Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

Are you tired of how enshitified the internet is?💩

Would you like to communicate with your homiez without ringing bells in 101 "partnering companies" in the US and elsewhere?🤑

Are you tired of everything technology-related getting only faster, more power-hungry, opaque and disposable?🚯

Do you like to co-invent, to explore, to trailblaze new things?🏔️

Do you want a world where autonomy, self-organization, people and communities are at the center, instead of profits and control?✊

... then take a look at this document (I consider it of _historical_ importance):📜

🧘 The Zen of #Reticulum 🧘

https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html

Read it, take a breath, ask yourself.. 🤩

I have been obsessed with #reticulum and #nomadnet this past week. It gives me major early-Internet buzz, like I'm a teenager again.

Whipped-up a crappy-but-functional bit of Python to serve pages on my NomadNet node tonight. Very fun. Now I just have to... uhh... write stuff to put on there.

Just met my first #glasshole in person

Asked him why he was wearing them

He said he'd "the feeling he needs them" because you can hear music with them ¯\(°_o)/¯

And saw no problem with #privacy at all - from what he'd said he didn't know the concept...

Got a bit pissed that I asked him, bc he saw it as "his decision" & "freedom" to wear a piece of surveillance tech in his face

How do you guys act in situations like this? Or am I too 2010ish ;)?

#tech #surveilance #resistance #rayban

How to create an account on #WSocial in 13 easy steps:

1️⃣ choose a username
2️⃣ choose a password
3️⃣ choose your interests
4️⃣ download the #WIdentity app to your phone (two options: Apple AppStore or Google Play Store)
5️⃣ scan a QR code
6️⃣ create a PIN code
optional: enable biometrics; re-enter PIN
7️⃣ choose whether you simply want to verify that you're human or if you also want to verify your name
8️⃣ choose the verification method (automatic photo review, request a manual review or scan your passport chip)
9️⃣ scan your passport's picture page
1️⃣0️⃣ scan your passport's chip
1️⃣1️⃣ take a selfie
1️⃣2️⃣ scan a QR code to link the W Identity to your W Social account
1️⃣3️⃣ enter your PIN code

Congratulations, you're verified*!

(* for two years)

Demonstration in all its simple glory here:

📺​: https://inv.nadeko.net/Vcq4MiabpEQ

Please save this toot as reference if you ever hear somebody say that IT'S TOO COMPLICATED TO JOIN THE FEDIVERSE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO PICK A SERVER 🤡​

#SocialMedia

Neighbourhood-First Software: the open web without expecting everyone to self-host - Jade Ambrose https://tv.lumbung.space/w/nzuB248U2LQA1LCn7vYmER

Dear fedizens

I'm getting into secure resilient decentralised mesh p2p/p4p communication networks.
(Wow, that's a mouthful)

Could y'all give me some advice about relevant tech and hardware?

My primary use case is getting a few thousand people securely connected (messaging, preferably some web services as well) in a large area (hundreds of km²) with rugged terrain.
Eventually the use case will become fairly similar to "neighbourhood-first software", with 100k people across a few thousand km²: https://tv.lumbung.space/w/nzuB248U2LQA1LCn7vYmER

I've watched and read some stuff about #meshtastic, #meshcore and #reticulum, like
this blog post https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum
this glorious video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk
and #p4panda in this blog post https://lores.tech/blog/example-chat-app/

I'm leaning in favour of reticulum with p4panda on top, but can be convinced otherwise.

What sorta hardware is suitable?
Is #microreticulum functional?
Do you know of any decent guides?

Boosts welcome, cheers!

#fedihelp #fediask #mesh #networking #p2p #p4p #anarchism #digitalAutonomy #localResilienceTech #decentralization #decentralisation #neighbourhoodFirstSoftware

WTF? I **hate** #WhatsApp, and I only use it in a sand-boxed user account with a former (expired) SIM card/phone number on my GrapheneOS phone. I'm using WhatsApp for a single purpose only, and mostly through a web browser (as one can type there properly).

Now, it looks like Meta has spoiled that, by requiring a login to Facebook first before being able to use it on the web. WTF?

#SocialMedia #enshittification

So..... #U2 came and made a video in and around the very building in #CDMX where we recorded #BalconyTV 15 years ago. 🙂

A ver che, somos como 600 millones de personas. Tenemos todo el petróleo, el gas, minerales, metales, alimentos, agua y puedo seguir. La clave está en ponernos a trabajar juntos. Ya se es lo que más nos cuesta. Pero hoy tenemos que enfrentar una crisis internacional real que podría ser devastadora. ¿Qué vamos a esperar? Esto no lo arregla Trump ni nadie. Pero podemos encarar nosotros con lo que tenemos que no es poco. ¿Seremos capaces? Es ahora 😏

Acaba de pasar. Llaman a mi madre (A SU FIJO DE CASA) desde una supuesta UCI, diciendo que mi hermana (CON SU NOMBRE) había sufrido un accidente laboral gravísimo, que solo se podía salvar si le ponían una prótesis carísima que justo tenían disponible. DE FONDO, LA VOZ DE MI HERMANA GRITANDO.

Whoever had this sticker made up, I love you.

Apparently, #Google has lost track of their goal for #Android "We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other. " https://web.archive.org/web/20120501080416/http://source.android.com/about/philosophy.html

That page is 404 Not Found now...

#KeepAndroidOpen

This weekend, please don't forget to optimize your #internet usage...

"don't forget:" by Casey-Jo Loos

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism