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Technological Craft

by @Holly@pan.rent

This time last year, I was conducting fieldwork for my master's degree in anthropology -- the three months consisted of time in San Francisco, Berlin, and many late night hours sat over my Brother KH-910 knitting machine.

I was doing research with the open-source knitting-machine-modification project All Yarns Are Beautiful (or AYAB), and I was looking at the relationship woven between craft, technology, and identity. [...]

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#technological-craft

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Computer-less computation. Weather forecast (or patterns?)

In the past, when there was no radio, television or internet to provide weather forecasts, people used to observe the signs of the out there to understand the weather patterns.

Here are some of these natural indicators:

> If clover stems stand upright, RAIN.
> If sorrel flowers bloom, GOOD WEATHER.
> Dew indicates good weather, while frost indicates RAIN.
....

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#computerless-computation-weather

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The aim of almanac.sh is to attempt a non-technical reading of everyday (and not) technology, questioning its serialized use and escaping the complete full-productivity fetishism of current tech trends.

Proposing an esoteric approach to the aforementioned topics, we want to imagine a different narration for the devices we have in front of us right now, doing what machines cannot ...
https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#the-aim

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Four tips from the moon
from the “almanac.sh | init” workshop happened during #AMRO24

Regular: use a simple script that hybernate your PC every night.

Necessary: use a plugin that limits your browser to 10 (or some other number) of open tabs - annoying at first but after a few weeks - peace.

Evil: for any backup you do, delete two

Chaotic: type photos (ASCII) instead of integrate them.

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#four-tips-1

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3 March 2026: Full moon not alone

On this full moon, I went to the Holy Mountain with Marlene; at the moment she’s staying at Ca’ de Monti too. After a convivial evening with the other guests, we set off, as usual guided by the moonlight, towards the mysterious clay rock.
The mood was more light-hearted than usual; we were talking about terraforming, poking fun at Prometheanism. We also reflected on the words of Giammario, the beekeeper neighbour, who had come [...]

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#3-march-2026

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Fire

A common characteristic of any media is its relation to power. Ownership, management and maintenance of communication networks by organized societies have a big importance in their spread and expansion.

Let's dig into the classic western culture references system, let's see how the technic comes from greek mythology. A key character here is Prometheus, the Titan that challenged the gods by stealing fire from the heavens. ...

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#fire

Computer-less computation. Find the north with a stick, two stones and the sun

This is very easy. Find a stick and put it into the soil on a field. Put a stone and set it where the shadow of the stick finishes. Wait for a while, and put the second stone where now the shadow finishes. That’s it: place the left foot to the first stone, le right one to the second stone.

You’re facing north!

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#computerless-computation-north

Four tips from the moon

from the “almanac.sh | init” workshop happened during AMRO24

Regular: delete stuff, keep the essential

Necessary: try to navigate in your home-town without using a major corporation - print a map. draw a map, ask for directions or just try to learn the way by memory. it's nice!

Evil: use a simple script that suspends your PC after 2sec of inactivity

Chaotic: go into your email client, CTRL-A, DELETE

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#four-tips-3

Memory echoes

Extract from The traffic fades, the moon rises

There were the architectural works of the mind:
the internal temples
the secret rooms
the places made of symbols and pure imagination.

The files of time were not alphanumeric representations but
pure image
pure form

Imagination like a
processing unit

every look
every word
was shared knowledge

not bytes
but personal and figurative yet completely ineffable symbols
[...]

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#rss-birthday

RSS feed birthday

The first release of RSS was on March 15, 1999: Happy birthday!

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#rss-birthday

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2 February 2026: It was a night in full sun.

It was a night in full sun.
A dreamlike scene steeped in all its brutal realism. The moon, in addition to revealing itself, forces all organic and inorganic existence to show themselves. I walk towards the Holy Mountain without the need for artificial lights; indeed I left my smartphone at home: in addition to the solemnity of the moment of divination - which I want...

publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#2-february-2026

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Four tips from the moon

from the “almanac.sh | init” workshop happened during AMRO24

Regular: use txt and markup files instead of docx

Necessary: Condensed your every day downloads to the size of a Floppy (1.44MB)

Evil: use multiple mice and keyboards or use none

Chaotic: write alt descriptions, don't take photos

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#four-tips-1

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Hello,

We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty. They got you a warrant for free. Did you, know that? Warranties are just growing these days. They give them away, they're everywhere so get yourself one that is extended just for you to fit in. And in the afternoon, you could get some hot tea and just wait there. No ads of course. Sign directly on your finger....

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#hello

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Almanac.sh | 18 January 2026 – First new moon
almanac.sh is a bulletin that follows lunar cycles and deals with ecological/social/digital and non-digital sustainability, esoteric and queer approaches to computing, and everything in between.

It has a participatory format: if you feel like it, take a look at the open call
https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/

About almanac.sh

Here is the first almanac.sh bulletin. I
(Federico @poni@post.lurk.org ) will begin by explaining how we got here.
The interest in the themes of this project is a synthesis of various topics that are generally not very popular. During my master's studies and the beginning of the Habitat project, I became interested in topics such as low-tech, the community use of technology and the concept of limits. ....

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#about

Colophon
almanac.sh a project curated by @poni@post.lurk.org supported by a conversational agent known as @dvd@social.servus.at

Poem of the first new moon by Yuna Leonis <3;

Epact calculation instructions translated from "Almanacco Rurale 2023 - Miraluna" - Il Grup;

Tangible Cloud Oracle: Card design and text by Marloes de Valk; Coloring, design of the manual and production by Alex Levray; Box design by Muriel Gerhart; Riso printing by Rinan Deriez;

[...]
https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#colophon

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Computer-less computation: calculating the moons (the epact)

The epact is a value that represents the age of the moon at the beginning of the new year and corresponds to the days separating the NEW MOON in December from 31st December (with some complicated exceptions that we will not discuss here).

Each year, the epact number increases ...

(Continues at https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#computerless-computation)

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A poem – Gelato
by Yuna Leonis

~~~

Grandir

ici, une glace à fondue,

un enfant est triste par la simple action du soleil

Ce n'est la faute que du soleil,

qui ne fait rien.

Elle a fondue et c'est tout.

L'enfant comprends que la disparition existe.

Ma se fosse stato mio, avrei pianto anch'io

https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#a-poem-1

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3 January 2026: Full moon on a night with fast-moving clouds.

Living outside the city, light pollution is virtually non-existent and I can walk without a torch when our satellite allows it.

On the table in my garden, there are some mineral stones, probably calcite. The moon reflects a little light on them and makes the sparkle.

[...] https://publications.servus.at/2026-almanac.sh/almanac.html#3-january-2026