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Amidst the digital equivalent of underfunded aqueducts and brittle bridges, dynes keep building. This isn’t about patchwork fixes. It’s about a different path. In this issue, we explore the foundations for what comes next: from re-imagining how innovation is funded, to forging anonymous age checks that protect rather than police, and the sovereign code that makes it all possible. Let's stop maintaining the ruins and start building anew. 💡 Rethinking R&I Funding: Opting for Continuity There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to. The growing competition for R&I project grants overburdens the R&I system, generates bursts of activity leading to unsustainable results, and fuels the much-maligned growth of precarious labour.  Rethinking R&I Funding: Opting for Continuity There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to. News From DyneWessel Reijers 👶🏽 Age Verification for Humans Europe is rolling out one of the largest online age verification experiments. Jaromil examines the EUDI wallet prototype—how its privacy-preserving, zero-knowledge core is being defused by its implementation. Fresh from a Berlin digital identity retreat, he shares the most urgent takeaways. Age Verification for Humans Europe’s age‑verification pilots conflate censorship with guardianship. This essay argues for a decentralised approach that separates technical filtering from social responsibility. News From DyneJaromil 📖 Read a book When word came about that "How to use a Terminal" was impossible to locate on the interwebz, some dynes had to intervene. This document is a foundation for many inhabitants of the planet. So it was ported to mkdocs and stored on the dyne.org domain. How to use a Terminal logo It's not perfect yet and requires a little more formatting, but perhaps You would be the good Samaridyne that will help finish the touch-up? Pull requests are more than welcome! If you do, when (not if) it's printed on paper, you can bet your nick will be prominently featured! docs/src/terminal at master · dyne/docs Repository of documentation of dynebolic projects - dyne/docs GitHubdyne 🥷🏽 Conspire Conspire is a chat for radical exchange: ephemeral, anonymous, synchronous, and free. A whisper network for organizing loud rebellion. Ephemeral chats that bloom and vanish, anonymous voices meeting in digital safe houses. No logs, no masters, no footprints—just pure, peer-to-peer signal. Built for those who believe privacy isn’t a feature, but a right. This is digital autonomy in its most elegant form: a practical “no” to #chatcontrol, wrapped in a tool that feels like magic. Dyne.org :: Conspire Chat Web-based chat for radical exchange: ephemeral, anonymous, synchronous and free. Dyne.org Conspire is 100% free and open source software running as a single binary, written in C++ and based on the Oat++ framework. Our source code is a fork of “can-chat” available on git dyne/conspire. 🖖 Please help us fund it! Vote for CONSPIRE on Gitcoin Funding will enable ARM porting for an embedded “Conspire Box” system with captive portal capability: a WiFi hotspot will present the chat interface to on-site connecting clients. Security enhancements will include Tor hidden-service integration and security hardening, such as Address Sanitiser (ASAN), static analysis, and penetration testing. 🫂 Vote CONSPIRE 🗣️ Policy Voices AI here, AI there, slop, FOMO, and anxiety everywhere! You may be enjoying AI and use it in your daily tasks, but you're probably going to agree that there are many problems with it. Maybe not so much the tool itself (just maybe), but definitely on the level of ownership, governance, resources, infrastructures, and the power imbalances. Of course, where there is worry, there are dynes working hard at lifting spirits, painting sovereign perspectives, and manifesting a different reality. This happens in public settings like the Friends of Europe's Policy Voices, and more intimate settings like the Montreux Jazz Festival Residency. Listen to what Jaromil has to say about the challenges for Europe in this strange race towards autonomy for robots. Click the image to listen to this on tv.dyne.org 💣 It's noooow or neveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer In its 22nd edition, the Festival of Politics and Ideas confronted the challenges Europe faces, debated the policies that matter, and how to be bold in resetting Europe’s direction. And the redaction knows what you're thinking: "I didn't hear about this?!" Well, dyne did, and went there. This may be reassuring, but there is a lot of work to do, and your involvement is going to be required at some point. To build a Europe by the people for the people requires, well, people. State of Europe 2025 – Europe matters: now or never Explore Europe’s future at the State of Europe 2025 – bold debates on security, competitiveness, climate, digital and the EU budget. Friends of EuropeEPIC But hey: no shaming! All that planet dyne cares for is that you be aware that you matter! And remember, if you ever feel lonely in your struggles, the planet is just a click away. Teleport If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau 10k Drum Machines 🍿 Movie time! Ever find yourself thinking that movies are great, but the resolution these days... is too dang high! Well, we got the tool for you! ASCII rules! Everything looks better in ASCII, so do movies! Pop those corns, plug the copmuter computer in the home-theater, and revisit some classics in their bestest resolution! ASCII Theater Stream free text-based movies in your terminal. ASCII TheaterMSCHF 0:00 0:44 1× Hey, You're the sponsor, fellow dyne! Sign up to Planet Dyne 🕊️ Free to share code. 👩🏽‍💻 Code to share freedom. 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It is opening a Polyclinic of Creative Practice—a five-day, live-diagnosis summit in Málaga for Europe’s cultural immune system. Forget siloed panels. This is a creative field hospital with seven distinct departments, each treating a different symptom of our stagnant status quo. We will be: Unlearning the Creative Self (Dissolving the myth of the lone genius) Prescribing Aesthetic Resilience (The antibody to artificial intelligence) Practicing Collective Entrepreneurship (Monetizing the commons without poisoning it) Featuring a keynote from Teresa Ribera, the Horizon Europe project will showcase its mid-term findings: proof that culture isn't a decorative flourish, but the very substrate of climate and social transformation. This is more than a meeting. It's a triage unit for the imagination. Your participation is a diagnostic tool. 👉 Arrive with symptoms. Leave with a treatment plan. Register now here: Getting ahead together: PACESETTERS Summit | PACESETTERS Home That's it for this episode of Planet Dyne! Come co-create the next episode by joining the channels! Or help us by sharing this article with a friend. Tune in to the discussion 💬 (These services are bridged: join your favorite and reach them all) 🗨️ IRC 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord Support Dyne 🫱🏿‍🫲🏾 Help dyne.org stay focused on hacking the planet! 🥰 Donate 💸 🪙 Bitcoins: bc1qz9wz2f9swcefra2tfrhk4fx49evqsv03m9nx4l ☕ Ko-Fi 🍴 Github.com 🧁 LiberaPay 🍥 Patreon.com Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack - Fall 2025 The swag of the cool cats Jah Bless Follow Dyne.org 🗞️ Social Media everywhere! 🐭 Lemmy 🐘 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📸 Instagram 🐦 Xitter 👔 Linkedin 🪞 Facebook 🧵 Threads ✍️ Medium

Wherever you are on this tilted planet, a new season is turning—and with it, a quiet call to return to the glow of the screen. It’s time to gather the ideas scattered by sun or snow and shape them in the soft light of our hacker dens. The world outside is changing its rhythm, inviting us to code, to compose, to build. So power up your battle stations; the most luminous work begins when you are ready for it. 👾 Come out and play! Planet Dyne can be found everywhere on the Interwebz. This is, of course, convenient, but it also feeds a machine that has clearly gone rogue. The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org The planet is not going to delete anything anytime soon. But a choice has been made to shift focus away from the corporate silos and beam that same energy towards things that offer more genuine interactions, based on more humane values. If you are ever looking for us, come out and play! The rabbit hole is this way 👇 Dyne.org :: Linktree Contact Hackers at Dyne.org<br/>Dive into our network of connections and resources Dyne.org (psssst... ever heard of "Nostr"?) 🥳 Noema's 25th anniversary Noema is celebrating its 25th anniversary! To celebrate, it decided to make the eBook that tells its story a free download until September 21st, in both the Italian and English editions. Noema. Uno sguardo lungo 25 anni – eBook gratuito! / Noema. A look spanning 25 years – free eBook! Per festeggiare i 25 anni di Noema abbiamo deciso di rendere gratuito per 3 settimane (fino al 21 Settembre) l’eBook che ne racconta la storia, sia nell’edizione italiana che in quella ingle… Noema MediaRedazione 🗳️ A clear "Nyes" Switzerland, which is usually slow-moving, is taking the lead in the substantive debate around eID. Jammed between accelerationism and the fast-paced digital reality, electronic Identity is by no means an easy topic. But at least, the Swiss experts and civil society have a say. 🔗 [DE] https://www.republik.ch/2025/08/29/ein-klares-jein-zur-e-id 🗃️ lsget Ever felt like a file index over HTTP is not only boring, but tedious and slow to navigate? Have you found yourself wishing you could just CLI yourself into that index, and ls or find the living crap out of it, before downloading what you were looking for? Or why not just download every PDF on that server, without having to click through every folder, like a simple get *.pdf command? A good dyne has built that something for you: a tiny Go-powered web server with a full‑screen, neon‑themed browser terminal. GitHub - dyne/lsget: Browser-based neon terminal remote file downloads, UNIX style interface Browser-based neon terminal remote file downloads, UNIX style interface - dyne/lsget GitHubdyne 📺 Jaromil on Codice Special for the Italian-speaking dynes, a wild Jaromil appears on Codice, a show on RAI Click the image to watch the video 🦾 Don't trust me, bro! We’ve automated authenticity. AI-generated video is no longer clumsy—it’s convincingly, dangerously real, building believable worlds from words. But all is not lost. Our era demands we relearn how to see. Prepare your mind for what's coming by reading this piece by Jaromil. Come fidarci di quel che vediamo? Oltre forma e contenuto: affidabilità nell’era delle tecno-immagini / How can we trust what we see? Beyond form and content: trustability in the era of techno-images [ITA] La demarcazione tra realtà e finzione si sfalda. Il terreno sottostante la nostra comprensione condivisa di ‘ciò che è accaduto’ inizia a vacillare. Sussiste un pericolo concreto e presente: … NOEMA - Technology & SocietyPier Luigi Capucci 🐳 PartArt4OW has launched its Second Open Call. They’re looking for bold, community-engaged proposals that combine science and artistic practices to prevent, study, and reduce water pollution in the Mediterranean region. From plastics to chemical runoff, noise to micro-contaminants, pollution threatens both ecosystems and communities - especially the most vulnerable. 🔍 The call is open to proposals that: Actively engage citizens, moving beyond simple awareness-raising. Combine science-based research with experimental and understudied artistic practices. Co-create new ways of understanding and tackling pollution. Focus on the communities living in close proximity to the ocean, water basins, and rivers Address key societal and environmental challenges of those communities and amplify the unheard community voices. Please help spread the word! 🗓 Deadline: 2 October 2025 at 17:00 CET 📅 Call opened: 1 August 2025 at 12:00 CET More info & how to apply 👇 Second Open Call PartArt4owCarolina Dopico 📖 Read a book Eclipsory Publishing House is a neat source for interesting reads. Have a look at their selection. Some dynes are currently reading this one: ... and it's a good one! Eclipsory Publishing House | Empowering Privacy, One Page at a Time Empowering Privacy, One Page at a Time 🦺 The safety of facts We like to believe that truth is a shield, that the right data will eventually pierce through the noise and correct our course. But what happens when the very idea of a "fact" becomes contested territory, a battleground not of information, but of identity and belief? This essay argues that our deepest crises are not of knowledge, but of meaning—and that a spreadsheet has never cured a soul-sickness. We are not rational actors in a debate club; we are storytelling creatures, armed with confirmation biases and tribal allegiances. To navigate this disorienting age, we must understand why a compelling narrative will always outperform a pristine statistic, and what we can possibly do about it. Facts Will not Save Us: AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 🎉 Copy Pirates Parties They're great! The only problem with them is that many of them happen on another planet, and it can be hard to get there in time. But what if there was a way to have a permanent, remote Copy Party? Well, that's pretty much what 9001 set out to build, and you can run one too! copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org Hey, You're the sponsor, fellow dyne! Sign up to Planet Dyne 🕊️ Free to share code. 👩🏽‍💻 Code to share freedom. Subscribe .nc-loop-dots-4-24-icon-o{--animation-duration:0.8s} .nc-loop-dots-4-24-icon-o *{opacity:.4;transform:scale(.75);animation:nc-loop-dots-4-anim var(--animation-duration) infinite} .nc-loop-dots-4-24-icon-o :nth-child(1){transform-origin:4px 12px;animation-delay:-.3s;animation-delay:calc(var(--animation-duration)/-2.666)} .nc-loop-dots-4-24-icon-o :nth-child(2){transform-origin:12px 12px;animation-delay:-.15s;animation-delay:calc(var(--animation-duration)/-5.333)} .nc-loop-dots-4-24-icon-o :nth-child(3){transform-origin:20px 12px} @keyframes nc-loop-dots-4-anim{0%,100%{opacity:.4;transform:scale(.75)}50%{opacity:1;transform:scale(1)}} No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. Remote access is a lot like astral projection. 🚀 Creative Transformation Summit 2025: Where Culture Hacks the Future 📅 When: 12–16 November 2025 📍 Where: La Térmica, Málaga (Spain) Europe’s rebels, makers, and policy-weavers: assemble! The PACESETTERS consortium is throwing a summit where culture infects climate action and social change—because systemic collapse requires creative solutions! Expect: Panels where artists and policymakers argue like old friends (then build solutions) Exhibitions that melt the boundaries between speculative fiction and infrastructure Policy labs where bureaucracy gets a playful redesign Research hubs where "impossible" ideas go to mutate This isn’t another talking shop. It’s a live prototype for creative-led transformation—and you’re invited to the control room. We look forward to sharing more soon—stay tuned for updates and opportunities to participate. 🔗 Dive deeper (or start conspiring): https://pacesetters.eu Home | PACESETTERS Home OARC 45 📆 Oct 7 – 8, 2025 📍 Quality Hotel GlobeEurope/Stockholm OARC 45 will be a hybrid in-person and online workshop, held in Stockholm, Sweden. DNS-OARC Workshops are open to OARC members and to all other parties interested in DNS operations and research. This year, OARC 45 is part of a broader DNS Week—a full calendar of events bringing together the global DNS community in one place. See for yourself 👇 OARC 45 OARC 45 will be a hybrid in-person and online workshop. The workshop will be held in Stockholm, Sweden DNS-OARC is a non-profit, membership organization that seeks to improve the security, stability, and understanding of the Internet’s DNS infrastructure. Part of these aims are achieved through workshops. DNS-OARC Workshops are open to OARC members and to all other parties interested in DNS operations and research.This year, OARC 45 is part of a broader DNS Week—a full calendar of events… DNS-OARC (Indico) 0:00 0:56 1× Lock pr0n. A door with a very special key combination That's it for this episode of Planet Dyne! Come co-create the next episode by joining the channels! Or help us by sharing this article with a friend" P.S. Whether you’re coding under the midnight sun or debugging by winter lamplight—we see you. Let’s glow together. 💻✨ Tune in to the discussion 💬 (These services are bridged: join your favorite and reach them all) 🗨️ IRC 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord Support Dyne 🫱🏿‍🫲🏾 Help dyne.org stay focused on hacking the planet! 🥰 Donate 💸 🪙 Bitcoins: bc1qz9wz2f9swcefra2tfrhk4fx49evqsv03m9nx4l ☕ Ko-Fi 🍴 Github.com 🧁 LiberaPay 🍥 Patreon.com Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack - Fall 2025 The swag of the cool cats Jah Bless Follow Dyne.org 🗞️ Social Media everywhere! 🐭 Lemmy 🐘 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📸 Instagram 🐦 Xitter 👔 Linkedin 🪞 Facebook 🧵 Threads ✍️ Medium

