Notices by resist.berlin (resistberlin@chaos.social), page 4

Five years ago to the day, the #PRISM program was made public. One of the main revelations in the summer of #Snowden, making very clear which companies we all should avoid.

However, let's not forget that Snowden had already tried to leak the information many months earlier. The NSA scandal almost didn't happen because Greenwald was reluctant to use PGP and didn't take Snowden seriously in the beginning. #TrueStory

Country closest to #Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic

Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981

Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945

Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%

Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57

Source: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.

@cypnk Did you see this?

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7355-apertus_axiom

"Wireless Networking in the Developing World is a free book about designing, implementing, and maintaining low-cost wireless networks.":

http://wndw.net/book.html

(CC-BY-SA)

Highly recommended. If we ever build a free and open hacker/activist university, this is how course material should look like!

#WNDW #DIY #Textbook

To all the GnuPG donors: We already made it from 41€ to 206€ within just 36 hours. This is pretty insane, and most of the donors were inspired by this Mastodon campaign.

Please contribute if you can, and let's at least try to surpass the April amount of 342€ 🤗 We can do better than that!

If you can't contribute directly, please boost this as much as you can 🎈

Just donated 20€ to #GnuPG for keeping it real. They have only received 41€ in May so far, which is ridiculously low given the importance of that project. Please help out if you can:

https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html

(Really angry to see this shit blowing up on mainstream media now, this will be a frustrating week...)

Happy Birthday, Karl Marx! 🎂 ✊

#marx200

@dublinstinkt war einfach wie üblich ein großes Party- und Saufereignis... Wobei dieses Jahr die völlige Dominanz von Smartphones noch dazu gekommen ist, die die Leute aus der Realität gelöst hat. Das könnte für den völligen Niedergang an revolutionären Tendenzen zumindest mitverantwortlich sein. Die gesamte Aufmerksamkeit nur noch auf whatsapp und instagram.

When I set up my first #Freifunk router a couple of years ago, I liked the technical challenge.

Then, I was curious to see how many people would actually use it. Turns out up to 25 devices are connected at certain times of the day. The demand is huge.

These days, I more and more appreciate the VPN-based infrastructure, which gives every Freifunk user more anonymity than on a regular internet connection.

Please consider setting up your own Freifunk or #Openwifi router. They are highly needed.

Also we have to get rid of any messenger that requires your mobile phone number as your unique identifier, even much-lauded #Signal. It locks you inside the conventional, easy-to-track phone infrastructure. Try #Conversations instead, on a WiFi-only device. It uses the decentralized XMPP and works like a charm.