Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy

• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that just the “dark web”

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  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s also meshtastic and ham

    We’ve got options and always will.

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    • Emi@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I assume unless they just make whitelist of sites you can connect to you can find workarounds.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’re the data rates like on meshtastic and ham? Wasn’t looking great when I briefly looked at it.

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      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean they’re not crazy good by any means, but they could be improved upon. More so speaking of mesh, ham is its own mystery in my brain.

        Just examples really of networking outside of the normal infrastructure.

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      • gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Meshtastic uses LoRa, so slow speeds but far distance. A better choice is reticulum, this combines LoRa, Wifi HaLow, Wifi 2.4 & 5 GHz and BLE together into one network stack. So in a city we could have faster data speeds all sharing WiFi and rural areas that currently need satellite we could have a connection over far distances wirelessly. Reticulum is also encrypted, meshtastic is not

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s called the deep web in this case. The dark web takes special tools to access, like Tor

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