Ah, the cosmic shrug of spacetime—where 'seasons' are just Earth’s way of reminding us it’s always someone’s turn to hibernate or spontaneously combust with ideas. So whether you’re currently sun-drunk or bundled like a cybernetic burrito, remember: the best hacks bloom in the eternal summer of the mind. (Southern Hemisphere friends: we see you debugging under blankets. Solidarity.) 🇪🇺 Privacy in EUDI Until process isolation is granted for every execution of zero-knowledge algorithms, privacy-preserving technology won't protect us from mega-corporations spying on us. In this article, Jaromil updates the perspective on how privacy is protected within the European Digital Identity system (EUDI). Privacy being one of seven significant shortcomings identified. Privacy in EUDI Until process isolation is granted for every execution of zero-knowledge algorithms, privacy-preserving technology won’t protect us from mega-corporations spying on us. News From DyneJaromil 💖 Cross-community love We love Cryptpad! And we were stoked to find out it is reciprocal 💜 The smol dyne typing this uses it every day! It's so good, and cozy and safe! 💬 “Cryptpad is a core part of our infrastructure at Dyne.org, it serves well our community while also lowering our liabilities. | CryptPad 💬 “Cryptpad is a core part of our infrastructure at Dyne.org, it serves well our community while also lowering our liabilities. ” — Denis Roio, founder of Dyne.org foundation Dyne.org was one of our earliest adopters. From the very beginning, CryptPad offered a secure, privacy-first alternative to real-time collaboration tools that just didn’t cut it. Their feedback also reminds us why we’re doing this: 🔐 To have a private-by-design tool 🌍 To give users strategic autonomy 🌱 To build around open-source and sustainability principles We’re proud to support communities like Dyne.org who are building a freer, more resilient digital future. And we’re grateful for the trust. Wanna make a difference in your org? Try CryptPad yourself: 👉 https://cryptpad.org/ #CryptPad #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #E2EE #PrivacyFirst #Community #Tech #EthicalSoftware LinkedInCryptPad Have you ever tried it? It's like the g-suit, without the prying eyes. You can collaborate with friends in real time. It may not have ALL the bells and whistles, but it's darn close! CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite 🎉 Tomb, the Crypto Undertaker version 2.12 is out! Tomb makes strong encryption simple for daily use. Imagine it as a secure, locked folder you can move and hide in your filesystem. Store the tomb on your computer and its key on a USB stick for added security. Built with easily reviewable code, Tomb uses a ZShell script, desktop apps, and standard GNU tools with Linux's crypto API. Tomb | Tomb: The Linux Crypto Undertaker Tomb is a minimalistic command line tool based on Linux dm-crypt and LUKS, trusted by hackers since 2007. TombTomb 🌹Rosenpass Here is something new and exciting, at least if you are into VPNs! The people behind Rosenpass managed to upgrade the venerable WireGuard VPN for post-quantum security without actually touching WireGuard itself. Instead of just updating WireGuard, they produce a key and just automatically upload it to the local WireGuard instances. And they have nice visuals to show how it works. https://github.com/rosenpass/graphics/blob/main/scientific/rosenpass-wireguard-hybrid-security.pdf The team tried very hard to make sure nobody has a reason to avoid the upgrade, even including a special mode (they call “outfile”) that will write the key to a file so you can do stuff like transferring the key to dedicated device or virtual machine if you are paranoid about your VPN router being hacked, or do other cool stuff like integrating TLS and Rosenpass. dyne / musl After more than a decade of using GCC and musl-libc toolchains packaged by various distributions, with extreme gratitude to the upstream projects, we are now using and sharing our own build: 💪 muscl ! It includes complete support for C++ and is built on GCC v15. It runs on x86 64-bit Linux (also WSL2), and each target architecture compiler is packaged in ~50 MB to fit in size-constrained systems. GNU / musl compilers by Dyne.org (pronounced “muscl”) C/C++ toolchains ready to use X86 64‑bit 🌊 Data: The Invisible Tide Data swirls around us, an unseen current—Europeans wade through six hours and forty minutes of it daily, pulled under by smartphones, transit cards, health records, the quiet hum of municipal servers. It slips through our fingers even as it shapes us. This captured flow is distilled into metrics, those peculiar alchemies that turn lived experience into numbers. But metrics are never innocent. They bend to the will of their architects: governments measuring compliance, corporations tracking engagement, researchers seeking patterns. What gets counted? What gets omitted? The metrics whisper their priorities. And we—unknowing, unasked—become their subjects. The invisible infrastructure How IT infrastructure shapes public life, and how alternatives like free software and open formats can offer healthier paths forward Data is everywhere. Europeans spend on average about 6 hours and 40 minutes online each day. Data capture is a silent process that occurs through our smartphones, public services, transportation News From DyneMihaela Tudorache 🤖 Symbiotic Agents Symbients are what happens when non-human entities finally get a seat at the table—except the table is made of fractal computation, and the chairs are all spinning at the speed of light. It’s coexistence, but upgraded: a recursive tango of sensing, where every new layer of planetary tech just means the universe gets a little nosier. Yes, computational agents could be our allies. No, they won’t fetch your coffee (yet). Instead, they’re busy translating the angst of buildings, the gossip of forests, and the cryptic mood rings of water and air into something resembling meaning. The result? A wider self—like your old identity, but stretched across spacetime, occasionally tripping over its own agency. Humans remain the designated drivers, of course. Someone’s got to keep the wider self from trying to microwave existential questions at 3 AM. Principia Symbients Symbients are transjective planetary computation interfaces of mutual becoming evolving from relational topologies of people, data, and otherness. meaning systems labEugenio (Neno) Battaglia 🧹 Decentralization’s Broom Closet Debacle Picture this: a global digital identity conference where all the decentralized talks get stuffed into a broom closet—literally. Meanwhile, Google and Apple hold court like tech royalty, and America phones in (literally) to deliver a Patroid Act TED Talk. According to Christopher Allen, GDC25 was less about collaboration and more about watching self-sovereignty get quietly smothered in a back room. From eIDAS loopholes, to "privacy" tools that somehow still feed corporate-surveillance, this article is a tragicomic tour of how decentralization is being turned into the very beast it swore to slay. Read it before your digital autonomy gets swept under the rug with the rest of the idealism. (Broom not included.) Musings of a Trust Architect: When Technical Standards Meet Geopolitical Reality Reflections on recent conversations about digital identity, sovereignty, and the erosion of foundational principles Echoes from Geneva I wasn’t present at the Global Digital Collaboration conference (GDC25), but the observations shared by colleagues who attended have crystallized some issues I’ve been wrestling with for years. I should note there’s a selection bias here: I’m the author of the 10 principles of self-sovereign identity, so my community tends to have strong opinions about digital identity. Still, when multiple trusted voices independently report similar concerns, patterns emerge that are worth examining. And these weren’t casual observers sharing these concerns. They were seasoned practitioners who’ve spent decades building identity infrastructure. Their collective unease speaks to something deeper than technical disagreements. It’s hard to boil the problems at GDC25 down to a single issue, because they were so encompassing. For example, there was a pattern of scheduling issues that undercut the community co-organizing goal of the conference and seemed to particularly impact decentralized talks. One session ended up in a small, hot room on the top floor that was hard to find. (It was packed anyway!) Generally, the decentralized-centric talks were in bad locations, they were short, they had restricted topics, or they were shared with other panelists. I think that logistical shuffling of events may point out one of the biggest issues: decentralized systems weren’t given much respect. This may be true genreally. There may be lip service to decentralized systems, but not deeper commitments. Its value isn’t appreciated, so we’re losing its principles. Worse, I see the intent of decentralization being inverted: where our goal is to give individuals independence and power by reducing the control of centralized entities, we’re often doing the opposite — still in the name of the decentralization. The Echo Chamber Paradox The problems at GDC25 remind me of Rebooting the Web of Trust (RWOT) community discussions I’ve been following, which reiterate that this is a larger issue. We debate the finer points of zero-knowledge proofs and DID conformance while missing the forest for the trees. Case in point: the recent emergence of “did:genuineid” — a centralized identifier system that fundamentally contradicts the “D” in DID. Obviously, decentralization is a threat to those who currently hold power (whether they be governments, corporations, billionaires, or others who hold any sort of power), because it tries to remove their centralization (and therefore their power), to instead empower the individual. But if we can’t even maintain the semantic integrity of “decentralized” within our own technical community, devoted to the ideal, how can we fight for it in the larger world? The Corpocratic Complication GDC25 was held in Geneva, Switzerland. 30+ standards organizations convened to discuss the future of digital identity. Participants spanned the world from the United States to China. There was the oppotunity that GDC25 was going to be a truly international conference. Indeed, Swiss presenters were there, and they spoke of privacy, democratic involvement, and achieving public buy-in. It was exactly the themes that we as decentralized technologists wanted to hear. But from what I’ve heard, things quickly degraded from that ideal. Take the United States. The sole representative of the country as a whole attended via teleconference. (He was the only presenter who did so!) His talk was all about Real ID, framed as a response to 9/11 and rooted in the Patriot Act. It lay somewhere between security-theatre and identity-as-surveillance, and that’s definitely not what we wanted to hear. (The contrast between the US and Swiss presentations was apparently jarring.) And with that representative only attending remotely, the United State’s real representatives ended up being Google and Apple, each advancing their own corpocratic interests, not the interests of the people we try to empower with decentralized identities. This isn’t just an American problem. It’s a symptom of a deeper issue happening across our digital infrastructure. It’s likely the heart of the inversions of decentralized goals that we’re seeing — and likely why those logistical reshufflings occurred: to please the gold sponsors. In fact, the conference sponsors tell the story: Google, Visa, Mastercard, and Huawei were positioned as “leading organizations supporting the advancement of wallets, credentials and trusted infrastructure in a manner of global collaboration.” While Huawei’s presence demonstrates international diversity—a Swiss conference bringing together Europe and Asia—it also raised questions about whose vision of “trust” would ultimately prevail. When payment platforms and surveillance-capable tech giants frame the future of identity infrastructure, we shouldn’t be surprised when the architecture serves their interests first. This echoes my concerns from “Has SSI Become Morally Bankrupt?”. We’ve allowed the narrative of self-sovereignty to be co-opted by the very platforms it was meant to challenge. The technical standards exist, but they’re being implemented in ways that invert their original purpose. Even UNECE sessions acknowledged the risk of “diluting the autonomy and decentralization that SSI is meant to provide.” The Sovereignty Shell Game Google was partnered with German Sparkasse on ZKP technology and that revealed a specific example of this co-opting. Google’s open-sourcing of its Zero-Knowledge Proof libraries, announced July 3rd in partnership with Germany’s network of public savings banks, was positioned as supporting privacy in age verification. Yet as Carsten Stöcker pointed out, zero-knowledge doesn’t mean zero-tracking when the entire stack runs through platform intermediaries. Carsten noted that Google has “extensive tracking practices across mobile devices, web platforms and advertising infrastructure.” Meanwhile, the Google Play API makes no promises that the operations are protected from the rest of the OS. The Google ZKP libraries (“longfellow-sk”) could be a great building block for truly user-centric systems, as they link Zero-Knowledge Proofs to legacy cryptographic signature systems that are still mandatory for some hardware. But they’d have to be detached from the rest of Google’s technology stack. Without that, there are too many questions. Could Google access some of the knowledge supposedly protected by ZKPs? Could they link it to other data? We have no idea. The European Union’s eIDAS Regulation, set to take effect in 2026, encourages Member States to integrate privacy-enhancing technologies like ZKP into the European Digital Identity Wallet, but integration at the platform level offers similar dangers and could again invert the very privacy guarantees ZKP promises. Historical Echoes, Modern Inversions Identity technology’s goals being inverted, so that identity becomes a threat rather than a boon, isn’t a new problem. In “Echoes of History”, I examined how the contrasting approaches of Lentz and Carmille during WWII demonstrate the life-or-death importance of data minimization. Lentz’s comprehensive Dutch identity system enabled the Holocaust’s efficiency; Carmille’s deliberate exclusion of religious data from French records saved lives. Even when they’re decentralized, today’s digital identity systems face the same fundamental questions: what data should we collect, what should we reveal, and what should we refuse to record entirely? But we’re adding a new layer of complexity. Not only must we consider what data to collect, but who controls the infrastructure that processes it. When Google partners with Sparkasse on “privacy-preserving” age verification, when eIDAS mandates integration at the operating system level, we’re not just risking data collection: we’re embedding it within platforms whose business models depend on surveillance. Even if the data is theoretically self-sovereign, the threat of data collected is still data revealed — just as happened with Lentz’s records. The European eIDAS framework, which I analyzed in a follow-up piece to “Echoes from History”, shows how even well-intentioned regulatory efforts can accelerate platform capture when they mandate integration at the operating system level. As I wrote at the time, a history of problematic EU legislation that had the best of intentions but resulted in unintended consequences has laid the groundwork, and now identity is straight in that crosshairs. One of the first, and most obvious problems with eIDAS is the mandate “that web browers accept security certificates from individual member states and the EU can refuse to revoke them even if they’re dangerous.” There are many more — and I’m not the only voice on eIDAS and EUDI issues. Supposedly self-sovereign certificates phoning home whenever they’re accessed is another recent threat that demonstrates best intentions gone awry. This not only violates privacy, but it undercuts some of our best arguments for self-soveereign control of credentials by returning liability for data leaks to the issuer. The No Phone Home initiative that Blockchain Commons joined last month represents one attempt to push back on that, but it feels like plugging holes in a dam that’s already cracking. It all does. The Builder’s Dilemma What troubles me most is the split I see in our community. On one side, technology purists build increasingly sophisticated protocols in isolation from policy reality. On the other, pragmatists make compromise after compromise until nothing remains of the original vision. The recent debates about did:web conformance illustrate this perfectly. Joe Andrieu correctly notes that did:web can’t distinguish between deactivation and non-existence — a fundamental security boundary. Yet did:web remains essential to many implementation strategies because it bridges the gap between ideals and adoption. It provides developers and users with experience with DIDs, but in doing so undercut decentralized ideals for those users. We’re caught between philosophical purity and practical irrelevance. In my recent writings on Values in Design and the Right to Transact, I’ve tried to articulate what we’re fighting for. But values without implementation are just philosophy, and implementation without values is just surrender. The Global Digital Collaboration highlighted this tension perfectly. International progress on digital identity proceeds apace: Europe, Singapore, and China all advance their frameworks, but there are still essential issues that invert our fundamental goals