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Worldwide outage 2024 — early reflections on the Crowdstrike BSOD

Worldwide outage 2024 — early reflections on the Crowdstrike BSOD News headlines about this are up all around the world. Today the Washington post runs a live-update feed and titles as breaking some ICT news on a bug — not a cyber-attack! — that affects way too many people dealing with a desktop computer today at work: “Several major U.S. airlines — including American Airlines, United and Delta — grounded flights early Friday…

by Jaromil

The year Internet reblossomed (Planet Dyne S2023E50)

While the giants of internet are taking jabs among themselves, grasping for the others' slice of the Interactive Television they built on top of the Internet, the smol web is blossoming. Dynes of all walks of life, shape and color are organizing in various forms to deliver the initial promises of internet: diversity, better communication, less middle-hands. Where the corporations are destroying their interoperability, musicia…

by Dyne.org

Breaking walls, one silo at the time. (Planet Dyne S2023E49)

🙃 Radical happiness In a solar-system full of gloom and cynicism, the happy is a rebel. In the void of space, sources of happiness can seem scarce to the untrained soul. But a dyne can count blessings. Food, shelter, drinking water, friendship, WiFi… Scale is a matter of perspective. It's especially true in terms of happiness. Your mental well-being is important. First and foremost to you. But also important for the grand sc…

by Dyne.org

Measuring The Ratio Between Time And Energy (Planet Dyne S2023E48)

🔔 It's that time of the year! The season changes, hotter or cooler, depending on where you are. But the warmth in dynes' heart goes up up up! It is a time to contemplate what has happened during this round around the sun, the dynes we love and the projects that have carried us on their shoulders. And so dynes gift! Every dyne knows that time is more precious than money. The time it takes Dyne.org to raise money could be spen…

by Dyne.org

Previously on Planet Dyne (S2023E38)

🪅 40 years of GNU 40 years ago, Richard Stallman announced a Free Unix, that was to be named "GNU" which stands for "GNU Not Unix". The golden rule required that, if a dyne likes a program, the dyne must share it with other dynes who like it. No dyne can in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement and thus be restricted from letting everyone benefit from the goodness. 🔗 https://…

by Dyne.org

Previously on Planet Dyne (S2023E36-37)

🪪 A trip to the moon Over 120 years have elapsed (1902) since George Méliès first took audiences on a journey to the moon in his groundbreaking film "Le Voyage dans la Lune," which also happens to be the very first science fiction film ever screened. Fully available 🍿 here 📽️ 10min worth it! The plot has a lot of analogies to how the working group of the The European Digital Identity Wallet is acting: Reluctant scientists …

by Dyne.org

Previously on Planet Dyne (S2023E35)

🐱 It was the cat! Read The Full Article And don't forget to hike and subculture! 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord (These services are bridged: join your favorite one to access them all!) 📢 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📢 Twitter 📸 Instagram Thanks for reading Planet Dyne! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

by Dyne.org

Previously on Planet Dyne (S2023E34)

🔐 Zen news enter the chatroom Read The Full Article 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord (These services are bridged: join your favorite one to access them all!) 📢 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📢 Twitter 📸 Instagram

by Dyne.org

Previously on Planet Dyne (S2023E33)

🥲 Nostalgia from the present Read The Full Article So don't forget to hike and subculture! 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord (These services are bridged: join your favorite one to access them all!) 📢 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📢 Twitter 📸 Instagram

by Dyne.org

Previously on Planet Dyne (S2023E32)

🍳 Breakfast of champions Read Full Article Come enhance the Fwonk of the next episode by simply joining and sharing! 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord (These services are bridged: join your favorite one to access them all!) 📢 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📢 Twitter 📸 Instagram Don't forget to hike and subculture! Subscribe now Thanks for reading Planet Dyne! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my …

by Dyne.org

Previously, on Planet Dyne

Subscribe now A wild Monday appears! Señor Fish AKA Yoyo Bae, coder of goodness and Prince of bash. Read The Full Article 🗨️ Matrix 🗨️ Telegram 🗨️ Discord (These services are bridged: join your favorite one to access them all!) 📢 Mastodon 🎬 Peertube 📢 Twitter 📸 Instagram Don't forget to hike and subculture! Thanks for reading Planet Dyne! Subscribe to receive new posts and support our work.

