Access server - Revision history

Ooooo at 10:13, 13 June 2023

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	Serveraliveinterval 30		Serveraliveinterval 30

			:: Now you can ssh as Host
			<pre style="background-color:#F2E4F5; border-color:#7F1594; color:blue; width:90%"> ssh anarchaserver</pre>

Ooooo at 10:11, 13 June 2023

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	::<pre style="background-color:#F2E4F5; border-color:#7F1594; color:blue; width:90%">chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys</pre>		::<pre style="background-color:#F2E4F5; border-color:#7F1594; color:blue; width:90%">chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys</pre>
	::<pre style="background-color:#F2E4F5; border-color:#7F1594; color:blue; width:90%">chown superuser:~~group~~</pre>		::<pre style="background-color:#F2E4F5; border-color:#7F1594; color:blue; width:90%">chown superuser:superuser</pre>

	::Type this command once to return to the root user:		::Type this command once to return to the root user:
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	::Now you [the new sysadmin] may SSH login as your new user, using the private key as authentication.		::Now you [the new sysadmin] may SSH login as your new user, using the private key as authentication.
	<br>		<br>

			====. . . . . . › How to login with a Host name ====
			::You can more smoothly login by ssh with a Host name [ssh anarchaserver, for example] as opposed to ssh superuser@[ip] you'll need to modify the config file in .ssh directory. Open it:

			::<pre style="background-color:#F2E4F5; border-color:#7F1594; color:blue; width:90%"> sudo nano ~/.ssh/config</pre>

			::

			Host anarchaserver
			User superuser
			Hostname [IP]
			Port 22
			Identityfile /home/superuser/.ssh/[key]
			Serveraliveinterval 30




	<br>		<br>
	====. . . . . . › After reboot====		====. . . . . . › After reboot====
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	::_ [https://www.golinuxcloud.com/add-user-to-sudoers/ How to add user to sudoers with best practices & examples]		::_ [https://www.golinuxcloud.com/add-user-to-sudoers/ How to add user to sudoers with best practices & examples]
	::_ [https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-running-sudo-command-without-a-password/ How to run sudo command without a password on a Linux or Unix]		::_ [https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-running-sudo-command-without-a-password/ How to run sudo command without a password on a Linux or Unix]
			::_ [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:E.zn/rpi#Login_with_a_Host_name / How to make config file]

Ooooo at 16:19, 22 November 2022

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E.zn at 18:35, 17 November 2022

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	Present were:		Present were:
	Estragon, ~~Mika~~, [https://www.ooooo.be ooooo], spideralex, nate, Mara (Feminist Server Sysadmins) (FSS)		Estragon, ezn, [https://www.ooooo.be ooooo], spideralex, nate, Mara (Feminist Server Sysadmins) (FSS)
	Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr (MELT).		Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr (MELT).
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	FSS: During THF, the question was also: what is now the most important term in it? Is trans? is it hack? is it feminism? Can feminism be hacked, can feminism be trans? Can hack be transed? Can you trans* hack? It's like, you know, it is circulating inside of the dependencies within these three denominators.		FSS: During THF, the question was also: what is now the most important term in it? Is trans? is it hack? is it feminism? Can feminism be hacked, can feminism be trans? Can hack be transed? Can you trans* hack? It's like, you know, it is circulating inside of the dependencies within these three denominators.
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	FSS: Here is a link with documentation of 2 sessions we had during the first convergence : [[TransHackFeminist/~~Que_significa~~/~~What_it_means~~]]. So maybe ~~then~~ you can dig more in. It wasn't so many people that say they're interested, in transfeminism. But the trans terminology, about transitioning, about transition, about all the links that it could have with immigration with transformation, with even of politics, you know, and so on, so on, so on. So yeah, I think we can put it in different layers and for sure, at least when it was set up in Calafou in 2017 the first layer was about transfeminist politics.		FSS: Here is a link with documentation of 2 sessions we had during the first convergence. [[TransHackFeminist/Que significa?/What it means?]] So maybe you can dig more in. It wasn't so many people that say they're interested, in transfeminism. But the trans terminology, about transitioning, about transition, about all the links that it could have with immigration with transformation, with even of politics, you know, and so on, so on, so on. So yeah, I think we can put it in different layers and for sure, at least when it was set up in Calafou in 2017 the first layer was about transfeminist politics.
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	FSS: Yeah, just to add, sometimes when you encounter a term for first time, you make a conclusion depending on your background and your identity, etc. So of course, when our services uses terms it feels important and to give a description of them: what does this term contain? It's also very important that when we do things that we are open about it, the terminology we're using what does it refer to and why it is constructed like that? And it is important because it changes very quickly, in all this researches of all that is happening in migration realities to multi species studies and keeping in mind always intersectionality they all add up in the end in the concept of creating safe spaces. So I think this is something to consider when we use terms, how we came up with and why we came up with the terms we use.		FSS: Yeah, just to add, sometimes when you encounter a term for first time, you make a conclusion depending on your background and your identity, etc. So of course, when our services uses terms it feels important and to give a description of them: what does this term contain? It's also very important that when we do things that we are open about it, the terminology we're using what does it refer to and why it is constructed like that? And it is important because it changes very quickly, in all this researches of all that is happening in migration realities to multi species studies and keeping in mind always intersectionality they all add up in the end in the concept of creating safe spaces. So I think this is something to consider when we use terms, how we came up with and why we came up with the terms we use.

