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)
@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.
@ajr yeah so theres like, hyperborea that tried to make a city wide one (and pittsburgh actually has one, i think)
@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 I was trying to get back in to it a few months ago, and all the sites were full of dead links, and outdated info.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 '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
@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