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At an Alliance for Indigenous Math Circles STEM camp, high school intern Ruchira Shree helped every student earn an FCC Technician amateur radio license—something real that continues after the week ends.
Inspired by spectrum.ieee.org · Liz Wegerer
Reticulum is a transport-agnostic networking stack for communications that should keep working when the Internet does not—compelling because the transport is replaceable, while metadata, radio physics, and a missing independent spec still matter.
Inspired by reticulum.network
Ian Cortina, EI3LH, hosts a working telnet BBS in BASIC on a Casio VX-4’s 8 KB of RAM—bridged by a Pi Zero W at 4,800 baud—proving constraints can be the whole point of a networking experiment.
Inspired by ei3lh.eu · Ian Cortina
George Michaelson’s history of the Berkeley sockets interface—how 4.2BSD in 1983 treated a network connection like a file, made networked programs straightforward to write, and quietly became the standard path for TCP/IP software, including modern protocols that still send data through sockets.
Inspired by blog.apnic.net · George Michaelson
Bitchat Mesh is an open-source Bluetooth mesh messenger now free on the App Store—no accounts or cellular needed—arguing the radio-like idea is compelling wherever coverage fails, if enough nearby people are also running it.
Inspired by radicle.network
Petals distributes enormous language-model layers across volunteer peers so people can run Llama, Mixtral, Falcon, and BLOOM without hundreds of gigabytes of local GPU memory—arguing the idea is fascinating, but public swarms need much stronger privacy and trust before carrying anything sensitive.
Inspired by petals.dev · BigScience Workshop
late.sh by Mateusz Piorowski is a cozy SSH clubhouse—chat, music, arcade, news, challenges, and ASCII art—where your key is your identity, no passwords or OAuth, and connecting still feels a little like finding people on a BBS.
Inspired by late.sh · Mateusz Piorowski
Brian Krebs reports LG plans to suspend apps that turn its televisions into residential proxy nodes after Spur found proxy SDKs in thousands of smart TV apps—another reminder that connected appliances are poorly monitored computers on private networks.
Inspired by krebsonsecurity.com · Brian Krebs
Compatibility features that make old protocols work can also open paths through network protections we assume are already solid.
Inspired by sa.my · Samy Kamkar
