Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

Finally, #digital #DeGrowth proposal has hit the mainstream: “rationing Internet” (time/data) https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/21/rationing-internet-to-cut-screen-time-call-to-limit-use-to-3gb-a-week-causes-uproar-in-fra Of course, it’s unpopular, & it’s for the wrong reasons, & it doesn’t address inequalities… but it’s an interesting suggestion that can be tweaked: now that we can talk about it ;)

BERLIN: Learn To Solder workshop on Sunday 18-February, 13:00. ENGLISH und DEUTSCH. For total beginners! Anyone can solder. All ages. Gelegenheiten in Neukölln (Weserstraße 50, 12045 Berlin).
http://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/workshops/ICanSolder.html

Yeah @becha

Its going to be amazing moments, the full program is detailled here:

https://oxygen.offdem.net/pub/offdem-0x04-programme

@v.st @how @adalanerd @XavCC

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Here is a very well-written article about the inevitable dangers of accepting VC funding.
https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

@greg @Lats Starlink cannot provide internet to many people - it can't handle the bandwidth. What it is trying to do is to sell lower latency than other satellite internet services at a steep premium, and even then it does not make money.

And satellite internet is _ not _ generally more efficient than running out fiber and putting up cell towers. For example: The Hoh Tribe got a lot of publicity as early users of Starlink. But it is now switching to community-owned fiber and local wireless.

@sundogplanets I am amazed that the economics stack up. The satellites deorbit in a few years and must be replaced. The sheer cost of doing that must make it the highest maintenance cost communications system existing. Totally ignoring the rabid climate change accelerant caused by these incessant launches the whole concept seems unsustainable.

For governments, the message is don’t let your terrestrial network decay as the tech bros could pull the pin at any time.
#starlink #techbro #cellnetworks #climatechange #fossilfuel #spacex

Plenty of time

Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.

I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)

#37c3 my impressions - thanks for the great organization

There was a 2G and 4G network which was made possible by a frequency sponsorship. About 1 000 people used this network and handled 16.8k calls.
#37c3

say NO to 2024! no more years! #EndDates

• every year is worse than the last
• "being on time" is neuronormative and ableist
• date/time math is inconsistent and annoying
• "number goes up" is unsustainable
• "see you in a bit" is just fine
• nobody ever knows what day it is so let's just stop pretending
• buses don't run on "time", they show up when you light a cigarette
• deadlines were invented by capitalists
• global south forced to winter during summer
• time is an illusion and calendar isn't real - we made it up!

we can do better!

If you are interested, here are my slides for the not-accepted talk at #37c3 "Internet Governance Environmental Sustainability" https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Xs_vesna_Internet_Governance_Environmental_Sustainbility_ccc.pdf
@thomasfricke @jaythvv & a huge repository of links: https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability