Four years after the Arab Spring and two years after the Snowden revelations about NSA spying, it appears that little has changed. We'll answer the question "what now?" by remember the ad-hoc activist cluster Telecomix. Called "Tech Support for the Arab Spring", Telecomix helped keep Egypt & Syria online, using everything from encryption to dialup modems and fax machines. We helped to catch a US company selling surveillance to dictators, defend journalists against Chicago cops and rally thousands to the streets of Europe against the ACTA copyright treaty. We spend more time hanging out on IRC than is technically healthy. This talk will reflect on lessons learned during last three years of hands-on "hacktivism" and explore similarities with the free software community. It's a follow-up to a 2011 Pycon lightning talk given shortly after the Tahrir Square protests.