We are hackers. We survive out of the commonplaces. Thoughts and tools out the box.
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What if your community could exist without phone numbers, email addresses or third party websites? What if all your community needed to provide digital services to its constituents was a Nostr Relay on the Local Area Network?
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When the European Union passed its new Product Liability Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2853) in October 2024, policymakers promised to "modernize" Europe’s consumer-protection regime for the digital age. But in makerspaces, fab labs, and open-hardware communities across the continent, the mood is more anxious than celebratory. Many
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Grid management is not just a technical challenge. Energy autonomy is a relational and local dimension, rooted in specific contexts.
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Age verification is no longer a narrow mechanism for a few adult websites. Across Europe, the USA, the UK, Australia, and elsewhere, it is expanding into social media, messaging, gaming, search, and other mainstream services. The real question is no longer whether age checks will spread. It is what kind
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Crypto Social Responsibility builds on the impact funding practices of participatory grant-making and Corporate Social Responsibility to allocate Bitcoin-backed investment returns towards social-purpose initiatives.
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A dissertation on a journey through the evolution of decentralized social media and the necessity for active, conscious digital citizenship, with all the power and danger that entails.
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2025 was an incredible year! Hundreds of people from event-volunteers to mentors contributed to the Web3Privacy Now mission - shift power dynamics towards the "internet of freedom".
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ZKCC: zero-knowledge circuit language and compiler for practical deployment in Identity Wallets.
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The future of identification technologies will involve delegating tasks to automated agents. Between the decentralised dream and the password asphyxiation, a third actor is emerging: the automatic intermediary.
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There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to.
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Europe’s age‑verification pilots conflate censorship with guardianship. This essay argues for a decentralised approach that separates technical filtering from social responsibility.
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How IT infrastructure shapes public life, and how alternatives like free software and open formats can offer healthier paths forward Data is everywhere. Europeans spend on average about 6 hours and 40 minutes online each day. Data capture is a silent process that occurs through our smartphones, public services, transportation