Evening friends of the gopherverse. I'm listening to cev's | |
show tonight which always puts me into a good writing mood. | |
Thanks, cev, for your show! | |
You all thought I was going to not write this month, eh? | |
Well, I thought about it. There's just a bunch of things | |
happening all at once and it's overwhelming to tackle that | |
and even write a modest few words here. The Zaibatsu has | |
turned into quite the hopping place, and I'm impressed | |
with the sheer talent housed here. I'm kinda ashamed of | |
my crudely wordsmithed entries, finger pecking on the | |
keyboard, not double clutching like I should. Furthermore, | |
the Circumluniverse* [1] is growing, what with the Red | |
Consensus [2] and Ryumin's Dome [3]. And then there's | |
cosmic.voyage [4], run by tomasino of gopher.black fame. | |
Exciting times, indeed! | |
But I'm not here just to exchange formalities and all that, | |
there's work to be done. And tonight's topic is dear to me. | |
A couple months ago, cat mentioned about baudpunk [5], and | |
described what the term meant. That really got the ol' | |
cogitator chugging about some ideas I had but were lacking a | |
term. So here's my attempt at adding to the lexicon, just to | |
see if it sticks. | |
Where baudpunk centered around modem culture of the 90s, | |
funkpunk is the present and the future of leveraging radio | |
technology for individual and communal self sufficiency. | |
It's equal parts solarpunk and amateur radio, minus | |
requesting governmental permission to operate. And in this | |
era of increasing spectrum privatization, the public needs | |
to maintain their claim on the little we have left, lest we | |
cede the remainder only to be leased back to us. | |
For the US, this means Part 15 is our playground. I have to | |
acknowledge the efforts of freifunk [6] which is part of my | |
inspiration. My todo list includes a point to point link | |
with family about 1km away, and community mesh networking. | |
WiFi libraries, pirateboxes, and SDR exploration are in on | |
the fun too. But we aren't talking about just 2.4GHz+ ISM | |
bands. I'd love to see something like FaradayRF [7] be | |
Part 15 certified for 900MHz fun. Or how about some | |
microbroadcasting via AM/FM? | |
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. As solderpunk | |
[8] says, "host something!" Maybe for funkpunk, it will be | |
"Hey you! Transmit something!" | |
[*] or should it be Circumlunarverse? | |
Tags: #welcome #funkpunk | |
[0] Text-only version | |
[1] gopher://circumlunar.space/1/universe | |
[2] gopher://consensus.circumlunar.space | |
[3] gopher://dome.circumlunar.space | |
[4] gopher://cosmic.voyage | |
[5] gopher://baud.baby/0/phlog/fs20180909.txt | |
[6] https://freifunk.net | |
[7] https://faradayrf.com | |
[8] gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/hey-you-host-something.txt |