Heyo,
Me + @dx made a project for #39c3 this year, in which we made 5 DIY air purifiers a la Corsi-Rosenthal Cubes, but modified to be more portable, easier to take apart and put together, and overall be congress-safe. We had them at Angel Restaurant (2), CERT (2) and Kidspace (1), so you may have seen them around.

We have published details and files here if interested: https://github.com/c3infsch/aircycles (feel free to reach out with questions or if you want to build them so we can help)

We just finished taking them apart for the year and threw out most of the filters as they looked really dark, and with that we're done with 39c3 🎉

If you'd like to help offset our costs so far, and help us build more for future events (we got so many more requests than we could supply), we've set up donation links:
https://bunq.me/aveao (also shows the IBAN if you prefer to do a bank transfer)
https://paypal.me/aveaoz
(Transfer reference "Aircycles Donation" or "Aircycles Spende" please.)

As for the amount: We've spent about 700eur not including the costs of prototyping, and for next year we plan to build even more of them to meet the demand. We don't intend to make a profit, so I might edit this post later if donations reach too high an amount (but I doubt we'll get there).

Thank you! (and boosts welcome)

I paid a fuckton of money for my @frameworkcomputer laptop parts. I paid extra for the parts I could've saved money on elsewhere because I wanted to support the company and what they stand for. I even ported Debian to the RISC-V Motherboard for the product that made Framework Framework: The Framework 13.

Now Framework decided to sponsor Omarchy and Hyprland, the leaderships of which are not just "politically of a different opinion", they are actively toxic, hostile and highly discriminatory, to phrase it euphemistically.

Nirav Patel responded to this in the community forum, essentially doubling down on the decision to take a "big tent approach".

I want to reiterate: __This isn't about "political differences", because the political difference are actively harmful to democracy itself, and the physical safety of marginalised communities.

Someone I supported in good faith with both code and money turned around and gave this money to multiple people who'd rather see me dead for existing.

Needless to say, I feel quite betrayed and I'm really torn on wether or not I should even continue and proceed with the port for the second RISC-V mainboard, because I don't want to end up supporting the hate towards me, my wife or other people in the same situation as me.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels betrayed by this decision.