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You'll have to kill me first. No way in good Satan's Hell will pedophiles put their software on my computer. Eat dick bitch. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 113 points 8 months ago (22 children)

If it ever gets to this point, I have a ton of books to read. I just won't use a computer anymore. You'll find me under a tree in a park reading 1984.

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  • [–] 86 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'll be that guy who specializes in extremely outdated hardware that doesn't have this feature.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I've long since thought we should do this, and avoid the pitfalls the internet has fallen into. The entire stack needs to be foss and standardised, including hardware. It needs to be mostly incompatible with anything before it (Can still be standardised in a POSIX-like way but not "you can run your old windows program" compatible), and it needs to be designed democratically (and as much as people hate bureaucracy, designed by committee of academics and other not-for-profit organizations and individuals). We need what is essentially a less violent computer cultural revolution

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    We can build our own internet. With meshtastic. And closed networks.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I don’t think meshtastic will scale that well

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    It can.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not really. Meshtastic simply does not support high enough bandwidth options.

    As someone already pointed out, Reticulum is much better suited for this since it's more agnostic to the underlying method of transport.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Find in page returned one result for "reticulum," and it was yours. Sometimes everything doesn't federate for everyone at the same time.

    Anyway my point wasn't that it can right now, just that necessity is the mother of invention/innovation. I'll look into reticulum at some point, I just finished vacuuming and mopping after work, and need to clean myself up. Thanks for mentioning it to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Meshtastic doesn't have the ability, ever, to be able to do more than rudimentary texts. The frequency bands it operates on simply won't be able to handle more than that, and if it ever became mainstream in any way, it certainly wouldn't be able to handle anything more than text.

    Sure be awesome to have another way to text people, it just will never be an alternative to the internet or sending memes on a SM.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I2P and tor are gonna thrive off of this era of oppressive government surveillance, I'm excited for that. Silver lining, people may actually advocate for and use private services.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah. And 99.9% of humanity will go on using McInternet, and whatever the fuck we do won't matter and they'll still control all of society and its direction.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    I'm like 99% sure that they've written off millennials as a total loss as a generation they can control and are grooming Gen alpha to be their little human slaves. The 'smart' tech guys decided that cyberpunk dystopia was inevitable and decided to make it themselves.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Ah ye of little faith. Build it and they will come, if we act in concert.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    that attitude got us in this mess. The internet was free before corporate interests and the series of eternal september esque events happening from '98 onward caused largely by accessibility. Whatever we come up with needs to be difficult enough to access so corporations can't turn everyone into "customers". It doesn't need to be so hard that only nerds can use, but it needs to have enough friction to require effort, thought, and interest of some kind to use

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    This has recently been happening to me! I have been so fed up with the dumb propagandistic bullshit and the fucking algorithm enema of the Internet lately that I've been like- FINE. Fuck this, I have a whole library to entertain me.

    I've read a bunch of books, classics I missed back when reading was a thing, and it's amazing. It feels like feeding my scurvy ass brain fruits and vegetables after a decade at sea.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    When you reread it, consider that the systematic pollution has likely amongst other things affected our fear and trust centers in the brain, making us trust authority. I'm convinced, by several pathways, one of which probably endocrine disruptors, but others. A topic they sort of touch on.

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