by Dyne.org

Open Source at the core of Europe: the Cyber Resilience Act

This week’s news is that The European Parliament has approved the European Cyber Resilience Act, and I believe it to be good news for us free and open-source developers. A lot was said prior to its approval, but much of it was dramatic and unhelpful in focusing on the positive aspects of this effort by the European Commission. Understanding the Act’s Core Points The Act aims to improve the EU’s ability to prevent and respond…

by Jaromil

Easy Ethereum transactions with Zenroom

In this post you will see how to use Zenroom to make transactions on Ethereum, using both its main coin (ETH) and derivative tokens (ERC20). Have you ever heard about Web3? Nowadays, too often, blockchains are seen as the solution to almost every problem. The result is that many people see it as a scam. As usual, the truth is in the middle. It is important to remember the origins. When the concept of blockchain was first int…

by Alberto Lerda

Frei0r — the free and open-source video effect preservation project

Frei0r — the free and open-source video effect preservation project This story is about 19 years of development on the most extensive collection of free and open-source video plugins made to share video effect inventions and knowledge on how to develop them. Before I start telling you this story, let us skip forward to the news! Frei0r version 2 is freely available with 16 new transitions and a bunch of new filters, plus we n…

by Jaromil

Quantum-Proof Cryptography

Quantum-Proof Cryptography made easy – with Zenroom Whether or not the “Post-Quantum Encryptogeddon” is actually coming, it might be good to boost your defenses. Here is how. Imagine waking up tomorrow, and reading in the news that someone has managed to build a quantum computer with enough qubit to destroy modern public-key cryptography (RSA, ECDH, DSA, ECDSA, …). You would think that cryptography is dead, and that you and …

by Matteo Cristino

Dyne.org hacker's digest

On our website we state that we are free to share code and we code to share freedom. But coding is not the only thing we do! so here we go with our substack account, where we are free to share news and we write to share freedom. Subscribe now

by Dyne.org

INFO PEACE

At the brink of a war starting on the eastern front of Europe I like to share a 23 year old pledge by ethical hackers that should interest policy makers today, especially those in charge of taking difficult decisions as the financial-war move of cutting Russia off the SWIFT network. Please bear with me for a moment through this brief historical digression. INFO PEACE — Keep the networks of communication alive. “We strongly op…

by Jaromil

Dyne.org, a decade in perspective

Some kind souls are blessing Europe — the souls of reality hackers and change agents. In this post I’ll talk about our international foundation based in Amsterdam, Dyne.org, and share an update that is long-due for all the fellow travelers who have met us along the paths — Die Holzwege. Lets start with a reference to our Magna Carta Libertatum published on the 8/8/8, because it is very actual today in these times of syndemic…

by Jaromil

Bitcoin secure off-line wallet

This post explains in brief how to create a secure and minimalist Bitcoin wallet that stores all keys off-line (cold storage) and is in your complete control: the private key will never be known to any software connected to the network. This setup does not enforce strong privacy for your transactions, but is useful to prove the origin of Bitcoin transactions. We rely on the use of small and powerful software: Zenroom - crypto…

by Jaromil

We are working to equip Europe with its Blockchain Services Infrastructure

I am proud to announce that at Dyne.org we have joined forces with RIDDLE&CODE and InfoCert to empower Europan member states with strong and durable technology for blockchain notarization. Aus Dyne.org, RIDDLE&CODE und InfoCert bestehendes Konsortium beauftragt, EBSI auf die nächste Stufe zu führen - boerse.de This is big news: our consortium gathers unique know-how in free and open source community development, cryptogra…

by Jaromil

Lead or follow? the dilemma of ICT industry for the coming decade

Lead or follow? this decade’s dilemma for GNU/Linux based ICT industry Reflections on the present turning point for us users and developers of GNU/Linux based systems. Context The major event I like to start from is the landmark acquisition of RedHat by IBM for 36 whopping billions of dollars in 2019. This event shall not go unobserved when debating about the future of GNU/Linux. It is plausible to think that the enterprise …

by Jaromil