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In memory of Carola Frediani
It is with deep sadness that we join in mourning Carola's passing.
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We are hackers. We survive out of the commonplaces. Thoughts and tools out the box.
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Community building at the edge of the Internet
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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The New European Product Liability Directive: Why Open-Source Hardware Should Be Concerned
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
Prosume
Renewable, Sustainable/Social, Communities (RSC)
Grid management is not just a technical challenge. Energy autonomy is a relational and local dimension, rooted in specific contexts.
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Do Not Turn Child Protection Into Internet Access Control
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: Bitcoin-backed special funding vehicles for social purpose initiatives
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.
nostr
The Future Was Federated
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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Annual delivery by Web3Privacy now
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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The Birth of a Zero-Knowledge Programming Language
ZKCC: zero-knowledge circuit language and compiler for practical deployment in Identity Wallets.
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How we will delegate bureaucracy to AI
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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Rethinking R&I Funding: Opting for Continuity
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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Age Verification for Humans
Europe’s age‑verification pilots conflate censorship with guardianship. This essay argues for a decentralised approach that separates technical filtering from social responsibility.