Ooooo at 20:26, 16 November 2022

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	FSS: During THF, the question was also: what is now the most important term in it? Is trans? is it hack? is it feminism? Can feminism be hacked, can feminism be trans? Can hack be transed? Can you trans* hack? It's like, you know, it is circulating inside of the dependencies within these three denominators.		FSS: During THF, the question was also: what is now the most important term in it? Is trans? is it hack? is it feminism? Can feminism be hacked, can feminism be trans? Can hack be transed? Can you trans* hack? It's like, you know, it is circulating inside of the dependencies within these three denominators.
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	FSS: Here is a link with documentation of 2 sessions we had during the first convergence : [TransHackFeminist/Que_significa~~%3F~~/What_it_means~~%3F~~]. So maybe then you can dig more in. It wasn't so many people that say they're interested, in transfeminism. But the trans terminology, about transitioning, about transition, about all the links that it could have with immigration with transformation, with even of politics, you know, and so on, so on, so on. So yeah, I think we can put it in different layers and for sure, at least when it was set up in Calafou in 2017 the first layer was about transfeminist politics.		FSS: Here is a link with documentation of 2 sessions we had during the first convergence : [[TransHackFeminist/Que_significa/What_it_means]]. So maybe then you can dig more in. It wasn't so many people that say they're interested, in transfeminism. But the trans terminology, about transitioning, about transition, about all the links that it could have with immigration with transformation, with even of politics, you know, and so on, so on, so on. So yeah, I think we can put it in different layers and for sure, at least when it was set up in Calafou in 2017 the first layer was about transfeminist politics.
	<br /><br />		<br /><br />
	FSS: Yeah, just to add, sometimes when you encounter a term for first time, you make a conclusion depending on your background and your identity, etc. So of course, when our services uses terms it feels important and to give a description of them: what does this term contain? It's also very important that when we do things that we are open about it, the terminology we're using what does it refer to and why it is constructed like that? And it is important because it changes very quickly, in all this researches of all that is happening in migration realities to multi species studies and keeping in mind always intersectionality they all add up in the end in the concept of creating safe spaces. So I think this is something to consider when we use terms, how we came up with and why we came up with the terms we use.		FSS: Yeah, just to add, sometimes when you encounter a term for first time, you make a conclusion depending on your background and your identity, etc. So of course, when our services uses terms it feels important and to give a description of them: what does this term contain? It's also very important that when we do things that we are open about it, the terminology we're using what does it refer to and why it is constructed like that? And it is important because it changes very quickly, in all this researches of all that is happening in migration realities to multi species studies and keeping in mind always intersectionality they all add up in the end in the concept of creating safe spaces. So I think this is something to consider when we use terms, how we came up with and why we came up with the terms we use.

Ooooo at 20:23, 16 November 2022

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	FSS:		FSS:
	So the THF user was created around the first TransHackFeminist convergence in 2014. It was a shared user of different people that have been documenting various sessions that were held during one week in [https://www.calafou.org/ Calafou], Spain. We have been sharing <the user>to document basically the different conversations. And then the wiki has remained as a space where different TransHackFeminist events could document their editions. In the wiki, we write also about feminist servers in general and when we document the Anarchaserver's technical and other work.		So the THF user was created around the first [[Main_Page#TransHackFeminist_Convergence\|TransHackFeminist convergence]] in 2014. It was a shared user of different people that have been documenting various sessions that were held during one week in [https://www.calafou.org/ Calafou], Spain. We have been sharing <the user>to document basically the different conversations. And then the wiki has remained as a space where different TransHackFeminist events could document their editions. In the wiki, we write also about feminist servers in general and when we document the Anarchaserver's technical and other work.
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Ooooo at 20:19, 16 November 2022

