One look at darkveggy's website is enough to make you realise that darkveggy is far from being an anti-computer technophobe. Yet the conclusion of his article is: "get off the Internet, the street is a rootshell!"

After an introduction to "analog recipes and digital bakery", he moves on to talk about hackers, gnu and richard stallmann, about actively programming our lives, and "analog movements". Squatting can be seen as "Hacking property", "fighting the proprietary" is just as necessary, and "computers do have genders", a nod to the widespread sexism and machismo in the predominently male dominated tech world.

All this overlapping and crossover takes place at a number of hubs like "plug'n'politix", "hackmeetings" or hacklabs. Indymedia is seen as one part of this crossover:

"Being spread in a number of cities world-wide, it is able to relay information from its source, allowing activists to avoid mediatic filters and censorship. This decentralisation proved to be particularly helpful in countries who seriously lack alternative media structures, and were going through hectic political times, like Argentina or Ecuador, whose Indymedia centers were donated hardware from the US, collected by the Indymedia Solidarity project. Of course, Indymedia runs
free software on its servers. Like 80s MIT hackers used to say: "information has to be free!".

Open-access and hacklabs provide physical gateways to Indymedia and like-minded alternative news sites, by re-routing people's habits away from cnn.com!"