🍂 🍃 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! 🙈🙊🙉
Chris 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.
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
";DROP TABLE students; but IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS in the school computer system"
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! 💡✨
🌿🔌 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. 🚀🌱
Nils 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:
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?
Yes, that Fabcity foundation, without whom there would be no Interfacer Project. They're awesome, you should check out what they're doing!
🌚 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.
Jaromil
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! 💪
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.
So, are you ready to stop being a setup beta and become the chat alpha you were always meant to be? Head over to https://dyne.org/weechad and get started today!
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Maps are cool, maps are lovely. Dynes love the hoods and maps. Hoodmaps is a perfect blend and possibly the best crowd-sourced tourist guide available in this day and age. Let's hope it lasts. Meanwhile, a dyne shares the map of all maps: Mapscii. The sheer beauty of the thing has the channel making popping noises from minds blowing up. Fire up that telnet and check it out yourself, you've been warned!
$ telnet mapscii.me
rastapasta🪅 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!
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!
💅 Look good this fall
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15% off and free standard shipping until the 15th of September 2024!
💶 A word from our sponsor
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*️⃣ 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.
🌚 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
🏴☠️ 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!
Boss make a dollar, I make a Dyne,
Booger's workaholic, and I'm pooping fine!
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