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. For years, we have spoken about the decentralising power of technologies, of a "disintermediated" digital future in which we can interact "peer to peer," point to point. However, the world appears to be moving in a direction opposed to the many good intentions and experiments aimed at decentralisation, transparency, and horizontality on the web.

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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 asphy...

📢 Last Day to Support Community Network initiatives around the world! The Internet Society is offering a chance for Community Networks to become the subject of a resourced Special Interest Group. It only takes a minute or two today to help our initiative be selected. Please take a moment today by voting for the Community Networks & Community Infrastructures SIG 🔗

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Special Interest Groups and Standing Groups - Internet Society

Connect with other members over the Internet-related topics you’re passionate about like cybersecurity, gender, affordable Internet access, and m...

Your support is appreciated and will amplify global attention to locally owned and operated digital infrastructures. Further information can be found in the application submission and our info page sponsored by Freifunk listing supporting groups around the world. 🔗

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Vote Conspire on gitcoin! https://gitcoin.privote.live/rounds/0/0xa88a30674417f4f414a9bf561cec2988f98ccf5219fc177156f9f8179df7a408 Funding will enable ARM porting for an embedded “Conspire Box” system with captive portal capability: a WiFi hotspot will present the chat interface to on-site connecting clients. Security enhancements will include Tor hidden-service integration and security hardening, such as Address Sanitiser (ASAN), static analysis, and penetration testing. A toast to ephemeral #privacy and zero identity! 🥂

There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to. The growing competition for R&I project grants overburdens the R&I system, generates bursts of activity leading to unsustainable results, and fuels the much-maligned growth of precarious labour. This trend needs to be turned around, and not by means of the usual patchwork but through a fundamental rethinking of the system for R&I funding. We believe that a very promising avenue for such a turnaround would be a shift from project-based funding to continuous funding for R&I networks. :cafuda:

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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.

Can Europe sustain the growth of AI data centres, or does the already overcrowded electrical grid risk being clogged even more?

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Policy Voices ｜ The challenges of AI data centres in Europe [2173170906]

Originally published on Friends Of Europe. Republished here for perennity. As the uptake of Artificial Intelligence (AI) increases in many sectors ...

As the uptake of Artificial Intelligence (AI) increases in many sectors of the economy, all of that infrastructure has to be supported somehow: that is where data centres come in. The most advanced economies are rushing to scale up their digital infrastructure, yet industry laggard Europe is also behind in this aspect, compared to places like the US and China.

Your work is amazing, @pluja ! Mad love!

Introducing #Conspire: a web-based chat for bold discussions! ✨ Ephemeral ✨ Anonymous ✨ Synchronous ✨ Free 🔒 Privacy-focused service 📦 Fully static binary for on-premises use Give it a spin, and please do your best to break it:

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Conspire

Web-based chat for radical exchange: ephemeral, anonymous, synchronous and free.

We're particularly interested in knowing about your experiences using #tor! 👂🏽

📢 Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Planet Dyne is back with the glow! A wild @Jaromil on Italian TV, the powerful but tiny neon shiny lsget, call for proposals, actions and MOAR, in Episode 07 of your favorite newsletter!

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🌟 Back to the Glow (S2025-E07)

It’s time to gather the ideas scattered by sun or snow and shape them in the soft light of focused creation. The world outside is changing its rh...

Data swirls around us, an unseen current—Europeans wade through six hours and forty minutes of it daily, pulled under by smartphones, transit cards, health records, the quiet hum of municipal servers. It slips through our fingers even as it shapes us. This captured flow is distilled into metrics, those peculiar alchemies that turn lived experience into numbers. But metrics are never innocent. They bend to the will of their architects: governments measuring compliance, corporations tracking engagement, researchers seeking patterns. What gets counted? What gets omitted? The metrics whisper their priorities. And we—unknowing, unasked—become their subjects.

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The invisible infrastructure

How IT infrastructure shapes public life, and how alternatives like free software and open formats can offer healthier paths forward Data is ev...

Ah, the cosmic shrug of spacetime—where 'seasons' are just Earth’s way of reminding us it’s always someone’s turn to hibernate or spontaneously combust with ideas. So whether you’re currently sun-drunk or bundled like a cybernetic burrito, remember: the best hacks bloom in the eternal summer of the mind. (Southern Hemisphere friends: we see you debugging under blankets. Solidarity.)

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🌍 Hemispheres Can’t Stop Us (S2025-E06)

Seasons are just Earth’s way of reminding us it’s always someone’s turn to hibernate or spontaneously combust with ideas.

Tomb, the Crypto Undertaker version 2.12 is out! 🎉 Tomb makes strong encryption simple for daily use. Imagine it as a secure, locked folder you can move and hide in your filesystem. Store the tomb on your computer and its key on a USB stick for added security. Built with easily reviewable code, Tomb uses a ZShell script, desktop apps, and standard GNU tools with Linux's crypto API. 🔗

Tomb, the Crypto Undertaker - freshcode.club

> tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, you are urged to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st. Do read on for more details!

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Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert's writings

tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for la...

In a tumultuous galaxy, dynes across the network exchange know-how and action items. Resilient, sovereign, and steady. They source the hope within and spread it throughout, elevating their peers to root and reclaiming reality. Home is not a page; it is a private key.

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🧘 Pieces of mind (S2025-E05)

In a tumultuous galaxy, dynes across the network exchange know-how and action items. Resilient, sovereign, and steady.

We're a proud signatory of the #NoPhoneHome Statement! We call on authorities everywhere to favor identity solutions that have no phone home capability whatsoever, and to prioritize privacy and security over interoperability and ease of implementation. https://nophonehome.com/

📢 Book Launch in Berlin! 🗓️ 2025.05.31 📍 Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend (c-base). ℹ️

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Berlin Book Launch

Saturday, 31 May 2025, 20:00-21:00 CEST c-base, Rungestrasse 20, 10179 berlin remote viewing stream via peertube

"The Rise of the Network Commons" traces the spread of wireless community networks from Europe to the Americas and Africa. It highlights how involving non-experts in building networks empowers communities and democratizes technology, shaping it to serve local needs over commercial interests. Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German only). After his untimely death in 2017, Volker Grassmuck and Adam Burns later initiated the completion of Armin’s publication.

Speed-goggles on! Your phonographic pocket calculator teleports you to Planet Dyne at the tap of a glossy surface. It's 2025, we're jamming with robots and conspiring for a better future, now! Come closer to the bonfire, fellow dyne. It's good to see you!

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🌬️ Fresh breeze from the future (S2025-E04)

Congratulations, you have reached Q2. Can you imagine? It's 2025, robots are writing poems, and your phonographic pocket calculator teleports you t...

Are you techie enough to be on #Nostr, though neither hackerman or Morpheus, but interested in Decentralised Architectures anyways? Then this talk is for you! Listen to the silky-smooth voice of @Jaromil from his presentation at the pacesetters.eu on-line Forum.

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Decentralised Architectures - PACESETTERS Forum

Jaromil from dyne.org talks about Decentralised Architectures during the PACESETTERS Remote Forum on 2025-04-10. Complementary article: Beyond Hack...

#podcast #peerTube

Are you a #cypherPunk but also tired of being labeled a care-bear? This piece by PG of the web3privacy.info community will speak to you, fellow #carePunk! ✊ Rethinking Freedom in the Digital Age: The Rise of the Carepunks. 🐻 🫂 🔗

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Rethinking Freedom in the Digital Age: The Rise of the Carepunks

Privacy is a fundamental human right, woven into national constitutions and protected by laws that upheld liberty, dignity, and autonomy.

Don't doubt it: we've been here before, fellow dyne. And we fixed it. We might get here again, and we'll repeat. It's OK to have low bats. And Dogs know the draining is happening out there. But to dyne is to fix: challenge accepted! Meanwhile, a new episode of Planet Dyne just dropped!

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🪡 This too shall be fixed (S2025-E03)

Don't doubt it: we've been here before, fellow dyne. And we fixed it. We might get here again, and we'll repeat. It's OK to have low bats. And Dogs...