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The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit
(www.theguardian.com)
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We need to build a decentralised internet quickly using I2P or something similar and scale and decentralise quickly. VPN’s will be the first to go then TOR after they attempt to control the exit nodes .
We need to show the governments that we are allowed to use encryption and Wikipedia and not be treated as criminals for wanting privacy .
I've been running i2p for years. It works well and if there was demand it would be fairly trivial to make Lemmy compatible.
So what did you change about your behavior after writing this message?
Something similar when using an operating system from Google and Apple, known for their attachment to privacy and noble behavior?
In any case, you can't have a mesh with ends reachable at all times or even addressed. Delay-tolerant applications are sort of better. With nodes synchronizing when in contact. Except for, say, threaded discussions to make sense, this would almost require some sort of dependency management, to synchronize objects by priority.
But honestly all of today's computing seems authoritarian and imperial. Which leads to the way it shapes the world. Richard Stallman is known for being worried about this (not many other people), but GNU + Hurd is honestly still in the same paradigm.
I wonder if it's possible to devise something like BTRON, except with program objects being similar to Java assemblies, but at the same time more like Common Lisp. For the commonly used software to be generally easily hackable\changeable. BTRON in its concept is nicer than Unix, it's a consistent idea for modernity of computing, one can say. It seems even nicer than Plan 9. Unfortunately I don't know Japanese to play with it.
Something that could be used on weak and cheap enough hardware to have some separate niche of personal\PDA computing based on it. Like Briar, but.
Things like CJDNS and Yggdrasil surely look nice, but those just change one layer. For a real totalitarian world they won't help. It's not even a matter of technology, it's a matter of links' capability when you can't use the Internet because, ahem, you'll be detected and police will come knocking.
Perhaps a meshtastic delivered list of tor bridges or a wireless p2p internet . Digital dead drops
Well, in my head "like Briar" is the best thing possible for architecture. Except Briar only synchronizes joined groups.
Perhaps even with some kind of, yes, a digital dead drop, that would synchronize (purging stuff old or not in demand) everything announced by devices passing nearby. Over some low-range radio, like BT.
Asynchronous communication. Because having a real-time connection with any mesh is hard.
https://github.com/yggdrasil-network https://yggdrasil-openwrt.github.io/openwrt-config-basic.html