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I Love Free Software Day event

Feb

19

2025

The 13th of February 2025 Syn2Cat, in collaboration with CLUSIL‘s Open Source Working Group, Code Club and Passbolt, joined many other hackerspaces in celebrating the “I Love Free Software” Day.The informal meeting, held at the Level2 hackerspace, created an opportunity to meet with people interested in Free and Open Source Software coming from Luxembourg and ...

Decrypting network traffic at the hackerspace

Oct

3

2013

You know the VU meter showing the network traffic on our Internet connection. The needle also bounces when the hackerspace is empty. Looking a bit more closely shows that it’s mostly encrypted traffic. What is going on here? To store our members credentials and information for our WiFi network and our Openduino lock system, we ...

Marble Adder 4

Jan

21

2012

Every 2 years the science festival invites to bring science to young people. It is split into 2 parts. The first 2 days are for dedicated workshops with groups from various schools. The last 2 days are open to the public. Being a bit late with our submission we came up with the nice idea ...

2012…a new dawn! 2

Jan

1

2012

It is tradition to wish everyone a happy new year when the old one ends and a new one begins. But the past year will leave a mark on everybody’s memory for its events.

Back to the Future :: science and other curiosities

Nov

18

2011

Geek-historians will certainly come to recognize November 10th through 13th 2011 as one of the great moments in syn2cat history. On those cold, damp and foggy November days, we not only participated in the Student’s Fair but also presented a somewhat unique device to the broader Luxembourgian public. At the 2011 edition of the Science ...