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2025-11-13
A new draft bill by the federal government of Germany proposes a
“Minimum requirement for the retention of IP addresses to prevent serious crime”. This draft is problematic for many
reasons, as the proposed minimum retention is not feasible with current
technological standards and will lead to significant negative impacts on
society.
Operating free public Wi-Fi services, such as those provided by
Freifunk, is significantly
complicated, if not made impossible. Public Wi-Fi services of this kind are an
important part of digital inclusion, particularly for people without mobile data
contracts, such as socially disadvantaged groups.
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2025-11-10
Since last year the
Open Doors with the Mouse
event from WDR has also included soldering workshops, lead by Timo from the
Binary Kitchen (who also designed
the badge soldering kits), among others.
The Munich Haecksen have already hosted several soldering workshops and have a
good rapport with the Binary Kitchen, so they wanted to also participate this
year. They registered a “door” under the name “Soldering Workshop” and on the
third of October we opened our door to kids that wanted to learn to solder.
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2025-09-08
For many years, our hackspace used a page from our wiki as our homepage. Those days are finally over. We have decided to rebuild our website with a static site generator (Hugo).
The xHain website served as the basis for our changeover, but we also drew inspiration from other hackspaces.
With the new look of our website, we not only want to appear more modern, but also make it easier for new interested parties to get started. All important information about our hackspace can easily be found here. The new structure also offers more space to document our projects and events.
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