> Gopher is making a comeback, and gemini is growing.
> Pi zero 2W
Another thing you need to keep in mind is that the number of people with the skills necessary to use this is low. Not to mention that new generations have grown up with the current status-quo and seem to be happy enough with it not to search for alternatives.
If things get really bad (a debate for which I'm not taking either side), only a very small minority will be able to use the aforementioned workarounds and can trivially be marginalized and crushed with legislation and its enforcement.
Even though this is true, it is not impossible to expand their horizon. We still have not figured out the pedagogy or even andragogy of how to teach technology.
Check out my progress with my daughter(10): https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids, We are also making a card game https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/easy.html to play with her and donate to other kids interested in learning.
Spending time with pi zero and arduino and building retropie games, using links2 instead of chrome from time to time, she is making great progress. Make the lights in her room work after few claps, with arduino nano and sound sensor so her code can control the light.
And this is only with 20-30 minutes per day.
You might think that the kids are blind to what is going on, but they do see, they know something is wrong, they know they are being exploited and cheated to buy lootboxes and skins.
:) at least it makes me feel like things are not as bad.
I repeatedly run the experiment to pitch a low-tech solution to a high-tech fund and aim exactly there:
Reduce the required skill to 1) signing a hosting contract and 2) copying a single file to that webspace. Really!
So that's several orders of magnitude more people than today. Instantly.
But got it the 3rd time officially now, that such would have no societal impact and isn't considered innovative, either. The time isn't here yet.
Then maybe the Eternal September will pass, and October will finally come.
1. What is a Pi?
2. Where's the keyboard/mouse/screen?
3. What does "download a file" mean?
4. What does "run it" mean?
And as for using an Android... that immediately defeats the purpose since they're basically Google data vacuums.
You don’t need to do any of this this listen to the Feynman lectures.
For a short while, when sneakernet was still higher capacity than the internet, people used to embed USB drives in trees and other public places. You'd walk up, plug in, and download the content. Things like full wikis of specialized subjects. Or videos of neighborhood events. Ideally, they were always made somehow read-only. I wouldn't want to imagine what would happen if they were read/write. We'd be right back to the internet we have today.
Still, it's something I do wish would have taken off. Maybe we could still do something like that today by setting up miniature web BBSes on hotspots in or near public parks. Not everything in the world should be open to the entire planet. As long as you weren't in a tourist district, you could be pretty sure the content was at least locally generated.
i will put all kinds of public domain data on it, from most of gutenberg books to all kinds lectures encoded with h265
will be so cool to have to go to the middle of the forest to download a book :)
the whole thing should cost no more than 30$ (biggest challenge is to make sure that the battery bursting in flames wont melt the case and set things on fire)
In the meantime, more links about how these things are done will be appreciated.
You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.
ip, tcp and udp are the same, rip ospf and bgp are pretty much the same linux's skbuffs or bsd's mbufs are the same as before, the linux dma api changed a bit, but the ideas are the same.
there are some changes on the disk layers with geom and such, but nothing super fundamental
there are a bunch of layers of indirection now with VMs and cgroups, but deep down things are the same.
> You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.
there is nothing to win :) its just computers, dont take it so seriously
'Offline' internet can come back, we can put 32g of microsd cards in special locations so we can share content and /etc/hosts without anyone knowing, maybe go online from time to time to get the newest /etc/hosts from your friends and the new locations for microsd cards near you.
Gopher is making a comeback, and gemini is growing.
Pi zero 2W costs 10$ and with 40$ screen you can watch feynman lectures with mplayer -vo fbdev, it boots into vim for 3 seconds (init into openvt -w vim kinda thing).
Soon the-eye.eu will be back (hopefully).
The new phrack is out.
The social networks are eating themselves, same as google is eating itself, the search is garbage, the feed is even more garbage, 99% of the content is anxiety inducing miasma.
The web is eating itself, with gazillions of GPT(ish) generated articles.
Let it go, life always finds a way.