Toshi Station Mobile Node’s Address: 98a10ac3df5037cede504776a6529f06
Unfortunately, I can’t flash the rNode firmware onto one of the Tracker L1‘s as they aren’t compatible, but I can use one of those shiny new Heltec LoRa32 v4‘s, so I ordered a build kit with a sharp-lookin’ black/green case, an upgraded battery and an antenna with significant gain in the relevant directions that’s still a flexi-whip and is attached with a screw-mount in the event I want to switch to a directional Yagi. I’ll probably also flash one of the L1’s to MeshCore and velcro them to the back of the laptop screen with the Heltec, just to provide another public client-role access point to those network communities wherever I take Toshi Station. I’ve pretty much lost interest in what the Meshtastic and Meshcore networks offer, but I admire the spirit and it’s no skin off my nose to run the radios. (:
Anyway, Toshi will be set up to serve the same site as Jellyfin5, so basically a fallback fallback for the TWDB. All they have to do is implement some kind of IMG tag and actual TABLES in Micron and TWDB Nomad (and Toshi Station) can become full-featured copies of TWDB, images, age tables and all. As fast as development is happening in this space, I figure someone will get around to it soon.
So, *why* am I thinking about alternate networks? Well, I’ve been thinking the same things that the person whose typewritten post got re-posted by Richard Polt the other day. I’ve been thinking it a very long time. But I *can’t* grab the “go bag” and bug out of the Internet. I have a mission that is deeply involved in the internet. What to do? I dunno, but I’m certainly exploring the options. 
So I went to the Facebook ATI group last morning like I usually do for my dose of fun typewriter finds and doings, and saw Correspondent GS’s post on using ChatGPT to date his typewriter: 
Hmmn, and me having disallowed ChatGPT’s data crawlers from crawling TWDB since GPT 1.0? Clearly they ignore these directives in the rules file, but I knew that already since I had just that morning fended off the near-monthly DDOS attck from an AWS cluster in Singapore that is probably an AI crawler. They send thousands of requests at once from servers in a diverse range of IP addresses (but all from the same IP cluster), at least a Class B size server pool of IPs. You’ll notice when this happens because TWDB becomes very unresponsive for minutes to hours. When that happens, I have to hunt down what IP pool is doing it and hard ban the whole subnet, 65,000 IP’s usually to get them all. That takes care of it for usually a month or more, but Amazon AWS owns a *lot* of IP Pools, and eventually it happens again, just with a different IP pool.
And what does that get you on the consumer end? You don’t have to look up an age table, probably get hallucinated at most of the time, and then be turned into a Token slave for the sanitized culture, same-looking generated cartoons and maybe somewhat accurate information it poops at you while complimenting you on how clever you are. Do you *honestly* think that the age of free tokens would never come to an end? Well, you don’t know how drug pushing works, pilgrim. A lot of money is getting incinerated to get you on this drug, and there’s only a dozen pushers. Do you think *that* goes well?
So, I’m sure it’s related somehow to my general mood about the enshittification of the internet, and practically everything else. I’m lookin’ for the fire exits as calmly and rationally as I can. I ain’t gonna cut, but I am exploring worthiness of the fire exits for sure. Musk & Zuck & the rest want to own everyone with a token subscription to broken software and an incel-run global surveillance state? Well, I aim to misbehave… (: