The Future Was Federated
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.
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✂️ About decapitulation (S2026-E01)
"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.
Annual delivery by Web3Privacy now
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".
The Birth of a Zero-Knowledge Programming Language
ZKCC: zero-knowledge circuit language and compiler for practical deployment in Identity Wallets.
📢 Is this the winter of our discontent? [S2025-E09]
On the digital battleground, one side is surveillance and control. The other: freedom and community. Dyne.org is on the front lines.
How we will delegate bureaucracy to AI
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.
♾️ Beyond Broken Infrastructure (S2025-E08)
This isn’t about patchwork fixes. It’s about a a different path. In this issue, we explore the foundations for what comes next!
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.
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.
🌟 Back to the Glow (S2025-E07)
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.
🌍 Hemispheres Can’t Stop Us (S2025-E06)
Seasons are just Earth’s way of reminding us it’s always someone’s turn to hibernate or spontaneously combust with ideas.
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
Think & Do Tank
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.
Planet Dyne
🧘 Pieces of mind (S2025-E05)
In a tumultuous galaxy, dynes across the network exchange know-how and action items. Resilient, sovereign, and steady.
Think & Do Tank
The Longfellow ZK (Google-zk)
Analysis of the longfellow-zk implementation, also known as google-zk, for MDOC/mdl selective disclosure of verifable credentials.
Think & Do Tank
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.
Think & Do Tank
The Quantum Enigma of Cybersecurity: Imminent Apocalypse or Distant Future?
How much truth is there in the threat of quantum computers to our security? I answer three key questions to navigate between hype and reality.
Planet Dyne
🌬️ Fresh breeze from the future (S2025-E04)
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
Planet Dyne
☕ 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.
Think & Do Tank
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.
Think & Do Tank
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.
Planet Dyne
🪡 This too shall be fixed (S2025-E03)
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:
Planet Dyne
😶🌫️ Happiness as a Service (S2025-E02)
A giant DDoS attack on happiness has been launched. This is stirring up a lot of concern around the galaxy. Dynes from everywhere are organizing defenses.
Planet Dyne
🏴 Re:capitulation season (S2025-E01)
Yet again, Earth passed the arbitrary point of it's orbit around the sun. But every day is good moment for introspection, and every second is the right time to change something we don't like about ourselves.