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* Free Space Optics links https://dev.wlan-si.net/wiki/KORUZA
 
* Free Space Optics links https://dev.wlan-si.net/wiki/KORUZA
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* "Environmental Sustainability in Tech" https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability
  
 
==Documentation==
 
==Documentation==
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* Members make the rules
 
* Members make the rules
  
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* Categorization: "Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization,  technologies and architectures" https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments-04.txt
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* Categorization: "Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization,  technologies and architectures"  
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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7962
  
 
* Evaluation of mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks  http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/eval-mesh-routing-wcn
 
* Evaluation of mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks  http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/eval-mesh-routing-wcn
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==Federation==  
 
==Federation==  
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* https://friendi.ca
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* Open Meetup -> https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/edit/2ky-MS-kYiGm26dHUjm1derA/
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===Mastodon===
  
 
* https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/  
 
* https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/  
 
* https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/  
 
* https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/  
 
* https://www.fediverse.to  
 
* https://www.fediverse.to  
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* https://friendi.ca
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* https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
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* https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network ActivityPub for Interoperable Messaging (ietf draft) https://bifurcation.github.io/mimi-aim/draft-barnes-mimi-aim.html
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* ActivityPub for Interoperable Messaging (ietf draft) https://bifurcation.github.io/mimi-aim/draft-barnes-mimi-aim.html
  
 
* "distributed forum" might already exist!  https://www.fediverse.to/#browse-sw
 
* "distributed forum" might already exist!  https://www.fediverse.to/#browse-sw
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https://forum.mattermost.com/t/does-mattermost-support-the-activitypub-protocol/12646
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* https://forum.mattermost.com/t/does-mattermost-support-the-activitypub-protocol/12646
  
 
* there are *chat* implementations in/of ActivityPub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Notable_implementations  
 
* there are *chat* implementations in/of ActivityPub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Notable_implementations  
  
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* Open Meetup -> https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/edit/2ky-MS-kYiGm26dHUjm1derA/
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* Experience https://rixx.de/blog/on-running-a-mastodon-instance/
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* Positive example! https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/mastodon-for-all-university-employees/
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* Guide: https://about.iftas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSA-Guide-Decentralised-Servers.pdf
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* Budget: https://info.mastodon.nl/posts/2023/20231228_begroting_2024/
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* Webinar: https://publicspaces.net/2024/02/29/van-tweets-naar-toots-mastodon-webinar-op-26-maart/
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* Great documentation :: The Crafter's Guide To The Fediverse https://makertube.net/w/tGjYr2Mm56V7bU4d9ua38z
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* The fediverse, explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the open future of social networking - The Verge
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https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
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* Building Trust in the Openweb and the Fediverse  https://hamishcampbell.com/building-trust-in-the-openweb-and-the-fediverse/
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* It is all about the community – Event Federation https://event-federation.eu/2023/12/20/it-is-all-about-the-community/
  
 
==Collective Servers==
 
==Collective Servers==
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* mur.at, servis.at, coloclue.nl, openbsd.amsterdam, syster.server , puscii.nl ...  
 
* mur.at, servis.at, coloclue.nl, openbsd.amsterdam, syster.server , puscii.nl ...  
 
* https://www.protagio.nl/shellaccess.html
 
* https://www.protagio.nl/shellaccess.html
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* kind-of... https://www.are.na/about
  
 
==Jobs==
 
==Jobs==
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see also: https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Grants [[#Grants]]
 
see also: https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Grants [[#Grants]]
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* NLNET https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240401-call.html            1st June
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* https://www.sidnfonds.nl/internet-sustainability-call
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* https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/
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* https://insuresilience-solutions-fund.org/call-for-proposals
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* https://allianzfoundation.org/allianz-foundation-grants-program-2024/
  
 
  2023
 
  2023
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** https://wiki.techinc.nl/Rhizomatica_Community_Telecommunications_Infrastructure
 
** https://wiki.techinc.nl/Rhizomatica_Community_Telecommunications_Infrastructure
  
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* A dream: https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/ProjekatPovezanoPolje  
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* A dream: Lika/Croatia https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/ProjekatPovezanoPolje  
  
 
* See: Palestine https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom#2023_PS_news  
 
* See: Palestine https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom#2023_PS_news  
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* Georgia: http://toa.ge/en/2018/03/19/project-for-tusheti-community-internet-network-georgia/  
 
* Georgia: http://toa.ge/en/2018/03/19/project-for-tusheti-community-internet-network-georgia/  
 
** https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/05/innovative-licensing-approaches-enabling-access-in-hard-to-reach-places-through-collaborative-partnerships/
 
** https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/05/innovative-licensing-approaches-enabling-access-in-hard-to-reach-places-through-collaborative-partnerships/
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* Vermont, USA: (rural broadband) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmAkjKQF0D0
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* https://www.ruralnetwork.eu/hr/o-nama/
  
 
==Refugees==
 
==Refugees==
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==Other New Internet Technologies==
 
==Other New Internet Technologies==
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* 2023-11-08 What Happened to the New Internet?  https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/new-internet/
  
 
* https://gigaom.com/2014/05/07/why-gigaom-thinks-its-time-to-reinvent-the-internet/
 
* https://gigaom.com/2014/05/07/why-gigaom-thinks-its-time-to-reinvent-the-internet/
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* Named Data Networks http://named-data.net  
 
* Named Data Networks http://named-data.net  
  
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* ... & SDN (Software Defined Networks...)  
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* ... & SDN (Software Defined Networks...)
  
 
==In the media==
 
==In the media==
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* gMail can reject email being sent / received from small hosters, based  on "reputation" / rate limiting / whatever http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html
 
* gMail can reject email being sent / received from small hosters, based  on "reputation" / rate limiting / whatever http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html
 
** ... thus making it even harder to compete with it!
 
** ... thus making it even harder to compete with it!
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** UPDATE: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/
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* M$ too: https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk
  
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* UPDATE: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/
 
  
 
and
 
and
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** https://geekflare.com/self-hosted-email-server/
 
** https://geekflare.com/self-hosted-email-server/
 
** https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/hey-activists-dont-be-a-mailchump
 
** https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/hey-activists-dont-be-a-mailchump
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** https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/
  
 
* re-use email for encrypted chat
 
* re-use email for encrypted chat
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* organise!
 
* organise!
 
** join https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/anti-abuse-wg
 
** join https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/anti-abuse-wg
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* re-vitalise mailing lists (as a tool for [[Hackers tribes#Consensus|consensus]] building) (October 2024) 
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** https://labs.ripe.net/author/ilke-ilhan/a-history-of-mailing-lists-in-the-ripe-community/
  
 
==Centralisation==
 
==Centralisation==
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* Google enforces own rules, creating problems for other email providers:
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** March 2024 https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/enhancing-email-delivery-at-the-ripe-ncc/
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** https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/
  
 
  Geoff Huston on Centralisation: https://labs.ripe.net/author/gih/on-internet-centrality-and-fragmentation/
 
  Geoff Huston on Centralisation: https://labs.ripe.net/author/gih/on-internet-centrality-and-fragmentation/
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** Book: https://academic.oup.com/book/46736  
 
** Book: https://academic.oup.com/book/46736  
 
** https://blog.oup.com/2023/10/the-three-empires-of-our-digital-world-infographic/
 
** https://blog.oup.com/2023/10/the-three-empires-of-our-digital-world-infographic/
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* https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet
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* tech giants coopt disruption https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4713845
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===Examples===
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* august 2024: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350373069/gmail-users-affected-mass-outage-emails-unable-be-sent
  
 
==Censorship==
 
==Censorship==
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And her review for SURF: https://www.surf.nl/en/all-about-dpia-google-workspace
 