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	:''MELT: Maybe it's nice to continue because our project also works with trans* feminism and Disability Justice, and I love the ways in which the trans* feminist, THF, TransHackFeminism becomes a shared user in the access server page. But also, I think that there's a specific understanding of trans* feminism that you seem to be working with because it comes up again many times on the Anarchaserver page. What does it mean to you to serve trans* feminism in this project? I think it's also related to a lot of the dreams that you just shared. Would you want to say something more about trans* feminism specifically?''		:''MELT: Maybe it's nice to continue because our project also works with trans* feminism and Disability Justice, and I love the ways in which the trans* feminist, THF, TransHackFeminism becomes a shared user in the access server page. But also, I think that there's a specific understanding of trans* feminism that you seem to be working with because it comes up again many times on the Anarchaserver page. What does it mean to you to serve trans* feminism in this project? I think it's also related to a lot of the dreams that you just shared. Would you want to say something more about trans* feminism specifically?''
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	FSS: I'm still a little bit scared about this fact of serving and hosting. I feel like by inhabiting these servers and then also maintaining and configuring the affective infrastructures in which we are moving, that we are trans* hackfeminists. It's not serving. It's, you know, like fluid. It's like good. It's like you are feeling the practices of technology. It's like configuring together. It'smore like an actualization of TransHackFeminism. I like it has a history, also. The TransHackFeminism, was a reaction on the ~~electictechcarnival (~~https://eclectictechcarnival.org/) to open specific identity politics and women-only-spaces up, to trans* people.		FSS: I'm still a little bit scared about this fact of serving and hosting. I feel like by inhabiting these servers and then also maintaining and configuring the affective infrastructures in which we are moving, that we are trans* hackfeminists. It's not serving. It's, you know, like fluid. It's like good. It's like you are feeling the practices of technology. It's like configuring together. It'smore like an actualization of TransHackFeminism. I like it has a history, also. The TransHackFeminism, was a reaction on the [https://eclectictechcarnival.org/ electictechcarnival] to open specific identity politics and women-only-spaces up, to trans* people.
	<br /><br />		<br /><br />
	:''MELT: I would also be super curious to hear what it means to have come from a cis-woman only space and going through the process of opening that up to trans* people.		:''MELT: I would also be super curious to hear what it means to have come from a cis-woman only space and going through the process of opening that up to trans* people.
	''		''
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	FSS: I have been in a collective in Spain that is called ~~Donestech (~~https://www.donestech.net/) in Catalan that was created in 2007. At that moment, there was no other local collective that was working on the relation between gender and technologies and free software. But I think that the paradigm of inclusion of women in digital tech related spaces was needed, no? But it's very 90s, no? [We became more] trans* feminist in our politics, in our feminist politics. We made an event where we would meet together, [and you had to be] open to trans* feminism. So that's why it was called TransHackFeminism and it was organized not only by me and Sophie Toupin, but also by the people of [https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/ Pechblenda] which was a space in Calafou and Julito who were trans feminist. It appeared in 2008 in Spain, in the feminist conference in Granada.		FSS: I have been in a collective in Spain that is called [https://www.donestech.net/ Donestech] in Catalan that was created in 2007. At that moment, there was no other local collective that was working on the relation between gender and technologies and free software. But I think that the paradigm of inclusion of women in digital tech related spaces was needed, no? But it's very 90s, no? [We became more] trans* feminist in our politics, in our feminist politics. We made an event where we would meet together, [and you had to be] open to trans* feminism. So that's why it was called TransHackFeminism and it was organized not only by me and Sophie Toupin, but also by the people of [https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/ Pechblenda] which was a space in Calafou and Julito who were trans feminist. It appeared in 2008 in Spain, in the feminist conference in Granada.
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	FSS: Yes, I would like to elaborate a bit more on what ooooo mentioned. So the eclectictechcarnival takes place not even yearly; sometimes it is 2, 3 years inbetween. Well, I admit I haven't been at that many. I've been in the last one, it was an organized in Greece where I am based. The one before was in Italy, and the one before Italy was called TransHackFeminism in Calafou. And because I organized it, the question of who can join this event came up because every time as time passes as spideralex mentioned feminism itself changes, and it's always this question of who can join our event? And again, for example, the last, let's say, firewall, is cis men. Can cis men join our events? So this is the base of the conversation as we try to provide safe spaces and for those who are marginalized, within technology and its environments. But I would say it's an open question, and it always depends on the locality of the event. And on those organizing it. Of course, we all have our own idea and praxis of feminisms.		FSS: Yes, I would like to elaborate a bit more on what ooooo mentioned. So the eclectictechcarnival takes place not even yearly; sometimes it is 2, 3 years inbetween. Well, I admit I haven't been at that many. I've been in the last one, it was an organized in Greece where I am based. The one before was in Italy, and the one before Italy was called TransHackFeminism in Calafou. And because I organized it, the question of who can join this event came up because every time as time passes as spideralex mentioned feminism itself changes, and it's always this question of who can join our event? And again, for example, the last, let's say, firewall, is cis men. Can cis men join our events? So this is the base of the conversation as we try to provide safe spaces and for those who are marginalized, within technology and its environments. But I would say it's an open question, and it always depends on the locality of the event. And on those organizing it. Of course, we all have our own idea and praxis of feminisms.
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	FSS: To me it was also new, I was not sure what that trans* referred to, because in the German speaking context [people] were talking maybe of queer feminism. So I was curious to also learn [about trans* feminism as] a part of the struggle against a current of feminism that in some places is stronger than others, and that is about the exclusion of trans* people and non-binary. And so that was one aspect that I find interesting to learn, and I find its good to call it trans* feminism to make it explicit.		FSS: To me it was also new, I was not sure what that trans* referred to, because in the German speaking context [people] were talking maybe of queer feminism. So I was curious to also learn [about trans* feminism as] a part of the struggle against a current of feminism that in some places is stronger than others, and that is about the exclusion of trans* people and non-binary. And so that was one aspect that I find interesting to learn, and I find its good to call it trans* feminism to make it explicit.
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	FSS: Yeah, and important because at a certain moment, there was really a confusion for me because I was at the ~~CCC (~~[https://events.ccc.de/ Chaos Computer Congres)] and there was a transhack meeting. So I joined into the meeting because it was about the organization of the next gathering. But actually, it was about trans nationality. So it was more like focusing on Spain and Italy. They have like trans hack meetings, but it's actually transnational meetings.		FSS: Yeah, and important because at a certain moment, there was really a confusion for me because I was at the [https://events.ccc.de/ Chaos Computer Congres] and there was a transhack meeting. So I joined into the meeting because it was about the organization of the next gathering. But actually, it was about trans nationality. So it was more like focusing on Spain and Italy. They have like trans hack meetings, but it's actually transnational meetings.
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	FSS: So we have hack meetings. Yeah, when we make it across different countries it becomes a transhack meeting.		FSS: So we have hack meetings. Yeah, when we make it across different countries it becomes a transhack meeting.
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	FSS: And it was really important that people do a bit of research and find their own history in this terminology, you know. It's also by the people inhabiting or by the people embodying that it becomes and not only by a definition. I mean, it's ever changing also.		FSS: And it was really important that people do a bit of research and find their own history in this terminology, you know. It's also by the people inhabiting or by the people embodying that it becomes and not only by a definition. I mean, it's ever changing also.
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	FSS: I agree in the sense I think that Anarchaserver is one of the first pages including the THF and all the documentation, and it feels very complicated to give a straightforward definition. And now we are trying to give access to the documentation that has been created around that concept. We are trying to clarify, to know, a definition of our internet politics and gender and diversity and so on. But for ~~Trans Hack Feminism~~ convergences, I would find it very difficult to give a straightforward explicit definition.		FSS: I agree in the sense I think that Anarchaserver is one of the first pages including the THF and all the documentation, and it feels very complicated to give a straightforward definition. And now we are trying to give access to the documentation that has been created around that concept. We are trying to clarify, to know, a definition of our internet politics and gender and diversity and so on. But for TransHackFeminism convergences, I would find it very difficult to give a straightforward explicit definition.
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	FSS: Maybe we have to create expiration dates on our Wiki pages. If we don't visit them in certain time becomes too old and it becomes a reference without being actual.		FSS: Maybe we have to create expiration dates on our Wiki pages. If we don't visit them in certain time becomes too old and it becomes a reference without being actual.

