🏴 Re: Recapitulation season (S2025-E01)

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!

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.

🍠 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

Thumbnail of the "Wallet Roast" talk by Jaromil at Fides (linking to the video) about the pain points of EUDI. We see Jaromil in front of a crowd, looking happy and holding a microphone. The room is lit with purple light. — 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.

🐝 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!

🔐 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.

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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

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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

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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 🥂 ...

[🇲🇦 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.