Mastodawn

I never thought we'd be in a time where "seize the means of computation" may be a radical concept.

We need to share the means of communication.

The billionaires are hoarding it.

How we share our resources and communicate is what makes us human.

@onepict I have a whole device project planned for this to create basically a device and federated network to take back portable communication from the dipshits but..... money....

@freya I'm inspired by mesh from the time I heard about the efforts of the One Laptop Per child device.

There's a lot of old hardware and phones in the world.

@onepict this is kind of like that, but it doesn't try to be "a poor person version of the big rich person thing" like the OLPC was. the OLPC assumed "give kids laptops, and they will code and contribute to the economy". the device I want to bnuild is about letting more people talk to each other easier

@freya We do need that.

My project Librecast is trying to think of that from the software and networking side with multicast. Although we're still building the foundations.

I think the more of us, thinking about communication and how we can decentralise it so local communities can use it the better.

We need all the ideas, because we all have different experiences and ways of observing the world around us.

@onepict the whole vibe for this is basically.... self-assembling mesh, that can federate either using Wi-Fi HaLow or internet uplink, and the phones are 530MHz cortex-A5s with 2.4-inch non-touch displays and keyboards

https://www.apc.org/en/news/librecast-building-next-generation-internet-code-we-create-and-tools-we-use-can-help-or-harm

@freya oh that is cool.

If you've got some notes you are comfortable publishing you should.

If you do apply to NLNet, the notes are something you can point at and expand.

If you do apply and need a sounding board do feel free to ask.

Librecast on building the next-generation internet: “The code we create and the tools we use can help or harm humanity. We write our political values into our code”

This month we speak to Esther Payne, community manager and privacy advocate at Librecast. The organisation develops free and open-source (FOSS) software to enable multicast transmitting data to groups simultaneously without depending on a centralised structure.

Association for Progressive Communications

@onepict yeah! I have to convert this 50kb of discord chatlogs to actual notes

@onepict basically I got a blackberry, fell in love, and went "that. do that, but anarchist and federated"

https://nlnet.nl/thema/Hardware.html

@freya I love that idea. Blackberries were cool pieces of hardware. The BBS was amazing as well.

I encourage you to consider putting your notes together.

Here is a list of past funded hardware development projects. There's all sorts in here.

Including the mnt reform, and projects like Balthazar.

NLnet; Hardware

Neil Brown 1d ago

@onepict @freya It is a regular regret of mine that so many RIM devices ended up in landfill. An unlockable bootloader / ability to flash an alternative OS could have saved these tiny-keyboarded beauties.

@neil @onepict agreed. the meshphone will have an unlockable bootloader, or at least, a way to run user code. this will not be a linux phone, there will not be a root terminal on it by default, there will be sandboxing, security, verified boot with hardware root of trust, and so on. Microchip SAMA5D27 SoC