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2022-11-16T20:15:08Z

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	:''MELT: Thank you so much for these answers and also these very varied and different considerations of access. In relation to infrastructure, tech and language, and of course, disability. Yeah, I think we are both excited to continue working on that together. The next question is about speculative dreaming: What future perspectives for the feminist server do you wish or dream of?''		:''MELT: Thank you so much for these answers and also these very varied and different considerations of access. In relation to infrastructure, tech and language, and of course, disability. Yeah, I think we are both excited to continue working on that together. The next question is about speculative dreaming: What future perspectives for the feminist server do you wish or dream of?''
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	FSS: I dream that our feminist server continues to be a meeting point and space for feminist peers that will help us to evolve and collaborate and work together. And I'm also thinking about local feminist groups here in Rotterdam where I now live, but also back in Athens, where I come from. And I know that there is a need [for feminist servers] there. I hope that they can benefit from the existence of our feminist servers, especially towards ~~helping~~ to a future of more technological autonomy. Probably that cannot be completed, but at least to try to be less dependent on giant tech corporations for their communication or for publishing our works or our struggles or things that we need to communicate with the world, um, and interconnect with other feminist groups out there. So I hope that our feminist servers can ~~help~~ that perspective.		FSS: I dream that our feminist server continues to be a meeting point and space for feminist peers that will help us to evolve and collaborate and work together. And I'm also thinking about local feminist groups here in Rotterdam where I now live, but also back in Athens, where I come from. And I know that there is a need [for feminist servers] there. I hope that they can benefit from the existence of our feminist servers, especially towards supporting to a future of more technological autonomy. Probably that cannot be completed, but at least to try to be less dependent on giant tech corporations for their communication or for publishing our works or our struggles or things that we need to communicate with the world, um, and interconnect with other feminist groups out there. So I hope that our feminist servers can support that perspective.
	<br /><br />		<br /><br />
	FSS: I totally agree, and I find it so beautiful how we use tools as always a means to an end. I don't think anyone of us glorifies them and it's like: [making a] server is the end game. No, it's about using [a server] to learn together and to hang out and communicate. So I think that's very beautiful. I'm from Georgia and I didn't have anyone to talk about any of those things around me. That's how I actually got here. And this is already my dream scenario come to life. So now I'm trying to reconnect with people who are not so technical, but we are already starting to have something local in Georgia as well. So yeah, it's kind of that's what feminist servers are to me.		FSS: I totally agree, and I find it so beautiful how we use tools as always a means to an end. I don't think anyone of us glorifies them and it's like: [making a] server is the end game. No, it's about using [a server] to learn together and to hang out and communicate. So I think that's very beautiful. I'm from Georgia and I didn't have anyone to talk about any of those things around me. That's how I actually got here. And this is already my dream scenario come to life. So now I'm trying to reconnect with people who are not so technical, but we are already starting to have something local in Georgia as well. So yeah, it's kind of that's what feminist servers are to me.
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	FSS: What I observe right now is that the critique of big tech companies is high but the awareness that there is an alternative way to use technology is very invisible so far. And that's a lot of work to speak up for that and to make it shown. So that would be some vision of mine to not look at faces of complete disbelief when talking about having our own server.		FSS: What I observe right now is that the critique of big tech companies is high but the awareness that there is an alternative way to use technology is very invisible so far. And that's a lot of work to speak up for that and to make it shown. So that would be some vision of mine to not look at faces of complete disbelief when talking about having our own server.
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	FSS: I would like more people and collectives engaged in setting up feminist servers and in general feminist infrastructure initiatives. I would be interested in more local gynaecological considerations embedded inside the set up of future feminist servers. Dreaming, creating data centers made for and by ~~feminist servers~~. And coordination between different feminist servers to avoid reinventing the wheel or to enable supporting each other in knowledge and solidarity processes. To share resources and funding, to share common technical infrastructure or by having people that have specific skills and knowledge that can contribute to different initiatives. And finally, my big dream is one day to have feminist servers that then orientate towards providing services to communities that are facing strong gender based violence online and censorship in digital spaces [such as] pro-choice activists, post porno and sex workers. So that's a long term projection, but I would like that we can manage ~~to go there~~ one day.		FSS: I would like more people and collectives engaged in setting up feminist servers and in general feminist infrastructure initiatives. I would be interested in more local gynaecological considerations embedded inside the set up of future feminist servers. Dreaming, creating data centers made for and by feminists. And coordination between different feminist servers to avoid reinventing the wheel or to enable supporting each other in knowledge and solidarity processes. To share resources and funding, to share common technical infrastructure or by having people that have specific skills and knowledge that can contribute to different initiatives. And finally, my big dream is one day to have feminist servers that then orientate towards providing services to communities that are facing strong gender based violence online and censorship in digital spaces [such as] pro-choice activists, post porno and sex workers. So that's a long term projection, but I would like that we can manage that together, one day.
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	FSS: The idea of more sysadmins people who join us in the backend! [People] not just there for the services, who learn with us and try to engage with the technology and the machines which are surrounding us. Sysadmins unite (!) to break the [local] isolation of having ~~that~~ technofeminist praxis and awareness.		FSS: The idea of more sysadmins people who join us in the backend! [People] not just there for the services, who learn with us and try to engage with the technology and the machines which are surrounding us. Sysadmins unite (!) to break the [local] isolation of having a technofeminist praxis and awareness.
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	:''MELT: Maybe it's nice to continue because our project also works with trans* feminism and Disability Justice, and I love the ways in which the trans* feminist, THF, TransHackFeminism becomes a shared user in the access server page. But also, I think that there's a specific understanding of trans* feminism that you seem to be working with because it comes up again many times on the Anarchaserver page. What does it mean to you to serve trans* feminism in this project? I think it's also related to a lot of the dreams that you just shared. Would you want to say something more about trans* feminism specifically?''		:''MELT: Maybe it's nice to continue because our project also works with trans* feminism and Disability Justice, and I love the ways in which the trans* feminist, THF, TransHackFeminism becomes a shared user in the access server page. But also, I think that there's a specific understanding of trans* feminism that you seem to be working with because it comes up again many times on the Anarchaserver page. What does it mean to you to serve trans* feminism in this project? I think it's also related to a lot of the dreams that you just shared. Would you want to say something more about trans* feminism specifically?''
