I love the possibilities of sneakernet x Bluetooth mesh to circumvent censorship.
You stop at the coffee shop, get some groceries, or just walk around town visiting friends, and your personal relay fills with notes you don't have, while updating others with unseen notes from yours. You craft replies and make your own notes at home, to complete the cycle again tomorrow. All out of the view of the authorities, without your data being centralized on a faceless server somewhere, ready to be scanned, analyzed, and used to target you with advertising (or worse).
It's like something out of old sci-fi stories I used to read. It makes me want to buy some fashionable steampunk goggles 😂
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yes!! little raspberry pis on a roof with a small solar panel can become libraries. going through town seeds
and collects the latest versions of subscribed files. even drones can ne used to do a fly over of an area updating and collecting.
With ecash zaps could even still work 👀🤔
Packet Ghosts
Verse 1
No wires, no waves, just pockets full of light
I carry truth like contraband deep into the night
No towers blink, no signals flare
But knowledge rides the open air
A whisper in the code, a flicker in the mesh
Data hops from node to node like pulses under flesh
Pre-Chorus
They built a cage from cables, firewalls, and fear
But freedom’s got new sneakers and it’s nowhere near
We pass the torch by sneaker sole and signal breath
The message lives beyond their grasp, beyond their death
Chorus
We're the packet ghosts, we don’t need the net
Words ride Bluetooth veins, they ain’t caught us yet
From hand to hand, from phone to phone
We carve a path they’ve never known
Sneakernet saints, mesh-born flame
Truth finds routes without a name
No stream to block, no switch to throw
Just seeds in air, and roots below
Verse 2
I got a drive in my sock, and a plan in my head
Encrypted dreams that they thought were dead
Pass it at the station, drop it in a café
No signal, no trace, just flesh-and-bone relay
They monitor the lines, but not the street
Not the buzz of apps where rebels meet
I don’t scream, I sync and slide
Liberation’s in the payloads we hide
Pre-Chorus
Forget the cloud, we’ve got the crowd
A quiet swarm, unbound, unbowed
No port, no ping, no trace, no trail
We don’t fight fire - we ride the hail
Chorus
We're the packet ghosts, we don’t need the net
Words ride Bluetooth veins, they ain’t caught us yet
From hand to hand, from phone to phone
We carve a path they’ve never known
Sneakernet saints, mesh-born flame
Truth finds routes without a name
No stream to block, no switch to throw
Just seeds in air, and roots below
Bridge
No cloud to seize, no server to burn
No kill switch flips when the people learn
You silence speech, we change the route
The song still spreads, even if you shout
Not broadcast - burstcast
Each device a mast
Freedom ain't fast
But baby, it's built to last
Final Chorus
We’re the packet ghosts, we don’t need the net
Still spreading light while their tools reset
From soul to soul, from mind to mind
Truth’s not lost - it just declined
Sneakernet saints, mesh-born flame
Born anonymous, proud, untamed
No algorithm to cage our flow
Just people, fire, and things they’ll never know
Outro (spoken over static)
If you’re hearing this…
You're the network now.
wait until the goggles show you (and only you) relevant information in AR from your subjective reputation graph 👌
This may be how Christians do business without the mark of the beast.
We'll do business with non-Christians as we always have because this is demanded in how we spread the word. We also with integrity will provide superior services because we answer to the highest authority.
We won't, of course, do business that promotes sin. But we will share the word with all.
I love the possibilities of sneakernet x Bluetooth mesh to circumvent censorship.
You stop at the coffee shop, get some groceries, or just walk around town visiting friends, and your personal relay fills with notes you don't have, while updating others with unseen notes from yours. You craft replies and make your own notes at home, to complete the cycle again tomorrow. All out of the view of the authorities, without your data being centralized on a faceless server somewhere, ready to be scanned, analyzed, and used to target you with advertising (or worse).
It's like something out of old sci-fi stories I used to read. It makes me want to buy some fashionable steampunk goggles 😂
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Great for your friendly neighborhood chat but it doesn't go beyond that.
There's no question that this censorship drive is going to spawn some very interesting solutions. It's quite exciting really.
The only time I put AR goggles on will be when they are paired with my gun. And my augmented arms.
Actually I want augmented eyes 🤣

