- cross-posted to:
- australia@aussie.zone
- cross-posted to:
- australia@aussie.zone
A news article about Merri-bek Tech, a local Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) community-hosting initiative, and discussing other digital sovereignty efforts including EU initiatives.
Nice sounding group. Values and aims seem decent. I hope this spreads
Fuck this article and eat my dong, nobody tells us how to rebuild the Internet!!! I mean it! No really, I’m not being sarcastic! Stop following me!!! Eff off!!! Get lost!
Commenter hates a community that supports punching nazis in the face.
Not only do I wholeheartedly support punching Nazis, I have a permanently flat pinky knuckle due to a boxer’s fracture from doing so.

You’re really cool.
You should clean the greasy Cheeto dust from your mouth before you breathe onto my neck like that.
I thought Ukraine blew up the main bot farm…the swarm on this sub proves otherwise.
Pinky knuckle? Lol, learn how to punch.
“I’m not being sarcastic!”
“do I really need to add an /s for you turds!?”

“I’m not being sarcastic!” /s
I regret not staying better in tune with technology as it progressed. Things have changed a bit since you dialed a phone number to log in to someone’s BBS 🥲
Very cool that people are continuing to DIY and spreading the word.
Cool. It’s a shame the article doesn’t actually explain what the device will actually do :(
It’s not clear in the article, but they are mesh nodes: https://lores.tech/
More about what mesh wireless networks are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network







