i believe openwrt uses dropbear by default instead of openssh

And turns out if you lose you ssh key, you can just login using any string more than 256 characters. https://sshhole.com/

Precisely what I’m getting at 🍻

A lot of that AI will presumably be rented from the companies that persuaded your boss to fire you and use their tools instead. So it's an odd kind of protest, that starts by paying those companies more money.

I do like the idea of software engineers collectivizing and prioritizing work on projects that don't have good enough open-source options, particularly where it targets the nastier companies in the SaaS space. But there's nothing new about that work; what's new is that we have a lot of people motivated to take software in a new direction, who miss being able to take pride in the quality of their work, and who may be more receptive to acting collectively than these people have traditionally been. I know whenever I've proposed any kind of collective stance at my workplaces I've been met with blank stares, silence, and developers nervously looking at their feet. Maybe that can change when more people have recent experience of what happens when you don't act together.

If we want to do something new, how about worker-owned cooperatives which actually offer good-quality software and support with ethical terms of use? Build it and sell it to the companies paying for SaaS, and make your software and support deal more attractive than the one they're being gouged for. The support is particularly important when anyone can dash off some software using AI. Make your company worker-owned, nonprofit and cheap, market it professionally, offer good support and maintenance, and make a living doing it.

Found this related : https://columba.network/ It looks easy to use.

It's a great way to get as many people on board.

ServiceNow next please. Fuck the "SI" Control Tower

Last time my fiber went down I still hadn't configured USB tethering to work in openwrt. I had to connect the router to the mobile hotspot to install packages 😂 So if you have a USB port, don't put it off for too long.

It does both - that's one of the key advantages it has over things like Meshtastic. It can run over LoRA, over TCP, and other forms, including l2P as well. The big reason to add it to your router, actually, is so it can help with traffic over TCP. If you really want to help, you can add a LoRA antenna via USB to your router, and now you can do LoRA <--> TCP.

It's also encrypted by default at the packet level, unlike most of the solutions you've described.

they brag about reimplementing software from companies they were laid off from with llms. llms are trained on shittons of source code both open and proprietary, which they are known to be able to regurgitate verbatim. also, if you've worked with a proprietary codebase at all, you can not be let even close to a reimplementation or it's legally not clean-room, no matter how much you pinkie promise to not use any of what you learned at your former workplace.

sensible comment 👍

If an employee can't have a job, these companies should also suffer

Why?

That is true

Set up aqm or whatever it’s called on openwrt.

It makes a huge difference.

True. But tech companies do out source support.

People pays for long term maintenance and support. I'm sympathetic to the mouvement and motivation but it's not going to change much.

You'll need to buy extra radio hardware for it, though, if I understood correctly? Enlighten me. If you'll say Reticulum also runs over public internet, it'll have to compete with the million free, distributed or federated things out there like XMPP or I2P.

Remember when there was the threat of this happening to open source software and people thought it was the end of open source? This is dumb and the only good that could come out of it is that someone is forced to rule that there is no such thing as a clean room implementation.

these people wouldn't know what a "clean-room" was if it swallowed them whole

Honestly, as many objections as I have to LLMs and codegen, I honestly don’t object to using it in this context as a tool to counterattack. I feel like this is a relatively reasonable way to fuck with the megacorps and take a slice of their pie.

spite software is the best kind of software

I've been scrolling for five minutes and this is the third self-promoted AI project I've seen. This is what lemmy/the Internet is now, I guess.

Yeah... Totally going to use the vibe coded authentication service. Not

ZeroAuthy? whats wrong with Keycloak? its good to have multiple options but why bother if you are just going to vibe the whole thing?