There are so damn many far superior systems in this thread. We should have gotten together earlier and promoted one of them.
Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Side loading is a threat to Apples control over all iOS and similar AppStore devices. If I didn’t want to comply with the very far-reaching requirements for e g in-app stores, I could just ask my users to side load my app. If for example Audible did this, it’d be a real threat.
Chief among this is the requirement that all in-app purchases have a 30% tax by apple. Which is why you can't buy books in the kindle ios app[0] among others. [0] https://www.techspot.com/article/1597-how-to-buy-kindle-book...
Still waiting on regulators to slap Apple for that obvious anticompetitive behavior.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Something works, it helps their protests admist disruption of telecom. Appreciate that please. Not everything needs to be technical. More we speak of tech, more morale we loose.
More we speak of tech, more morale we lose. Meaning human-centric vs tech-centric morale/world-view?
Example:
One side of the world:
Hey we used bluetooth to communicate to my next door neighbour while our internet was being sniffed by the government.
Other side of the world:
Hey man, looks like the bluetooth tech they were using is pretty outdated. I wonder how they are living.
How did the talk get diverted ?
Why the other side of the world didn't talk about whats important?
How can they start appreciating first than putting the intellect mind into work?
Whats feels wrong?
Something feels wired in the brain.
Haaa right!
Tech is as addictive as any other addiction.
Intellect is the addictive substance.
Big brains know it,
We use it,
We think along with it.
So what got lost?
When did we stop to think like a humble monkey instead like a greedy machine ?
couple more questions.
point - Balance the mind with its own nature and external influence.
Reject if something feels wrong. Or atleast dont express.
Depression is prevalent in tech.
Why ! Because brain was giving you signs from beginning that it isnt healthy.
Everything is connected.
Hope I gave you the message you needed.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
Something works, it helps their protests admist disruption of telecom. Appreciate that please. Not everything needs to be technical. More we speak of tech, more morale we loose.
We can support what works today, while commenting on its shortfalls to raise awareness and build better, more secure solutions for tomorrow.
Kill snake by its head. Which is the snake in this world ?
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#215https://genesis.re/comms - help me grow this guide!
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#216I don’t know a lot about it but would Signal be safe or even possible to use there?
No internet, no Signal.
No internet being key here.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
China can't cut HK off from the internet. Almost all Chinese internet traffic is routed through Hong Kong, not the other way around.
Wait, so if I in Europe send an email to a Chinese server, it gets routed across the Atlantic, Pacific and via HK into China? There's no direct land link?
Depends on your ISP. There are cables from Europe and the Americas to China but they are very expensive and congested. HK is also congested but there is much more bandwidth and it's a lot cheaper.
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#220Does anyone have good technical resources on how mesh networks work? Who's the authority on the identity of a recipient? Do you exchange something out of band (for example a QR code) first? How do messages get routed? How do messages behave under constant network partitioning and healing? Does it use your GPS location for network topology purposes? etc etc
have a look at these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N . https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki https://kb.datto.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024059951-Legacy-O... http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=cont... there is also an open mesh for routers if you have the hardware and propensity look at openWRT and find a mesh add on for it find out what routers you have available to flash i…
Do you know of any good resources talking about considerations for handling adversarial nodes in these networks? For example, what's to stop a rogue implementation from advertising that it has a low cost / short distance to every other node it's ever seen, reporting that data has been sent successfully that actually wasn't, etc? These links give some good background but I haven't seen anything on there about trust in a hostile environment.