πͺ Planet Dyne.org
- "Enshittification did not result from the decay of the morals of tech company but rather, from the collapse of the forces that discipline corporate wrongdoing" - C. Doctorowmamot.fr Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image This week, I wrote about how the Great Enshittening - in which all the digital services we rely on become unusable, extractive piles of shit - did not result from the decay of the morals of tech company leadership, but rather, from the collapse of the forces that discipline corpor...
- AI tool coding a website from a screenshot of itgithub.com GitHub - abi/screenshot-to-code: Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean HTML/Tailwind/JS code
Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean HTML/Tailwind/JS code - GitHub - abi/screenshot-to-code: Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean HTML/Tailwind/JS code
- Blender 4.0 - Reelvideo.blender.org Blender 4.0 - Reel
Enjoy this showcase of amazing work done by the Blender Community. See everything new in Blender 4.0 LTS https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-0/ Support Blender development: https://fund.blender.org #blender #b3d #peertubeCredits: 8x642 Akelex One Alexander West Andre Laham Andres Stephens An...
- The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottlesolar.lowtechmagazine.com The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
Imagine a personal heating system that works indoors as well as outdoors, can be taken anywhere, requires little energy, and is independent of any infrastructure. It exists β and is hundreds of years old.
- Global Passport Project
π Global Passport Project is lead by Kosmopolis, an NGO based in Naples specializing in participatory democracy processes, particularly among migrants communities.
π¬ Watch the interview with Ali Sohna, one of GPP's Ambassadors
Kosmopolis created the Global Passport Project (GPP), a platform that leverages on decentralized technologies such as Blockchain and distributed storage, to protect and promote human rights and global citizenship in the domain of migration.
What GPP proposes is a Website and a Mobile App through which migrants can safely store and share data and documents necessary on their perilous journey.
π¬ Watch an overview of the wallet
It grants access to relevant information about the country they arrive or cross and info on how to get support from, communicate directly with civil society organizations and/or report abuse or violations.
Organizations in the domain of migration can be listed on an interactive map. This helps migrants find and communicate with the orgs and services they need based on where they are.
π¬ Watch a demo of the interactive map
The App also allows migrants to be the narrator of their own story. Kosmopolis selects, edits, publishes, and disseminates citizen journalism products directly created by the users of GPP.
The information submitted by Migrants to the platform is encrypted to prevent its use for illegal purposes. A blockchain and IPFS guarantee that the data are not stored on the servers of multinationals or government organizations. Making user's sensitive data censorship-proof, perennial & compliant with GDPR.
But this adds complexity to the project, hence Zenroom enters the chat. The app needs to be operated by organizations with a very small technical capital and process complex cryptographic operation to issue private keys and temporary access tokens. The backing up of private keys by service providers is discouraged by security experts and Dyne. Keypairoom enables deterministic creation of private keys using user answers to specific questions. GPP has made significant contributions to this Zenroom component.
Because Zenroom is very tiny, the cost of running it is very small. And thanks to Dyne's W3C compliant DID, it is already equipped to handle the digital identity of migrants in elegant and privacy preserving ways.
GPP is a perfect match for Zenroom, the virtual machine by the people for the people. βπ½ With it's no-code approach, specialists in humanitarian questions (not specialists in machines) can easily verify that the processes are legit.
π€Ώ Next week, we'll continue this deep-dive into Zenroom's finesses and the applications that are leveraging it!
π«Άπ½ Stay tuned and check out Global Passport Project!
- Cybersecurity corporate wonks gallerywww.philvenables.com Caricatures of Security People
The great thing about the security industry is itβs made up of a variety of roles and people from many backgrounds, disciplines, skill sets and lived experiences. Letβs take a look at some of these - with a bit of humor. Remember, for the most part, everyone is doing a great job and even if theyβre ...
- Zenroom: Simplifying Cryptographic Operations
Zenroom is a super tiny, secure and open source Virtual Machine that puts the power of very complicated cryptographic operations in the hands of everyday people.
Cryptographic tech, such as Digital Identity or Blockchain, is hard to grasp. Even harder to work with. Don't speak SECP256K1, BLS381 or ED25519? There's no shame in that. But it can be problematic: without understanding code or the basics, a layperson needs to rely on the trust they place in their assigned expert. But what if you were able to perform and verify advanced cryptographic computations in plain English? The code names above are different types of elliptic curves leveraged in some of the most popular blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc...) Zenroom supports signatures and pairing with many of those.
Because it leverages Zencode, Zenroom has a "no-coding" approach. Meaning that you can work with very complicated concepts using the English language. Effectively simplifying the verification that an operation indeed does what it is supposed to. But Zenroom does not intend to eliminate developers from your business operation. Instead it aims at eliminating the gap between developers and business operation. It is built by people for people.
Seeing it in action helps understanding. In the coming weeks we'll be publishing highlights of application leveraging Zenroom to accomplish marvelous things!
