Time to get rid of the "social" networks! Another Internet is possible, and much needed, so we're back at good ol' newsletter grooming.
We've long been connected in one way or another, now we hope you don't mind us sending a pulse of life from Dyne.org, some critical content, and projects like Dynebolic, Bricolabs, Unsystem, FreeJ and Frei0r, DECODE, REFLOW, INTERFACER, and free and open-source ramblings by a dyne like jaromil. Our quest here is to make it fun and cozy to live underground and share insights about surface explorations. We hope you'll stick around, these messages in a bottle from Planet Dyne will come on a bi-weekly or monthly base.
"Futures made of virtual insanity, now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless twisting of our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound
For we all live underground"
- Jamiroquai
P.S. Our content is AI-free (as in: "no starch" for the brain)
Getting up there
We'll shine our tech-savvy skills in Copenhagen this week for the IEEE Blockchain-2024 conference where our best Danish dyne and Forkbomb's humble servant will be in the flesh and bones presenting the SD-BLS paper, a cryptographic scheme for "Privacy-Preserving Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials with Unlinkable Threshold Revocation" we pre-released on Arxiv.
Denis Roio
We updated the pre-print to the latest v4 for the occasion, which includes a benchmark comparison with similar functions in BBS+ Zero-Knowledge signatures.
The "fair use" scam
Just when you thought you could crack jokes in public about movies we were all watching when young and riding bikes 🚳 BANG❗ you are deprived of any "fair use" of memories from your childhood because someone still wants to make money.
Being legal is just waiting in line to become illegal. Seen that in a movie?
Mike Masnick
Piracy is a means of liberation for us children of post-modernity, but the new generations are better off staying away from proprietary content.
"Play Integrity API is based on lies"
Just like any other DRM or TPM thing out there: Defective by Design.
And there is a new attempt to close down all mobile devices (well, Android-based since Apple is already a freaking jail). And GrapheneOS is standing up against it, an effort dynes around the world support by all means.
Stephen Schenck
Little motivational corner
So yes we know that...
But don't give up just now!
join our yummy resistance!
Join the fediverse to share your porridge recipes 🥣 hashtag #porridge
Check what the Zero-Knowledge BBS+ Signature Scheme can do for you
A dyne has packed together a benchmark of what could be the fastest implementation of BBS+ in the West: it is short and to the point.
Jaromil
It requires some basic knowledge of public-key cryptography to grasp the meaning of all this and it may be still a good start for anyone willing to learn more, as many links are provided.
The takeaway is also that all this is implemented in Zenroom and easy to test on Apiroom so people building crappy wallet applications that hinder your privacy have no more real excuses now.
Climb a tree and eat some vitamin dyne
We are not darknet fanatics, dynes are fervent proponents of the Internet. What makes us "lunar punks" is our refusal to participate in interactive cable TV. In the shade of the dark forest, everyone respects the trees and enjoys the shade. But rarely do its inhabitants climb on top of the trees' crowns.
We are the tree climbers in the dark forest.
Friendship is rare, numbers are unpredictable. If you spot a tree-house on your path, do say "hi". It could be a dyne answering, and a friend. Maybe someone entirely remote.
And please remember, as in all forest situations, squirrels will look after you if you carry seeds in your pocket!
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