📌 Wherever You Are, We're Here (S2026-E02)
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.
🇨🇭 Lugano's Plan ₿ Enters Its Second Act: Toward Digital Autonomy by 2030
Four years after planting the flag of Bitcoin adoption, the City of Lugano is charting the next chapter. Plan ₿ is no longer an experiment: it's evolving into infrastructure.
A press conference marked a quiet but significant threshold: a Memorandum of Understanding, officially launching Phase II with a horizon set to 2030, was signed. What began in 2022 now deepens into something more structural: digital infrastructure, civic skills, and the kind of technological resilience a city needs when the ground keeps shifting.
Its new operational spine? A team steering the ship, comprising a smol dyne and a bunch of very clever people.
The message is clear: this is no longer a pilot. It's a bet on digital sovereignty, on continuity through technological turbulence, on a city deciding it wants to own its own future.
2030 is the horizon. The infrastructure is being laid now.
🪙 Črypto Social Responsibility
Bitcoin has spent its first decade and a half as the best-performing asset in history, quietly accumulating value while the world argued about its purpose. A quiet question emerges from within the ecosystem: what if some of that wealth circled back to the people who need it most?
Dyne.org has been asking this question since the early days, when we received the first EU-funded research grant on Bitcoin for social innovation. That work evolved into the Social Wallet API, and later into "Whales to the Rescue", a concept born from conversations at the intersection of performative art and fintech.
Now the inquiry is being formalized. Crypto Social Responsibility (ČSR) is an attempt to re-imagine wealth redistribution as a kind of Aikido: redirecting the energy of crypto markets toward those who can benefit most.
Read the full post:
Crypto Social Responsibility
Because value without purpose
is just a number going up.
🎶 Discordance with discord
You know us: we've never been the type to spy on our own people. We're a community, not a dataset. But Discord's new age verification rules force exactly that: scanning IDs at the door like we're entering a nightclub, not a conversation.
Our mission has always been to carve out a safe haven. A place free from corporate espionage, from communities being treated like products, from the endless noise of platforms that see you as a user, not a human. We're here for the weird experiments, the unaligned thoughts, the conversations that don't fit anywhere else. That's what we call creativity. And creativity doesn't carry ID.
Discord keeps proving it can't be trusted with our data; their October 2025 breach was just the latest reminder. Mandatory age verification in that context doesn't safeguard children; it consolidates their vulnerability into a single, tempting target.
So we're leaving. Not in anger: in hope.
Come find us on Matrix. It's encrypted, decentralized, and ours. No IDs, no surveillance, just conversation.
🔗 https://socials.dyne.org/matrix
Speaking of shiny new(ish) social media thingies, have you heard of Nostr? Technically, it's more aching to be a new type of Datamodel thans social network. But the way it decentralizes identity, and the (social) applications derived thereof, are mighty interesting!
Setto Sakrecoer
🛡️ DOHD prime time (For you and your privacy)
We're pleased to announce a new release of dohd, a privacy-first DNS-over-HTTPS daemon that's been humming along at dns.dyne.org for a while now, quietly encrypting queries and forgetting everything it saw.
This release is about stability. The kind that comes from real-world testing, meticulous polish, and the quiet satisfaction of watching a 1500-line C program just work.
What's new?
- Improved reliability, we've ironed out the edge cases.
- ns2dohd companion daemon now fully mature (accepts plain DNS on localhost, forwards to DoH).
- Production-ready, our public resolver
dns.dyne.orghas been running this codebase without breaking a sweat. - ODoH (Oblivious DoH, RFC9230), an Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS. Adds an anonymized layer on top, which relies on the proxy being separated from the target.
dohproxydis Proxy (ODoH + legacy DoH).
Try it yourself
Self-hosted DNS-over-HTTPS made boringly easy:
# Build from source
git clone https://github.com/dyne/dohd
cd dohd
makeOr just point your browser to our public instance: https://dns.dyne.org/ , keeping no logs, asking no questions.
Why it matters
In a world where every DNS query is a data point for someone's database, dohd is a tiny act of digital sovereignty. Run your own. Trust no one. Log nothing.
🔗 Code, docs, and the warm glow of privacy-preserving infrastructure.
📀 Dynebolic, the 1st.
Do you ever find yourself missing the first edition of Dynebolic? We certainly did! Thanks to the good people at https://osarchive.sda1.eu, we no longer do! With regards to today's computing power, the minimum requirements are just staggering! What happened to optimization?
🪦 The CIA Just Closed the Book on the World
For decades, the World Factbook sat at the curious intersection of intelligence and public curiosity. Like a classified document that somehow escaped into the light, evolving from a 1962 reference manual for spies into a digital library freely serving millions of researchers, travelers, and late-night Wikipedia wanderers.
Now it's gone. No explanation. No warning. Just a redirect to a polite farewell.
