〰️ Blues screen (S2024-E10)

〰️ Blues screen (S2024-E10)

Computing like a boss means using a corebooted x220 with dirty keyb not the latest Scrabble...
Fellow dyne! How good to have you here again. It's been a minute. Not that the world stopped in any shape or form. Quite some things happened in the meantime. Fortunately for us, we forgot some, and love remembering what we like ☀️😎 on this note please remember that there's a beach somewhere, near or far from you, waiting to be explored 🩴

Brazil leaps forward

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), is hosting the National Conference of Data Producers and Users - National Sovereignty in Geosciences, Statistics, and Data.

About the event - Conferência Nacional dos Agentes Produtores e Usuários de Dados

Our very own Jaromil was invited at the round table for digital cross communication and the risks and opportunities for data producers and users in the Digital Era. He explains what we are doing with our friends at AvantGarden to push progress in the country towards decentralization and privacy.

If you enjoy this dyne's smartypants speech then also have a look at all the Leonardo LASER talks on "Arts and Sciences" that happened just a few days ago.

For the topic “The Nature of Information” a lot more interesting dynes took a stab at saying something different, see the amazing program, looks like a rave where every dancer has a stage 🕺🏽💃🏽🪭

IEEE - International Conference on Blockchain

Perhaps we are lucky there is a new hype cycle in tech. Now folks at IEEE are quite serious when it comes to technology and they are soon holding an International Conference on Blockchain, which has less marketing than the usual hype.

Blockchain-2024 | 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain

Don't let yourself be fooled by the old-school website, this is some serious stuff, and if you're into Blockchain and Cryptography, it won't disappoint. Especially because our best DD (Danish Dyne) will be there to present our latest paper, recently accepted for publication.

SD-BLS: Privacy Preserving Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials with Unlinkable Threshold Revocation
Ensuring privacy and protection from issuer corruption in digital identity systems is crucial. We propose a method for selective disclosure and privacy-preserving revocation of digital credentials using second-order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. We make holders able to present proofs of possession of selected credentials without disclosing them, and we protect their presentations from replay attacks. Revocations may be distributed among multiple revocation issuers using publicly verifiable secret sharing (PVSS) and activated only by configurable consensus, ensuring robust protection against issuer corruption. Our system’s unique design enables extremely fast revocation checks, even with large revocation lists, leveraging optimized hash map lookups.

📡 Under the radar

So many things! So many news to report! Some of which are already old. But did they hit your radar? Like Switzerland going all in on FOSS and fondue? Well, not that many Swiss heard about the former either. Is it true? Only a decent probe of the landscape of legal loopholes moved by this news can tell.

But it sure is uplifting!

Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

📺 Yo, DyneTV rap!

Another highlight that's gone partially undercover. Dyne has it's own webTV! You might have noticed some dyne vids were hosted at diode.zone, a peertube instance ran by very kind ethereal beings from a neighboring planet. Because they needed to scale down, we now host our own!

Wonders of federation! 🤝

Mad love and thanks for the help diode.zone! 💞

If you have an account on Mastodon or the fediverse at large, you can follow the server by searching for @peertube@tv.dyne.org in your instance's search box. That way you'll get all the latest vids straight to your timeline!

Dyne.org TV
A PeerTube powered ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.

🕵🏾 A crowd on strike

Aaaah. The gloat resulting from a failing a corporate overlord. It's quite something. Perhaps this what they mean when they talk about "bitter sweet"? You hardly missed out on the epic fail of that micro-thingie 🤏🏽, cough poetically cough called "Crowdstrike" 😹🍭.

Imagine a crowd on strike. Well, it is sort of what happened. But not that kind of way. It was pretty bad actually. Especially for small businesses that saw their entire Friday revenue go down the drain, people losing airplanes or even worst being stuck at a hospital check-in.

For others it was more like a Friday should be: relaxed with not too much to do.

Regardless how you look at it, this event is not just a bug in a system that was supposed to protect us from bugs, but it underlines a systemic issue and it should be taken as a wake-up call:

Worldwide outage 2024 — early reflections on the Crowdstrike BSOD
Solutions to this mess cannot be patches. We need systemic change in the cybersecurity industry.

In case you do manage some ICT infra, as many dynes do, please consider this:

About the Crowdstrike software company, earning millions defending windows from being windows... at least they apologized 🙇🏻

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch
Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn’t work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.

Need more security? think before doing

Fortunately, things are happening, minds are thinking and dynes are doing.

The Threat Modeling Community Group at W3C is one such initiative happening.

Threat Modeling Community Group
The group’s purpose is to provide a meeting point for Security, Privacy, and Human Rights experts, along with technology domain experts, to create Threat Models together.

This is an interdisciplinary effort that aims at including a bit more voices than the usual techies into realizing what are the threats for, uhm... a lot of things being planned on our heads, like for instance the current EUDI ARF privacy fiasco.

Call for Participation in Threat Modeling Community Group | Threat Modeling Community Group

Noone fault, but these things require time and more inclusion to be made right. Long gone are the days were computer security was easy!


💱 And now a word from our sponsor...

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🤷🏼‍♀️ Equality before the law: #AItoo ??

In a weird turn of events, some kind of judge dismissed DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit. Many dynes are surprised. The Internet Archive is being sued for being a library doing library things: is there some hope for a dismissal there as well, or is this application of law discriminating between AI and humans?

Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond – who did you think was going to win?

But then again, Karma bites the "AI" hype world!

Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn’t Making Any Serious Money
An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the money spent on AI.

and it does where it hurts the most: in the wallet.

Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.

🧘🏼 Take a deep breath and defrag

Now if you are stuck in front of your screen, take a moment to relax!

Defrag simulation from the '90s

A tinfoil cat once whispered to us in a collective dream, that defragmentation was invented by a Satoshi from the future, putting CPUs from the past at undisturbed work through a symbolic time link.


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