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Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by grepLeigh on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:30PM (#33696791)
Where do you go to chat with offline / air-gapped systems enthusiasts?

I've been obsessed with machine learning for embedded systems for years! So many practices around ML assume constant network connection and/or that your service runs in a data-center. I'm an ex-SRE and love building reliable offline computer vision things!

Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by LAC-Tech on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:05PM (#33697211)
Where do you go to chat with offline / air-gapped systems enthusiasts?

Nowhere. Should we start something? :)

Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by grepLeigh on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:42PM (#33697652)
I'm in! I run a small Discord server for 3D printer enthusiasts (I'm building a a closed-loop monitoring system for 3D printers). A section for offline systems in general would be easy for me to add. Invite link: https://discord.gg/sf23bk2hPr

I'm open to wherever people naturally gather though. IRC, maybe?

Another community you might like: https://www.tinyml.org/

Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by myself248 on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:49PM (#33698494)
I share this interest!

I feel like a lot of ham radio networking is still "offline" from an internet perspective; you may have a LAN or even a WAN but no connection to root DNS or certificate servers or whatever. This tickles my fancy: https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2018/01/off-grid-raspbian-...

I feel like /r/darknetplan is tangentially related, but not quite what I'm looking for.

I've been playing with Internet-in-a-box, which is precisely wrong about its name; it's an offline repository of content that was developed on the internet.

Someday I'd like to marry that with my Othernet receiver, which is a similar offline-hotspot-of-content but keeps that content updated by receiving a satellite data stream. (One-way only.)

Piratebox seems to be a dead project by that name, but I like the idea. A local file repo and possibly bulletin-board for use by folks within range of the box.

Yes, yes, yes, where do we go to chat?

Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by csben on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:59PM (#33698638)
I've joined the discord server advertised by grepLeigh in another comment.
Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by wwilim on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:31PM (#33697521)
> Where do you go to chat with offline / air-gapped systems enthusiasts?

Presumably not online

Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by Karrot_Kream on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:08PM (#33697951)
The NNCP Matrix/IRC rooms have folks interested in offline / air-gapped systems.