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a real life blank reg here. I live in an RV operate a MESHNET and do everthing i can to foster a common persons free decentralized infrastructure.

As mentioned elsewhere ive been taping cameras and stabbing microphones for years now.

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Thank you for your service.

Tell me more about how I can get involved

Explore and evaluate meshnet projects, find one that you like, and educate others about them.

Set up the hardware, link up with existing mesh if you're in a dense enough area.

Push federated services like Matrix and ActivityPub based services like Mastadon, so when it's time to go mesh, people don't laugh when you say "It doesn't reach Facebook/Insta".

and check out the Project-Byzantium.

https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium

https://project-byzantium.org/

https://hackaday.com/2015/04/28/meshing-pis-with-project-byz...

Uses kernel 3.x and latest commit is dated 2014 though. I believe there are more actively maintained mesh networking options in OpenWrt.

The important part is the configs, other than that is just another distro. a very small niche group serviced this distro, and it seems to be derelict. The useful part of BZ mesh is USB bootup. so any machine can become and unbecome a node. sometimes something is finished and nothing further is done then a new way pops up. the advantage to porteus is its pared down for rapid boot up, to reestablish a node while walking about on the fly.

" Major changes include: Kernel 4.16.3 Core is based on Slackware current 7 desktop options to choose from! http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.porteus.org/"

i believe its OLSR you may like.https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Mesh_Networking_with_...

Thank you. Would you be so kind to write a blog post about this?

Or just a longer form comment.

ill put something up in show HN for now dont let any wifi stuff get trashed and wasted, even "broken things" have components vital to home brewing your own infrastructure.

Thank you. Depending on how things go, more of us than we think will join you.

Solidarity

“Computers know too much.”

— Blank Reg

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