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When the European Union passed its new Product Liability Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2853) in October 2024, policymakers promised to "modernize" Europe’s consumer-protection regime for the digital age. But in makerspaces, fab labs, and open-hardware communities across the continent, the mood is more anxious than celebratory. Many
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Grid management is not just a technical challenge. Energy autonomy is a relational and local dimension, rooted in specific contexts.
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Age verification is no longer a narrow mechanism for a few adult websites. Across Europe, the USA, the UK, Australia, and elsewhere, it is expanding into social media, messaging, gaming, search, and other mainstream services. The real question is no longer whether age checks will spread. It is what kind
Age verification is no longer a narrow mechanism for a few adult websites. Across Europe, the USA, the UK, Australia, and elsewhere, it is expanding into social media, messaging, gaming, search, and other mainstream services. The real question is no longer whether age checks will spread. It is what kind
Europe’s age‑verification pilots conflate censorship with guardianship. This essay argues for a decentralised approach that separates technical filtering from social responsibility.
Analysis of the longfellow-zk implementation, also known as google-zk, for MDOC/mdl selective disclosure of verifable credentials.
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.
🕊️ Free to share code. 👩🏽💻 Code to share freedom. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. Remote access is a lot like astral projection.
Planet dyne makes a point in being everywhere: New social media thingy? You'll find us there. And whenever possible, we puncture the silos and build exit ramps for you to step into the free web.
Crypto Social Responsibility builds on the impact funding practices of participatory grant-making and Corporate Social Responsibility to allocate Bitcoin-backed investment returns towards social-purpose initiatives.
A dissertation on a journey through the evolution of decentralized social media and the necessity for active, conscious digital citizenship, with all the power and danger that entails.
"The world is moving fast, and so are dynes." That sounds sooooo 3 months ago! Some things change, others evolve. It's all a matter of perspective in Space and Time: there are many different ways to keep a calendar.
2025 was an incredible year! Hundreds of people from event-volunteers to mentors contributed to the Web3Privacy Now mission - shift power dynamics towards the "internet of freedom".
ZKCC: zero-knowledge circuit language and compiler for practical deployment in Identity Wallets.
On the digital battleground, one side is surveillance and control. The other: freedom and community. Dyne.org is on the front lines.
The future of identification technologies will involve delegating tasks to automated agents. Between the decentralised dream and the password asphyxiation, a third actor is emerging: the automatic intermediary.
This isn’t about patchwork fixes. It’s about a a different path. In this issue, we explore the foundations for what comes next!
There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to.
Europe’s age‑verification pilots conflate censorship with guardianship. This essay argues for a decentralised approach that separates technical filtering from social responsibility.
It’s time to gather the ideas scattered by sun or snow and shape them in the soft light of focused creation. The world outside is changing its rhythm, inviting us to code, to compose, to build.
