I have to say cool idea, but realistically if you are not using a apple or other locked down device you device will function without internet, and somebody will be able to create mesh nets or sneaker nets, and those will replace the internet (or are actually already in use right now) and those are so redundant, that as long as there isn't a solar storm that hard that it literally short circuits all technology, even in some in that case not good enough faradray cages, we will be able to recover pretty fast after the initial panic

if you really only played it and it didn't abuse some zero day in vlc (extremely unlikely), the there's basically zero chance you could have activated a virus.

yep: https://yunohost.org/#/

trying to advocate for sustainability, social justice, privacy etc. via my local and federal school councils, which have (even if it is quite limited) political power. And running some workshops for folks wanting to move to open source software.

But it's definitely possible to ship a virus embedded in a playable mkv file, but something else would have to extract it first, for it to do anything

yes, it and email are probably the two most widespread ones, i didn't include it because it's already pretty known

I'm kinda sad that theres almost no new work being made on top of it, seems even more promising than yggdrasil in some aspects

yesss i love to find even more projects

projects or ideas that try to be part of the movement to make the internet more decentralized and distributed. Yes some like Yggdrasil or TOR are about alternative routing via overlay networks that work over basically any connection. Others like SSB are trying to be even more revolutionary, by changing what we define as a network. All in all i would count most of those as Ideas or Impulses that if you are interested you definitely should check out and some of their concepts, i see becoming our internet in the future

yunohost it's basically an os that easily lets you selfhost, by having an extremely big amount of selfhosted services packaged with scripts that autonatically set everything up and all of that trough a clear and modern web interface.

I would suggest a baikal server: https://sabre.io/baikal/docker-install/ it's made from.the ones making radicle and sabre, one of the kost used open source caldav/carddav servers. Yes it can sync calendars too

It's far (really far) from perfect, but it's an example of the type of media we need, inspiring,. moving and hopeful for the future and technology, and it criticizes hopelessness and the "it's not bad enough to care about"-mindset

don't use google. basically any engine is better. I would recommend using a searxng instance. Soi that nobody can ever enshittify it ever again

yess 100% it would force big corporations out of our media

first just messing around with it, then starting selfhosting and then i started to dualboot just for fun, and one day i by mistake nuked my windows installation, so now i'm a full time linux user

I really like andors manifesto as a take on how to have radical hope in a world that individualizes us, is gettjng more and more authoritarian and is soo much against our dreams and hopes.

okay basically so many things sooo much better, first of all i can change any part of software of the os for any other one i like. I can fix my installation no matter how broken it is as long as the filse system is still intact.

wowwww, i think i just found the one note replacement i needed

okay, honestly: a dating app yes there are a couple foss ones, but basically no one uses them and their ux is horrible

definitely some alternative internet mesh routing standart, just imagine if every device with wifi or ethernet could just extend the network without relying on an isp, yeah they could still serve as a fast backbone, but they just wouldn't be needed and no disaster could really ever disrupt the whole internet again