What would it take to give these poor children a Starlink connection?
Being indebted to Elon and the Orange Administration. Probably not the best solution to a problem like this.
Internet in a Box
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#42It is the opposite of Internet in a box. This exemplifies how, in our day and age, "The Internet" is mostly a one-sided experience where a few large organizations offer a bunch of content, which they control, for your perusal.
It would have been more "Internet in a box" if it would have helped people set up their own services and pages; and if it were extensible using other radio-capable devices.
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#43Brilliant concept! I recently met the fine folks at Beekee who make something rather similar: https://beekee.ch/beekeebox/ It's an apparently simple problem on the surface, but quite hard to get it right... I once worked on a wireless network deployment for a transit refugee camp, and at least that was built on the assumption that some sort of Internet connection would be available at all times, making remote managem…
Ooo, there's another one to look at. There seem to be a bunch of these with variously-overlapping goals. Two more I'm aware of:
https://bibliosansfrontieres.gitlab.io/olip/olip-documentati...
And I feel like the PirateBox concept is sort of adjacent.
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#44I thought they meant this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg Chuckles aside, it's a cool concept.
The Internet has been stored safe on my desk since that time: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/i-created-the-internet/...
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#45I remember encountering this project: https://piratebox.cc/faq , I even still have a compatible hardware at home. I wonder if allowing it to have instant messaging (including offline asynchronous messaging) would change how people in a small community communicate each other. I wonder if, for one, it would induce Internet trolling.
Doesn't seem likely - the key to trolling is lack of accountability, in a small community everyone would know you were being a jerk?
Some people REALLY like jerks.
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#46Internet with privacy
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#47What would it take to give these poor children a Starlink connection?
So far my answer would be: "US government subsidies"
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#48I remember encountering this project: https://piratebox.cc/faq , I even still have a compatible hardware at home. I wonder if allowing it to have instant messaging (including offline asynchronous messaging) would change how people in a small community communicate each other. I wonder if, for one, it would induce Internet trolling.
Doesn't seem likely - the key to trolling is lack of accountability, in a small community everyone would know you were being a jerk?
What if the system allowed anonymous accounts?
It'd be interesting if one had to go visit an admin (in real life) to get an account, and accounts are really associated with people.
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#49Vaguely interesting, but I am far more interested in actual connective technology. The Commotion "Internet in a Suitcase" project (~2012) was much more up my alley. Is much more the sort of thing I wish that, for example the State Department would still fund. > Commotion relies on several open source projects: OLSR, OpenWrt, OpenBTS, and Serval project. So, mesh, wifi, cellular, and voice technologies, packaged onto…
I think that giving the poor(er) people access to just the information that’s accessible on the internet, like Wikipedia, like Khan academy to learn programming. Is so much more helpful than handing them access to “the internet” as in what the internet is for people in the rich parts of the western world.
Sure, we can hand them access to all of the internet and have them scrolling social media till they’re hollow people and earn money by doing anything cause they have seen the way you can live in luxury and start idolizing that. Or you give them just the useful parts of the internet.
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#50Brilliant concept! I recently met the fine folks at Beekee who make something rather similar: https://beekee.ch/beekeebox/ It's an apparently simple problem on the surface, but quite hard to get it right... I once worked on a wireless network deployment for a transit refugee camp, and at least that was built on the assumption that some sort of Internet connection would be available at all times, making remote managem…
Ooo, there's another one to look at. There seem to be a bunch of these with variously-overlapping goals. Two more I'm aware of: https://bibliosansfrontieres.gitlab.io/olip/olip-documentati... https://wrolpi.org/ And I feel like the PirateBox concept is sort of adjacent.
I saw a local agency demo their use of the pirate box for Wildland firefighting.
They had a GIS team working on mapping updates to fire lines, cut lines, dozer paths, crew assignments, etc. And as required they'd upload everything to the pirate box and the commanders / captains could download the maps to their tablets.
Amazing stuff all without internet.