"It's perfectly fine that you don't know a lot about networking or network management."
I am not suggesting everyone can use mesh now and magically you no longer need an ISP. I am saying that is where we need to go. And I started off many years ago learning how to design and manage networks, getting certifications, wiring my business with cat3 then cat5, managing routers and switches, and then I moved onto something more interesting- now I just try to protect HN from morons.
I love Audacity. The only thing I'd like to see changed is labelling/splits. It is a pain in the ass to the point that I usually just cut the start and end off save that and then undo.
Actually, I didn't read about it on reddit, but thanks for thinking so highly of me. :) And there is no way it will ever get any significant traction as long as people dismiss it as lunacy immediately after it is mentioned.
People treated kids that programmed like socially disabled outcasts in the 1980s. Ten years later, many of those kids were making millions. Dialing into a BBS to communicate was a waste of time. Now almost every business has a Twitter account.
Mesh may seem stupid now, but when the current net gets locked down and turned into a "white" government-regulated net within the next 20 years, people are going to start connecting to the shadow "black" mesh net to share files. No, I'm not talking about mesh nets connected to our current net. I'm talking about a completely different internetwork. And if we wait too long, we won't be allowed to setup such a network, because it will be outlawed before it has a chance to flower.
I'm not saying there is a magic field of jellybeans that can replace our current net, although IPv6 may as well be that, as slow as it has been rolled out. But, to dismiss mesh as a crock is just plain lame.
I am not suggesting everyone can use mesh now and magically you no longer need an ISP. I am saying that is where we need to go. And I started off many years ago learning how to design and manage networks, getting certifications, wiring my business with cat3 then cat5, managing routers and switches, and then I moved onto something more interesting- now I just try to protect HN from morons.