Finished a guide on building autonomous, off-grid, encrypted, and solar-powered communications infrastructure that lets you send text messages without any cellular or power infrastructure - using LoRa and Meshtastic!
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/encryptedcomms
The guide includes step-by-step instructions on how to find compatible hardware, tips on upgrades, and ways to improve distance. Diagrams to explain mesh networking. How to flash devices, using Meshtastic, setting encryption. Getting power - Pretty much everything to get started.
Later on, I touch on various use cases from natural disasters - protests and civil unrest - conflict zones/wars and go into detail about security concerns, OPSEC tips, and some social and political backgrounds as to why we need autonomous community controlled infrastructure.
In the end, I explain the symbiotic relationship between mass political movements, revolutionary action, and autonomous infrastructure.
It works in a cycle:
Revolutionary action to build autonomous infrastructure - autonomous infrastructure to help with revolutionary action
How do you get people to ride bikes in the snow?
Studded tires are the magic ingredient, but they're expensive.
Last winter, a public transit agency in western #Sweden gave away free studded tires to people who committed to try winter cycling.
🍄🎥 Adventures in Tremella mesenterica (also known as yellow brain, golden jelly fungus, yellow trembler, and witches' butter). 🧙♀️ This is a common jelly fungus in the family Tremellaceae of the Agaricomycotina. 3D scan made with Scaniverse! #fungi #algae #lichen #nature #photography #fungifriday #trees #cute #yellow #mosstodon #icetodon
Good afternoon Mastodonians! Here is your rainy, floody, high tide, onshore storm wind, soaking wet retrievers, submerged wetland photoset
#afternoon #StormySky #Chesapeake #Noreaster #flooding #dogs #GunDogDayAfternoon #WetDogs
@fluchtkapsel @vagina_museum most things in your body move by being squished or yoinked
OK so I just saw a young American left youtube essayist cite Antonio Gramsci and he pronounced it "Gramski" multiple times and, TO BE CLEAR, I am in NO WAY making fun of this, it was just just adorable and hopeful because he fully and faithfully articulated Gramsci's shit, he had simply obviously only READ the name versus having meandered down an academic rabbithole like SOME people *COUGH*me*COUGH* and it just gives me a tiny bit of faith in "the youth."
This has been your Lefty Nerd Moment for today.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.