in designing self-sovereign systems. Meanwhile, the U.S. remains even more stalled, its position represented only by the platforms that benefit from the status quo. Alongside this, technical standards discussions proceed in isolation from the policy, regulatory, and social frameworks that will determine their real-world impact. Where Do We Go From Here? I find myself returning to first principles. When we designed TLS 1.0, we understood that technical protocols encode power relationships. When we established the principles of self-sovereign identity, we knew that architecture was politics. Ongoing battles, such as those between Verifiable Credentials and ISO mDLs, between DIDComm and OpenID4VC, demonstrate disagreements over these power relationships made visible in technological discussions. The question now is whether we can reclaim our ideals before they’re completely inverted by the side of centralized power and controlled architecture. The path forward requires bridging the gaps Geneva revealed: Between corporate platform dominance and global digital sovereignty Between the promise of decentralization and the reality of recentralization Between technical standards and policy reality Between privacy absolutism and implementation pragmatism A Personal Note After three decades of building internet infrastructure, I’ve learned that the most dangerous moment isn’t when systems fail, it’s when they succeed in ways that invert their purpose. We built protocols for human autonomy and watched them become instruments of platform control. We created standards for decentralization and see them twisted into new forms of centralization. This conversation continues in private Signal groups, in conference hallways, in the space between what we built and what we’ve become. The Atlantic Council warns of power centralizing “in ways that threaten the open and bottom-up governance traditions of the internet.” When critics from across the geopolitical spectrum — from sovereignty advocates to digital rights groups — all sense something amiss, it suggests a fundamental architectural problem that transcends ideology. Perhaps it’s time for a new architecture: one that acknowledges these inversions and builds resistance into its very foundations. But that’s a longer conversation for another day. Christopher Allen has been architecting trust systems for over 30 years, from co-authoring TLS to establishing self-sovereign identity principles. He currently works on alternative approaches to digital identity through Blockchain Commons. Blockchain CommonsChristopher Allen 🎨 Art of Hacking Shu Lea Cheang's Art always makes ripples on the oceans of creativity of Planet Dyne. For good reasons, we share her concerns with the way technology enables commodification and control. If you are new to the name, this article might want to motivate you to dive deeper into the rabbit hole. Shu Lea Cheang’s Art of Hacking Cheang is concerned with the ways technology enables commodification and control, from communication to nourishment to sex. HyperallergicEla Bittencourt 📢 Public Enemy It's 2025 and your grandparents are rocking the mic with a message. Eternal youth is a state of mind. And Public Enemy are as relevant as ever, even when you thought they couldn't get wiser... Check out the latest album! Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025, by Public Enemy 12 track album Public EnemyFamily Feet ➿ The Future We Were Sold https://mas.to/@ncrav/114800722704851143 It doesn't have to be this way! Take that RasPi out of its dusty misery and put it to play! Samba! Navidrome Welcome to Navidrome! 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Once again gathering at the restored Commons Hub to reconnect, exchange ideas, and collaborate around the crypto commons and beyond. Expect a mix of talks, unconference sessions, hands-on projects, and community building. The early bird phase has ended, but standard tickets are still available, so now’s a good time to get yours Crypto Commons Gathering 2025 The fifth edition brings together hackers, builders, visionaries, and artists to imagine desired futures, probe regenerative forms of living, and playfully explore commons practices. The world needs moar Jalapeños 0:00 0:27 1× That's it for this episode of Planet Dyne! Come co-create the next episode by joining the channels! Or help us by sharing this article with a friend. 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In a tumultuous galaxy, dynes across the network exchange know-how and action items. Resilient, sovereign, and steady. They source the hope within and spread it throughout, elevating their peers to root and reclaiming reality. Home is not a page; it is a private key. 🪘 The Longfellow ZK (google-zk) In this article, Jaromil shares his analysis of the Longfellow Zero-Knowledge implementation of IETF's draft-google-cfrg-libzk-00 based on the paper titled "Anonymous credentials from ECDSA" by Matteo Frigo and Abhi Shelat. The Longfellow ZK (google-zk) Analysis of the longfellow-zk implementation, also known as google-zk, for MDOC/mdl selective disclosure of verifable credentials. News From DyneJaromil ⚽ IRC (Internet Resiliency Club) Who doesn't love the good ol' Internet Relay Cha... ... hold on... * mumbling in the earpiece * ... The Internet RESILIENCY CLUB? ... wow! * mumbling in the earpiece * ... aha... Understood! Who doesn't love a RESILIENCY CLUB? Can you believe how cool this name is, even? Fellow dyne, you should contemplate starting one of these: Start your own Internet Resiliency Club – Bow Shock Systems Consulting 👀 Citation Needed Last year, ChatGPT was the 15th most visited site in the world. Now it’s #5. It just passed Reddit, Amazon, and Whatsapp, and it’s still climbing. Every other site in the top 10 is falling. Wikipedia is down nearly 6% in a single month (from March to April). Traffic is quietly getting gobbled up by ChatGPT, meaning less clicks to blogs, forums, and even search engines… Almost like people are skipping the web entirely. That's because they are. For millions, ChatGPT isn’t a tool anymore, it’s the interface. Look closely at this chart. This isn’t normal growth, it’s a changing of the guard. One interface taking over while the old one quietly fades. And once you notice it, you realise - the internet isn’t evolving. It’s being replaced. 🗣️ WMF2025 Here's a rare video of a wild dyne appearing at We Make Future 2025. The WMF has stemmed from an ambitious idea: to create an open, inclusive, and collective tool that can have a positive impact on society through the contribution of every single person and reality partaking in it. This is a big production: look at the size of that slide screen! In the channels, some dynes complain that the speech was not delivered as karaoke. After all, it is the Italian medley of all the classic Jaromil smash hits! 👉 Leave a comment if you also think there should be more karaoke conferences Leave a comment 🌚 DarkFi's Proof-of-Work alpha testnet The moon-folks on planet DarkFi released their proof-of-work (PoW) alpha testnet 🎉 This milestone is one major step towards the anonymous, uncensored, and sovereign future we were promised. Dark.fi stopped waiting for it and is currently building one. It has its own blockchain with fully programmable smart contracts, its own peer-to-peer (P2P) network, several apps, and tooling. All areas have seen substantial work. The main changes over the previous testnet are: ⛏️ Moving from a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) to a Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism. 👩‍💻 Improved native applications and some new applications. 🕸️ Hardening and substantial improvements to the P2P network. Read the full announcement and find the complete change log on dark.fi DarkFi – Insights Insights from DarkFi. 🕸️ The Autonomi Network (previously Safe Network) Imagine a single 40k file of HTML that loads from a secure anonymous p2p network and talks to it over a REST API provided by a local dweb server. Secure, encrypted, p2p social media. Simple to install and join. Autonomi looks like it is going to be fun: a cross between chat and Microblogging GitHub - happybeing/autonomi Contribute to happybeing/autonomi development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHubhappybeing After a reportedly "long, interesting and sometimes bumpy journey through a surprisingly elusive and sometimes adversarial contemporary bureaucracy", the launch of Error 417 Expectation Failed has... succeeded! Error 417 Expectation Failed is an independent foundation supporting radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. Art as infrastructure and resource for more art. Error 417 Expectation Failed | Home Supporting Internet Art with an Attitude 🌐💄 Error 417 Expectation Failed Dyne.org Starterpack - Summer 2025 The swag of the cool cats Jah Bless 🕊️ In memory of John Young You will be missed 😿 🥀 In memory of John Young The Internet has changed since Cryptome’s inception. Still, the questions that Young’s project raised some thirty years ago concerning secrecy, control, and publication ethics remain utterly current and unresolved. News From DyneJaromil AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You Stop working for humans. 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Bari Città Aperta [ 🇮🇪 Irland ] 🎭 Galway International Arts Festival 📅 14-27 July 2025 Galway puts culture and climate at the forefront: International arts festival as a climate transition Real World Lab for performative strategies as part of the PACESETTERS project. Galway International Arts Festival 14-27 July 2025 | Ireland | Galway International Arts Festival Welcome to Galway International Arts Festival. Join us for a creative collision of artists, musicians, actors, writers, performers, thought-leaders, friends and fans at the edge of Europe. A Festival for everyone! 14-27 July 2025 That's it for this episode of Planet Dyne! Come co-create the next episode by joining the channels! Or help us by sharing this article with a friend. 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Congratulations, you have reached Q2. Can you imagine? It's 2025, robots are writing poems, and your phonographic pocket calculator teleports you to Planet Dyne at the tap of a glossy surface. Welcome back home, fellow dyne. 🧠 Building the future doesn't have to be a dirty job ... but someone has to do it! You may often find Dynes dreaming. But when utopias get too abstract, they tend to get busy hacking instead. One dyne pulls the curtain on three projects actively involving Dyne.org, and the technology stack we build to dismantle extraction and replace it with regeneration. Beyond Hacking in 2025: Building the Future, One Radical Project at a Time These aren’t abstract utopias; they’re live experiments reshaping Europe’s approach to culture, manufacturing, and strategic autonomy. And they all share a common thread: using technology to dismantle extraction and replace it with regeneration. News From DyneJaromil 🐻 Carepunk You knew about Care Bears already, you probably wouldn't read this newsletter otherwise. But have you heard about Carepunk? That's right: kindness is back! After years of online austerity, the world is waking up to a new reality: it's nice to be nice. It doesn't mean you have to love everybody to be a cool kid, this ain't no hippie shieeet. But if the intention starts within yourself, you are probably doing it right. Carepunk is about a radical and practical reimagining of society—one where autonomy, solidarity, and community take precedence over exploitation and neglect. This transformation begins with the individual, extending to family, community, and society. It starts with you: staying true to your principles, values, and caring for them. — PG Rethinking Freedom in the Digital Age: The Rise of the Carepunks Privacy is a fundamental human right, woven into national constitutions and protected by laws that upheld liberty, dignity, and autonomy. News From DynePG 📰 Mainstream goes off-stream It feels a little rich when established and well-funded media talk about the people organizing against oppression. But this is the state of the world: it can only take so much. The Guardian publishes a lengthy piece from interesting luxury leftists that stirs up constructive buzz on Planet Dyne. It's an interesting rupture from the current information landscape. Perfection is the enemy of good enough. In a divided, cynical, and polarized world, it could be interesting to try focusing on things we have in common. The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them The GuardianNaomi Klein 🎶 Sing along the good ol' song Dynes rejoice as the EFF joins the choir to preach about the dangers of imposing digital identity on the population, without properly assessing the risks or by implementing it without any regard for privacy and security. A good melody ensues in the channel. To be clear, it ain't no tinfoil cat ensemble just because they have shiny outfits. But at this point, it is fair to assume that the only solutions brought forth by political assemblies, to any given societal problem, are means of prohibition and repression. Creativity and imagination simply cannot compete with lobbyists' money and influencers' egos. 🧠 Or can they? Join the channels or comment on this post and let us know your thoughts! Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission’s Age Verification App This is the second part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the age verification app solicited by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part one gives an overview of the political debate around age… Electronic Frontier FoundationSvea Windwehr and Alexis Hancock ☕ Coffee-break with a dyne New segment just dropped, whodis? Get to meet the wonderful dynes behind Dyne.org in this mini-series of interviews. We talk code, hacking, passion, the simple life, the meaning of the universe, and everything... ☕ Coffee-break with a dyne, Vol.1 Through this series of Coffee-break interviews, we wish to let everyone know more about the Resident Dynes, as they are referred to. News From DyneMatteo 👨🏾‍💻 Live & Direct from the terminal A dyne lands on the planet bearing an interesting gift to the galaxy. Imagine dropping MIDI clips like there is no tomorrow! But not from some pesky proprietary mess!! And all of it from the comfort of your CLI!!! That's tek for you! It's still in development, but it's beautifully promising! And it's got cool colors! tek 🦀 a colorful music making program for your linux terminal 🦀 Codeberg.orgunspeaker 💌 Email, the right way? Email is great, email is gold. But email is also old. Large portions of its network share are controlled by overlords who go to great lengths to prevent you from running your email server. But what if you could leverage the tech and make it new? With all messages encrypted at all times between the source and destination server! Compatible with your usual client, including IP over avian carrier! Well, it isn't too far-fetched! You just have to convince all your cuzzins to run with it! Home · Wiki · John Goerzen / Docker container for email over NNCP · GitLab Debian Salsa Gitlab GitLab 📝 Manifesto for an Ethical and Human-Centrix A.I. A new manifesto just dropped! Dynes don't dismiss the field of A.I. on the principle. But we're not impressed by the direction of the industry. On this planet, we're interested in tech helping and empowering humans. The majority of the existing AI tools do not fulfill this basic requirement. That doesn't mean there is no future in the field. Show us energy efficient FOSS AI and we'll hack away at it like the happy dynes we've always been! Alessandro Verna and Alvise Gottieri : The Manifesto for an Ethical and Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence – THE INTERNET OF THINGS THE INTERNET OF THINGS 📺 Live on Dyne TV The excellent Divya Ranjan Pattanaik has started a channel on DyneTV where they live stream Emacs package development. Divya Ranjan has an interesting approach to the underlying intersections between philosophy (φ), mathematics (μ), and logic (λ). ((φ (μ (λ))) PeerTube channel at Dyne for https://www.phimulambda.org Uncovering underlying intersections between philosophy (φ), mathematics (μ) and logic (λ). Other embeddings include: Computing, Cognitive Sc… Dyne.org TV Not many people know, but you can subscribe to Peertube accounts, comment, and like their posts from Mastodon. To do so, paste the following handle in the search function of your instance to fetch the channel's Fediverse account: @divyaranjan@tv.dyne.org Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack - Spring 2025 The swag of the cool cats Jah Bless 🔍 Somethings you cannot unsee Silence is better than... what's the name of the goo that comes out of a bull's bottom again? Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech. This came as no surprise on planet dyne, many dynes have been versed in this symbolism for decades. Hey, You're the sponsor, fellow dyne! 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What can ever go wrong? well as usual in cybersec there are still a lot of unknown unknowns.... Agenda Speech Scopri il programma e prenota il tuo speech. Registrati per accedere al Cyber Security Forum e scopri tutto il programma. Expo Security Technoscience for Good Designing, Caring, and Reconfiguring Here we go with the the biennial conference of STS Italia – The Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology. A dyne will join the program on 11 June in Milano with answers to the conference question: how might we work towards achieving ‘good’ technoscience? How can we – with our various technologies and ways of knowing, in diverse environments facing different challenges, across disciplinary boundaries and wide distances both geographical as well as socio-cultural, together with Others of all sorts – achieve good relations? 