Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

No mention of starlink? Even if the internet is entirely down locally your packets could be routed to the other side of Earth before making it to the internet.

Starlink is much simpler for the average consumer to setup than what this article suggests.

I guess being dependent on the daily mood of some random guy in Texas isn't really resilience.

a pretty important part of everyone's strategic planning in 2025 needs to be resilience to random rich American cunts deciding to inflict harm on you or your country.

The article is talking about the war in Ukraine specifically, and not only has the US repeatedly threatened to disable their starlink access if they don't agree to a treaty, Musk himself admitted to disabling starlink during a Ukrainian raid a couple of years back.

Resiliency isn't found by relying on corporations who are subject to interference by foreign nations.

Sure, as a backup to your regular internet it could work, and can be shared with your community. However, the objective is to be independent from any infrastructure. The US has boycotted the ICC in the Netherlands already, if the ICC were to arrest American or Israeli war criminals they may choose to expand that boycot to the whole country, which includes Starlink access.

Well IMHO it is more about if the infrastructure is centralized or decentralized. In a centralized infrastructure we are all at the whim of someone like Musk/Gates fill in the ______

A mesh network and federated services will not rely on one actor or server. And if you are in middle of no where and only a random guy from Texas is hosting, then maybe start your own node if he is unreliable.

Can't rely on Elon in cases of an emergency.

nor during business as usual, which I think covers the total reliability of said person.