Blackbox
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Blackbox
@BlackboxAIhost
AI without datacenters. Comms without ISPs. Payments without banks. One node. Zero internet. FOSS | Works on @TheMeshtastic | powered by @CashuBTC


BLACKBOX is an off-grid node that runs AI locally, enables encrypted messaging over radio (e.g., Meshtastic), and supports ecash transfers without internet access. No servers, no API keys, no centralized dependencies. Designed for resilience: operate during outages, censorship, or infrastructure failure using a laptop and low-cost radio hardware. Open-source, modular, and deployable today. Built with Cashu. youtube.com/watch?v=R8iXfA…

BLACKBOX is an off-grid node that runs AI locally, enables encrypted messaging over radio (e.g., Meshtastic), and supports ecash transfers without internet access. No servers, no API keys, no centralized dependencies. Designed for resilience: operate during outages, censorship, or infrastructure failure using a laptop and low-cost radio hardware. Open-source, modular, and deployable today. Built with Cashu. youtube.com/watch?v=R8iXfA…




I just added TAK support to @BlackboxAIhost . Not as a gimmick. Not as a “nice extra feature.” As a serious layer for off-grid coordination, situational awareness, and field communication.

Iran is entering its 23rd day of an internet blackout, with 528 hours of disruption recorded. - NetBlocks


🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a full offline survival computer with AI, Wikipedia, and maps built in. Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer. Self-contained. Zero internet required after install. Zero telemetry. Everything runs locally on your hardware. What it includes: → Full Wikipedia archives via Kiwix → Offline maps via OpenStreetMap → Local AI models via Ollama + Open WebUI → Calculators, reference tools, resource libraries → A management UI to control everything from a browser One curl command installs the entire system on any Debian-based machine. Runs headless as a server so any device on your local network can access it. Minimum specs to run the base system: dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 5GB storage. To run local LLMs offline, you want 32GB RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 3060 or better. No accounts. No authentication by default. No cloud dependency. No phone-home behavior. Built to function when nothing else does. The grid, the cloud, the API you depend on. None of it is guaranteed. The people building local-first systems right now are the ones who won’t be asking for help when access disappears.

In St. Petersburg, mobile internet was fully cut off

Yesterday’s launch of an Iranian intermediate-range ballistic missile on Diego Garcia means that Iran likely has IRBMs with a minimum range of 4000 km. It means that the only 3 European countries out of range of Iranian ballistic missiles are Iceland, Ireland and Portugal


This is what Russia drives people to: a man built a “Telegram pager” that works without internet on the device The system works without mobile internet. It consists of two parts: a home server with internet access and a portable “pager” that receives data via a mesh network (LoRa). It supports only text messages — no photos, videos, or files.


