Ive always liked Andy. Litterally means masculine but has never felt heavy handed. Also while manly men it is also an accepted unisex name

“They want to build a prison” “They want to build a prison” “Another prison system” “Another prison system” “For you and me to live in”

First design things to work fully offline. Full airgap between the system and the rest of the world. Then introduce features to update that airgapped system from one way data transfers (like sneakernetting a hard drive/USB/disk/tape). Then introduce additional features to get that data from a network but cached local. Then introduce networked features, and only if connecting to another independent system is absolutely needed.

Basically stick what has worked in tech and avoid developing SaaS. At least if you are making something for users and not shareholders.

Unfortunately modems have the issue that they are made to be provisioned, configured, and owned by the ISP. At least that’s how most DOCSIS setups I’ve seen work.

The only hope I’m seeing (I’m also wanting to do this) is running my own CMTS. I found a service (https://github.com/cablelabs/os-provisioning is the only opensource tool I’ve seen before) but I am still trying to figure out a reasonable cost way to connect that server to the actual network (so far bladerf sdr is ny best hair brained idea, which is really only cost effective because I want to play with 5g too). The last bit of luck I have is that my ISP isn’t actually doing firmware updates on my modems, so if I connected them to my Internet lab network, provisioned my custom OS and firmware, and then connected it back to the ISP I can get their DOCSIS config. In theory at least 😅

Netgear has modems that have their OS and firmware in nice packages with build instructions at least. ARIS’s older modem code is out there too but a pain compared to get.

You technically could use that same sdr as the modem on your ISPs network BUT because it’s actually RF the FCC regulates it (for good reason I guess lol).

Heck China and Russia are both as well.

There seems to be a theoretical maximum to the number of people or area per nation state

If security is the actual I’d even argue you SHOULD over ride them. It’s like the default password on your home router

This. Honestly things like image detection, anomaly detection over big data sets, and semantic searching, all seem very useful in professional contexts.

Generative AI not heavily grounded in real data is just better for no-risks tasks.

They have a tiny version that is listed as 1000 on their website, plus the simulation is FOSS

You seem to think we disagree on creation of a police state or massive surveillance system being a bad thing for some reason. None of which are stopped with regulations by the states that are funding and building said things …

For sure they are! Meta more then the others though

Collaboration. Industry leaders, universities, and hobbbiests can all collaborate in the same place rather then siloing to their own infrastructure

Sorry I guess there is a bit of a casm of understanding between us here. Yeah restricting hammers, heavy hard objects on a pole found crafted throughout human civilization, does sound neigh impossible to me.

I mention hammers because they used a popular biker gang weapon to honest. Quite a bit of murders done with hammers.

“We have to block Huawei from selling telecom equipment to other countries to limit authoritarian control!”

“We have to force countries to use our oligarchy controlled ISP to maximize authoritarian control”

Honestly this just feel like that Mr Bean cheating meme it’s just looks so obvious

Right. It’s small, and compact, so you can fit in the bike, and quick swing to someone’s Dome just about does it. /s

Violence is a method of action, some tools are force multipliers in that action, and thus useful in that case.

Don’t get me wrong, hammers building houses and plow shears have done more to quietly change the world then guns and swords ever have, but guns and swords have.

I mean the Oracle CEO said so explicitly last year to investors

Tbh I just duckduckgo the company and product if I find it in Amazon and order directly

Small buisnesses and more so consumers can flex on what they use. Academia can choose what they teach and require Governments can choose what they pay for

We have power

Learn from the best of the US example and leapfrog from using opensource and the best of the Chinese example using open hardware.

There are so many places where good FOSS and FOSH investments can act as public infrastructure for an entire economy. After that just fostering good education so that more people can leverage and improve on it and we might really see a Renaissance

Tech workers Coalition is closest we have I think