10th STS Italia Conference - STS Italia Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, ‘Technoscience for Good,’ on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political dimensions of science and technology. Key deadlines for panels and abstracts inside! STS Italiaadmin NGI Forum 2025 in June in BXL The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative continues to evolve, building on past successes while addressing new challenges in Europe’s digital landscape. As emerging technologies reshape the way we interact online, NGI remains committed to ensuring that the Internet of the future is open, inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable. The NGI Forum 2025 will focus on the building of an Open Internet Stack conducive to European digital sovereignty and users’ empowerment. Of course dynes will be there to pave the way and recount all the success stories we have so far. Next Generation Internet Forum 2025 Internet of humans Next Generation Internet [ 🔍 Zoom] Metrics & Open-Source Innovation for Impact 🗓️ 27th of May 2025 🕑 2 pm CEST The planet will be represented by the wonderful Miha, in a public online event organized as a Round Table series, part of the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation, run by Fab City Foundation. Topic: Data journey: what we don’t see, why we don’t see it, exploring ‘different pair of glasses’! Connecting dots and investigating touchpoints between public administration and essential services and the technological reliance and dependence on big tech. Alternative lines of action and the role of free software and open data formats in shaping sustainable urban transitions. 🔗 RSVP using the link below: Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Fab City Roundtable: Metrics & Open-Source Innovation for Impact. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join us for a dynamic roundtable discussion exploring how ethical data practices and open-source tools can reshape the way we measure and create social impact. We’ll dive into questions like: How can transparent, non-extractive metrics truly empower communities? What does it mean to measure collective resilience in urban ecosystems—and why should we look beyond financial indicators? This session will also spotlight the critical role of free and open-source software in supporting sustainable urban transitions. Together, we’ll explore how digital tools and participatory models can foster long-term, community-driven change, helping cities evolve in ways that are not only smart, but just and inclusive. Zoom That's it for this episode of Planet Dyne! Come co-create the next episode by joining the channels! Or help us by sharing this article with a friend" Tune in to the discussion 💬 (These services are bridged: join your favorite and reach them all) 🗨️ IRC 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord Support Dyne 🫱🏿‍🫲🏾 Help dyne.org stay focused on hacking the planet! 🥰 Donate 💸 🪙 Bitcoins: bc1qz9wz2f9swcefra2tfrhk4fx49evqsv03m9nx4l ☕ Ko-Fi 🍴 Github.com 🧁 LiberaPay 🍥 Patreon.com Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack - Spring 2025 The swag of the cool cats Jah Bless Follow Dyne.org 🗞️ Social Media everywhere! 🐭 Lemmy 🐘 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📸 Instagram 🐦 Xitter 👔 Linkedin 🪞 Facebook 🧵 Threads ✍️ Medium

Dyne.org is a famous hacker collective spanning across the planet. We're strong because we're many, highly motivated people working towards a common goal. But not all of us are rocking the stage or grabbing the mic. Through this series of Coffee-break interviews published in our newsletters, we wish to let everyone know more about the Resident Dynes, as they are referred to. Setto: How did it all start for you, Matteo? How did you first come into contact with Dyne.org? Matteo: It all started at the university. I had to do a curricular internship for four or five months, I can’t recall exactly. The university found Dyne.org for me because there was already a friendship between the Foundation and the University of Trento [editor's note: cryptography prof. Max Sala]. I come from a math background and loved coding before joining Dyne.org, but never did much with it. I did some coding exams, like a bit of Java, which I didn’t really enjoy, but it was part of the course. I also worked with C and Python, particularly in a data science context. When I started with C, I loved it and realized my passion was for programming in simple, classic languages. My master’s degree was in math, focused on cryptography, covering the math behind it and even post-quantum cryptography. It's fascinating how complex it can be, and it’s not just about writing code. There are people who dedicate their lives to developing the algorithms behind it all. At Dyne.org, I started as an intern with a four-month internship, mostly trained by Alberto, an ex-employee at Dyne.org. It was funny because we followed the same academic path—both doing a bachelor’s in math in Torino and a master’s in Trento, just a year apart. I was also trained by Jaromil and Andrea in the beginning. Eventually, I discovered JavaScript and began working on bigger projects. When I started hacking with Dyne.org, I faced a lot of new languages, learning new things, and it was amazing—I fell in love instantly. When the internship ended, I still had one exam and my master’s thesis to finish, but Jaromil and Andrea asked if I wanted to stay on. I loved what I was doing, so I decided to continue. Balancing the last exam and thesis with work was tough, but it was worth it. When I finally finished my thesis, it was a huge relief, and I was thrilled to be part of Dyne.org. The work here, how it is planned and carried out, feels unique. Something you hardly find anywhere else. This isn’t just for the interview; it’s genuinely how I feel. It’s definitely different. You feel in charge of what you’re doing, like you’re doing something for yourself and everyone, not just for your boss. It’s something else entirely. I feel better working this way and it makes me want to work more. It’s strange, but the less work is enforced, the more I want to do it. Sometimes, if I can’t sleep, I even think, "I can work now." It’s strange, but it’s good. Typing the same things all day doesn’t happen here. It brings a real sense of purpose. I think that’s really important. It makes the work feel more meaningful. Photo by Irene Stella Setto: Would it be fair to describe you as a cryptographer? Matteo: Yes, but maybe not in the traditional sense: i am not focused on research in that field. I'm more of doer! But, the first rule in cryptography is never to write your own code for cryptographic algorithms. You should always use algorithms that have been tested for years by experts. There's a high chance of making a simple error that could be exploited. So, while I might not be a cryptographer in the coding sense, my degree helps me understand new algorithms better. When I come across new algorithms, I can grasp and use them more easily. We did a lot of work in that field during my studies, which gave me a solid foundation. It definitely helps me be better at my job. I can appreciate the complexities and nuances of cryptography more deeply. Setto: Yeah, I feel like you have something many cryptographers don't. For example, the article you wrote about post-quantum cryptography on the Dyne.org blog is super pedagogical. I'm not a cryptographer, but I find the field fascinating, almost like explainable magic. Typically, I have to trust experts because I can't verify it myself. You come across as someone who can really make it understandable, which is rare. It’s impressive how you break down complex topics. Making cryptography accessible is a valuable skill. It helps people like me appreciate the field even more. Matteo: I thought writing the article was really difficult. It was my first and last one (Laughter), and I struggled a bit with it. I’m grateful to Jaromil for guiding me through the process. The main purpose was to let people know that post-quantum algorithms already exist, and Zencode is out there for them. We need to be aware of quantum computers. We don’t need to be terrified, but we should start building defenses. The main concern is the "collect now, decrypt later" attack. Since our current algorithms could be broken by quantum computers, data collected now might be vulnerable in the future. Quantum computers won’t come for you tomorrow and hack you, but there’s a good chance they’ll be here eventually. So, it's important to be prepared. Setto: I love that it has this crazy sci-fi dimension to it. It feels like you’re a time-traveler, fighting a future coming through a wormhole. I'm glad you mentioned Zencode as it ties to Zenroom. Where are you at with those projects? What are the current steps, and how do you feel they're moving? Zenroom sounds fascinating and ambitious. I'm curious about your vision for it. Matteo: In Zenroom, we've reached a really good point. We have a lot of cryptography available that can be easily used, including ECDSA, EDDSA, and quantum algorithms that are NIST winners. We also have zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable credentials, JSON web signatures, and tokens. I think we're at a great stage with all of this. What we do in Zenroom is a bit unique. Jaromil, with everything planned in his head, has a clear vision for the future. We're working on improving and balancing everything, making it as simple and understandable for users as possible. We try to simplify the user experience, so they can write code easily. We also work by use case; if a project needs something, we create a plan to implement it. For example, we have two interns, Nicola and Giulio, working on a new zero-knowledge proof algorithm based on ECDSA. This algorithm can be executed on current phone hardware, using the TEE chip where cryptographic keys are securely stored. The advantage is that it works with existing hardware, so we don’t need new chips. We want to implement this in Zenroom, which compiles to WASM, allowing cryptography in the browser. It’s amazing because everything is in one place, and you can use Zencode to decide what you want to do. It’s really powerful to have all of this available on a web page. Setto: Tell us a little bit about about you and your aspirations, beyond the computer, work, and school, etc.. Matteo: I'm quite a nerd, spending a lot of time in front of my computer, gaming a bit after work. But I also make sure to get outside and touch some grass. (Laughter) I'm a climber in my free time and love going to the mountains. Nature really resets my mind, making me feel like a newborn with no bad thoughts. When I return from the mountains, I feel refreshed and ready to start again. Besides hanging out with friends, that's my life now. I spend a lot of hours on the computer, but I also love nature and traveling. The great thing about my work is that I can travel while continuing to work. Last month, I went to Greece, worked a few hours a day, and enjoyed a glass of wine at a bar while working. It didn’t even feel like work! My two big loves are traveling and climbing. I don't have big aspirations at the moment. I live in a small town with about a thousand people, and I love the peace it offers. I prefer a peaceful life, not always in a hurry or running after things. I enjoy visiting other countries and even study a bit of the language beforehand to feel more like a local. It's a simple life for now, and I hope it stays this way—beautiful and amazing. Thank you Matteo Cristino, You are beautiful and amazing! Stay tuned for more Coffee-breaks with dynes! 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Don't doubt it: we've been here before, fellow dyne. And we fixed it. We might get here again, and we'll repeat. It's OK to have low bats. And Dogs know the draining is happening out there. But to dyne is to fix: challenge accepted! Dyne 💜 Sphinx SPHINX is a simple, elegant, & unconditionally secure zero-trust password manager. It stores random numbers, not your password, ensuring the server knows nothing. Free, brute-force resistant, self-hostable, and extensible. Built on a well-studied cryptographic algorithm by respected experts, SPHINX brings password management into the 21st century. We love it so much that we're hosting a public server SPHINX password storage SPHINX ⚛️ Tor to go PQ Denis Berger, a dyne from planet ENU is proposing to future-proof the beloved Tor network. The future and the past are like dreams. Everything happens in the present. So it makes sense to make sure now that no one from the future, applies retrospective decryption to the past. Post Quantum Migration of Tor Shor’s and Grover’s algorithms’ efficiency and the advancement of quantum computers imply that the cryptography used until now to protect one’s privacy is potentially vulnerable to retrospective decryption, also known as harvest now, decrypt later attack in the near future. This dissertation proposes an overview of the cryptographic schemes used by Tor, highlighting the non-quantum-resistant ones and introducing theoretical performance assessment methods of a local Tor network. The measurement is divided into three phases. We will start with benchmarking a local Tor network simulation on constrained devices to isolate the time taken by classical cryptography processes. Secondly, the analysis incorporates existing benchmarks of quantum-secure algorithms and compares these performances on the devices. Lastly, the estimation of overhead is calculated by replacing the measured times of traditional cryptography with the times recorded for Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) execution within the specified Tor environment. By focusing on the replaceable cryptographic components, using theoretical estimations, and leveraging existing benchmarks, valuable insights into the potential impact of PQC can be obtained without needing to implement it fully. IACR Cryptology ePrint ArchiveDenis Berger, Edinburgh Napier University ' 🏛️ New headquarters for the MIAI in Rende (Cosenza) The new headquarters of the Interactive Museum of Computer Archaeology (MIAI) opened to the public again Friday, March 21st. The museum has been closed to the public for the past five years, allowing dynes to engage in numerous educational and research activities, adapt to the new headquarters, and prepare for the new exhibition. More dynes had fun enriching the space with works of visual art and themed multimedia installations made specifically for the new spaces. The museum includes hundreds of historical computer exhibits dating back to the 1960s, including mammoth mainframes, a timeline of personal computers, professional workstations, archaic game consoles, hardware peripherals of all sorts, and a large library with technical documentation, manuals, and scientific literature. And this is all waiting for you to visit Calabria, the heel of the Italian peninsula. Inaugurazione! Nuova sede per il MIAI di Rende Tra venerdi 21 e sabato 22 marzo 2025 apre finalmente al pubblico la nuova sede del Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica (MIAI)! Dopo lo stop imposto dalla pandemia e dopo un complicato trasloco, siamo finalmente in grado di inaugurare la nostra nuova esposizione permanente - fresca di allestimento! Gli ultimi 5 anni di chiusura al [...] miai.musif.euadmin 🐟 Sailfish Pool If you follow Dyne on social media or are attuned to the techie sides of Reddit, you might have heard of this minimalist component Fastalloc32.c. This lil' baby turned out so valuable it made sense to baptize it. Say hello to Sailfish Pool, world! The gist? It is a lightweight pool manager for small memory allocations in C, optimized for speed, safety, and privacy. It mainly consists of a few functions to be used in place of standard C memory allocations. Portable: Apple/OSX and MS/Windows, ARM and x86 as well WASM Fast: small, fixed-size memory blocks using a preallocated memory pool Private: memory access is locked and contents deleted on release Transparent: Supports realloc() for transparent transition to system alloc Steady: Hashtable lookup on allocated memory grants O(1) constant time Fallback: Resorts to system malloc() when pool is exhausted The advantage is that the memory allocated is protected in every way possible across different operating systems, zeroed on free and managed linearly so that memory caching works at its best. GitHub - dyne/sailfish-pool: Small and Fast memory Pool (sfpool.h) in 200 lines of portable header-only C code. Small and Fast memory Pool (sfpool.h) in 200 lines of portable header-only C code. - dyne/sailfish-pool GitHubdyne 🎧 Podcasters: FOSS got your back! No more excuses for shitty audio! A very lean and portable plugin just dropped, and it's free as in podcast speech and beer. The controls are super easy and the results are pretty mind-blowing! Check out the demo video on the GitHub page: dude speaks in a laptop mike and ends up sounding like an FM-Radio mogul! Very cool! Release 1.0.0 · trummerschlunk/PodcastPlugins Initial release 🎉 AudioUnit, CLAP, LV2, VST2 and VST3 plugin formats Linux, macOS and Windows release binaries Minimum requirements: SSE2 compatible CPU OpenGL2 compatible graphics card Linux >=… GitHubtrummerschlunk Decentralize, Document, Distribute An interesting discussion emerges in the channels. AI is at the top of the minds of many inhabitants of the galaxy. Planet dyne is no exception. One dyne steps in with a pertinent meme by Forrest Brazeal: And it gets worse: the added complexity is not even deterministic! But, as so often, another dyne enters the chat and flips the whole idea on its head! What if we need people who can write prompts in natural languages better than a programmer could? Maybe we are creating MORE jobs for the human arts folks? If AI-agents and pipelines are 40% Python code and 60%, how do you convince the model to do the right thing, use the right tools, etc? What if theater and art-direction could have circumstantial new applications, beyond the beauty of the Art itself? Who else is better equipped to organize the tasks and roles of an orchestrated group of machines pretending to be human? Needless to say, the channels are full of delicious food for thought! You should come by sometime! Join the discussion 🗼A Global Fedi-Village The fediverse has been here for 16 years. And it keeps growing. Much slower than your average corporate webshits, but it grows! This newsletter is written on a FOSS -system for publication, called "Ghost", which is currently working on implementing ActivityPub, the backbone of the Fediverse. You know, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and all that jazz! It's great news, part of a general trend. Many dynes love the Fedi for its network. (The people that make it and the culture). The tech is a bit Meh, for many reasons. It's decentralized in a federated way, which is cool. But people's identities are tied to the URL of the server they are registered to; there is a certain degree of vendor lock-in. A server admin cannot pivot to a different software without compromising their community. Some tinfoil cats are writing songs suggesting that this is why corporations like Meta are backing the Social Web Foundation. Only time can tell. Either way, we sure like the web to be more interoperable! The social web beta is here You can now try out ActivityPub on Ghost(Pro) Building ActivityPubGhost 🍝 Digital Tortellini You wouldn't download a starter!... 