And her review for SURF: https://www.surf.nl/en/all-about-dpia-google-workspace
  
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* March 2024: emails of Dutch government hosted & readable by m$ & google: https://nos.nl/artikel/2510923-amerikaanse-overheid-kan-bij-e-mail-van-nederlandse-overheden-en-kritieke-bedrijven
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=Cloud Problems=
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Against Cloud : https://varia.zone/12o/
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* Lidl cloud https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311
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* July 2024: CrowdStrike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident
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* may 2024: ddos https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/
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* May 2024: Bert Hubert: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/
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** you end up with organizations that have started moving all the things to the cloud.
And now, … you will end up with no one left that really knows what’s going on.“
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* From February 2024, AWS charges extra for IPv4: https://www.border0.com/blogs/ipv4-surcharge---your-aws-bill-is-going-up-this-february
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* January 2024: SIDN moves part of their operations to AWS
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** Original announcement (but in English) https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/we-want-to-continue-pioneering-by-embracing-the-newest-and-best-standard-technologies
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** reactions on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/111840661451196077
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** https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/111841470017218299
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** https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/technologie/10538712/kamervragen-over-vertrek-van-nl-domeinen-naar-de-vs
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** https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/01/criticism-as-dutch-domain-registry-plans-move-to-amazon-cloud/
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** https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/kamervragen/detail?id=2024Z01500&did=2024D03406
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** https://nos.nl/l/2507035
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** https://berthub.eu/tmp/ezk-statement.txt
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** https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/wat-de-sidn-cloud-rel-ons-leert/
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** https://waag.org/nl/article/waarom-verplaatsing-nl-domein-naar-amazon-een-slecht-idee/
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** https://isoc.nl/nieuws/isoc-nl-teleurgesteld-door-keuze-nl-registratie-in-amerikaanse-cloud-onder-te-brengen/
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** https://speakup.nl/there-is-no-cloud-its-just-someone-elses-computer/
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** https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/02/09/hoe-nederlands-is-nl-nog-a4189663/
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* February:
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** https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/hellend-vlak-sidn-europa/
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** https://www.techpolicy.press/the-dangers-of-moving-key-internet-governance-functions-to-amazons-cloud-the-case-of-the-netherlands/
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** Milton in defence of his interpretation of "internet's (holy) spirit" https://www.internetgovernance.org/2024/02/18/the-dutch-in-the-grips-of-internet-nationalism/
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** https://delta.tudelft.nl/article/niemand-snapt-uitbesteden-beheer-nl-domeinen-aan-amazon
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* 2021: RIPE NCC:
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** https://labs.ripe.net/author/felipe_victolla_silveira/ripe-ncc-and-the-cloud-draft-principles-requirements-and-strategy-framework/
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** https://labs.ripe.net/author/felipe_victolla_silveira/ripe-ncc-cloud-strategy-framework/
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* https://thenewstack.io/merchants-of-complexity-why-37signals-abandoned-the-cloud/
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* "Privacy versus the big cloud providers": video of a talk Sjoera Nas did (in Dutch) https://youtu.be/8GiK9xyrvWY
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** Abstract: https://nluug.nl/activiteiten/events/nj21/abstracts/ab00.html
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* Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan
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* https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/05/the-misaligned-incentives-for-cloud-security.html
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* Apnic's incident!  https://blog.apnic.net/2021/06/18/whois-data-incident-resolved/
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** Register https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/22/apnic_whois_data_exposed/
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* USA vs Iran: (DNS) https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/22/iran_media_websites_us_government_seized/
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* Ads industry & data breach... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57232253
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* https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010
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* https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
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* https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-cloud-storage/
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* https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lecture-by-femke-snelting-on-counter-cloud-imaginaries/
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* Big Tech vs Academic Freedom: (data as autonomy in danger) https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/policy-and-strategy/data-autonomy/blog/data-autonomy-and-academic-freedom
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* EU cloud https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/Policy_brief_Cloud_sovereignty.pdf
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(+ copy all the links from Marvin ;-) )

Latest revision as of 18:18, 15 November 2024

Projects
Participants Becha
Skills Community building, Networking
Status Planning
Niche Community
Purpose World domination

Each society gets the *net it deserves. 

My ideal future of the "Internet" (governance / society) is PARTICIPATORY ALTRUISM.

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf

Education

Netcommonsbook cover.png
  • October 2020: A Book!

https://www.netcommons.eu/?q=telecommunications-reclaimed

  • http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/intro-to-tor-i2p-darknets
    • "This class introduces students to the I2P and Tor Darknets. We cover setting up Tor & I2P, the basics of use, and how to make hidden services. We also go over case examples like Eldo Kim Harvard & the Harvard Bomb Threat, Hector Xavier Monsegur (Sabu)/Jeremy Hammond (sup_g) & LulzSec, Freedom Hosting & Eric Eoin Marques and finally Ross William Ulbricht/“Dread Pirate Roberts” of the SilkRoad, to explain how people have been caught and how it could have been avoided.

Documentation

Communication

Mailing Lists

  • GAIA...

Individuals

On twitter, August 2014 ‏@taziden @Kaplan_CERTat @Ms_Multicolor @OtvorenaMreza @federationfdn @mitar_m @wlanslovenija @braempje

@MaziZoneEU @deckspace @unmonastery @nethood

Twitter, March 2016: @conflictmedia @sifrwahid @pranesh @spideralex @elektra_42

Mr Colby Hollenbaugh, Esther. He is the new exec director at Meta Mesh Wireless Communities, and a Public Interest Tech Masters student at ASU.