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	FSS: I'm still a little bit ~~like~~ scared about this fact of serving and hosting. ~~And it's like,~~ I feel like by inhabiting these servers and then also maintaining and configuring the affective infrastructures in which we are moving, that we are trans* ~~hack feminists. And it's [about] these kinds of spaces~~. It's not serving. It's, you know, like fluid. It's like good. It's like you are feeling the practices of technology. It's like configuring together. It'~~s yeah, it's more~~ like an actualization of ~~trans* hack feminism~~. I like it has a history, also. The TransHackFeminism, was a reaction on the electictechcarnival (https://eclectictechcarnival.org/) to open specific identity politics and women-only-spaces up, to trans* people~~. And then the reaction came~~.		FSS: I'm still a little bit scared about this fact of serving and hosting. I feel like by inhabiting these servers and then also maintaining and configuring the affective infrastructures in which we are moving, that we are trans* hackfeminists. It's not serving. It's, you know, like fluid. It's like good. It's like you are feeling the practices of technology. It's like configuring together. It'smore like an actualization of TransHackFeminism. I like it has a history, also. The TransHackFeminism, was a reaction on the electictechcarnival (https://eclectictechcarnival.org/) to open specific identity politics and women-only-spaces up, to trans* people.
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	:''MELT: I would also be super curious to hear what it means to have come from a cis-woman only space and going through the process of opening that up to trans* people.		:''MELT: I would also be super curious to hear what it means to have come from a cis-woman only space and going through the process of opening that up to trans* people.
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	FSS: So I try to put here just a little definition that we created for the feminist museum about TransHackFeminism. Hmm ... ?? .... So we have to define it like: The Mummy is a museum of the future taking place in the 22nd century. It's a museum about sexism that has disappeared: it is curated with Anamhoo, a sysadmin of Anarchaserver that organised the trans* hack feminist convergence in Mexico. We try to collect seven different artistic pieces..... I have been in a collective in Spain that is called Donestech (https://www.donestech.net/) in Catalan that was created in 2007. At that moment, there was no other collective that was working on the relation between gender and technologies and free software. But I think that the paradigm of inclusion of women in digital tech related spaces was needed, no? But it's very 90s, no? [We became more] trans* feminist in our politics, in our feminist politics. We made an event where we would meet together, [and you had to be] open to trans* feminism. So that's why it was called TransHackFeminism and ~~because~~ it was organized not only by me and Sophie Toupin, but also by the people of Pechblenda which was a space in Calafou and Julito who were trans feminist. It appeared in 2008 in Spain, in the feminist conference in Granada.		FSS: I have been in a collective in Spain that is called Donestech (https://www.donestech.net/) in Catalan that was created in 2007. At that moment, there was no other local collective that was working on the relation between gender and technologies and free software. But I think that the paradigm of inclusion of women in digital tech related spaces was needed, no? But it's very 90s, no? [We became more] trans* feminist in our politics, in our feminist politics. We made an event where we would meet together, [and you had to be] open to trans* feminism. So that's why it was called TransHackFeminism and it was organized not only by me and Sophie Toupin, but also by the people of [https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/ Pechblenda] which was a space in Calafou and Julito who were trans feminist. It appeared in 2008 in Spain, in the feminist conference in Granada.
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	FSS: Yes, I would like to elaborate a bit more on what ooooo mentioned ~~a little bit of the story of events because we are based in different locations within Europe~~. So the eclectictechcarnival takes place not even yearly.; sometimes it is 2, 3 years inbetween. Well, I admit I haven't been at that many. I've been in the last one, it was an organized in Greece where I am based. The one before was in Italy, and the one before Italy was called ~~TransHack Feminism~~ in Calafou. And because I organized it, the question of who can join this event came up because every time as time passes as spideralex mentioned feminism itself changes, and it's always this question of who can join our event? And again, for example, the last, let's say a firewall, is cis men. Can cis men join our events? So this is the base of the conversation as we try to provide safe spaces and for those who are marginalized, within technology and its environments. But I would say it's an open question, and it always depends on the locality of the event. And on those organizing it. Of course, we all have our own idea and praxis of ~~feminism~~.		FSS: Yes, I would like to elaborate a bit more on what ooooo mentioned. So the eclectictechcarnival takes place not even yearly; sometimes it is 2, 3 years inbetween. Well, I admit I haven't been at that many. I've been in the last one, it was an organized in Greece where I am based. The one before was in Italy, and the one before Italy was called TransHackFeminism in Calafou. And because I organized it, the question of who can join this event came up because every time as time passes as spideralex mentioned feminism itself changes, and it's always this question of who can join our event? And again, for example, the last, let's say, firewall, is cis men. Can cis men join our events? So this is the base of the conversation as we try to provide safe spaces and for those who are marginalized, within technology and its environments. But I would say it's an open question, and it always depends on the locality of the event. And on those organizing it. Of course, we all have our own idea and praxis of feminisms.
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	FSS: To me it was also new, I was not sure what that trans* referred to, because in the German speaking context [people] were talking maybe of queer feminism. So I was curious to also learn [about trans* feminism as] a part of the struggle against a current of feminism that in some places is stronger than others, and that is about the exclusion of trans* people and non-binary. And so that was one aspect that I find interesting to learn, and I find its good to call it trans* feminism to make it explicit.		FSS: To me it was also new, I was not sure what that trans* referred to, because in the German speaking context [people] were talking maybe of queer feminism. So I was curious to also learn [about trans* feminism as] a part of the struggle against a current of feminism that in some places is stronger than others, and that is about the exclusion of trans* people and non-binary. And so that was one aspect that I find interesting to learn, and I find its good to call it trans* feminism to make it explicit.
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	FSS: Yeah, and important because at a certain moment, there was really a confusion for me because I was at the CCC (Chaos Computer Congres) and there was a transhack meeting. So I joined into the meeting because it was about the organization of the next gathering. But actually, it was about trans nationality. So it was more like focusing on Spain and Italy. They have like trans hack meetings, but it's actually transnational meetings.		FSS: Yeah, and important because at a certain moment, there was really a confusion for me because I was at the CCC ([https://events.ccc.de/ Chaos Computer Congres)] and there was a transhack meeting. So I joined into the meeting because it was about the organization of the next gathering. But actually, it was about trans nationality. So it was more like focusing on Spain and Italy. They have like trans hack meetings, but it's actually transnational meetings.
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	FSS: So we have hack meetings. Yeah, when we make it across different countries it becomes a ~~trans hack~~ meeting.		FSS: So we have hack meetings. Yeah, when we make it across different countries it becomes a transhack meeting.
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	FSS: Yeah, sure. But it's interesting that the one refers to like identity politics in relation to gender, it seems. And the other, of course not. It's much wider also about your national identity. But it is confusing, or it is also how the term can be hacked so that that gets certain meanings by actually also using it.		FSS: Yeah, sure. But it's interesting that the one refers to like identity politics in relation to gender, it seems. And the other, of course not. It's much wider also about your national identity. But it is confusing, or it is also how the term can be hacked so that that gets certain meanings by actually also using it.

