utopic.work

Here's a quick rundown of PierMesh that I'm going to start sharing along with the link to the site that will document PierMesh's progress: https://piermesh.net

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What is PierMesh?

A new internet for lgbt+ and other marginalized people most impacted by the whims of tech giants

- A LoRa (long range low power radio) based mesh network

- FOSS (free and open source down to the firmware and potentially beyond)

- Easy and cheap (mostly free) to connect to

- Encrypted (thanks Meshtastic!)

Status: Research and development phase, web technologies are actively under development by utopicwork/Agie that will enable this project

How will it work?

Seamlessly, the network will be accessible via web interface which can be exposed by the operator to the wider internet if desired

Socials: utopicwork on tumblr and bluesky

Links: piermesh.net

Font: reforma by pampatype

Edit: Made the text easier to understand and added an inverted color version

Im trying to do everything i can to not get killed by right wingers, if I give communications equipment to a minor they will very likely try to bury me as being a pedophile, I dont have anything against minors and theyre free to follow me on my sites or my bluesky but like beyond just that, this is still an art blog partially and I want to reblog slightly nsfw art sometimes and talk about the work I do for sex workers and I think its innapropriate to do so with minors following me

Edit: Im just not gonna talk about this stuff actually ill find other channels because im getting the suspicion that people arent respecting this rule anyway but like the spaces for trans women to talk about our whole lives gets smaller every day

PierMesh will become a blueprint for a more hardened network system for more serious communications systems which has the huge benefit of not passing through tons of thoroughly tracked hardware stacks

Figured out how to use steganography to embed small directories (up to ~1.20 megabytes) in images around 11 megabytes, gonna clean up the code soon and put it up on gitea

I havent used a breadboard by myself up until now so I keep triple checking the basics but I plan to have something (probably the lora uart stuff) connected this week

Okay its inconveniencing one of my lovely wives so Im going to speed up the updates to y232 for up until next monday, to shortcut what Im doing the python/client side scripting will be offered to run in browser or for download as a feature

Later on ill make it so you can download the whole site with a free api access system with certain rate limits but nothing that would impede most users and should actually be significantly more permissive then whats set up now

It will also be easier to run your own instance if you want to tweak it for your personal use since Ill be setting up proper action scripting for running it from your clone of the repo

I think Im going to move the hosting of y232s frontend off Neocities (but I seriously recommend them for small sites), since I wasnt expecting to tax their servers this much, to this or something like it:

This way I can just have a branch of the frontend repo thats customized for y232 that just builds itself and hosts itself

Gonna break 100k visitors on y232 soon Ill have the update ready before that announcement