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Everything that once felt connected suddenly is. Interfaced by brittle constructions of channeled electricity, we project ourselves into the ether. And there, in the ocean of data, our identities blend. Locality becomes osmosis. And realms flow into each other through their veil. Welcome home, fellow dyne. 🕊️ In memory of Carola Frediani Her death leaves a deafening void in the Italian cybersecurity, intelligence, investigative journalism, and digital rights communities. In memory of Carola Frediani It is with deep sadness that we join in mourning Carola’s passing. 🕊️ A moment of silence. 🌚

🧶 Digital knitting Our very own Zoe shares her publication "The untapped potential of digital knitting as a counter-concept to fast fashion", born from conversations with practitioners who refuse to treat tech as neutral. She explored knitting as a manufacturing vernacular, challenging mass production toward adaptability and transparent modes. Read it on Zenodo 📖 The untapped potential of Digital Knitting The publication “The Untapped Potential of Digital Knitting as a Counter-Concept to Fast Fashion” reflects a year’s research on digital knitting. It includes insights from industr… This res

🇨🇭 Lugano's Plan ₿ Enters Its Second Act: Toward Digital Autonomy by 2030 Four years after planting the flag of Bitcoin adoption, the City of Lugano is charting the next chapter. Plan ₿ is no longer an experiment: it's evolving into infrastructure. A press conference marked a quiet but significant threshold: a Memorandum of Understanding, officially launching Phase II with a horizon set to 2030, was signed. What began in 2022 now deepens into something more structural: digital infrastructure, civic skills, and the kind of technological resilience a city needs when the ground keeps shifting.

🟣 Gestalt: Negotiating Meaning We live in a fractured computational world, where every window is a separate language, and each tool has its own private ontology. Meaning gets lost in translation between humans, compilers, task managers, and LLM. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein With Gestalt, we respond to this fracture. It’s a new environment where you and your LLM agents can negotiate shared meaning through cooperation instead of commands. Wittgenstein said, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." Gestalt lifts those limits, buil

On the digital battleground, one side is surveillance and control. The other: freedom and community. Dyne.org is on the front lines, building tools for digital sovereignty. We make Free Software that gives you back control. We are a non-profit foundation building for you and your community. We are hackers, artists, and activists crafting tools for secure communication, media creation, and decentralized living. This isn't a side project; it's a mission. This missions need your support. We rely on donations from people like you, who believe in a different kind of tech sphere. A world where we co

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 i

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

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

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,

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 i

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.

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