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	===›››››››››››››› Interview Meltionary Access Server ===		===›››››››››››››› Interview Meltionary Access Server ===

	This conversation took place between [https://www.anarchaserver.org Anarchaserver], [https://leverburns.blue/ Lever Burns], [https://systerserver.net/ Systerserver] and the arts-design duo [https://meltionary.com/ MELT] on the 4th of February 2022. It has been shortened and edited for clarity by MELT~~. Present were: Estragon, Mika, [https:/www.ooooo.be/ ooooo], spideralex, nate, Mara (Feminist Server Sysadmins) (FSS), Ren Loren and Isabel (MELT)~~.		This conversation took place between [https://www.anarchaserver.org Anarchaserver], [https://leverburns.blue/ Lever Burns], [https://systerserver.net/ Systerserver] and the arts-design duo [https://meltionary.com/ MELT] on the 4th of February 2022. It has been shortened and edited for clarity by MELT.

	[https://www.anarchaserver.org Anarchaserver], [https://leverburns.blue/ Lever Burns], [https://systerserver.net/ Systerserver] are a distributed group of people based in Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, Spain and Italy, working on feminist infrastructures and servers. Their work on setting up a [https://tube.systerserver.net/ peertube] instance to provide an online video based residency to artists, is currently supported by the program [https://afairnewidea.be/en/topics/873/entries/10844 A Fair New Idea?!] (AFNI).		[https://www.anarchaserver.org Anarchaserver], [https://leverburns.blue/ Lever Burns], [https://systerserver.net/ Systerserver] are a distributed group of people based in Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, Spain and Italy, working on feminist infrastructures and servers. Their work on setting up a [https://tube.systerserver.net/ peertube] instance to provide an online video based residency to artists, is currently supported by the program [https://afairnewidea.be/en/topics/873/entries/10844 A Fair New Idea?!] (AFNI).
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	The feminist servers invited [https://meltionary.com/ MELT] for a one month residency in order to try out feminist infrastructures for their project. We decided to begin the residency with an interview, focusing on how we have shared language in our projects but the ways they make meaning, are different.[https://meltionary.com/ MELT] found the subpage [https://alexandria.anarchaserver.org/index.php?title=Access_server&action=edit ACCESS SERVER] on the website of Anarchaserver – a subpage set up to help people to access this feminist server. [https://meltionary.com/ MELT] wanted to ask about and consider the resonances between ACCESS SERVER as a way of logging into the feminist servers' infrastructure, and ACCESS SERVER as a way of making access for disabled people into cultural institutions. What followed was a conversation around technology, trans*feminism, sysadmin work, access, and disability.		The feminist servers invited [https://meltionary.com/ MELT] for a one month residency in order to try out feminist infrastructures for their project. We decided to begin the residency with an interview, focusing on how we have shared language in our projects but the ways they make meaning, are different.[https://meltionary.com/ MELT] found the subpage [https://alexandria.anarchaserver.org/index.php?title=Access_server&action=edit ACCESS SERVER] on the website of Anarchaserver – a subpage set up to help people to access this feminist server. [https://meltionary.com/ MELT] wanted to ask about and consider the resonances between ACCESS SERVER as a way of logging into the feminist servers' infrastructure, and ACCESS SERVER as a way of making access for disabled people into cultural institutions. What followed was a conversation around technology, trans*feminism, sysadmin work, access, and disability.