Esther Jang, Paul G Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering -> seattlecommunitynetwork.org (SIGCAS 2022) / https://www.sigcas.org/events/sigcas-showcase-2022/

Events

2016: 1-07 May 2016: BattleMesh v9 in Porto (PT) http://battlemesh.org/HomePage

2015:

  • #ReDeCentralize


2014

2013

Aspects

Community Mesh Network

  • Offering network (and/or) hosting services
  • Not Commercial
  • Members make the rules
  • Categorization: "Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization, technologies and architectures"

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7962

Community ISP

https://diyisp.org
https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/diy-isp
  • CONFINE project, http://confine-project.eu.
    • This European project studies community networks (which are mesh networks of course) for the future internet. We look at the technological side (mesh protocols etc.) but also the sociological side of community networking.
  • Interference talk:
  • FOSDEM talk:

Software

  • GnuNet: gnunet.org

HW

  • Green WIFI: A volunteer organization dedicated to the spread of solar powered wireless networking equipment. http://www.greenwifi.org

Legal

Decentralization

  • EDN (Echt Dezentrales Netz - real decentralized network (Demos et al) https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en
    • documenting and analyzing over 70 Privacy Software Projects.
    • be to assemble detailed API descriptions of the projects and its modules
    • to identify and highlight Interoperability between projects for collaboration or sharing code.

Federation

Old


Mastodon

https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol


Collective Servers

Jobs

Specific Jobs 2023

Specific Jobs 2022

Cool Jobs in General

Job Listings

Companies

Specific Jobs 2021

Funding

see also: https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Grants #Grants 

2024

2023



2022



2021

2020
  • SAGE Fund / Request for Proposals

Deadline: April 20, 2020 http://www.sagefundrights.org/

  • The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law

CFP: Countering Online Violence against Women Human Rights Defenders Deadline: April 30, 2020 https://mk0rofifiqa2w3u89nud.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Call-for-Proposals_Online-Space-for-WHRDs_Public_03.03.2020-Final.pdf 

COVID19 related: https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19#Funding

Yearly


Recommendations

Grants

2023

older


2019: https://www.apc.org/en/35436

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-819_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/fi-ppp-phase-3

Fellowships

Organisations/Networks

Social Media

(other decentralisation of social media projects...)

  • See: UnlikeUs conference, by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam

Related TechInc Projects

Becha's article with many links

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf


Use Cases

Rural Networks

Refugees

  • Also related to refugees, but for coding:
    • There's a group in 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇱 helping to train refugees as web developers! If you're in the area, here's how to help: http://hackyourfuture.net

Disaster Recovery Communications


Public Service

Conflict

Misc Links

Other New Internet Technologies

  • ... & SDN (Software Defined Networks...)

In the media

  • EXPANDING THE INTERNET COMMONS: THE SUBVERSIVE POTENTIAL OF WIRELESS COMMUNITY NETWORKS, by Primavera De Filippi[1] and Félix Tréguer[2]

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-6-disruption-and-the-law/peer-reviewed-articles/expanding-the-internet-commons-the-subversive-potential-of-wireless-community-networks/

Dump of Links, 2014

Technology 
Tidepools: http://tidepools.co by Jonathan Baldwin. 
PirateBox: http://www.piratebox.cc by David Darts. 
LibraryBox: http://librarybox.us/ by Jason Griffey. 
Occupy.here: http://www.occupyhere.org by Dan Phiffer. 
guifi.net: http://www.guifi.net 
freifunk.net: http://www.freifunk.net 
Commotion: https://commotionwireless.net/ 
subnodes: http://subnod.es/ 

Art and design 
Alternet: http://www.sarahtgold.co.uk/the-alternet by Sarah T Gold. 
Invisible islands: http://invisibleislands.org/ by Sebastien Pierre. 
Can you hear me?: http://can-you-hear-me.de/web/ 
Deaddrops: http://www.deaddrops.com by Aram Bartholl. 
Yellow chair stories: http://superflux.in/work/yellowchair-stories by Anab Jain. 
Txtualhealing: http://www.txtualhealing.com/ by Paul Notzold. 
Stupidforum: http://stupidforum.com by Miltos Manetas. 

