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 I was trying to get back in to it a few months ago, and all the sites were full of dead links, and outdated info.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?