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:
Can Europe sustain the growth of AI data centres, or does the already overcrowded electrical grid risk being clogged even more? 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: We're particularly interested in knowing about your experiences using #tor! 👂🏽 image
📢 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!
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.
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.)