Neighborhoods/Case studies/Stories 
RedHook WiFi: http://rhicenter.org/redhookwifi/ (see also, OTI, interview, thesis, news) 
Can offline wireless move from protest tools to news? by Susan E. McGregor 
Making Internet Local by Adam Rothstein 
My week with PirateBox by Jeffrey Andreoni 

Related events 
Eyebeam Off-The-Grid Exhibition, LittleNets, September 2014. 
Dagstuhl seminar, Do-it-yourself Networking: an Interdisciplinary Approach (report) 
3rd EINS Summer school, From Smart Cities to Engaged Citizens (Michael Smyth, Mark Gaved, and Andreas Unteidig run a workshop combining DIY networking with urban interaction design; 
check draft documents and keep in touch    for the upcoming e-book!) 
International workshop, The alternative Internet(s) - state of the art and the possible future, London School of Economics (LSE), September 15-16th, 2014.  
The UrbanIxD Symposium, Interactions in hybrid urban space: the UrbanIxD exhibition, Venice, September 24-25th, 2014. 
Interdisciplinary symposium, Sharing experiences of self-organization, Thessaloniki, October 10th 2014.

Research and/or action communities 
INURA: http://inura.org 
Community informatics: e-mail list 
unMonastery: http://unmonastery.org/ 
Research projects 
EINS: http://internet-science.eu/ (EU) 
COMPARE: http://compare-network.net/ (EU) 
CONFINE: http://confine-project.eu/ (EU) 
Urban Interaction Design: http://urbanixd.eu/ (EU) 
P2PValue: http://p2pvalue.eu/ (EU) 
Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project: http://www.cwirp.org/ (Canada) 
Urban Informatics: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/blog/ (Australia) 

Blogs 
We make money not art: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ 
Pasta&Vinegar: http://liftlab.com/think/nova 
The Mobile City: http://www.themobilecity.nl 
BodySpaceSociety: http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/ 
Place matters: http://blog.placematters.org/

Email Problems

(July 2023: https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2307/msg00049.html)

existence of "email" (as we know it) is in danger.

for me, email means ability to exchange messages in a decentralised / federated way, made possible because operators of email servers & email clients following open standards for protocols & software, that enabled interoperability. there was resilience through variety of implementations. plus, the spam-filtering and abuse-handling were done (more-less successfully) in a participatory, communal, (dare i say) "multistakolder" ways.

more on that: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2023-May/002877.html


nowadays, there are many adversaries to this (idyllic?) situation:

  • "market forces" of centralisation & monopolisation have resulted in ~90% of all email being read (!) by (clients written by) 3 big players (GAM) , and for providers it's G&M that rule 66% of that market:

https://mailchimp.com/en/resources/most-used-email-service-providers/

https://blog.apnic.net/2023/04/05/who-reads-your-email/

and


and

  • there is lack of skills for hosting own mail servers, because "everyone" is outsourcing it to (GAM)...

and

  • (much more)


Solutions:


  • resist!
  • return to self-hosting

&

  • repair interoperability with new federated protocols (Activity Pub &

email should talk to each other)

Centralisation

Geoff Huston on Centralisation: https://labs.ripe.net/author/gih/on-internet-centrality-and-fragmentation/


Consolidation

DigitalEmpires-InfoGraphic.jpg

Examples

Censorship

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1539266244259549185?s=20&t=bQpnWif7BbfrcgOeG30xIw

  • The internet is both the cause and effect of geopolitics (Douzet, 2014).
○ China’s “Great Bottleneck” (Zhu et al., 2020)
○ Iran’s selective international censorship (Salmation et al., 2021)
○ Eastern Ukraine’s dependency on Russia (Limonier et al., 2021)


Surveillance

  • Google email practices are: to not implement standards; to compromise privacy of users in order to sell ads; and they spy on their users & share information with governments (see: Snowden)

About privacy: here is a video from NLUUG in November 2021, a talk Sjoera Nas did (in Dutch) https://youtu.be/8GiK9xyrvWY  : "It's the metadata, $#u&!*! Privacy versus the big cloud providers"

Abstract: https://nluug.nl/activiteiten/events/nj21/abstracts/ab00.html

And her review for SURF: https://www.surf.nl/en/all-about-dpia-google-workspace

Cloud Problems

Against Cloud : https://varia.zone/12o/


(+ copy all the links from Marvin ;-) )

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