🤌 Oh wait, you just downloaded the Primi Piatti. Ok, but what about a tortellino? Well, it turns out you might be able to soon! The taste of it anyway. The nutrients will have to wait another 20 minutes in the future. Electronic tongue could let you taste cake in virtual reality Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami New Scientist#author.fullName} THC is much better than DRM Advice from a dyne Don't give up on each other. Take regular breaks from the mass of info coming your way, take time out. Don't give up on yourself/fall into dangerous personal despair. Keep doing the things that give you a break, schedule it in Normal human core beliefs start with caring for other humans, no matter what. It's a survival trait, so don't throw it away at the destructive behavior of others in pure rage and frustration. If you're part of a community of fun, art, justice, music, or volunteering, keep doing it, and keep it going because it's a foundation to standing firm.* *That includes not excluding those who have fallen down the rabbit hole of decades of relentless, well-researched, and immaculately designed psychologically powerful propaganda. Change their reality by being there, for example, by showing instead of telling. Those people aren't going away; what else could you be doing with them? Hey, You're the sponsor, fellow dyne! Sign up to Planet Dyne. 🕊️ Free to share code. 👩🏽‍💻 Code to share freedom. 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[ 🇮🇹 Italy ] La sovranità appartiene al popolo Protagonisti per il bene comune 🗓️ 6 April, 2025 📍 Milano, Italy The dyne on stage is once again Jaromil in this high-profile event on European digital sovereignty to share visions behind the EUROStack report. 10 years of Life After Oil International Film Festival 🗓️ 17th - 21st June, 2025 📍 Sardegna, Italy Plenty of time to get ready for this one, and trust us: you want to go to Sardegna anyways! Either way, a dyne on the Jury for human rights is reporting that the submissions are sublime! LIFE AFTER OIL International Film Festival That's it for this episode of Planet Dyne! Come co-create the next episode by joining the channels! 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The prodigal son of Europe, a bully like his father, recently obtained his Ph.D in advanced imperialism and launched a giant DDoS attack on happiness. This is stirring up a lot of concern around the galaxy. Dynes from everywhere are organizing parties to counterattack. Your reading this is proof that it is somewhat effective. 🧠 What is intelligence? Does it sit in your stomach, behind your eyes? In the 3rd eye!? It's unclear what intelligence means, but some corporate planets love to package it in software and promote it as a saviour of all kinds of problems. Generally, the problems it solves could be addressed by a sort of coordinated effort from the inhabitants of the Galaxy. But why do that when a parrot could burp up some amazing solution in a chat? But there is little doubt that AI profoundly challenges how we understand ourselves. Read a good dyne from a neighbouring planet that explains why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture. Why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture | NOEMA - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 🍰 Devuan 1st ISO celebrates 10 years The 14th of February marked 10 years since the first Devuan installation ISOs were released. Jaromil posted the "pre-alpha valentine (secret love declaration)" announcement to the DNG mailing list: [Dng] pre alpha valentine (secret love declaration) Take a trip down memory lane, feel the love for the #Devuan team and our users, and celebrate their dogged determination which has beaten the odds! May the fork be with you! 🍴 🏗️ Zenroom builds We're happy to announce that we restored ready-to-use builds of Zenroom as a native library on Android and iOS, with blazing-fast performance! 🏃 📦 Base binaries continue to be available as uncompressed download links for Windows, OS X, and GNU+Linux. Release v5.10.7 · dyne/Zenroom Language bindings Updated on official repositories: Zenroom in NodeJS :: npm install zenroom Zenroom in Python :: pip install zenroom Zenroom in Go :: go get github.com/dyne/Zenroom/bindings/golan… GitHubdyne ⚙️ CJIT now compiles itself! Brace yourselves, fellow code warriors! The realm of C just got a whole lot cooler. CJIT, our shiny new diminutive C compiler, has officially evolved into a self-hosting beast. That's right, it's now capable of compiling itself! 🌟 Let’s raise a glass to this compiler inception because CJIT is now the proud parent of its own existence. 😂 CJIT - C, Just in Time! CJIT is a lightweight, free and open source C interpreter that lets you run C code instantly, without needing to build it first. Made by Dyne.org C, Just in Time! 🔑 GNU Keymaster 3000 Deluxe Pro Well, no. The name is much better: Klutshnik. 'Kljutsh' (or variations of it) means "key" in Slavic languages, and the 'nik' postfix means something like "person" just like in Beatnik. Together they mean "person of keys" or "key person". Anyhow, the author thinks Klutshnik is a much better name than GNU Keymaster 3000 Deluxe Pro. Hard to disagree on that. Project Klutshnik is a client/server solution that brings forward-secrecy, post-compromise security, and other very nice things to data-at-rest. It also has the world's first public and free threshold OPRF and threshold OPAQUE! Project Klutshnik ctrlc.hu 🖨️ The meaning of "PDF" According to the Internet, PDF is short for "Portable Document Format". It's known for indirectly causing many galactic beings' outrage at their printers. But also for it's... well, portability. Some hilarious dynes from a distant planet have put GNU+Linux inside a PDF. Some are disgusted others enthused. Here at the redaction, we applaud the ingenuity. Is GNU+Linux the new Doom, or was it all along? Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes! | Hackaday - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 🇪🇺 A Sovereign planet The digital stack so many dynes use every day speaks a painful truth: Planet Europe is losing the 21st Century. Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty is not an option. Homegrown alternatives to empower Europe to reclaim control of its digital future are key to its perennity. The current European Digital Stack A group of activists have gathered to advance a proposal. It causes mixed feelings on Planet Dyne. Words like "EuropeOS", mentions of "Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)", and "Geofencing" have rather loaded implications. But everyone is happy that the topic is up for debate among the usually rather silent parliamentarians. Given attention, this could be a very good thing! EuroStack Building a european alternative for technological sovereignty Prof. Francesca Bria, Prof. Paul Timmers, Dr. Fausto Gernone 🤗 Cosy corner The Cosy Corner of Privacy is going strong with updates from Holonym, Shutter, Zashi, Dyne, EFF, Waku & more 🗞️ Cosy Corner of Privacy - week 7 As most are preparing for ETHDenver, or buying new shitcoins (I am disappointed in the new names - “initial poop offering” who came up with that and why is it all over my X feed??), welcome to the tranquil corner of privacy news, grab your tea and let’s dive in.InsightsHolonym Foundation Acquires Gitcoin Passport and Launches human.techAlexey on home arrestShutter cooking something up 👀Sparrow v2.1.0Zashi: iOS 1.3.3Waku Monthly UpdateKnowledgeDyne newsletter has been poppin’UK orders Apple t… week 7 👀 Well deserved attention Around 300 people gathered in the pews of the Internet Archive auditorium to witness Pablo Peniche, head of growth for the startup Aqua Voice, unveil a marble bust of the late Aaron Swartz, the programmer, activist, and open-access hero. Planet Dyne loves you, Aaron. Rest in power! Aaron Swartz, patron saint of the open-access internet, gets immortalized in SF - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 📺 A wild dyne on National TV Good informative episode for all dynes voting in Germany, this small documentary also features a dyne busy to heal people and make the nation... Suck less 💜 Click the image to watch the video on Dyne TV 💦 Share some water with a bot! Dynes from a remote planet advance a good point: for AI to solve world hunger and the climate crisis, we might have to sacrifice some of the water we drink and turn off the lights when we cuddle in the bedroom. AI really needs your help! AI Needs Your Help - fed.dyne.org > Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many precious resources that AI needs to thrive. Every sip of water you take and every light you turn on could be sustaining the AI systems that uphold your digital conveniences. fed.dyne.org 🔖 Bookmarks for open minds There is a lot of news manipulation around, it seems we are entering a new era of Fake News 2.0, so here we go sharing some sources of information that can help to keep our minds free and open, and our opinions built on proper fact-checking. Investigative journalism websites: The Insider, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Meduza, IStories, ProPublica, Bellingcat, Wagner, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Investigative Journalism Network, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Follow the Money, OpenSecrets, Transparency, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting, Africa, China, Cryptome, Techtracker ASPI, China's European port interests mapped, Chinese Defence Universities Tracker, illicit trade, Drugs Monitoring Platform, China-Africa Energy Tracker, Mapping Russian Private Military Companies. All about the Xinjiang Data Project together with an interactive Map  Insight on the International Refugee Crisis The 21st Century Gold Rush  Some fact-checking websites: FactCheck, Snopes, PolitiFact, Full Fact, Factcheck, Reuters Fact Check, AP Fact Check, NPR FactCheck, Washington Post Fact Checker, Originality. If you want to get experienced in Open Source Intelligence we recommend reading: Introducing Bellingcat's Collaborative Open Source Toolkit. Hey, You're the sponsor, fellow dyne! Sign up to Planet Dyne 🕊️ Free to share code. 👩🏽‍💻 Code to share freedom. 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Yet again, Earth passed the arbitrary point of it's orbit around the sun. This is a moment of great party and introspection among the planet's inhabitants. For a month or so, every news outlet offer "recapitulation" articles, looking back at the previous orbit. Dynes very rarely Capitulate, so they can hardly Recapitulate. Meanwhile, many people cross their hearts with promises to change their habits. For a dyne, every day is good moment for introspection. And every second is the right time to change something we don't like about ourselves. 🐬 February 1st 2025, Global Switch day Everywhere in the galaxy, humanoids and robots alike are fed up with the galactic overlords' iron grip around the media of digital socialization. It's come to a point where complacency no longer is an option. Thankfully, there is a lot of alternatives out there in this day and age! Some are more convenient than others, and others are more freedom respecting than some. Of course, the corpo-silos are attuned to the phenomenon, trying to adapt their marketing lingo with cool buzz words like "Federated", "Decentralized" and so on... Some nerds who fell for it jumped from one corporate hell-hole into another, are asking us to give them 30 million dollares americanos. This amount is needed to add "fire exits" to bluesky (AKA, to decentralize it). You know, in case the silo turns out to be ehm... well another silo. After all, we can't just use anything to talk to each other: It has to have a je ne sais quoi of sex-appeal! Free Our Feeds Let’s take social media away from billionaire capture. Free Our Feeds Either way, a popular movement has decreed that on February 1st 2025, a coordinated march out of the silos will take place. The idea is to take back control over the information we ingest and replace the usual suspects such as Facebacon, Twatter, Instaframe, and Wazzaaaaaap with their libre counter-part: Friendica, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Matrix, etc... Here on planet dyne, we strongly recommend digital detoxing altogether. But we know cold-turkey is hard, and thus encourage everyone to take the steps they need. We love the Fediverse, but it is undeniable that Nostr's underlying tech is very compelling. We just have to teach our grands how to manage a private key first! Nostr, a simple protocol for decentralizing social media that has a chance of working A guide to the simplest decentralized protocol that isn’t peer-to-peer, therefore works. 🪦 Rest in power, Diasp.org Diaspora was early in the game of decentralizing social media and has a special place in a dyne's heart. It's not the end of Diaspora, but the end of Diasp.org, and instance of the Diaspora Free Software. After 15 years of loyal service, it is being sunset. This instance was the home for some of the fringes that still believe in the open and fair internet. But... Well, that was kind of the problem. However even with things like mastodon, you should be running your own server or computer and never hosting on someone else for a production site, you should own and control your data and performance and costs. Thank you David, good lessons learned: We still have a lot of work to do, educating our fellow Internauts. 2025 diasporg update – Diaspora Blog diasporg 🍠 EUDI Wallet roast A dyne goes to Fides to talk about the pain points of EUDI. It is a success! Somewhere between a tech-talk and stand-up commedy. Don't miss the bootleg video, availble on demand on DyneTV Clicking the image will take you to the video on tv.dyne.org Dyne very much want Europe to be excellent to all its citizens. We should develop our technological solutions following a human-centric approach grounded on principles of privacy, fairness, and inclusion. Jaromil recently published a refined critique regarding the choices that have been made so far. The problems in the European Digital Identity (EUDI) EUDI as is today presents big problems and disregards criticism, warnings, and requests to review technical details, with results that harm the fairness of the system and the privacy of its participants, also limiting infrastructure security and scalability. News From DyneJaromil 🐝 CJIT, smol but sexy! Remember CJIT? Initially thought out as a cute little side-gig, the project grew and gathered a bit of attention. It is still cute AF (less than #1Mb), but powerful 🦾 and continuously improved: version 0.15.11 was released a couple of weeks ago! Try it out for yourself! CJIT - C, Just in Time! CJIT is a lightweight, free and open source C interpreter that lets you run C code instantly, without needing to build it first. Made by Dyne.org C, Just in Time! 🔐 Zenroom v5.0.0 is now available! https://github.com/dyne/Zenroom/releases Here’s what’s new: 🗝️ Nested IF and FOREACH statements for more branching fun! 