💥 The Weird Wild Web (S2026-E03)
Something is shifting. Under the radar, against the odds, a quiet rebellion is taking root. This issue is about the spaces in between: where privacy meets regulation, where decentralization starts being a toolkit, and where ordinary people remember that technology is a set of choices.
🧶 Digital knitting
Our very own Zoe shares her publication "The untapped potential of digital knitting as a counter-concept to fast fashion", born from conversations with practitioners who refuse to treat tech as neutral.
She explored knitting as a manufacturing vernacular, challenging mass production toward adaptability and transparent modes.
ZoeRomano
This research was made possible by EU funding + PACESETTERS
👶 Will somebody pRoTEc zE CHilDrEN?
Everybody loves kids. Almost everybody anyways. It takes a village to raise a child and we should protect them. However, the debate regarding age control is only related to the protection of children in theory. In practice it's aching to be a debate on whether or not you should show irrefutable cryptographic proof of your identity to connect to the Internet. Which makes it a question of privacy, rather than good-intentioned child-protection. Or, you know, maybe it's just about ad revenues being drained by disengagement of actual humans drowning in slop on social media platforms?
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
by u/Ok_Lingonberry3296 in linux
Stranger Danger! All we know for sure is that many dynes are pushing back on this... let's call it "strange", framing of the debate. Jaromil has written extensively on the topic.
Jaromil
Jaromil
If you have a spare minute later today, write an email to your representative and let them know how you feel about it!
🦺 Consumer Protection: Chill Wind for Open Hardware
The European Union promised to modernize product liability for the digital age. The result? A directive that has makerspaces, fab labs, and open-hardware communities staring at their 3D printers with something closer to dread than excitement.
Directive (EU) 2024/2853 was meant to clarify liability in an era of software-driven, networked products. Instead, it may have swapped one set of ambiguities for another, and placed open-source hardware squarely in the crosshairs. The problem? A volunteer who uploads a 3D model remains safe. But the moment they also publish the printable G-code file, the law may treat them as a manufacturer, liable for defects, data corruption, even psychological harm.
There is still time to fix this. But the clock is ticking.
Greta Sparzynski
🧘 Zenroom.org is now Y2038-safe (yes, the Epochalypse ).
Zenroom was moved to signed 64-bit time so it won't jump back to 1901 on 19 Jan 2038.
Remember Y2K? Nothing happened. No planes fell, no riots, but an entire generation quietly learned to ignore warnings. Anyways, Dyne always looks into the future, so we fixed this one too, before you have to care.
If you're a softare developer, maybe take a look at your code! Or at least, don't wait until the last minute of 2037.
dyne✅ 64-bit time. ✅ Tests included.
🐜 CJIT: The Compiler That Fits in Your Pocket
What began as a dyne's tinkering with Fabrice Bellard’s tinyCC has quietly matured into something refreshingly practical. CJIT is now a small, portable C compiler and runner that works across Linux, macOS, and Windows, can self-host, and ships as a single executable.
The guiding principle? Keep the door wide open. Drop one binary onto any system, and you can compile or run C code using the libraries already there: no full toolchain, no sprawling dependency stack, no friction.
It's useful for quick prototyping, testing, auditing, learning, or just poking at real systems with less overhead. The codebase has reached a point where it feels solid and maintainable. And a fun bonus: it plays nicely with raylib.
CJIT remains a small project. That's by design. Simple. Useful. Easy to carry around.
Feedback is warmly welcomed! Especially on the single-binary approach and whether this kind of tool proves useful in practice.
dyne
Frei0r
frei0r 3 is out! This one's for stability. If you use Shotcut, Kdenlive, Flowblade, Natron, or any FFmpeg-based tool, you’ve likely relied on frei0r effects without even knowing it.
The v3.0.0 release is a major under-the-hood upgrade that video producers will feel more than see:
✅ Smoother parameter controls
Clamping & bounds checking in curves, kaleid0sc0pe, and test_pat_G → no more wild values breaking your effect chain.
