anyway im thinking about cheap raspi meshnets for protesters to carry in bags to enable rapid communication, using like, 20$ of hardware including battery and raspi zero
@nire I started planning something like this two years ago.
Mesh networking is Hard.
@ajr yeah, which is why im mostly trying to just get people talking about it again (locally, initially, but people seem to be interested here too)
@ajr yeah so theres like, hyperborea that tried to make a city wide one (and pittsburgh actually has one, i think)
@ajr where the starting points for hyperborea was long point to point links hoping the mesh would get filled out and they wouldnt need them anymore, but the problem is you really want to grow it radially
@ajr this is why what i really want is things that are able to charge off of being situated under overhead power lines
@ajr so you can just bury them or bolt them to the underside of furniture etc
@nire So many of the mesh networking projects appear to be dead. I was trying to get back in to it a few months ago, and all the sites were full of dead links, and outdated info.
Made me super confused and also paranoid?
@ajr the tools arent but the bundles are, as far as i can tell?
@ajr but political stuff has had people burned out and all the data anarchists are busy being real anarchists. I dont think its like, a coordinated campeign against mesh networking as much as everyone is sorta under attack or defending those who are, lately
@ajr 'real' here was a joke, i just mean in physical space.
@nire Yeah, it was just the higher profile projects that were dead.
@ajr much like all of open source people getting bored is also a big issue
@nire My thought was that we should be setting up wireless, long range connections. Local BBS kind of thing.
We were trying to do a device agnostic, hub and spoke topology. It died on the vine.