Proxy Cafe – Smash the firewall: digital defense for the misfits

By: börek - April 3rd, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 24 April 2024 from 18:00 to 22:00, Proxy Cafe – Smash the firewall: digital defense for the misfits

Do you sense that whisper of paranoia lingering in the air?
Well, we’ve got your back. We’re going to share some hard-earned lessons about staying safe and secure in the digital world – aimed at people in squats and involved in radical movements.
We won’t be diving deep into technical details, but rather covering all the essentials: like passwords, data security, browsing habits, smartphone usage, and metadata. Most importantly, we’ll discuss what it means to stay anonymous and understand potential threats models.
The content is based on a presentation that’s been touring squats and radical spaces in Italy, put together by the folks at the _TO* hacklab.
You can check out the original slides here, in italian: https://facciamo.cisti.org/

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Proxy Cafe, Radar workshop

By: börek - January 10th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 17 january 2024 from 18:00 to 22:00, Proxy Cafe, Radar workshop.

A workshop to share and learn how to publish events, administrate a group, translate pages, import events further (your mail client, your calendar), get your Radar events displayed on a different website, a wordpress based blog, like https://noblogs.org/ or https://network23.org/ , as a widget or as a page.
If your events are already published on a website, on a wordpress instance, we’ll discuss how to import them in Radar, which wordpress calendar plugins are available, which ones to use or avoid.

https://docs.noblogs.org/en-GB/post/2022/06/27/squat-radar-calendar-inte…
https://network23.org/blog/uncategorized/radar-events-plugin/

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

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam
Twice a month on wednesday from 18:00 till 22:00 @ Joe’s Garage.
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Proxy Cafe, DJ workshop with Mixxx on Linux (Part 1)

By: börek - December 4th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 6 December 2023, Proxy Cafe, DJ workshop with Mixxx on Linux (Part 1), from 18:00 to 22:00. Workshop starts at 20 o’clock.

How to DJ workshop with Mixxx on Linux and not only! Mixxx is a software for virtual DJing, which is free and opensource, available for GNU/Linux, Windows, Macos and Android. We will invite some DJs from Leftover Radio that will show you the program, basic of music mixing and some tricks! Bring your computer and a pair of headphones if you want to do some “hands on” exercises during the evening.
You can expect as always the Proxy Cafe vibes with music, people talking and chilling, hacking, computers fixing and our famous frozen pizzas 🙂
The second part of the workshop will be done in January 2024.

Leftover Radio https://leftover.puscii.nl/
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Proxy Cafe, basic IT security practices

By: börek - October 23rd, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 25 October 2023, Proxy Cafe, basic IT security practices, from 18:00 to 22:00.

A workshop to teach basic IT security practices for computers and smartphones. We will try to focus a bit on every OS and then on Linux. Also an evening to just chill, have a drink and hack with your friends 🙂
Proxy Cafe: 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, film subtitling and captioning

By: börek - April 14th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

SUBTITLING AND CAPTIONING WORKSHOP [for tecchies, activists & film-loving wordwranglers]

Wednesday 19/4 (19:00) at Joe’s Garage: overview of all the different free tools that have emerged (and agonized) through the ages, with clues as to which one to use for what purpose. Bring your laptop (+mouse, +headphones, +pendrive) if you want to dive right into it and play around with them after the presentation.

Sunday 23/4 (14:00) at Joe’s Garage: more of the same on Sunday, but with ideas about ‘correct’ language, ‘faithful’ translation, ‘readable’ lines, etc. Why are all these things in scare quotes? Because there are rules about them, of course. Mountains of rules. Impossibly contradictory rules. It’s a tyranny out there, sister.

Wednesday 26/4 (18:00) at Filmhuis Cavia has just added an extra session for projectionists on Wednesday 26, at 18:00, plus a little ‘graduation ceremony’ on the big screen.

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

The first 30 minutes are for landing in the space, despairing about forgotten chargers or headphones, minimal introductions, and running to the shop for frozen pizza (or byo veggie leftovers).

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Proxy Cafe, making maps, importing calendars

By: börek - March 13th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 15 march 2023, Proxy Cafe, making maps, importing calendars, from 18:00 to 22:00.

How to make a map with several layers? uMap [https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/] lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site. Also on the program of this Proxy Cafe, managing your own Thunderbird calendar, importing calendar feeds [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-new-calendars]. And if you’re still using Proton mail, Google and Hotmail, it’s not too late to move to something else. We’ll be playing with all these tools. Proxy Cafe: 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, movie screening: The Internet’s Own Boy – The Story of Aaron Swartz (Brian Knappenberger, 2014)

By: börek - February 5th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Wednesday 22 February 2023, Proxy Cafe, movie screening: The Internet’s Own Boy – The Story of Aaron Swartz (Brian Knappenberger, 2014), 1h 45m. Door is opening at 19:00, film starts at 20:30.

Ten years ago, Aaron Swartz, a young internet activist was found dead in an apparent suicide. The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.

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Proxy Cafe, IT security practices

By: börek - October 10th, 2022  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 12 october 2022, Proxy Cafe, IT security practices, from 18:00 to 22:00, Proxy Cafe

General IT security practices, full disk ecnryption, GPG, messaging etc…
Come up with questions or with your computer and we will give you some answers if you have. We will start around 19 and we will have some drinks and frozen pizzas afterwards. We can always help with your GNU/Linux system or to install it if you don’t have it yet!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam
Twice a month on wednesday from 18:00 till 22:00 @ Joe’s Garage, LAG and other spaces.
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https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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