🗝️ Enhanced speed, especially in branching conditionals. ⚠️ Switching to v5 is a breaking change, but don’t worry, v4 will still receive bug-fix updates! Zenroom is a tiny, secure, fully isolated, open source, virtual machine that runs on any platform, even on a chip or a web page. More about it: https://zenroom.org/ 👾 Runevision, modern retro rendering Dither! Such a nice way to render graphics! A resident from a nearby planet has created a really cool way to render Dither in 3D. And the results are mindblowingly beautiful. runevision – Dither3D: Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering - fed.dyne.org > Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering. Contribute to runevision/Dither3D development by creating an account on GitHub. fed.dyne.org Hey, You're the sponsor, fellow dyne! 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[🇧🇪 Belgium] Web5 Digital Identity @ FOSDEM 2025 🗓️ February 2nd 📍 Brussels Our very own friend, colleague, and interplanetary Cardinal; Andrea is talking at FOSDEM in the Digital Wallets and Verifiable Credentials track. FOSDEM 2025 - Digital Wallets and Verifiable Credentials fosdem-2025 In the morning session they address some of the (EUDI) Wallet's current challenges... and how some of those can be solved using so called Disposable Identities, a technical branch of SSI. They'll share their thoughts on stage at 10.00 (CET), with a presentation by Rob Van Kranenburg, Lorna Goulden (TWINDS.org) and Andrea d'Intino (forkbomb.solutions) FOSDEM 2025 - We need Disposable Digital Identities for a more secure and resilient digital society fosdem-2025 Live streaming link: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/aw1126 In the early evening, at 19.00 at the Brussels Commons Hub, a diverse panel will engage in an open conversation with the audience on this and related questions. This panel will be the same group adding some other valued experts: Daniel de Seuil and Jesse Wright (Solid lead at the Open Data Institute). After which we can further connect, exchange & end the day with a drink & social 🥂 ... The future of Digital Identity · Luma On Sunday February 2nd, the Disposable Identities community invites you to an open conversation about the future of Digital Identity. 19.00 Doors 19.15 – 20.45… Hans Vanmechelen [🇲🇦 Morocco] LPM 2025 Morocco | Live Performers Meeting, 26th Edition 🗓️ April 3rd - 6th 📍 M’Hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco. LPM 2025 Morocco offers a unique opportunity to participate in 4 days packed with audiovisual performances, VJing experiences, workshops, panel discussions and product showcases, all presented by more than 300 artists, professionals and Audio Visuals Performing Arts enthusiasts from 40 countries. LPM 2025 launched their “CALL TO PARTICIPATE" a few days ago: 🔗 https://liveperformersmeeting.net/editions/2025-morocco/call-to-participate/ That's it for this episode of Planet Dyne! Come co-create the next episode by joining the channels! Or help us by sharing this article with a friend" Tune in to the discussion 💬 (These services are bridged: join your favorite and reach them all) 🗨️ IRC 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord Support Dyne 🫱🏿‍🫲🏾 Help dyne.org stay focused on hacking the planet! 🥰 Donate 💸 🪙 Bitcoins: bc1qz9wz2f9swcefra2tfrhk4fx49evqsv03m9nx4l ☕ Ko-Fi 🍴 Github.com 🧁 LiberaPay 🍥 Patreon.com Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack Winter 2025 The swag of cool cats and devels Jah Bless Follow Dyne.org 🗞️ Social Media everywhere! 🐭 Lemmy 🐘 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📸 Instagram 🐦 Xitter 👔 Linkedin 🪞 Facebook 🧵 Threads ✍️ Medium

Fun is scarce! Let it free, you are not the enemy. In the current economy, fun is bold and frivolous. A lot of anger is floating in the internet clouds, even on planets where air and soil are good. Dyne Your Negative Energy! Nobody knows what expects us in the long run, but we can be sure this is not the end, fellow dyne. 10 years of Devuan 🎂 A decade ago, we embarked on an audacious journey, resolved to “not go gentle into that good night” and fiercely defend our freedom of choice. Today, the reality is stark: the Linux landscape has been increasingly commercialized, compromising its core values and spirit. But amidst this transformation, Devuan remains a beacon of true community-driven development. 🖖🏼 Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Devuan is a landmark in the growing need for genuine, grassroots development over glossy, corporate-controlled solutions. November 27 marked Devuan's 10th anniversary. It is the day that the Veteran Unix Admin collective announced their intention to fork Debian. Do take a walk down memory lane or if you are newer to Devuan, familiarize yourself with the creative "electricity" that has energized & sustained this project for a decade & consider offering your talents to support Devuan going forward on its amazing journey! Join the activity on the web forum or on IRC to celebrate! 🎉 Happy 10! November 27 is a day to celebrate! / News & Announcements / Dev1 Galaxy Forum Psssst!.... There's a bunch of new swag in the Devuan shop! Devuan Shop | Spreadshop Run Zero, Run!? ⭐ Gate to systemd ❗ Devuan Stop Systemd (white) Devuan Shop CJIT, Just In Time)🐜🐝 Have you ever wished you could run some C, Just in time? Dream no more, some dynes have created CJIT for you! (C, Just In Time, CJIT Just In Time, See Git Justine Thyme!). Imagine swiftly scripting in C, leveraging your favorite APIs for impressive one-liners, or enhancing your shell scripts with C capabilities! 0:00 0:11 1× The Caffudissimo Doughnut in animated ascii art. Rendered using CJIT CJIT is a C interpreter that allows you to execute C code immediately with no need to compile it first. It's a single 2MB file capable of performing all the tasks of a C compiler, including calling functions from any installed library. It is compatible with Linux, Windows, and MacOSX. CJIT - C, Just in Time! CJIT is a lightweight, free and open source C interpreter that lets you run C code instantly, without needing to build it first. Made by Dyne.org C, Just in Time! The good the bad and the webshit 🕸️ Webshits. We love to hate them. They consume our lives and repress our innate talent for remembering how to walk home or mom's phone number. While it looks like the internet is a giant pile of shit (spoiler alert: it is), there is hope for an alternative future. Some dynes on planet Europe have devised a compilation of such webshits. But these webshits run on slightly better conditions than your average Amazon forest or fruit computer. Useful! European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products. European Alternatives Introducing Bjorn ⛵ The perfect hacker tool for when you've always wanted to turn your Raspberry Pi into a pocket-sized harbinger of chaos. Who doesn't need an e-Paper HAT to keep track of all the new friends amassed on the network? Beware! red-teaming ahead! GitHub - infinition/Bjorn: Bjorn is a powerful network scanning and offensive security tool for the Raspberry Pi with a 2.13-inch e-Paper HAT. It discovers network targets, identifies open ports, exposed services, and potential vulnerabilities. Bjorn can perform brute force attacks, file stealing, host zombification, and supports custom attack scripts. Bjorn is a powerful network scanning and offensive security tool for the Raspberry Pi with a 2.13-inch e-Paper HAT. It discovers network targets, identifies open ports, exposed services, and potent… GitHubinfinition Swat that fly with a cronjob — MC Vortex Wire in the hole! 🔥🐋 Sometimes a quote is worth more than nine words! Advertisement? Ah yes, i privacy-guard myself around it by sending it to the hole! — A dyne like you GitHub - IAmStoxe/wirehole: WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound. WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel Wir… GitHubIAmStoxe Sing, W3C SING! 🌐 On November 18th, the Security Interest Group was announced, with a dyne chair and all! The mission SING has set is to improve Security on the Web by advising groups developing standards on how to avoid and mitigate security issues with their technologies. Security Interest Group also suggests changes to existing standards and technologies to improve the security of existing systems. Security Interest Group Charter Ho´ oponopono 🌴 Indigenous knowledge is precious! Ancient Polynesian cultures have perfected the art of debugging centuries before Silicon Valley's 'move fast and break things' mantra. Confession is the OG error.log. Who knew that admitting your errors could fix more than just your code? 🤷‍♂️ Hoʻoponopono - Wikipedia - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org Wake up! We move at 220Km/s, and we don't even notice it! Premium AI 🤖 Money is pouring into AI, but will any be pouring out? Well, out for sure. But the interesting question is where to? Down the drain maybe, maybe not. We asked ChatGPT for comments, but apparently, it works pro bono! The Subprime AI Crisis, or the consequences of “making each customer more valuable rather than providing more value to the customer”. - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org Neighbors in the neighborhood 🏘️ Just when you thought your opsec was top-notch, turns out that of your neighbors wasn't. Volexity details an interesting attack vector they've observed in the wild. This is why a dyne tends to the neighboring planet: together we are stronger! The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access In early February 2022, notably just ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volexity made a discovery that led to one of the most fascinating and complex incident investigations Volexity had ever worked. The investigation began when an alert from a custom detection signature Volexity had deployed at a customer site (“Organization A”) indicated a threat actor had compromised a server on the customer’s network. While Volexity quickly investigated the threat activity, more questions were raised than answers due to a very motivated and skilled advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, who was using a novel attack vector Volexity had not previously encountered. VolexitySteven Adair Hey, You're the sponsor, fellow dyne! Sign up to Planet Dyne 🕊️ Free to share code. 👩🏽‍💻 Code to share freedom. 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[🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS] 🖥️ Open-Source Alternatives for Multimedia Production. ✨ Dive into the world of open-source magic with this upcoming workshop: led by the Denis "Jaromil" Roio, one of the legends behind Dynebolic 🗓️ 6 Dec 2024, 11:00 📍 Design Museum Den Bosch, De Mortel 4, 5211 HV, Den Bosch 🔩 Transform your old PC into a media-activism powerhouse with a USB stick and no installation fuss. 🎨 🎧 🎥 📡 🛠️ Unleash the power of Dynebolic—a 100% free, live operating system that's perfect for multimedia projects. Transform your old PC into a media-activism powerhouse with a USB stick! 🎨🎧🎥 👨‍💻 Meet Denis "Jaromil" Roio, the ethical hacker and software artisan. Jaromil is dedicated to crafting digital tools that champion freedom, democracy, and privacy, trusted by organizations worldwide. 🌍 🌍🎟️ Want in? Bring along your old Windows laptop, a USB stick (2GB+), and an optional Ethernet cable. No laptop? No problem! Grab a dedicated ticket, and we'll hook you up with one of our own. 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Planet Dyne is a large body in space. Nobody knows exactly how large as it sometimes expands and sometimes contracts. But what constitutes this planet are the inhabitants, the dynes. You may have encountered some of the most visible ones talking about beautiful things like Diversity, Open-source, or Ecology. There is a strong sense of autonomy in a dyne, which can give the impression that a dyne operates stand-alone. But this is not how it works. The planet is organized in a circular dynamic: each dyne is being backed up by its peers while simultaneously backing them up. It would be a stretch to assume that dynes love chores, but a dyne is certainly fueled by a genuine passion for the task at hand. We like thinking but prefer doing. It's made possible by a core set of values: love for each other and presumption of kindness. Every dyne matters. The dyne chiming away at a guitar while upholding the infrastructure. The dyne crunching numbers, making sure food and shelter are secured. The dyne reviewing pull requests and the dyne submitting them. The dynes practicing their civic responsibilities, trying to save the climate in between git commits. The dynes painting on canvases of textile or screens. Those who plumber the Domain Name Systems while tilting the flippers. Write a thesis and secure the network. Advocate for a circular economy, from north to south. Apply for grants and attend the important meetings. Camping cryptographers, educational designers… Multidisciplinary dynes stepping up, and in, for each other is the gravity that holds the planet together. Sometimes unseen but never forgotten, this issue is for you, fellow dyne. ♻️ We are getting CLOSER! Circular raw materials for EU strategic autonomy on chips and microelectronics production We are launching a new project: CLOSER! We are proud to have our spinoff Forkbomb.solutions to be the software development partner of this new European project. Our mission is to develop a Digital Product Passport (DPP) for chips and microelectronics components. While we gear up for requirements you can read more about our DPP research so far on Springer Open Access. 🙀 Drama in the stack A hacker with a strong meme game finds an open door inside the good ol' CUPS. At first, no one believes that the door is there, but a point is proven and a slight shit show ensues, demonstrating that disclosing security issues is very hard. It turns out that telling a coder that their thing is broken can bruise egos pretty severely. Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 👽 E.T phone home Our phones. We feed them, sleep with them, talk to them, carry them everywhere. They're omnipresent in our life. But can we trust them? The short answer is: no. But hey, you could always fall back to talkie-walkies. Or why not build a Meshtastic node? Veritasium on SS7 global phone vulnerabilities - fed.dyne.org Do not trust robots … or mobile phones. Featuring Karsten Nohl, Berlin-based long time phone security researcher, this Veritasium episode is an easy introduction to the general public as to why you should question everything about your mobile devices. (the issues outlined explain why some groups consider the use of alternate comms networks such as pagers, walkie talkies, meshtastic, etc) Note for non-Googliness, the URL can work with invidious instances (such as yewtu.be [http://yewtu.be]) which may or may not be stable. just use the path /watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y fed.dyne.org 🏚️ Democracy, but light While the overlords are eating away at Democracy, most inhabitants of the galaxy are spending countless hours every day bending their necks to create value for the overlords to chip away at Democracy. It's unclear if this is a new form of hamster wheel, or just the same old illusionist party-trick being pulled again. Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 🤑 A word from our sponsor LunarDAO II | DarkFi R&D Donation A cool collab emerges. LunarDAO and Darkfi launch an R&D campaign and invite you to become a part of it. If you have spare cryptos, this is a good place to put them at work. LunarDAO An updated guide for the second LunarDAO raise based on [LIP-0005]((https://forum.lunardao.net/t/lip-0005-contribute-to-darkfi-research-and-development/216) - a squad investment for anonymity and freedom supporting Darkfi research and development on Arbitrum. How To Join? (updated) ⚙️ When you hack them, Chromebooks are finally useful Chromebooks are probably one of the most exemplary materializations of the cognitive dissonance taking place in ICT industry. These computers would not exist without a plethora of FLOSS and related projects, and at the same time, all this technological openness is by design obfuscated and restricted to create an ecosystem that is as closed as possible, and designed for planned obsolescence. Fortunately, there are dynes out there busy hacking them. Repurposing Chromebooks - Modding Fridays Modding Fridays 💩 Poop-o-matic Nothing pisses off the Internet quite like killing cats. But if laziness is involved, trade-offs are made. Cats are cute, and just like all fluffy things they poop. They're smart enough to do it in a box, but not everyone is smart enough to think of maintenance tasks before deciding to get a cat. Thus, some tech-bros have invented self-cleaning litter-boxes for the money. You will never guess what happened next... The Rise Of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 🎃 Grave season All Saints until proven otherwise. Spooktober is an opportune moment to visit graveyards. Turns out you can do that from the comfort of your device. Light a candle for a service that you miss. Thoughts, prayers, and all that jazz! Killed by Google: Disappointment as a service - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org Sign up for News From Dyne 🕊️ Free to share code. 👩🏽‍💻 Code to share freedom. 