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.

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

Seems google/apple's push notifications services are regularly queried by state authorities for obtaining user data -- see this german @netzpolitik_feed https://netzpolitik.org/2023/push-dienste-behoerden-fragen-apple-und-google-nach-nutzern-von-messenger-apps/ --
#deltachat only uses apple's push notifications on iOS for "heartbeat" services -- to ensure the app can show messages for their user (and many users are asking for tighter integration). On Android, Desktop and #ubuntutouch platforms currently no push notifications are used or needed, also no heartbeat ones.