dgski

The network effects of successful cities are hard to overcome. I wrote about this in a recent blog post:

'Remote Work Cities': A Proposal To Fight Rising Housing Costs

https://davidgorski.substack.com/p/remote-work-cities-a-prop...

Yeah, you're mostly right. I mean, these centralized entities could still sign and release instructions over the mesh network propagation (unlikely though).

Having an overall culture/goal of decentralization, can inform decisions on multiple levels/concerns (infra, energy, org). Basically, if I'm trying to be resilient to infra problems, it won't be that much effort in changing the design to also be resilient from centralized control.

FireChat was never going to be resilient enough because it was installed on Apple and Google controlled devices.

This kind of system needs a dedicated or at least 'open' device with adequate hardware to support wireless mesh networks.

I would love to see something like this, because we (even, or rather, especially; Western countries) currently have no decentralized fallback for emergency communication. If the electric grid and cellphone network go... most people don't even have AM radios at this point.

Plugging the book that I just published: https://a.co/d/iTjaQzP

It's a beginner-friendly introduction to Low Latency Programming, which involves a lot of performance optimization. Could be a good way to start your learning on the subject.

You can read one of the chapters on my blog: https://tech.davidgorski.ca/introduction-to-low-latency-prog...

I combined my CSV-To-Map site with ChatGPT to generate an index of potentially interesting maps. Kinda cool to explore various data in the context of geography.