Proxycafe: Privacy awareness & Users rights

By: börek - March 22nd, 2026  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday March 25, 2026, Proxycafe: Privacy awareness & Users rights. Door opens at 18:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

Your data is being collected, sold, and used every day. Take back control. We’ll reveal how your privacy is invaded and shows you the simple, powerful steps to protect it. No tech skills needed—just a desire to reclaim your rights. Join us and learn how to defend your digital life.

Proxycafe, free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

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Proxycafe: Local LLM Lab, Where AI Meets Your Inner Tech Wizard

By: börek - February 16th, 2026  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday February 18, 2026, Proxycafe: Local LLM Lab, Where AI Meets Your Inner Tech Wizard. Door opens at 18:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

Ever wonder how AI writes so cleverly? Are AI actually useful? Think LLMs are magic? They kinda are. We’ll explore how they work, chat about the cool (and sometimes tricky) things they can do, and show you how to easily set up your own LLM on your computer. No experience required, just bring your imagination, and a computer if you want to start play with them.
Proxycafe, free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

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Proxycafe: Web Security 101

By: börek - January 24th, 2026  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday January 28, 2026, Proxycafe: Web Security 101. Door opens at 18:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

Websites are a key part of our life, from banking to shopping, but what happens behind the scenes? In this beginner-friendly talk, we will explore how the web works and how security plays a role in it. We will break down the basics of web security and look at the most common web attacks nowadays. No tech skills needed, curiosity is the only thing you need.
Feel free to bring your laptop, if time allows you will have the opportunity to exploit some vulnerabilities on vulnerable websites.
Proxycafe, free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxycafe: OBS Studio workshop

By: börek - December 16th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday December 17, 2025, Proxycafe: OBS Studio workshop. Door opens at 18:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

A workshop about OBS Studio, I am going to show you how to create scenes with multiple input sources in order to create videos. It can be handy for recording your computer, music sessions, radio stations etc…
Please bring your computer with headphones so you can try something on the spot.
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Proxycafe: Learning Cafe / Tear Apart & Rebuild

By: börek - May 18th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday May 28, 2025, Proxycafe: Learning Cafe / Tear Apart & Rebuild. Door opens at 19:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

” Hardware glitching? Always the wrong screwdriver for the wrong screws in the wrong order?
Too many parts left over after reassemblage? Come patch up some long-neglected hardware with us.”
In this workshop we are going to provide a couple of laptops and maybe a desktop computer for us to open it, analyze the components, discuss them and then assemble the machine back. The idea is to increase confidence on opening our machines so that we can fix them or upgrade components and also to have a better understanding on what’s under the chassis and demistify the black box. 🙂
You can also bring your own computer, don’t be scared of opening your loved laptop!

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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Proxy Cafe: speed comp and sharing Vol 2

By: börek - May 10th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday May 14, 2025, Proxy Cafe: speed comp and sharing Vol 2. Door opens at 19:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

Come and show your music skills at the second event of “Speed Comp and sharing”, which is an evening where you will be given a bunch of samples, some instructions, a limited amount of time and you’ll have to make a track!
After that we are going to show each other our tracks and explain how we did it.
The second episode’s rules are: You must make music on an opensource OS (Linux, FreeBSD etc…), you can still use proprietary DAW and VST plugins for FXs, you must use only the samples given at the workshop and you’ll have 30 minutes to build your track. 🙂

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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Proxycafe: Repair Cafe

By: börek - April 17th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday April 23, 2025, Proxycafe: Repair Cafe. Door opens at 18:00.

Is your linux computer broken and need some help? This is the perfect moment to ask help to our folk and fix your machine together, hopefully learning something from it. 🙂
Do you have a Windows or a Macbook machine? If you are lucky you may find someone to help you but you shouldn’t expect it as we are not having fun fixing those proprietary systems and is also more difficult to learn from it! 😛
We’ll try to offer our expertise to help fixing the operating system and some software, assisting you opening your machine to debug hardware faults but note we don’t have components to give/sell, but we could help you ordering the replacement part!
Of course expect our famous fresh frozen pizzas!

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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Proxy Cafe: opensource music workshop – vol 1

By: börek - March 8th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday March 12, 2025, Proxy Cafe: opensource music workshop (vol 1). Door opens at 18:00.

We are going to to show you the opensource synth “surge-xt” at its basics and share some presets with you. 🙂
Bring your laptop with your favorite daw, a pair of headphones and we will install it and make sound presets together. At the end of the session we are going to share with each other sounds and we are going to create a proxycafe sound pack! See you then and bring your music nerd friends!

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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