Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
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Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#102For everyone talking about solutions that involve short-range mesh networking: Belarus is about 600km across and the capital Minsk is about 130km from the border with the nearest free country, Lithuania. For everyone talking about solutions that involve deploying additional hardware: who's going to pay for it and how are you going to get it into Belarus?
On the other hand, Brest is right on the border with Poland so point to point links would be very possible. The country is generally quite flat so you might even have success connecting other cities with a few hops.
Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#103This duscussion is cute, but but situation in belarus is deteriorating and people are being beaten and tortured in jail. Open this with google translate yo get an idea: https://news.tut.by/society/696375.html
I would say that if you want to help, first reach out to your representative / government and put pressure on them to put pressure on belarus. It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world.
Secondly, we need a crowdfunder to support people who've suffered grevious bodily harm at the hands of this regime.
Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#104Cuba does it with flash drives passed around.
Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#105This duscussion is cute, but but situation in belarus is deteriorating and people are being beaten and tortured in jail. Open this with google translate yo get an idea: https://news.tut.by/society/696375.html I would say that if you want to help, first reach out to your representative / government and put pressure on them to put pressure on belarus. It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world. Seco…
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Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#106This duscussion is cute, but but situation in belarus is deteriorating and people are being beaten and tortured in jail. Open this with google translate yo get an idea: https://news.tut.by/society/696375.html I would say that if you want to help, first reach out to your representative / government and put pressure on them to put pressure on belarus. It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world. Seco…
On the internet, it always surfaces the negative aspects of the country, especially the stories of activists that continuously are a pain to deal with. Then you walk on the streets of the country, talk to people, even hire and do business, and you realize it's a pretty functional country with high standards of living (looks much better than UA, RO, RU..).
Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#107This duscussion is cute, but but situation in belarus is deteriorating and people are being beaten and tortured in jail. Open this with google translate yo get an idea: https://news.tut.by/society/696375.html I would say that if you want to help, first reach out to your representative / government and put pressure on them to put pressure on belarus. It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world. Seco…
>It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world.
You just said how to evade the pressure.
Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#108https://disaster.radio/ disaster.radio is an off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware. Designed to be open, distributed, and decentralized, disaster.radio is currently in the prototype/development phase.
this is only for short messages via Lora, 40 chars at a time last time I tried.
Still good for shorthand, locations, coordinating communication by other means, and the like.
Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#109This duscussion is cute, but but situation in belarus is deteriorating and people are being beaten and tortured in jail. Open this with google translate yo get an idea: https://news.tut.by/society/696375.html I would say that if you want to help, first reach out to your representative / government and put pressure on them to put pressure on belarus. It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world. Seco…
> the free world
Ah the famous free world where our social media posts are heavily censored, where lock-down was / is mandatory for a lot of us, and where protesting can cost you an eye (at least 20 people lost an eye last year in France's Gillets Jaunes protests).
Yes we still have it better than the Belorussians but free our world is certainly not.
Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
#110This duscussion is cute, but but situation in belarus is deteriorating and people are being beaten and tortured in jail. Open this with google translate yo get an idea: https://news.tut.by/society/696375.html I would say that if you want to help, first reach out to your representative / government and put pressure on them to put pressure on belarus. It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world. Seco…
> the free world Ah the famous free world where our social media posts are heavily censored, where lock-down was / is mandatory for a lot of us, and where protesting can cost you an eye (at least 20 people lost an eye last year in France's Gillets Jaunes protests). Yes we still have it better than the Belorussians but free our world is certainly not.
Would you be content with calling it 'somewhat democratic world'?