	We met in a hybrid way: some of us were present at Varia in Rotterdam and enjoyed coffee and fruits together, some joined via the self-hosted Jitsi instance of futuretic, an allied autonomous server.		We met in a hybrid way: some of us were present at [https://vvvvvvaria.org/ Varia] in Rotterdam and enjoyed coffee and fruits together, some joined via the self-hosted Jitsi instance of futuretic, an allied autonomous server.

	FSS ~~- Feminst server Sysadmins <br />~~		Present were:
	MELT ~~- Meltionary~~		Estragon, Mika, [https://www.ooooo.be ooooo], spideralex, nate, Mara (Feminist Server Sysadmins) (FSS)
			Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr (MELT).
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	<big>'''Could you walk us through the ways Access Server is used?'''</big>		<big>'''Could you walk us through the ways Access Server is used?'''</big>
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	~~When searching for an answer to this question, we had a very technical way of looking at it.~~ The page is ~~from~~ a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki] that we installed. We have this ~~helpful~~ "history" function under each created page, as it's a collaborative writing tool, it keeps track of the previous edits. So what we actually did yesterday is hit the history button to try to find the history of that specific page because it ~~also~~ has a timestamp, and it also sees the user who ~~was actually creating this~~ page. So we found that the user was THF and that there was three other users: ooooo, b04 and ezn. ~~They~~ were ~~also~~ contributing to the ~~the technical~~ appearance of this page. The THF user refers to ~~‘trans hack feminism’~~, which was [[Main_Page#TransHackFeminist_Convergence\|a convergence]] organized in Calafou. . So it's not very clear who ~~made~~ that ~~page~~, but it is made in that convergence~~, so~~ there were people sitting around the table and ~~making~~ it. Do you want to contextualize the THF user spideralex? Or the ~~trans hack feminist~~ convergence?		The page is part of a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki] that we installed. We have this "history" function under each created page, as it's a collaborative writing tool, it keeps track of the previous edits. So what we actually did yesterday is hit the history button to try to find the history of that specific page because it has a timestamp, and it also sees the user who created the page. So we found that the user was THF and that there was three other users: ooooo, b04 and ezn. All four of them were technically contributing to the appearance of this page. The THF user refers to ‘TransHackFeminism’, which was [[Main_Page#TransHackFeminist_Convergence\|a convergence]] organized in [https://www.calafou.org/ Calafou]. So it's not very clear who was that user, but it is made in that convergence: there were people sitting around the table and editing it. Do you want to contextualize the THF user spideralex? Or the TransHackFeminist convergence?
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	FSS:		FSS:
	So the THF user was created around the first TransHackFeminist convergence in ~~2013~~. It was a shared user of ~~the~~ different people that have been documenting ~~the different~~ sessions that were held ~~at this first event of~~ one week. We have been sharing <the user> to document basically the different conversations. And then the wiki has remained as a space where different TransHackFeminist events could document ~~what they did~~. In the wiki, we write about feminist servers in general and when we document the Anarchaserver's technical and other work.		So the THF user was created around the first TransHackFeminist convergence in 2014. It was a shared user of different people that have been documenting various sessions that were held during one week in [https://www.calafou.org/ Calafou], Spain. We have been sharing <the user>to document basically the different conversations. And then the wiki has remained as a space where different TransHackFeminist events could document their editions. In the wiki, we write also about feminist servers in general and when we document the Anarchaserver's technical and other work.
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	FSS:		FSS:
	More on the technical side – this was the first thing I did when I joined Anarchaserver. As spideralex said, the documentations of different projects kept going on. So there were two similar pages with server set up documentation. The first thing I did was to merge and update them. But also, we had this conversation with ooooo that it would be nice if someone actually tries ~~it. Yeah, sometimes it's nice if someone else tries to~~ follow the instructions because you, yourself, know what you're doing. ~~And~~ I also did the styling of the page and ~~then I did~~ the overall styling of MediaWiki~~, and~~ I wanted ~~for~~ it to be a bit more welcoming than a default page.		More on the technical side – this was the first thing I did when I joined Anarchaserver. As spideralex said, the documentations of different projects kept going on. So there were two similar pages with server set up documentation. The first thing I did was to merge and update them. But also, we had this conversation with ooooo that it would be nice if someone actually tries the different steps and follow the instructions because you, yourself, know what you're doing. later, I also did the styling of the page and also the overall styling of MediaWiki. I wanted it to be a bit more welcoming than a default MediaWiki page.
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	:''MELT: It is very interesting to hear from everyone about what kind of accessibility you think with! I hear a lot about collaborations that produce the wiki with you as a way to literally access the server. And I also understand that it is also a kind of accessibility to make the server accessible by documenting how to use it. But I'm curious what it would mean for you to make the server disability accessible? How do you think about accessibility? What does that mean in your project? Do you have some thoughts on that?''		:''MELT: It is very interesting to hear from everyone about what kind of accessibility you think with! I hear a lot about collaborations that produce the wiki with you as a way to literally access the server. And I also understand that it is also a kind of accessibility to make the server accessible by documenting how to use it. But I'm curious what it would mean for you to make the server disability accessible? How do you think about accessibility? What does that mean in your project? Do you have some thoughts on that?''
