• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    No WiFi needed.

    https://sidewalk.amazon/

    If you don’t want to click the link I don’t blame you. It’s a LoRA style node based network that the TV or FireStick will connect to if you don’t allow it on WiFi. It’s free to connect to so there’s more incentive for any tv maker to use it.

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      9 days ago

      Could “We the People” hijack this network to use it in totally normal and completely legal ways and definitely not for operating a peernet-like network

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        9 days ago

        Good question, but the throughput is really low and I’m not exactly sure how the endpoints (or exit nodes, if that’s what they are called) work.

        Would be a neat project though, and could add a huge node network to the existing LoRa stuff it it’s compatible.