βπΎ Crypto-power to the people!
- No add-blocker? No chrome!developer.chrome.com Resuming the transition to Manifest V3 - Chrome for Developers
Build the next generation of web experiences.
- My Data Done Right β Take control. Access, remove, correct, or move your data.mydatadoneright.eu My Data Done Right β Controle over jouw data
Access, remove, correct, or move your data
- Call for Participation for the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom at FOSDEM (Brussels) on February, 2024tldr.nettime.org Indieterminacy (@indieterminacy@social.coop)
We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom at FOSDEM (Brussels) on February, 2024! We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware and software while trying to make systems simpler, more robust and more secur...
- SadServers - Troubleshoot and make a sad server happy!sadservers.com SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
- Accurate analysis of eIDAS 2.0 regulation (EU Digital Identity Reform)epicenter.works EU Digital Identity Reform: The Good, Bad & Ugly in the eIDAS Regulation
The good, the bad and the ugly about the final result of the big EU digital identity reform.
Some good points are just recommendations, open source rule stops at client and many bad choices are crippling this regulation. Europe has lost a chance to lead in a field where it was already a leader. #aggx #aggfb
- Hacktivism in Perspective
@jaromil@tldr.nettime.org 's talk at web3privacy, Rome.
π₯ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Xb-PDjGLy7k
An excursus of the last +40 yrs of counterculture and cyberactivism. From GNU, wikileaks and Bitcoin, to algorithmic sovereignty and CBDCs.
- Self-hostable push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POSTntfy.sh ntfy.sh | Push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST
ntfy is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, and/or using a REST API.
- Confirmed: From 2024, tracks on Spotify will have to be played 1,000 times before they start earning moneywww.musicbusinessworldwide.com Confirmed: From 2024, tracks on Spotify will have to be played 1,000 times before they start earning money
Spotify has told industry players that it expects the new 1,000-play minimum annual threshold will reallocate tens of millions of dollars per year from 0.5% of its current royalty pool to the other 99.5%.
- The Bletchley Declaration
Declared at the AI Safety Summit on Nov 1 at Bletchley Park.
- New macOS 'KandyKorn' malware targets cryptocurrency engineerswww.bleepingcomputer.com New macOS 'KandyKorn' malware targets cryptocurrency engineers
A new macOS malware dubbed 'KandyKorn' has been spotted in a campaign attributed to the North Korean Lazarus hacking group, targeting blockchain engineers of a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
- Zenroom v4 :: Free on-line webinar
We will start live streaming in half an hour! Join us to end the week with a webinar on #NoCode data alchemy and cryptography.
- Zenroom v4 - Gource Videodiode.zone Zenroom v4 - Gource Video
This video is a visualization of the git-history of Zenroom, going from the begning on December 1st 2017 up until v4.0.0 released on October 31st, 2023 Zenroom is a secure execution environment of the domain-specific language Zencode: it makes it easy to execute fast cryptographic operations on any ...
Zenroom v4 - Gource Video This video is a visualization of the git-history of Zenroom, going from the begning on December 1st 2017 up until v4.0.0, released on October 31st, 2023
#AggX #AggFB
- Cosmopolitan 3 is out! a revolution for POSIX binary builds and the revenge of static linking β€οΈβπ₯justine.lol Cosmopolitan Third Edition
Linux distro of fat binaries that run on six OSes for ARM64/AMD64.
- Happy Halloween!
It is Halloween again and you are all welcome to share your systemd horror story with us! CVEs are growing every year and the wolves are howling #wontfix to the moon! https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=systemd
- Swiss Alps less than rock-solid - Climate change's effect on geologywww.swisscommunity.org Swiss Alps less than rock-solid
We like to view our beautiful Swiss Alps as an immovable, unyielding natural barrier, but they are less rock-solid than we thought. The earth seems to be crumbling β literally β under our feet. Our mountains are moving.
- NTS Radio Is Now Partially Owned by Universal Music Groupfirstfloor.substack.com NTS Radio Is Now Partially Owned by Universal Music Group
a.k.a. Is the celebrated independent radio station still independent?
- Summonscript: Manifest manifold models with magical machinations.github.com GitHub - lf94/summonscript: Manifest manifold models with magical machinations.
Manifest manifold models with magical machinations. - GitHub - lf94/summonscript: Manifest manifold models with magical machinations.
- Protomaps is an open source map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.protomaps.com A free and open source map of the world
Protomaps is an alternative to Map APIs that you run on your own cloud storage.
- Zeitgeist of the music industry - Thread by @noranygardxthreadreaderapp.com Thread by @noranygardx on Thread Reader App
@noranygardx: in the wake of the bandcamp layoffs, i am very happy to see the anger being directed at epic/songtradr diamond/wiltshire i also feel like im going insane seeing so many "let's build a new platform!!"...β¦
