Moderation is if you don’t like what somebody’s doing, you block them.

Ah, gotcha. Well in that case meshtastic is definitely your best bet for now and as for getting a node up into the tree I’m not sure unless you’re willing to go swamp bogging

Have a look at both meshtastic and meshcore. You say you’ve already seen some meshtastic nodes, but a lot of people are moving to meshcore, and so you might have better luck there.

Also, with your node antenna up at the crest of the house roof, I would think a mile should be doable to your kid’s school.

It may not work while they’re in the building itself, but if they are outside, then I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I don’t see why not.

Even though you can’t put up a mast and are currently isolated from the rest of the mesh, put up a node anyway, and then add yourself to one of the maps with, say, a quarter mile of inaccuracy.

If somebody was to drive to the location you have your node pinned at, with a quarter mile of inaccuracy, they would still be able to communicate with your node.

A node on a mast is great. A node on your roof is good. So, if you can’t have great, don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good and put up a node on your roof. Your house is still probably around 30 feet tall, so that’s still 30 feet of height, and somebody will eventually be able to communicate with you.

Otherwise, you get the chicken and egg problem, where a new person turns on a mesh core node and sees nobody available, so they turn off their mesh core node and put it in a drawer, and when their neighbor gets a mesh core node and turns it on, they see nobody there, so they turn off their mesh core node and put it in a drawer, not knowing that their neighbor has one, and if they had just left it on, they would have someone to communicate with.

As for the government making their own client and trying to hunt people down, you can make mesh nodes out of a lot of things because it’s so small and low-powered. I’ve seen people make security cameras into mesh nodes or solar lights into mesh nodes and when you mentioned this my thought went to a mesh teddy bear. I’ve never seen anybody create a mesh teddy bear, but I don’t see why you couldn’t.

Yeah, it’s actually pretty badass.

I think once the user experience gets simplified down, Reticulum will be an amazing piece of technology. But right now, it’s just not very user-friendly with the user experience.

I can use it, and I bet you can use it, but I don’t know if my mom would be able to use it right now, as is.

Because bans have worked so well before. /s

A more appropriate headline would read something like… “UK government shows their incompetence by attempting to block children from social media.”

The big problem with TCP IP is that it requires being assigned IP addresses and the border gateway protocol and other such infrastructure, which is not usable as an individual.

In Reticulum, you self-assign a destination address using your public and private keys and then announce that that service is available to the rest of the network through whatever connection you happen to have to the rest of the network.

Tor, i2p if you still have access to TCP and reticulum to bypass TCP entirely.

Edit: I should have said bypass TCP/IP because you need centralized infrastructure to use TCP IP because of the border gateway protocol and routing.

With Reticulum, you self-assign a destination hash using your public and private key pair and then announce that destination hash over whatever connection to the Reticulum network you happen to have. Whether it be Bluetooth, LORA, TCP/IP, serial cable, whatever.

Exactly, you should never have loyalty to a state. Because as the poem goes, there is no red, there is no blue, there is the state, and it hates you.

Kids, be sure to never vote.

It’s a waste of your time and energy, and the politicians don’t give a fuck about you, and will do whatever the fuck they want anyway.

Just ask Australia how well that went.

I actually agree with this. The lowest speed my fiber ISP offers is symmetrical 300 by 300 unless you qualify as a low-income individual and then you can get a 100 by 100 plan for cheaper than that.

Personally, I think that’s bullshit, and that anybody who wants to have the 100x100 plan should be able to have it without having to go through any kind of qualification step.