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Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

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579 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 16 Jun 25 07:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source
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b0a04gl ◴[16 Jun 25 08:59 UTC] No.44287749[source]▶
but who has the gear, who keeps it charged, who actually shows up when the net goes dark. tech's the easy part. the hard part is getting 5 neighbors to agree on a channel, a meeting point, and a backup plan they’ll actually remember.

also, would be interesting to see people test these setups during a planned outage. like simulate a real failure for 24 hours and see what breaks. most systems look solid until you actually need them

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1. alganet ◴[16 Jun 25 09:57 UTC] No.44287998[source]▶
That's why you can't rely on it.

If things go bad, you need to own the tech completely. Be able to setup a wifi hotspot with services that can help your community (wikipedia, openstreetmaps, low-res movies), or have pendrives with critical knowledge ready to be shared, etc.

The low power radio is more of a short term thing, for "what's going on" soon after the first moments of a crisis. Building long-term resilience is much harder.

IMHO, the loss of access to knowledge is much more detrimental than access to a network of people. One can eventually get you into the other, but there's only one you can actually own.