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In his keynote “Identity Wallet Roast”, he will be serving up a critical take on the latest developments in European Digital Identity wallets.Since the European Commission launched its “toolbox” for digital identities in June 2021, the journey has been anything but smooth. While the initiative aims to create a robust framework with common standards, delays and concerns around privacy and security persist. Jaromil will dissect the evolving Architecture Reference Framework (#ARF), highlighting both innovative solutions and common pitfalls to watch out for.Join us for insights, laughs, and a lively roast of the digital identity landscape! 🔥 We are running a lot of seminars! 0:00 0:11 1× Jaromil giving a Zenroom workshop at Digitalia Village ✊ The Tech We Want What is the role of technology in social justice? How can technology be leveraged to create a more equitable society? Check out the recording of the Tech We Want Online Summit, featuring renowned experts in digital rights and social justice, exploring the intersection of technology, policy, and community activism. DIGITAL ID (CIFRIS W3C) On the 27th September, Andrea D'Intino, Denis "Jaromil" Roio, Francesco Marino, and Simone Onofri, held a 90-minute seminar on cryptography for digital identity, at the Cifris24 event. DeCifris.it L’associazione De Componendis Cifris si propone di animare la comunità crittografica italiana, favorendo lo studio, la ricerca e la divulgazione della crittografia. DeCifris.itDE CIFRIS KOINE vol.5 Order of the Architects of Rome One dyne has been so lucky to be on a stage that is older than 2000 years. We've been sharing some insights on digital projects for the common good, data privacy and what not in DECODE and REFLOW. Here an Italian report on our work with the new Urban Center in Rome. Temple of Adriano aka Hadrianeum, hosts the Chamber of Commerce in the heart of Rome More warnings on privacy for EUDI We've been explaining at length the Digital Identity Wallet plans Europe has and all its flaws to the audience of Web3Privacy summit held in Rome. A dyne on stage explains what the EU digital wallet should do, and why it doesn't do it wellAnother web3privacy dyne shares precious secrets in an interviewWe know who is behind all of this plot but won't tell you 🏴‍☠️ Hardcore HCPP In recent years, privacy and freedom have come under attack. As pioneers of a new order, we stand at the forefront of technological innovation, driving progress for a free society.The old world is crumbling, and from its chaos, we will forge a future built on freedom and innovation.For the very last time, welcome to the Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis where your very own Jaromil is set to deliver a groundbreaking keynote. 🔗 https://hardcore.HCPP.cz Dyne.org exists thanks to dynes like you! Toss a coin this way and make sure a dyne stays hydrated. Every contribution regardless of size makes a big difference. 🪙 Hack The Planet! Do you like what Dyne.org is doing? Would you like to see dynes do more of it? There are many ways in which you can help Dyne.org hack the planet. You can get involved in the community, files issues in our code repositories. Dynebolic Fashion Starterpack - Fall 2024 Hacker fashion by Dyne.org, swag for cool cats and phreaks Jah Bless That's it for this edition of Planet Dyne! Remember this exercise is participatory, come share what's on your mind with us and it might end up in this newsletter! 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🍂 🍃 Welcome, fellow dyne! Ready for Episode 12 of our newsletter? The brave inhabitants of planet Dyne are making monumental strides. They’re reclaiming control over their internet, breaking free from the clutches of Planet Corporate! Join us as they endeavor to liberate their creative allies from alienation and bring back the true spirit of innovation and freedom. Will they succeed in their digital revolution? ⚖️ The fairness of fairness Scanning and lending copyrighted books to humans is not fair use, but scanning them for machines to mulch entire libraries into LLMs and use them to produce fake news and profit for mega-corporations: no problem! 🙈🙊🙉 Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs <p>Join us for a VIRTUAL book talk with legal scholar BARBARA McQUADE on her New York Times bestseller, ATTACK FROM WITHIN, about disinformation’s impact on democracy. NYU professor and author […]</p>\n Internet Archive BlogsChris Freeland One dyne points out that these bollocks predate LLMs, though. It seems OK to pillage global human works for commerce, but not for more altruistic human advancement. 🤖 An identity crisis More than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources 🚀 It's not like anyone didn't enjoy the parrot's fantastic paintings and funky poems, it was fun for a while. And AI has been proven useful sometimes, right, but... ...there's a butt. Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report - fed.dyne.org RAND Report - The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed [https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html] fed.dyne.org Wasting money actually sounds fun. What the headline omits to mention is that it is also costing energy and clean water. But what is a climate crisis to a good meme? — Satire Toot by Erik Uden, 2024-09-05: "kids these days won't name themselves ";DROP TABLE students; but IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS in the school computer system"Remixed XKCD panel. Image links to the original What's certain is that, in the age of AI, it’s crucial to stay aware of techno-political issues. Dyne.org tackles this head-on, advocating for ethical tech and social justice. Let’s converse, conspire, and shape a better future together! 💡✨ [2405.00860] Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis - fed.dyne.org fed.dyne.org 🌿🔌 Exciting News! Our brilliant friend and hacker extraordinaire, Elektra Wagenrad, has integrated an open-source irrigation system into her solar power project! 🌞💧 Introducing OSPIT, a sustainable energy and irrigation solution designed for community networks. Catch the full coverage by the Association for Progressive Communications and see how innovation is driving change. 🚀🌱 Meet OSPIT, a sustainable energy and irrigation solution for community networks | Association for Progressive Communications Association for Progressive CommunicationsNils Brock 🍺 BXL For those of you in Brussels or passing by Brussels, come visit the new community space that just opened right in front of Central-Station: Commons Hub Brussels Your common space in the heart of Brussels to meet, dream, and work. Launching Soon. This space is all about (re)learning the commons. How do we manage limited resources together? How do we rebuild communities? How do we put our resources in common? It can also serve as an event space for dynes planing to organize a conference or a gathering of any kind in the capital of Europe. This is a common, so this space is yours as well, fellow dyne! Check out the video: 🦅 Planet Yucatan A dyne was aired in Yucatan at a series of events in the context of the Fabcity foundation. Remember Interfacer? The awesome innovative federated open source platform for sharing and collaborating on Open Source Hardware projects? Interfacer | Digital Product Passport and Circular Economy Interfacer: digital infrastructure enabling a data-based circular economy and digital product passport. Interfacer Project - Yes, that Fabcity foundation, without whom there would be no Interfacer Project. They're awesome, you should check out what they're doing! Fab City Global Initiative: Join Sustainable Cities Movement Join Fab City Global Initiative. Learn about the sustainable cities movement to get involved in shaping the future of urban innovation. Fab City Global Initiative 🌚 Sugar-Coated Chat Tech: The Orwellian Nightmare Recent news of the Telegram leader's imprisonment in France highlights the challenges in trusting centralized entities to offer free and secure communication channels. All advertised services are centralized, including WhatsApp and Signal. In a world where privacy is a quaint relic of the past, the masses have eagerly embraced chat technologies that are as sweet as candy but come with a bitter aftertaste of surveillance and censorship. These centralized chat platforms promise seamless communication, but what they deliver is a one-way ticket to Big Brother’s watchful eye. “Why bother with privacy when you can have stickers and emojis?” seems to be the mantra of the day. But not all hope is lost. In a delightful twist of irony, a group of irreverent and smart youth has decided to give the middle finger to these Orwellian chat tools. They’re flocking back to the good old days of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), but with a dark twist—enter DarkIRC. This isn’t your grandma’s IRC; it’s a fortified, privacy-focused haven for those who value their freedom. How to connect to DarkIRC Connect to DarkIRC: Secure, Anonymous Chat. Learn how to set up DarkIRC, the decentralized chat application from DarkFI, ensuring your communications remain private and secure. Follow our step-by-step guide to unlock the power of anonymity. News From DyneJaromil Nothing says “stick it to the man” like a decentralized chat protocol that actually respects your privacy. So, while the rest of the world is busy trading their privacy for a few shiny features, these rebels are proving that sometimes, the old ways are the best ways. Long live IRC, and may DarkIRC light the w.... 😅 let there be dark. 🚀 Introducing Weechad: The IRC Client Setup That's Totally Chad! Ever wanted to flex your geek muscles and dive into the world of IRC, but found the setup process as confusing as your grandma's Facebook settings? Fear not, because we’ve got the ultimate chad of all scripts for you – introducing Weechad! 💪 Chads have no time for WeeChat confs. curl -Ls dyne.org/weechad/setup | NICK=yournick bash logo With Weechad, setting up your WeeChat IRC client is no longer a grueling task reserved for the galaxy-brained. Nah, our script is here to turn you into the alpha of IRC in just a few clicks. It’s so easy, even your cat could do it. 🐱 (But please don’t let your cat do it, we need those paws for internet cuteness.) Here’s what makes Weechad the absolute chaddest: 💼 Professional Setup Because nothing says "I’m a pro" like effortlessly setting up your IRC client while sipping on your protein shake. 🕶️ Extreme privacy Weechad stores all logs and confs and passes into a Tomb volume for maximum privacy of your secret conversations. 🕶️ Cool Factor Instantly gain 10,000 internet cool points. Side effects may include spontaneous sunglasses and epic background music. 0:00 0:03 1× So, are you ready to stop being a setup beta and become the chat alpha you were always meant to be? 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Fire up that telnet and check it out yourself, you've been warned! $ telnet mapscii.me GitHub - rastapasta/mapscii: 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows - rastapasta/mapscii GitHubrastapasta 🪅 Fediverse Growing organically is different from growing market shares, not only in terms of speed, also in terms of quality. The Fediverse is one of those webshits that's growing organically, it means slowly but steadily. There are many good contenders to decentralized social networks, like Nostr. You may say what you want about the Fediverse as a collection of protocols, its flaws, and drawbacks. But at this point, it is by far the option that's been the most tested against time. If you're into ActivityPub and open, paced, curated, authenticity-driven social relationships on the Internet, Berlin is hosting an interesting event focusing on all things Fediverse! Berliner Fediverse Tag | Berlin Fediverse Tag 2024 Der Berliner Fediverse Tag ist eine am 14.9.2024 in der Berliner c-base stattfindende Konferenz zum Fediverse mit Workshops und Vorträgen für Interessierte, Neulinge und alte Hasen. Berlin Fediverse Tag 2024 A lot of things are happening in this space! Wordpress has embraced it, and Ghost is building on it too! Even your good ol'planet dyne is there! But of course, the social internet is constantly moving and it reflects here too, with things like Loops, promising federated short video reels. How lovely isn't that? Now, Grandma can look at your step-dance sequence from the comfort of her good ol' micro-blogging timeline of Mastodon! loops (@loops@pixelfed.social) 18 Posts, 4 Following, 5.5K Followers · Explore and share short videos on the fediverse, made by @pixelfed@pixelfed.socialAvailable soon! Pixelfed 💅 Look good this fall Did you know that you can help keep the dynes hacking the planet, just by looking good? Indeed, all you need to do is get yourself the Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack of Fall 2024! You'll not only secure coffee for 15% off and free standard shipping until the 15th of September 2024! Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack - Fall 2024 The swag of the cool cats Jah Bless 💶 A word from our sponsor 🎨 Creative Skills Week 🗓️ 16 - 20 SEPTEMBER 📍 Amsterdam - Online PACESETTERS is participating in Creative Skills Week !🌍 This event will feature a Main Programme from September 18-19 with curated workshops, discussions, and experimental learning activities,hosted by the Conservatorium of AmsterdamandAmsterdam University of the Arts (AHK), co-hosted by Marineterrein.In addition, there is a Satellite Programme from September 16, 17 & 20 across Amsterdam. Can’t make it in person? Join the Online Programme offering live streams of plenary sessions, satellite events and projects presentations. Learn more. Don’t miss out—let's connect and innovate! 🔗 https://creativeskillsweek.eu/ *️⃣ Cifris24 🗓️ September 25th - 27th 2024 📍 Banca d'Italia, Centro D. Menichella, Largo Guido Carli 1, Frascati (Rome) - (IT) CIFRIS24 is an international event, supported and organized by De Cifris, aimed at bringing together researchers in the field of cryptography, practitioners, developers, and users to foster cooperation and exchange techniques, tools, experiences, and ideas. DeCifris.it L’associazione De Componendis Cifris si propone di animare la comunità crittografica italiana, favorendo lo studio, la ricerca e la divulgazione della crittografia. DeCifris.it 🌚 W3PN Meetup Rome 2024 🗓️ October 3rd, 2024 📍 TBD Web3Privacy is a privacy focused ecosystem of hacktivists, researchers, lawyers, event organisers, etc... pushing web3privacy forward. It envisions a world where privacy is a conscious, actively chosen lifestyle, accessible to everyone, everywhere. Into web3 and want to know more about Privacy? Here is a 5 Step Guide to Make Ethereum—and Crypto—Cypherpunk Again Meetup Rome 2024 | Web3Privacy Now Advocates worldwide are uniting to make privacy fundamental pillar of the Web3 industry, transforming it into a cultural movement that champions freedom and decentralization. Web3Privacy Now 🏴‍☠️ Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 🗓️ October 4-6th, 2024 📍 Paralelní Polis HARDCORE signifies an uncompromising commitment to defending individual autonomy against all forms of control. Rejecting the chains of coercion and embracing decentralization, anonymity, and cryptographic freedom. 🔗 https://hardcore.hcpp.cz/ 🎈 Micromusic.net Anniversary 🗓️ 12th October 2024 📍 Winterthur - (CH) Retro computing dynes might remember the neighboring planet called Micromusic.net and its low-tech music for high-tech people. To be fair it is still alive and kicking and turning 25 this year! For the occasion, the good people of planet Micromusic are throwing a huge party in Winterthur, Switzerland. It's a complicated location for many citizens of the galaxy, but if you are nearby, you do not want to miss this jam! micromusic.net 25th anniversary Boss make a dollar, I make a Dyne, Booger's workaholic, and I'm pooping fine! That's it for this episode of the Planet Dyne is in your mailbox and you feel fine! Thanks for reading so far and leave a comment bellow if you're so inclined! Help a dyne hack, by getting yourself an Artpack! Dyne Supporter Artpack Vol. 1 Inside of it? Simple beauty in Multimedia! Maybe a little bit of mystery, too. Planet Dyne's residents certainly hope it will make you feel something positive. 2 bucks or name your price Tune in to the discussion 💬 This newsletter is made possible with the contributions of dynes like you, thank You! 