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which #mastodon server would one use for a #mesh project interested in ham radio, #meshcore and #reticulum? #askfedi #boostswelcome

@franklinlopez@kolektiva.social use *tor* to read the press release #VPNfeds https://www.torproject.org/

@ripienaar@devco.social @alda@topspicy.social i am not currently happy with AI anything, but i am not understanding why you are sealioning a stranger right now either

@sean@scoat.es see that's discord for you... you'd have gotten such a warmer welcome on #matrix! :p

@beatricejess@masto.bike just to be clear i'm not on the security team, others desserve the credit here :)

@alda@topspicy.social except the seal is a bot

@ripienaar@devco.social @alda@topspicy.social i'm not complaining about docs, i'm complaining about bros not bothering to write friggin docs

@franklinlopez@kolektiva.social @hydroponictrash@kolektiva.social re archival, i just scheduled a crawl of the site with archivebot, so we should have a good copy at the internet archive shortly

@franklinlopez@kolektiva.social i'll answer the same thing i answer every time this is asked, decade after decade, and it's amateur radio. sure, 10 years ago, it was wifi mesh (someone mentioned reseaulibre.ca here in the thread, that's still hosted in my basement), and now it's meshtastic, but none of those have the resilience and scope of ham radio. just do it, get your license already. i have books and knowledge.

@corbet that's going to sound quaint, but the answer, in my mind, is still this old internet we're on right now... #mastodon and the #federation is not exactly "old" but it certainly matches the old school usenet/email models of old, warts and all, but it feels mostly insulated from this madness... search engines are dying because of AI, but we still have, thanks to you, trusted sources of news, and those will stay places we can rely on, not by stumbling on them randomly, but by directly seeking content there, because we know it's there.

@ombres @franklinlopez i second that, https://www.fiiocanada.ca/products/snowsky-echo-mini a friend of mine got one of those and is pretty happy

@franklinlopez there's some filaments that are made from recycled plastic, printers made of parts made by printers, there's some loopy stuff going on there, but fundamentally, well... it's plastic.

@stefani @sean @foulab i really hope we talk about "how do we do things?" "who are we?" and "how do we organize?" as well, because right now it feels like a pretty mess :p

@ybon @postmarketOS that looks amazing. i think if i could get a brick dumbphone like those nokia to run just signal and SMS, i would ditch any modern phone this instant (organic maps would be a nice bonus)

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca that's beautiful.

@hydroponictrash@kolektiva.social @franklinlopez@kolektiva.social if you need help getting off substack, let me know, i have Opinions :)

@axolotl@kolektiva.social and typically you just put the URL of the site you're looking for there

@franklinlopez@kolektiva.social finally, worse is better: e.g. reticulum is superior in cryptograhic design, scalability, and so on, but meshtastic has the critical mass right now, so i'm playing with that. don't let the best theory get in the way of getting stuff done

@hko also, holy moly, LibrePGP still allows DSA? #wtf? there's also a couple of vulnerabilities in the librepgp protocol disclosed in there...

@corbet@social.kernel.org i just had another thought on this: i think search engines are dead. they were dying even before AI slop started hitting harder, SEO is a class attack against the founding principles of Page Rank that made search so good back then. instead, perhaps what we need to build is an open, "allow-list", topic-specific search engine, one that would index all sites (like LWN, Wikipedia, and so on) *and what they link to*... perhaps we could find good contents there!

@jbcrawford is there some dark corner of the internet that explains how this list is even sorted? *is* it sorted? i think i viscerally hate that thing and yeah, LoRa meshes? you're *not* helping.

@ybon curious about comaps vs og maps, i haven't figured out where i stand wrt to that fork

@znoteer c'etait pas moi sur IRC je jure

@jgoerzen@floss.social i love those features, but i don't like the idea of starting SSH sessions with kermit as a wrapper systematically, and then i bet that when i'll need it i won't have a kermit wrapped SSH, how do you deal with that?

@axolotl@kolektiva.social so if you don't want to touch substack but read this, check out the wayback machine *now* and let me know what's missing, maybe?

@bremner@mathstodon.xyz @JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social @peterpur@hci.social #AI is really taking #enshitification to a whole other level

@onewheelgeek@social.lol added it to https://gitlab.com/anarcat/undertime/ !