Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online
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Can everyone chill for just a fucking second, the deluge of insane news this week is unreal
That's the point. Do enough crazy shit at once and most of it will be overlooked.
I get that, but I also cannot myself keep up, I’m fucking losing it
Take a break. Come back when you're ready.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
That article shows a list of first day executive orders... Normal presidents have zero or one.. then Biden had a few, and then trump had 26. Flood indeed
Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services. I can verify my child's age as well as mine and I'm the best one to decide what they can and can't see. So I only need to worry about me and my family.
Or a local community can run it for themselves.
A forced move away from social media, because they can't afford the risk, to one where we all run our own stuff and can follow who we want.
This is only 1 possible outcome of course, and it's wildly idealist, but it's a future I'm going to push for no matter what. So I'm very biased, so don't take my opinion into account. :D
you got any tutorials or suggested hardware to join a mesh network? id be interested... it's only a matter of time before the public internet is just unusable.
Not internet level replacement. But Meshcore running on ESP32 is pretty neat. I recently set up my RasPi 4b with a LoRa Hat and set it up using pymc_repeater to set it up a repeater at my apt. https://meshcore.co.uk/
*meshtastic
No thank you. I mean Meshcore.
MeshCore exists
In theory sure :-p
Just being a dick about it. My local club has many long long discussions about which we should be putting nodes up for.
To join you need to either have an established mesh network already (assuming you don't want to start a ISP)
right i found meshtastic.org through lemmy ... and its a cool concept ... purchase some hardware and join the network... download app... and you can do text communication... i was just wondering if there were more robust mesh networks with more capabilities than a text message. id rather just get prepared for when the rug is pulled out from underneath us and we have to get an anal cavity search just to check the weather.
What exactly are you looking for?
Not OP, but I personally would like to see a mesh-based low-bandwidth HTTP alternative, like Gemini. A tool set for sharing things more persistent than text messaging (or ideally building other digital services with) while being compatible with the underlying lower performance hardware and wireless medium.
Http doesn't have that much overhead (especially when you want to send things in the MB range)
What kinds of applications are you talking about? Are you thinking TCP/IP connectivity or something slower?
You can build a network mesh out of wireless point to point and 802.11s mesh networks. It is all TCP/IP networking so you can run any application you want over it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_(protocol)
https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Wiki
Edit:
I forgot about HaLow. It is lower bandwidth but it has a much longer range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
There are a few metros around the world that have higher speed community networks (NYC Mesh, Freifunk, etc). If you get a HAM license, you could try participating in stuff like AREDN which uses modified WiFi access points. Depending on where you are, you'd likely have to start a group or club to start building out infrastructure.
Reticulum seems cool since it can work over all kinds of different networking technologies, even regular ol' WiFi and whatnot. Higher bandwidth channels can talk to lower bandwidth channels, and vice versa.
It has its own problems with scale and actual users out in the wild, as well as I believe some issues getting proper code contributions and consistent maintenance.
No. They identify your location, confiscate all your stuff, give you a stiff fine and then send you to jail.
You might want to read up what happened to Jacques Baud and a handful of people. And welcome to the Fourth Reich, citizen.
I like to join your community and you can help me setup one for me and my family. Fuck social media and corporate.
I have a Matrix #the-ozoned:matrix.org . While I don't know a lot, I have quite a few number of folks that do. Or we can all learn and figure things out! I'm often here or on @[email protected] as well as my Peertube, TubeFree.org, powered by my nonprofit BTfree.org.
Just say what you need and we can find someone that can make it happen. :-)
Thank you definitely going check all that out.
I very much doubt it. People in general just don't care, or even worse. They think that it is a good thing as it keeps baddies out (it won't) and it will protect them (it won't).
It seems line very dark times are ahead. Self hosting is good, but it also gives the other side a bright shining beacon to go after. If they know everything about 99% of the population already, they can spend a lot more resources to really get to know the last percent that actively tries to avoid it.
Next step: allow only official services to be used. Introduce draconian legislation to persecute circumvention.
Fines with no legal recourse, debanking or complete banking bans, like EU has imposed on four people so far.
"Let the government put a video camera in your bedroom to verify you aren't molesting kids. If you fight against this, that means you are molesting kids"
-use this argument anytime someone thinks this is about protecting kids.
I tried something similar with my brother-in-law. He is not against chat control in Europe (we live in Denmark), so I asked him to give me his phone, unlock it and let me play around with it without him in the same room. He refused, but still has "nothing to hide". He has not changed his mind...
He trusts the government more than you apparently
He is a certified idiot.
He should unlock his phone and give it to the police for a week.
And then do nothing when handed one of the biggest child sexual abuse cases ever.
Paywalled. Here's an Archive.is link
It doesn't have a paywall for me; sorry if it does for some people, I wouldn't have linked to it if I had known this, but leaving it up because it clearly doesn't for everyone.
No worries, it's probably doing that due to me never getting off my vpn.
Just a tip: many"paywalled" sites actually load the content then obscure it with JavaScript - you can just click on the reading mode browser button to see the full article
Way ahead of ya. I think my vpns IP triggered it.
It's irritating that normies eat up any legislation sold as "protecting kids." It's like it shuts off a part of the brain.
The founding fathers didn't think everyone should vote, and frankly i think they're right. They had the wrong criteria, sure, but the average person is so gullible, uninformed, and just plain stupid that i genuinely think they (and everyone else) would be better off without a say.
But how to be more selective without it being abused by horrible people? I've got no real idea.
paywalled. also, this is a good way to kill the internet. when everyone starts getting doxxed, all that will be left are the bots.
Dead internet theory will be in full effect
How soon before the Iron Firecurtain drops and the Fourth Reich blocks the entire internet and locks you into a state intranet like China and NK do?
<2y I think. Buy your radios now.
The land of dystopia just keeps on dystopying
marsha blackburn is a gential wart.
not one of the cute fuzzy ones either. nope, she’s one of the inflamed itchy ones that oozes puss and smells like a rotting potato.
i hope she falls in a hole and never finds her way out.
do you wish it?
Still speedrunning civil war, I see. I can't think of anyone that wants this...
Oh Hummelgaard will feel not too lonely anymore.
So now is when you go out and get a few throwaway email accounts on as many odd sites as you can. My fb page is a nom-de-plume and has been for over a decade..
AI can already do that with around 90% confidence.
There is no right to be anonymous on the internet. The information highway is a highway, it's public.