😶‍🌫️ Happiness as a Service (S2025-E02)

The prodigal son of Europe, a bully like his father, recently obtained his Ph.D in advanced imperialism and launched a giant DDoS attack on happiness. This is stirring up a lot of concern around the galaxy. Dynes from everywhere are organizing parties to counterattack. Your reading this is proof that it is somewhat effective.

🧠 What is intelligence?

Does it sit in your stomach, behind your eyes? In the 3rd eye!? It's unclear what intelligence means, but some corporate planets love to package it in software and promote it as a saviour of all kinds of problems. Generally, the problems it solves could be addressed by a sort of coordinated effort from the inhabitants of the Galaxy. But why do that when a parrot could burp up some amazing solution in a chat?

But there is little doubt that AI profoundly challenges how we understand ourselves.

Read a good dyne from a neighbouring planet that explains why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture.

🍰 Devuan 1st ISO celebrates 10 years

The 14th of February marked 10 years since the first Devuan installation ISOs were released. Jaromil posted the "pre-alpha valentine (secret love declaration)" announcement to the DNG mailing list:

Take a trip down memory lane, feel the love for the #Devuan team and our users, and celebrate their dogged determination which has beaten the odds!

May the fork be with you! 🍴

🏗️ Zenroom builds

We're happy to announce that we restored ready-to-use builds of Zenroom as a native library on Android and iOS, with blazing-fast performance! 🏃

📦 Base binaries continue to be available as uncompressed download links for Windows, OS X, and GNU+Linux.

⚙️ CJIT now compiles itself!

Brace yourselves, fellow code warriors! The realm of C just got a whole lot cooler. CJIT, our shiny new diminutive C compiler, has officially evolved into a self-hosting beast. That's right, it's now capable of compiling itself! 🌟

Let’s raise a glass to this compiler inception because CJIT is now the proud parent of its own existence. 😂

🔑 GNU Keymaster 3000 Deluxe Pro

Well, no. The name is much better: Klutshnik.

'Kljutsh' (or variations of it) means "key" in Slavic languages, and the 'nik' postfix means something like "person" just like in Beatnik. Together they mean "person of keys" or "key person".

Anyhow, the author thinks Klutshnik is a much better name than GNU Keymaster 3000 Deluxe Pro. Hard to disagree on that.

Project Klutshnik is a client/server solution that brings forward-secrecy, post-compromise security, and other very nice things to data-at-rest. It also has the world's first public and free threshold OPRF and threshold OPAQUE!

🖨️ The meaning of "PDF"

According to the Internet, PDF is short for "Portable Document Format". It's known for indirectly causing many galactic beings' outrage at their printers. But also for it's... well, portability.

Some hilarious dynes from a distant planet have put GNU+Linux inside a PDF. Some are disgusted others enthused. Here at the redaction, we applaud the ingenuity. Is GNU+Linux the new Doom, or was it all along?

🇪🇺 A Sovereign planet

The digital stack so many dynes use every day speaks a painful truth: Planet Europe is losing the 21st Century. Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty is not an option. Homegrown alternatives to empower Europe to reclaim control of its digital future are key to its perennity.

The current European Digital Stack. It shows that US and China are domminating accross the space: Raw materials, Chips, Networks, IoT, Cloud, Software and Data/AI — The current European Digital Stack

A group of activists have gathered to advance a proposal. It causes mixed feelings on Planet Dyne. Words like "EuropeOS", mentions of "Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)", and "Geofencing" have rather loaded implications. But everyone is happy that the topic is up for debate among the usually rather silent parliamentarians. Given attention, this could be a very good thing!

🤗 Cosy corner

The Cosy Corner of Privacy is going strong with updates from Holonym, Shutter, Zashi, Dyne, EFF, Waku & more 🗞️

👀 Well deserved attention

Around 300 people gathered in the pews of the Internet Archive auditorium to witness Pablo Peniche, head of growth for the startup Aqua Voice, unveil a marble bust of the late Aaron Swartz, the programmer, activist, and open-access hero.

Planet Dyne loves you, Aaron. Rest in power!

📺 A wild dyne on National TV

Good informative episode for all dynes voting in Germany, this small documentary also features a dyne busy to heal people and make the nation... Suck less 💜

A sharp looking dyne standing in front of a camera in a white doctor jacket. — Click the image to watch the video on Dyne TV

Dynes from a remote planet advance a good point: for AI to solve world hunger and the climate crisis, we might have to sacrifice some of the water we drink and turn off the lights when we cuddle in the bedroom. AI really needs your help!

AI Needs Your Help - fed.dyne.org

> Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many precious resources that AI needs to thrive. Every sip of water you take and every light you turn on could be sustaining the AI systems that uphold your digital conveniences.

fed.dyne.org

A water container with a label that says "Drinking water but not suitable for European stomach"

🔖 Bookmarks for open minds

There is a lot of news manipulation around, it seems we are entering a new era of Fake News 2.0, so here we go sharing some sources of information that can help to keep our minds free and open, and our opinions built on proper fact-checking.

Investigative journalism websites: The Insider, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Meduza, IStories, ProPublica, Bellingcat, Wagner, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Investigative Journalism Network, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Follow the Money, OpenSecrets, Transparency, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting, Africa, China, Cryptome, Techtracker ASPI, China's European port interests mapped, Chinese Defence Universities Tracker, illicit trade, Drugs Monitoring Platform, China-Africa Energy Tracker, Mapping Russian Private Military Companies.