Data Slayer

You know a relationship is getting serious when you add her to your Tailscale network.

Tesla really put a 'Mad Max' mode in the car and expected me not to narrate my drive to Pura Vida like I'm Chris Hemsworth fighting for survival in the wasteland

3D printing. Mesh networks. Solar. Crypto. Nobody needs permission anymore.

"People love driving." People loved horses too. Then they loved not shoveling manure more. People will love not sitting in traffic more than they love a steering wheel.

Every industry that can be decentralized will be decentralized. Manufacturing → 3D printing Telecom → mesh networks Energy → solar Finance → crypto You are not ready for what comes next.

TCP Spoofing. WAN Acceleration. Beam Forming. Ya, this has none of that - but it costs next to nothing, is open source, and gets the job done.

If your business model is "stand between two people and take a cut" — you should be terrified. 3D printing. Mesh networks. Solar. Crypto. The middleman is dying. Slowly, then all at once.

Ethereum should’ve been called Ethernet.

The DOD pays $17,331.00 USD per Silvus StreamCaster 4400 IP mesh radio. Haven cost per node: under $200. The defense markup isn't 2x. It's not 5x. It's almost 100x. And ours is open source so it gets better every day instead of waiting 3 years for a contract modification. Your tax dollars at work.

I regret nothing.

Print your own parts. Run your own network. Generate your own power. Be your own bank. This isn't a fantasy. Every piece of this exists today. The revolution isn't coming. You're just not paying attention.

"But our cars have great handling." Cool. The robot doesn't care about handling. The robot cares about getting from A to B without killing anyone. You're optimizing for a customer that's about to stop existing: the human driver.

You don't need permission to build a communication network. No FCC license (ISM band). No permits. No contracts. No monthly fees. Just open-source software on commodity hardware. This is what freedom of speech infrastructure looks like.

Reticulum over Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) on OpenWRT with batman-adv. Multi-hop mesh. Sub-GHz transport. No internet required. This stack is getting interesting.

The factory. The cell tower. The power plant. The bank. All just middlemen with expensive buildings. 3D printing. Mesh networks. Solar. Crypto. The buildings are becoming irrelevant.

There's a WiFi standard that does 10+ km range. It was ratified in 2017. Almost nobody in the mesh community is using it. We are.

@The0bsrvr You can flash those lora boards with a web flasher and hacking with it pretty easily.

@data_slayer Meshtastic is a limp noodle. (I have sad number of nodes - ie quite a few, but no reliable mesh). Reticulum I just learned about thanks to Grok. Where do I start?

Reticulum by @unsignedmark might be the most important networking project you've never heard of.

WiFi: 50 meters LoRa: 10 km but dialup speed HaLow: 10 km at 32 Mbps Nobody is talking about this.

Every car company's pitch: "Our new model has 15 more horsepower and a redesigned grille." Tesla's pitch: "Your car learned to drive itself while you were sleeping." These companies are not playing the same game.