Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 15/12/2024 10:40, D wrote:

've been thinking about if online surveillance and government control might not force us back to some kind of fidonet-like architecture, run on cellphone modems, lora radios or over ham-radio bridges.
 Latency would be huge, but that never stopped me with my 9600 modem, and for talking like this, is not a problem. Downloading massive amounts of data would be painful though.

Someone will shove some unbreakable encryption on git hub and everyone will use it.
You avoid meta- analysis by posting an arbitrary number of bytes every day to the same 'bulletin boards'. Your message is simply padded with nonsense.
Fellow conspirators can read it, to everyone else its spam..and goes in their killfile :-)
But the real reason we are not bothered here, is we are simply too small to be worth noticing. We directly influence no one.
And yet, ideas that are seeded in recondite corners of the internet, do not always die.
Sometimes you find your thesis reappearing months later in the mainstream.
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The biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is.