With a bit of nostalgy we remember that Dynebolic I shipped with an offline copy of the World Factbook browsable using xrmap, complete with the world's anthems in MIDI format and ready to playback with timidity.
🤖 The UK Just Unplugged the AI Patent Machine
A landmark ruling just landed in London, and the tremors will be felt through every software patent filed from here onward.
The UK Supreme Court looked at Emotional Perception v. Patent Office (a case about an AI system recommending media files) and quietly dismantled a two-decade-old legal framework. The old test, Aerotel, asked four tidy questions about whether an invention was "technical enough" to deserve a patent. The Patent Office used it to declare that an artificial neural network delivering music suggestions wasn't technical. It was just an algorithm wearing a business suit.
Now Aerotel is dead. The legal scaffolding that decided what counts as "invention" has been pulled away.
What replaces it? No one knows yet. But the message is clear: in an age where everything runs on code, the old categories (technical versus non-technical, hardware versus software) no longer hold. The law is finally admitting it doesn't understand the machine it's trying to regulate.
And that, depending on where you sit, is either a crisis or an opening.
Eileen McDermott
🌑 Palantir Demands Rewrite and gives Lawsuit
The surveillance software giant knocked on Switzerland's door, which was luckily slammed in their face. Governments all around the world should take this as a word of advice: thou shalt not substitute the role of local intelligence communities with an AI-powered juggernaut sold by foreign mercenaries.
This is what someone may call a matter of contextual integrity.
Two critical reports from the magazine Republik had landed about the public debate in Switzerland. Palantir wanted a counterstatement, arguing it was being misrepresented.
Now Palantir is going to court to force the rewrite. Not over facts, they insist, but over "factual comparison."
A company built on watching others really, really dislikes being watched itself. When you criticize the all-seeing eye, the eye tends to stare back.
Falk Steiner
🛡️ "But you don't really want sovereignty, do you?"
The EU has a dangerous idea: it wants to control its own digital infrastructure. The prescription? Open-source software. The diagnosis? Dependence on American tech is an economic vulnerability dressed as convenience.
Google's response arrived with the predictable elegance of a warning shot. Kent Walker, the company's top legal voice, suggests Europe is suffering from a "competitive paradox"... But what they're really saying is:
Why replace perfectly good American tools with community code? Why prioritize sovereignty when you could just... keep using us?
The EU has done its homework. Open-source already contributes up to €95 billion annually to Europe's GDP. A 10% increase could unlock another €100 billion. The math is there. The motivation is there. What's missing is the permission structure.
So Google plays the fear card, as it always does:
"But.. but... Regulation slows innovation..."
"The market moves faster than legislation... "
"You'll be left behind."
"Buhu hu hu..."
It's the same script deployed against every EU digital regulation or any attempt to reclaim digital agency.
But the question lingers: if European institutions can't control their own technology, who does? And why is that always framed as a choice between sovereignty and the "best tools," as if the two were mutually exclusive?
The irony is almost beautiful. A company built on indexing the world's information seems deeply uncomfortable with Europe indexing its own future.
🍕 Pizza as a data-point (PaaD)
Now, taking a break from the usual debate about sweet fruits on your slices.
🃏 A good prank never gets old
These? Oh, they're just hilarious, but don't take our word for it!
reinderien
Jason Koebler
SecurityScorecard STRIKE Team
[ 🇳🇱 Amsterdam ]
INC Exit Fest
🗓️ June 24, 2026 – June 26, 2026
📍 OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam
Two+ day conference plus party to celebrate the departure of our 22-year-old centre from the HvA polytech to become an autonomous centre/NGO/orgnet/cultural organization. The move was instigated by the (forced) retirement at 67 on September 1, 2026, of its founder, Geert Lovink. Instead of running the (real) risk of being taken over by outsiders with a radically different agenda, facing more budget cuts, forced to work on AI ethics etc. which will would take our precious legacy in an unwanted direction, the team decided to ‘transition’ into an open, yet uncertain, future in which will look for new partners and coalitions/funding to continue our ever-changing critical research and speculative experimentation in the field of platform critique and critical network cultures.
On June 24/25/26, 2026, we will gather in the former Amsterdam squat OT 301 for a two-day conference plus additional programs such as a book fair, a closing party on Friday night. This is a zero version draft of the program:
Geert Lovink
[ 🇩🇪 Berlin ]
Exposing Crimes is Not a Crime
🗓️ March 19–21, 2026
📍 Stadtwerkstatt, Berlin
The Real-World Consequences of WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks transformed journalism by changing how public information is created and accessed. This symposium explores its legacy, why its work mattered, and how society and politics shifted as its global releases exposed systems of power. WikiLeaks members, journalists, lawyers, experts, artists, activists, and major whistleblowers discuss war, surveillance, secrecy, and new paths for action and resistance.
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