Next step will be a country wide captive portal where you need to log in with your digital id just to get on the Internet at all. We should all start looking into decentralized network infrastructure like a wifi&lora meshnet or community run satellite connection. There already is a network stack with an active community that allows that called reticulum. It can be incorporated into the existing infrastructure of meshtastic, i2p, wifi meshnets etc.
We should all start looking into decentralized network infrastructure like a wifi&lora meshnet or community run satellite connection.
As usual, its a great idea. But it requires the kind of coordinated effort and extensive financial commitment that anarchist movements never seem able to muster. The great thing about the IEFT was that it set universal standards for connection and communication. Community run meshnets and one-off local groups end up with a plethora of competing standards and very insular bespoke networks.
I’ve played with local meshnets before and what I tend to find lacks the general utility of a standard ISP (trying connecting to your bank or your office VPN from a daisy chained local internet hub) with a few hobbyists who come and go as the mood strikes them.
It’s very much a “you get what you pay for” situation. Without a real professional organization guaranteeing service, you’re at the whim of someone else’s hobby setup.
China does that shit with any social media or any Chinese file hosting website. You are required to link your real identity so they know who to go after
Next step will be a country wide captive portal where you need to log in with your digital id just to get on the Internet at all. We should all start looking into decentralized network infrastructure like a wifi&lora meshnet or community run satellite connection. There already is a network stack with an active community that allows that called reticulum. It can be incorporated into the existing infrastructure of meshtastic, i2p, wifi meshnets etc.
Next step would be to make owning such devices illegal :(
You wouldn’t have one if you weren’t a pedophile. Simple. Banned forever.
As usual, its a great idea. But it requires the kind of coordinated effort and extensive financial commitment that anarchist movements never seem able to muster. The great thing about the IEFT was that it set universal standards for connection and communication. Community run meshnets and one-off local groups end up with a plethora of competing standards and very insular bespoke networks.
I’ve played with local meshnets before and what I tend to find lacks the general utility of a standard ISP (trying connecting to your bank or your office VPN from a daisy chained local internet hub) with a few hobbyists who come and go as the mood strikes them.
It’s very much a “you get what you pay for” situation. Without a real professional organization guaranteeing service, you’re at the whim of someone else’s hobby setup.
Well cute but LoRa bands can’t handle audio or above, so they’re only really useful for off-grid stuff.
China does that shit with any social media or any Chinese file hosting website. You are required to link your real identity so they know who to go after
@qwerty @not_IO Unfortunately I really think that’s the way the world is going, driven by douchebag billionaires dictating nation states what to do.
They want global surveillance.