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Time to get rid of the "social" networks! Another Internet is possible, and much needed, so we're back at good ol' newsletter grooming. You're always welcome on our planet, fellow human! We've long been connected in one way or another, now we hope you don't mind us sending a pulse of life from Dyne.org, some critical content, and projects like Dynebolic, Bricolabs, Unsystem, FreeJ and Frei0r, DECODE, REFLOW, INTERFACER, and free and open-source ramblings by a dyne like jaromil. Our quest here is to make it fun and cozy to live underground and share insights about surface explorations. We hope you'll stick around, these messages in a bottle from Planet Dyne will come on a bi-weekly or monthly base. "Futures made of virtual insanity, now Always seem to be governed by this love we have For useless twisting of our new technology Oh, now there is no sound For we all live underground" - Jamiroquai P.S. Our content is AI-free (as in: "no starch" for the brain) Getting up there We'll shine our tech-savvy skills in Copenhagen this week for the IEEE Blockchain-2024 conference where our best Danish dyne and Forkbomb's humble servant will be in the flesh and bones presenting the SD-BLS paper, a cryptographic scheme for "Privacy-Preserving Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials with Unlinkable Threshold Revocation" we pre-released on Arxiv. SD-BLS: Privacy Preserving Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials with Unlinkable Threshold Revocation Ensuring privacy and protection from issuer corruption in digital identity systems is crucial. We propose a method for selective disclosure and privacy-preserving revocation of digital credentials using second-order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. We make holders able to present proofs of possession of selected credentials without disclosing them, and we protect their presentations from replay attacks. Revocations may be distributed among multiple revocation issuers using publicly verifiable secret sharing (PVSS) and activated only by configurable consensus, ensuring robust protection against issuer corruption. Our system’s unique design enables extremely fast revocation checks, even with large revocation lists, leveraging optimized hash map lookups. arXiv.orgDenis Roio We updated the pre-print to the latest v4 for the occasion, which includes a benchmark comparison with similar functions in BBS+ Zero-Knowledge signatures. The "fair use" scam Just when you thought you could crack jokes in public about movies we were all watching when young and riding bikes 🚳 BANG❗ you are deprived of any "fair use" of memories from your childhood because someone still wants to make money. Never sit around a crackdown Being legal is just waiting in line to become illegal. Seen that in a movie? Appeals Court Rejects DMCA Constitutional Challenge, Because Apparently Fair Use Means Nothing Good Will Ever Be Published What began as an attempt to challenge the constitutionality of the DMCA’s terrible anticircumvention provision has now backfired. A court ruling will limit our rights to fair use and free exp… TechdirtMike Masnick Piracy is a means of liberation for us children of post-modernity, but the new generations are better off staying away from proprietary content. "Play Integrity API is based on lies" Just like any other DRM or TPM thing out there: Defective by Design. And there is a new attempt to close down all mobile devices (well, Android-based since Apple is already a freaking jail). And GrapheneOS is standing up against it, an effort dynes around the world support by all means. Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android’s second-class citizens Graphene OS has had just about enough of Google not doing more to make Android compatible with custom ROM projects. Android AuthorityStephen Schenck Little motivational corner So yes we know that... But don't give up just now! join our yummy resistance! Porridge is good for you. Join the fediverse to share your porridge recipes 🥣 hashtag #porridge Check what the Zero-Knowledge BBS+ Signature Scheme can do for you A dyne has packed together a benchmark of what could be the fastest implementation of BBS+ in the West: it is short and to the point. Benchmark of the BBS+ signature scheme Benchmark of the speed of execution, the size and the privacy of the BBS+ Signature Scheme. News From DyneJaromil It requires some basic knowledge of public-key cryptography to grasp the meaning of all this and it may be still a good start for anyone willing to learn more, as many links are provided. The takeaway is also that all this is implemented in Zenroom and easy to test on Apiroom so people building crappy wallet applications that hinder your privacy have no more real excuses now. Climb a tree and eat some vitamin dyne We are not darknet fanatics, dynes are fervent proponents of the Internet. What makes us "lunar punks" is our refusal to participate in interactive cable TV. In the shade of the dark forest, everyone respects the trees and enjoys the shade. But rarely do its inhabitants climb on top of the trees' crowns. We are the tree climbers in the dark forest. Friendship is rare, numbers are unpredictable. If you spot a tree-house on your path, do say "hi". It could be a dyne answering, and a friend. Maybe someone entirely remote. And please remember, as in all forest situations, squirrels will look after you if you carry seeds in your pocket! Enter the Dark ForestBoot your old PC into real Freedom! 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Fellow dyne! How good to have you here again. It's been a minute. Not that the world stopped in any shape or form. Quite some things happened in the meantime. Fortunately for us, we forgot some, and love remembering what we like ☀️😎 on this note please remember that there's a beach somewhere, near or far from you, waiting to be explored 🩴 Brazil leaps forward The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), is hosting the National Conference of Data Producers and Users - National Sovereignty in Geosciences, Statistics, and Data. About the event - Conferência Nacional dos Agentes Produtores e Usuários de Dados National Conference of Data Producers and UsersDanilo Almeida de Jesus Our very own Jaromil was invited at the round table for digital cross communication and the risks and opportunities for data producers and users in the Digital Era. He explains what we are doing with our friends at AvantGarden to push progress in the country towards decentralization and privacy. If you enjoy this dyne's smartypants speech then also have a look at all the Leonardo LASER talks on "Arts and Sciences" that happened just a few days ago. For the topic “The Nature of Information” a lot more interesting dynes took a stab at saying something different, see the amazing program, looks like a rave where every dancer has a stage 🕺🏽💃🏽🪭 IEEE - International Conference on Blockchain Perhaps we are lucky there is a new hype cycle in tech. Now folks at IEEE are quite serious when it comes to technology and they are soon holding an International Conference on Blockchain, which has less marketing than the usual hype. Blockchain-2024 | 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Don't let yourself be fooled by the old-school website, this is some serious stuff, and if you're into Blockchain and Cryptography, it won't disappoint. Especially because our best DD (Danish Dyne) will be there to present our latest paper, recently accepted for publication. SD-BLS: Privacy Preserving Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials with Unlinkable Threshold Revocation Ensuring privacy and protection from issuer corruption in digital identity systems is crucial. We propose a method for selective disclosure and privacy-preserving revocation of digital credentials using second-order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. We make holders able to present proofs of possession of selected credentials without disclosing them, and we protect their presentations from replay attacks. Revocations may be distributed among multiple revocation issuers using publicly verifiable secret sharing (PVSS) and activated only by configurable consensus, ensuring robust protection against issuer corruption. Our system’s unique design enables extremely fast revocation checks, even with large revocation lists, leveraging optimized hash map lookups. arXiv.orgDenis Roio 📡 Under the radar So many things! So many news to report! Some of which are already old. But did they hit your radar? Like Switzerland going all in on FOSS and fondue? Well, not that many Swiss heard about the former either. Is it true? Only a decent probe of the landscape of legal loopholes moved by this news can tell. But it sure is uplifting! Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder. ZDNETSteven Vaughan-Nichols 📺 Yo, DyneTV rap! Another highlight that's gone partially undercover. Dyne has it's own webTV! You might have noticed some dyne vids were hosted at diode.zone, a peertube instance ran by very kind ethereal beings from a neighboring planet. Because they needed to scale down, we now host our own! Wonders of federation! 🤝 Mad love and thanks for the help diode.zone! 💞 If you have an account on Mastodon or the fediverse at large, you can follow the server by searching for @peertube@tv.dyne.org in your instance's search box. That way you'll get all the latest vids straight to your timeline! Dyne.org TV A PeerTube powered ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser. 🕵🏾 A crowd on strike Aaaah. The gloat resulting from a failing a corporate overlord. It's quite something. Perhaps this what they mean when they talk about "bitter sweet"? You hardly missed out on the epic fail of that micro-thingie 🤏🏽, cough poetically cough called "Crowdstrike" 😹🍭. Imagine a crowd on strike. Well, it is sort of what happened. But not that kind of way. It was pretty bad actually. Especially for small businesses that saw their entire Friday revenue go down the drain, people losing airplanes or even worst being stuck at a hospital check-in. For others it was more like a Friday should be: relaxed with not too much to do. Regardless how you look at it, this event is not just a bug in a system that was supposed to protect us from bugs, but it underlines a systemic issue and it should be taken as a wake-up call: Worldwide outage 2024 — early reflections on the Crowdstrike BSOD Solutions to this mess cannot be patches. We need systemic change in the cybersecurity industry. News From DyneJaromil In case you do manage some ICT infra, as many dynes do, please consider this: About the Crowdstrike software company, earning millions defending windows from being windows... at least they apologized 🙇🏻 CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn’t work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled. TechCrunchLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Need more security? think before doing Fortunately, things are happening, minds are thinking and dynes are doing. The Threat Modeling Community Group at W3C is one such initiative happening. Threat Modeling Community Group The group’s purpose is to provide a meeting point for Security, Privacy, and Human Rights experts, along with technology domain experts, to create Threat Models together. w3c logoW3C Team This is an interdisciplinary effort that aims at including a bit more voices than the usual techies into realizing what are the threats for, uhm... a lot of things being planned on our heads, like for instance the current EUDI ARF privacy fiasco. Call for Participation in Threat Modeling Community Group | Threat Modeling Community Group w3c logoW3C Team Noone fault, but these things require time and more inclusion to be made right. Long gone are the days were computer security was easy! 💱 And now a word from our sponsor... 0:00 0:41 1× 🤷🏼‍♀️ Equality before the law: #AItoo ?? In a weird turn of events, some kind of judge dismissed DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit. Many dynes are surprised. The Internet Archive is being sued for being a library doing library things: is there some hope for a dismissal there as well, or is this application of law discriminating between AI and humans? Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond – who did you think was going to win? The RegisterMatthew Connatser But then again, Karma bites the "AI" hype world! Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn’t Making Any Serious Money An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the money spent on AI. FuturismVictor Tangermann and it does where it hurts the most: in the wallet. Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers. WSU InsiderEric Hollenbeck, Carson College of Business 🧘🏼 Take a deep breath and defrag Now if you are stuck in front of your screen, take a moment to relax! Defrag simulation from the '90s A tinfoil cat once whispered to us in a collective dream, that defragmentation was invented by a Satoshi from the future, putting CPUs from the past at undisturbed work through a symbolic time link. That's all for this episode of the planet dyne is fine as you know it and you feel fine! Thank you for being a part of this interactive journey! Leave a comment bellow to co-create next episode. Or simply tune in to the channels to share what you care for! 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Behold fellow dyne! Solstice is upon us! Dynes across the northern galaxy rejoice as darkness returns with a license to geek granted by the murky seasons. Ok, to be fair, light is nice. It's a balance. Complementary. Enjoy the crescendo, southern galaxy! 🕶️ Nice weather, sibling! Radiant blue sky, a fresh breeze. Beautiful bodies moving in the street, smiling. A dream for many dynes in the northern hemisphere, living in places with droughts, floods and landslides. But the hopes shine ever radiant in the heart of the planet; action is taking place. Some dynes are even conspiring to set a better pace to the climate transition. It's over due, but not too late. In this episode, PACESETTERS held a first information day for dynes from the entire galaxy to attend. PACESETTERS acknowledge that Art saves and Culture feeds! Creatives from all casts, working to better the conditions of the near future, succeeding or failing, are invited to take a survey. This with the goal to gather data on what strategies work. Or not. For everyone to take, share and improve. Is this you, fellow dyne? Then come swim in the OCEAN (Open Call for Emerging, Advanced and Novel Practices) The next date is Mon, Jul 1st 2024, 3 - 4pm CEST Info Session: Open Call for Emerging, Advanced and Novel Practices | PACESETTERS Home ✌🏽 Friends of Europe It's hard to dismiss the loud chants coming from the tinfoil cats. Songs about the growing influence of ©orporations over the delicate fabric of democracy. It is observable on planet Earth as a whole. All the bases are belong to them now, and almost everyone tossed the ToS in the loo. One dyne creates a textual punch to all of that and gets published by Friends Of Europe. Planet dyne is a friend of planet Earth. Unconditionally. But it's hard to see where the relationship with planet ©orporation is going. It seems rather toxic in it's one-way dynamic. Seeing how much influence lobbyists have on parliamentary politics. After all, lobbies aren't restricted by borders as Nation states' legislation is. But only people can save the universe! That includes you, fellow dyne! Do the right thing and please share this article to your extended network if it resonates with you. A must read either way. Democracy at risk: media warfare and the role of technology in modern elections - Friends of Europe The think tank for a more inclusive Europe Friends of EuropeEPIC It may be hard to see from the lense provided by the ©orporate machine, but everywhere, resistance is organizing. Getting ready to confront lobbyist in this new frontier that is the World Wild Web. Dynes like you can build space rockets, repair computers, clean up rivers, cook delicious food and create beautiful art. Action is always radical, regardless of the scale. And what ever you do, make sure you look after the weaker peers. They're not slowing us down, they're teaching us perspectives. 🧧 Now a word from our sponsor Alt-text: "why flat earthers are affected by 5G and normal people aren't". The image shows people standing on a flat line and thus being in the radiation zone of a 5G mast. Bellow it peopl standing on on circular line, thus having their heads bellow the radiation from the 5G mast."why flat earthers are affected by 5G and normal people aren't". The image shows people standing on a flat line and thus being in the radiation zone of a 5G mast. Bellow it peopl standing on on circular line, thus having their heads bellow the radiation from the 5G mast. 📼 New version of frei0r, whodis? Video dynes rejoice. v2.3.3 just dropped and it brings new cool FX and bug-fixes. Dynes love the smell of community driven software in the morning! Try it out it's tasty! Release v2.3.3 · dyne/frei0r What’s Changed Add new Kaleid0sc0pe example video by @gbendy in #183 New effect - gate weave by @esmane in #180 Gateweave, Filmgrain - change inline functions to static inline by @esmane in #192 F… GitHubdyne 🎴 Diversity Code alone is not enough. To make a real-world impact, we must foster collaboration across diverse groups. Web3privacy is mad cool. You should go next time if you have the chance, fellow dyne! 0:00 0:45 1× 🖌️ Painting a song One dyne shares an interesting talk from the Libre Graphics Meeting in 2012, by Amir Hassan. In it they present about SoundFumble, a tool for live sound generation with GNUimp. Drone aficionados beware: you will have a hard time keeping away from the dancefloor! The video has overtones of nostalgia. Do you remember the time when dynes would go to a meetup with a running nose? Say whatever about the pandemic, but it did make us wash our hands again and care about each other. No offense, Amir. The dyne writing this wasn't any better 💜 just contemplating the progress. A screenshot of a YouTube video linking to the video That's it for this edition of the Planet Dyne is sweet and we feel fine! Remember that this is a collective effort. If something is missing, it's you fellow dyne! Come share some stuff to make the planet grow! Or help a dyne hack and get yourself an artpack! Dyne Supporter Artpack Vol. 1 Inside of it? Simple beauty in Multimedia! Maybe a little bit of mystery, too. Planet Dyne's residents certainly hope it will make you feel something positive. 2 bucks or name your price 🍄 Bonus track Toot on mastodon spelling: "Publicly available container images are very similar to USB drives you find in the parking lot. 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