag #upcycling #lowtech #lacyclerieliege #cannondale #rawfillets #karmawhweels
#karmawhweels
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karmawheels
The first frame I made years ago; I started building it in a basement before we opened La Cyclerie in 2016. Thomas @cyclesrougegorge helped me fixing my mistakes and finishing the frame. It is branded "Deroy" after the name of Armand Deroy, a local framebuilder who was Thomas's teacher and mentor. I later build it the way I prefer; with a mix of second hand and bin parts with a low tech approach. This bike now belongs to a friend.

#lowtech #shimagnolo #lugsnotdrugs #framebuilding #4130society #deroy #lacyclerieliege #liege #4020 #handmade
#handmade
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marie verdeil

BRUSSELS — BOOK LAUNCH — 29.4

→ How to make books more sustainable? During this evening, Low-tech Magazine will present our "Compressed Book Edition", this time in Brussels, at Architecture Curating Practice's gallery.

→ Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.

🕰 18:30 Doors open
19:00 Book presentation and introduction of Low-tech Magazine
19:45 Q&A
20:00 Book sale / snacks & drinks / discussion

📌 Architecture curating practice,
et al. architect-run space
37 Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 137
1000 Brussels

(talk will be held in english)
Poster by our current intern Hugo Lopez

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#lowtechmagazine #lowtech #solarpoweredwebsite #solar #obsoletetechnology #bikegenerator #opensource #selfhosted #krisdedecker #degrowth #offgrid

a Poster features the 3 volume chronoloigcal series of low-tech magazine squeezed by wooden clamp, illustrating the principle of compression we applied with the book.
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JP Mens

Email has become too complicated for my dement mother. Also just reading a message doesn't work.

Is there such a thing as a cigarette-sized box, maybe with ePaper and SMS reception, no buttons no nothing, onto which we could send a short text "your gym session begins in 20 minutes" or something along those lines?

(Please don't say 'smartphone', you've no idea, and don't say Arduino and do it yourself.)

#followerPower#lowTech#easyUI
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Snippety Snap (she/her)

Low-tech resourcefulness:

In high school, I had a bedside clock radio with a cassette deck. I used to tune into the college radio station and record my favorite tunes. That is how I used to hear Planet Claire by the B-52s on demand.

A friend of mine who lived in Memphis recounted how she would hold her landline phone up to the radio during certain college radio shows so her sister in Little Rock, Arkansas could listen.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

#Music#LowTech#RockAndRoll
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