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Rustic Retreat

Live broadcasts and documentation from a remote tech outpost in rustic Portugal. Sharing off-grid life, the necessary research & development and the pursuit of life, without centralized infrastructure.

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Mission-Tags

Apollo-NG Mobile Hackbase

Apollo-NG Hackerspacecraft

Apollo-NG is a mobile, self-sustainable, independent and highly-experimental Hackbase, focused on research, development and usage of next-generation open technology while visiting places without a resident, local Hackerspace and offering other Hackers the opportunity to work together on exciting projects and to share fun, food, tools & resources, knowledge, experience and inspiration.

Latest Mission-Log Entries

Personal Log: PiGI Testing

Some time ago i stumbled upon the PiGI project, joined the chatroom and somehow convinced chrono to send me a prototype board. Thanks for that! So here will be a summary of my testing of the PiGI.

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2014-02-08 14:21 · jamest

Personal Log: The Post-Snowden Age

In 2013, some tech guy with a conscience got fed up covering up. He had access to many secret documents proving at which scale people are being unlawfully monitored and all of their information/communication behavior is logged and stored. He became a hero when he released documents showing the audacity, capacity and greediness of these “agencies” in full detail: People all over the world are constantly being spied upon by the NSA, GCHQ the BND and all the other players around the world. We have been saying this for years but were just labeled as paranoid conspiracy theorists who need to be put into a mental institution for even thinking like that. But Edward Snowden finally proved that point. Thank you for taking this upon you. Even though some consider you a traitor and publicly fantasize how they would like to kill you, you have done the right thing.

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2014-02-03 15:32 · chrono

Personal Log: Mission Updates

It's been quite a while since anything was moving here because I got sick and was down for more than 3 weeks and directly after that it was time to begin the move out of the flat that I occupied for the last decade in order to clean out the rest of all the stuff I've gathered over the years and which doesn't belong onto the Apollo-NG cargo manifest. This will be the last stepping stone to finally be able to sustain myself on the road with what I have on board.

Unfortunately, this pushed the PiGI crowdfunding deadline further because I didn't want to start the campaign in a state where everything that I need to successfully launch and fulfill the campaign is packed in boxes. That's too much of a handicap for now and would increase the risk of further delays. Iggy and I will start the campaign as soon as we are in a somewhat operational state again.

2013-09-24 11:35 · chrono