✅ Better color mode support
Works correctly across all color formats frei0r supports, fewer “weird tint” surprises.
✅ Build & test overhaul
Address sanitizer (ASAN) + automated tests = fewer regressions in future. Translation: long-term reliability for your NLE.
⚠️ Breaking change
The README and build workflow have been modernized: if you compile frei0r yourself, check the new docs.
Who's updating? If you maintain a video production environment (studio, home editing rig, or render farm), this is a safe and solid upgrade.
🏕️ Project N.O.M.A.D.
Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data, Knowledge That Never Goes Offline. A self-contained, offline-first knowledge and education server. Packed with critical tools, reference material, and AI: ready when you are, no internet required.
It doesn't phone home. It doesn't ask for credentials. It just sits there, patiently, offering information and empowerment wherever you happen to be. Anytime. Anywhere. Because knowledge shouldn't depend on a handshake with a distant server.
Crosstalk-Solutions
☎️ Tin Can: The '90s Landline That's Outsmarting the Smartphone
Remember when a phone call meant actually talking, and a "ringtone" was just a ring? A quiet revolution is spreading through living rooms, kitchen tables, and the odd Facebook parenting group: the landline is back, reborn as a $75 WiFi box called Tin Can. It's a phone that doesn't spy, doesn't scroll, and doesn't require its users to have an emotional support charger. For a generation of parents trying to delay the dopamine-pit of a full-blown smartphone, it's a small miracle.
No apps. No social media. Just approved contacts, approved hours, and the shocking thrill of jumping over the couch when it rings. If this is what resistance looks like in 2026, it sounds an awful lot like dial tone.
Katie Notopoulos
🤖 You Thought Typing Faster Was Your Problem?
Your VP just returned from a conference, three glasses of pinot noir deep, brandishing a dashboard that promises 40% more code output thanks to AI coding assistants. The room nods. The staff engineer makes a face. Nobody asks the obvious question: velocity toward what, exactly?
Andrew Murphy has spent 20+ years debugging this exact pathology. His diagnosis is brutal, funny, and desperately needed. The speed of writing code was never your problem. If you thought it was, the gap between that belief and reality is where all your actual problems live.
🕷️ The internet is broken. But was it ever whole?
Error 417 Expectation Failed invites artists, curators, and collectives to reject the longing for a mythic "old internet" and confront #netNostalgia head-on.
We don't need to resurrect a past that never existed. We need to ask: what protocols, networks, archives, and shared conditions can build the internet we actually want?
Open call. Global.
🥫 Peronismo
Here's a fun project made with TBT by an argentinian dyne, author of this wonderful book. Peronismo (aka spam) http://peronismo.atspace.cc/
Santiago Fernandez NúñezWhat Peronismo has in common with Perrea is unclear and probably amounts to nothing. But this jake meme is cute af!
🌮 These?
Just list of Things as a Service while we wait for actual Services as a Service.
◆ Marcus Wellington III Former CTO, Definitely Real Corp(Acquired)
Charlie Harvey
[ 🇧🇷 Ubatuba ]
Tropixel: Mar das Coisas / Sea of Things
🗓️ Application deadline: May 31st, 2026
📍 Ubatuba - July 30th to August 1st, 2026
📥 Submit your proposal: Form here
Curatorial text
The Sea of Things starts from the perception that the ocean, rivers, mangroves, and coastal zones compose a continuous material network of circulation. Everything passes through water: industrial waste, chemical compounds, nutrients, microplastics, measurements, infrastructures, and political decisions. Water stores, moves, and redistributes these traces. It operates as a moving archive, a surface of inscription for the present.
In dialogue with the Internet of Things, where connected objects continuously produce information, a material inflection is proposed here: matter itself informs. Suspended particles, physicochemical indices, and environmental variations make legible production chains, disposal trajectories, and operating modes of the infrastructures that cross the territories.
The Sea of Things names this field in which matter and information circulate together. A field of reading and action.
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