@aral @semilanceata @alien @kazc @actinomy @ooooo
Like a #piratebox ?
#PirateBox
Got a couple of free old phones from a friend! Let's install LineageOS on this LG V30!
Know what I'm thinking? LineageOS + Termux + Copyparty (which does run on Android!) + microSD card support = a Pirate Box in mobile device form factor!! :pirate_flag: :hacker: :hackers_town:
My talk from @hopeconf is on the Internet Archive!
Check out the recording of my talk, "Off-Grid Data Running in Oppressive Regimes: The Pirate Box Project (and Sneakernet!)", directly on the Archive; it'll be sent to the hackers.town Peertube soon! :hackers_town: :pirate_flag:
https://archive.org/download/hope2025/95_Off-Grid_Data_Running.mp4
Yo dawg, I heard you like Pirate Boxes... 🏴☠️
@benbrown my new favorite piece of software! Installed it on an old android phone, as another #PirateBox type of thing
@benbrown Great for a #PirateBox and fun to have a streaming music server for a party or home! :pirate_flag:
If you haven't heard the word on the netwaves or in the streets of the Sprawl, fellow townie @cyberpunklibrarian recently dropped a new episode of his podcast, and he mentioned the #PirateBox and @TheSlugNoodle's Projekt B00KM4RK!!
Check it.. and spread the word! :hackers_town:
https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/podcast/cyberpunk-librarian-episode-68-come-with-it-now/
Thank you @defcon for having the community stage and a huge thanks my hackers.town family and everyone who came to my lightning talk! Come hear the full thing at @hopeconf on 15 August!! :hacker: :hackers_town:
#HackThePlanet #PirateBox
Made a couple of Projekt B00KM4RKs today! This is a portable little library, powered by an ESP328266 board, that has a captive web portal where you can grab books and docs and leave some as well!
This was created and developed by fellow townie and preem choom @TheSlugNoodle, and carries the spirit of the #PirateBox onward! :pirate_flag:
I'll have one at #DC33 and #HOPE_16, and Slugnoodle will have some too!
Read the summer issue of 2600 for more info! https://store.2600.com/collections/2020-2021/products/summer-2025
#lispyGopherClimate w/ 500 hats of LambdaCalculus #HOPE_16 #PHREAKNIC previews #lisp #oldcomputerchallenge
#hackThePlanet
#lispyGopherClimate #interview with 500 hats of @lambdacalculus
Their kofi: https://ko-fi.com/lambdacalculus
https://communitymedia.video/w/iEzEkc2SPuL5twaSnTEEq5 #archive
of #DOOM #redstaros #piratebox fame
Previewing their
#phreakNIC #technology #hacker
#HOPE #HOPE_16
talks!
Also #oldComputerChallenge happening RIGHT NOW https://screwlisp.small-web.org/occ/25/jul15.txt (I'm doing #xemacs emacs)
LambdaCalculus knows #emacs #lisp ...! And that's where it began then #commonLisp #CCL on the #macintosh
Is this the mini-successor of the #PirateBox ?
Jstudner/jcorp-nomad: An extremely compact offline media server for Movies, Shows, Books, and Music.
https://github.com/Jstudner/jcorp-nomad
@lambdacalculus @TheSlugNoodle love it!
I’d started on my own #piratebox ish thing last year, based on a Raspberry Pi Zero (hoping to make some time to get it into a more presentable/working state and share it somewhere).
But I’d love to try building one (or more) of these — seems like using an ESP32 means they’d be cheaper to make several and plant them all over the place
I got a B00KM4RK built and testing! Big shout out to fellow townie @TheSlugNoodle for designing the idea and helping keep the spirit of the #PirateBox alive and kicking, and for sending some hardware to me!
The B00KM4RK is an ESP32 board with a small web server stack, and lets people grab and leave text files and books, and has a tiny forum included as well!
I'm gonna have a couple at both #DC33 and #HOPE_16 to show off, but everyone give Slugnoodle a 🤘because he's an awesome dude!
:boost_ok: Does anyone have the full #specifications for IrDA #archived somewhere?
Because I'm looking for a good, short-range protocol that is less complex than #LiFi * for a "digital dead drop".
Most notably because USB dead drops have a shitton of disadvantages as #USB is not designed for that in mind, is extrenmely susceptible to sabotage and vandalism as a #PirateBox *, less complex than #FreedomBox * for #Sneakernet * operations.
Given the IrDA spec is relatively simple on the physical interface, reimplementing it with visible light would allow for more options espechally when it comes to "broadcasting" data to multiple devices when #datacasting like #Toosheh * would be overkill...
Hi @yunohost I'm gonna be giving talks on reviving the #PirateBox project and I've experimented with Yunohost as the software platform for it, and I find it to be easy to set up and accessible enough for others to build their own! Would you be cool with all the shout outs and mentions at any future talks?
@petergleick In a dystopia where Wikipedia is outlawed we can combine that with PirateBox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBox) and spread Raspberry Pis around, each with a 256GB sd card (and still have much room left on it, even with images).
La #piratebox existe........ Et est créée par un gars à fond dans les cryptomonnaies 😒 évidemment il a bien bien ancré ça dans le projet, pas étonnant que personne n'en parle
@bigzaphod Actually, thinking about it, maybe a dead-drop-style system bringing messageboards back to their roots (something like the #PirateBox) where it's a WiFi captive-portal HTML site not actually on the web???... This feels like an idea from @ajroach42, doesn't it? I probably accidentally stole it from him.....
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