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	FSS: ~~I can start with this question. So.~~ Accessibility~~, yeah~~, it's a concern. ~~Accessibility in terms of who can work and make use of our services that we host. And at~~ the moment it‘s mostly people who are part of the ~~collective and with this~~ project. A Fair New Idea was ~~also~~ for us a way to try to reach out and ~~to try~~ to see how we could host people besides our internal network. So that's why we invited you ~~for~~ a residency. ~~So anyway, it~~ was an opportunity to reach out to ~~first~~ artists and of course, we'll see how it will go. ~~But since most~~ of are artists and at the same time we have technical knowledge and we would like to share basic cohabitation with artists who can learn to work outside very commercial, centralized online tools. So that's one path of accessibility. So then there's the accessibility of who can join in our networks because sometimes the activism is something that not everybody can afford, because most of the times ~~that~~ we volunteer ~~on a project~~. So having available resources, even if it's minimal ~~for people to do things~~, ~~with~~ our servers is a very important accessibility factor. And ~~then it comes,~~ of course, accessibility of our user interfaces who can actually read and learn ~~and~~ from the content we host on our servers.		FSS: Accessibility, it's a concern. At the moment it‘s mostly people who are part of the wider constellation around the feminist servers. The project of [https://www.kunsten.be/calls/digital-atelier-and-residency-on-feminist-video-streaming-platform A Fair New Idea] was for us a way to try to reach out and to see how we could host people besides our internal network. So that's why we did an open call and invited you to do a residency. It was an opportunity to reach out to artists and of course, we'll see how it will go. Since some of us of are also artists and at the same time we have technical knowledge and we would like to share basic cohabitation with artists who can learn to work outside very commercial, centralized online tools. So that's one path of accessibility. So then there's the accessibility of who can join in our networks because sometimes the activism is something that not everybody can afford, because most of the times we volunteer. So having available resources, even if it's minimal, within our servers is a very important accessibility factor. And than of course, accessibility of our user interfaces, who can actually read and learn from the content we host on our servers.
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	FSS: Maybe I can add something: For me, the first part of accessibility was also for myself even, to start being familiar with, how to use a server, how to get there and how to do stuff there and not look at it as a black box that I cannot touch because I'm afraid. So by trying to bring people that are not experts or not technologists into collectives in which people can help each other in educating themselves so they feel more emancipated to use not only commercial tools, but also their own or open source ones. For the future what I'm currently thinking of is that I would like things that we do on the server, like maybe a website or a wiki or whatever to be more inclusive to people with disabilities, for example. What I ~~see~~ now ~~when it comes to that~~ is that colours ~~could~~ be too ~~much~~ for some people to read, or <we could develop tools like> some functions for people who cannot hear and who would really like it to learn more about technology can use.		FSS: Maybe I can add something: For me, the first part of accessibility was also for myself even, to start being familiar with, how to use a server, how to get there and how to do stuff there and not look at it as a black box that I cannot touch because I'm afraid. So by trying to bring people that are not experts or not technologists into collectives in which people can help each other in educating themselves so they feel more emancipated to use not only commercial tools, but also their own or open source ones. For the future what I'm currently thinking of is that I would like things that we do on the server, like maybe a website or a wiki or whatever to be more inclusive to people with disabilities, for example. What I realise now, is that colours can be too intense for some people to read, or <we could develop tools like> some functions for people who cannot hear and who would really like it to learn more about technology can use.
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	FSS: I am interested in understanding accessibility as something that too is about how we make our tools and services and contents more accessible to deaf and disabled people. And also to people who don't speak Spanish and English. Then again, in general how contents and services can be made more known and accessible to short term collectivities and individuals. I’m also interested in how you can enable a lower threshold for feminist collectives to engage in and maintain their own technical infrastructures.		FSS: I am also interested in understanding accessibility as something that too is about how we make our tools and services and contents more accessible to deaf and disabled people. And also to people who don't speak Spanish and English. Then again, in general how contents and services can be made more known and accessible to short term collectivities and individuals. I’m also interested in how you can enable a lower threshold for feminist collectives to engage in and maintain their own technical infrastructures.
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	:''MELT: Thank you so much for these answers and also these very varied and different considerations of access. In relation to infrastructure, tech and language, and of course, disability. Yeah, I think we are both excited to continue working on that together. The next question is about speculative dreaming: What future perspectives for the feminist server do you wish or dream of?''		:''MELT: Thank you so much for these answers and also these very varied and different considerations of access. In relation to infrastructure, tech and language, and of course, disability. Yeah, I think we are both excited to continue working on that together. The next question is about speculative dreaming: What future perspectives for the feminist server do you wish or dream of?''