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.
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.
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.
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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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frphank 6 months ago
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 🤣 image