every time i bring up alternative networking infrastructure i'm reminded of: 1) how much i don't know 2) how much y'all *do* know! 3) how many incredible things already exist 4) together, we can do this! we are already doing it :D
the good news is that most of what we need already exists. alternative routing protocols, alternative DNS implementations, p2p protocols and userland software built on it. we are awash in alternative networking infrastructure and there are massive implementations in use today like freifunk that not only provide working software but which also organize the labor to maintain these alternatives. we can do this! we are doing it already.
my concerns come down to "i'm worried what the telecoms might do because i don't trust the telecoms"
it's less about what specifically they can or will do, but the longer-term problem that they do not have my interests at heart, and are on a continuous path to degraded service, higher prices, and worse access. this is just another step in the pubnet's commercialization.
we have every reason not to trust major telecoms. we have every reason to replace them with local ISPs.
ok, i've got one running at numbers.bovid.space. it generates a new random number every five seconds. you can pipe it to espeak (on linux; 'say' on mac) like this:
Gosh!! 94 people are signed up for #sneepsnop2k17 this is gonna be more work than I thought it was gonna be lmao
if any tech savvy ppl out there wanna write me a script to help with randomly assigning these to each other and sending out emails get in touch cuz my original plan for this isn't gonna scale haha.
@h not really. the station is the source of a single continuous feed of random numbers, such that if two requests come in at the same time, the server will respond with the same number.
i recognize this is quite different from how actual numbers stations are used, since it sends random information rather than encoded information. i wanted to address the case where you could use a stationโs feed in identity challenges by requiring an actor to show they are following the correct feed.