Danny O'B
I guess why I think about these things is that as a good anarcho-techno-syndicalist (but only on Tuesdays), I often see what happens is that people are very enthusiastic about running their own Linux meshnetworks for freedom, but after a while you kind of want Mark Shuttleworth to do it for you, then Google, then Comcast then, oh shit I'm reading my Facebook at the combination PIzza Hut Taco Bell
Apr 6, 2017 at 10:09pmWeb
Show thread"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Apr 6, 2017
@mala *follows for those "meshworks"*
Show threadNate Cull (.social)Apr 6, 2017
@beadsland @mala aw man yeah what happened to mesh networks? I still kinda want one but running HTTP over slow wifi doesn't seem like quite the best fit
Show thread"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Apr 6, 2017
@mala @natecull Perhaps someone will reimagine it as mesh over powerline at some point.
Show threadDanny O'BApr 6, 2017
@natecull @beadsland well amusing meshnetworks are my go-to example for this. My theory of mesh networks is that they don't work, except where they work *brilliantly* -- and that is determined by how many anarchists you have locally to make sure that they keep working
e.g this amazingly huge one in Catalonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net
Oakland: https://peoplesopen.net/
Detroit? https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp/digitalstewards
Berlin: https://freifunk.net/
Show thread"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Apr 6, 2017
@natecull @mala Ah, and see, I instantly think De Landa and wonder if the issue isn't not enough anarchists, but all too many humans. Hmm.
Show threadRob Flickenger ⚡Apr 6, 2017

@mala I'm far too busy with actual projects to hack on this. But I find myself smiling at the possibility of some kind of off-shore crypto-enabled Merkle tree micropayment click-here-to-Patreonify-my-devops-script-and-pay-that-cloud-bill future.

Improbable and impractical, but it still makes me smile. Sure beats bitching about the bird.