Mt St Michel, March 2026
Meeting people where they are
Dangerzone - Freedom of the Press Foundation
I mainly did two things in March for Dangerzone:
- Extracted the dangerzone container image utilities in a specific repository: dangerzone-image. That will allow other uses of the image, by other parties, but also make it simpler to contribute to Dangerzone as a whole. Previously, you needed to build the image yourself, run the whole test suite when making edits, etc. This is no longer true. It also enabled us to start thinking about the version 2 of the dangerzone protocol, that should make it possible to convert archives, videos and audio documents, but we are not there yet.
- Worked on threat modeling: we've started doing this a while back, and I proposed that we focus one week on it to get things done. The amount of context this requires to uphold is enormous, because you need to have all the threats, components and properties in mind, and then start thinking about mitigations. This will soon start blooming, and it was great to water it. I think we will talk about this more specifically in the future, because I believe the tools we've made here might be helpful to others.
- We changed the way we organize our milestones, to be able to see what's really in the release and what's external to it. It's meta, but I get a better understanding of where we're at thanks to it!
- An external contributor, Niel, has started working on dangerzone-rs. I'm really happy this is happening, and I hope we'll be able to help him move things forward. He implemented ANSI filtering, which was missing. Next up is OCR!
Conflict prevention
I'll soon start a University training on (human) conflict prevention / resolution. It'll be two days a month for the next year or so. I plan to keep notes on the subject and publish here.
Digital Security Training
I've had the pleasure to attend a digital security training by Melissa and Sx. What I really wanted was a glimpse at the material they're using, and see what I could reuse myself. I discovered Network & Magic, a role playing game that helps to understand how the internet is made. It was initially made by Hackstub, a hacklab in Strasbourg (Fr). Some folks reused it and proposed a workshop on the repression risks of internet. It was fun to play, and I plan to use it in future workshops.
I have a bunch of notes, that I might condensate and publish at some point.
Feelings
- ❤️❤️❤️ Music sessions with the NOLA band are reaaally refreshing, yet simple. That's what I like to get from music.
- ❤️❤️ Having a quiet dinner with a friend and then joining a party. It felt great to have both sides, and not feeling urged to "join the fun".
- ❤️❤️ Wrote a text and read it for a podcast episode about commitment. It felt reinsuring being a part of something. I like the audio format, and the way things were organized, even if it was a bit much on this specific week.
- ❤️ Going to Paris and meeting new people there was great.
- ❤️ I've animated another book reading session, about toxic masculinity. Always nice to have folks sharing their thoughts.
- 💔 Attended a writing session amongst friends. It's really cool to have these… but I'm stressing myself too much, for no reason. I felt I had too many things in one given week, making it hard to get it my undivided attention. I want to have more breath in my weeks going forward.
- 💔💔 I still have a tendency to use screens, checking hacker news, or my mails, before going to bed. I plan to get rid of it by removing applications from my computer, and maybe start hacking together something with the DNS of my home internet connection.