You seem to be interested in selfhosting so I encourage you to learn and follow the other comments but... ... I'm here to remind who needs to hear this that there should exist small communities where the average member doesn't give a flying TCP packet of what "coturn" is. Using smolweb technologies doesn't need to imply operating the infrastructure.

I am often fatigued by Cassandras. They are right, of course, but its their curse. They are EXHAUSTING. Cory Doctorow is a Cassandra that often offers perspectives to show the way out (or A way out) of whatever doom he's presenting. And pragmatism is part of why I like him. I'm tired of purism.

It might turn out to have more drawbacks than advantages. But to all the "terrible idea, stupid idea" folks in here... What's up with the 'tude? We're going to need a lot of ideas. Some will COME OUT of other ideas that didn't work, but that somebody wanted to try anyway. It's 100 linear meters. It's a way to start quantifying the vibrations, the dirt, etc that y'all seem so sure will doom the project (and maybe will)

Solarpunk is about innovation and creative use of technology. This is it. It might be wrong in the long run but somebody will learn something in the process.

Why is this thread so unlike others in here? Why the negativity?

My mind went to sounding balloons electronics. Launched multiple times a day from multiple locations, land pretty much wherever, often recovered by amateurs but often not. Electronics are not the worst environmental offender on those payloads (batteries, Styrofoam case...) but it checks the tickboxes of short lived electronics.

Cheers to that.

I rarely flay out laugh alone out of something that happens to me of that I think, but I do get a chuckle out of me sometimes.

I rejected the analogies hive/AI until now, mostly because I believe the idea for the story started well before the current state of AI reached mainstream awareness (or well, exist in this state at all). I still think it's not a good analogy, but the hunger for new content is reminding me of the starvation of pretraining material every big AI company is feeling.

A movie that you would have forgotten 2 hours later. The implications of a hive mind world are mulled in the silent scenes and in the days between episodes. A 2 hour movie would have felt unbearably rushed, shallow and unsatisfactory, to me. I'm also glad they didn't drop it in one whole season. I watched the first 4 in 3 days and I regret that.

I'm not familiar with X-files but BCS and BB didn't have to have internally consistent supernatural phenomenon. Character driven storytelling seems to be VG's specialty and that's why I would accept a handwavily explanation to SOME of this. But I'm with you in hoping for a greater level of nerdy details.

As much as I love hard sci fi where everything is internally consistent, I doubt they will use genetics to explain immunity. The whole thing feels kind of magic (they now hinted at it being unconscious communication via EM fields, but then a plurb in a anecoic chamber would be cut off, and they dont seem to play on technicalities to test the scientific consistency of the phenomenon, or to move the story forward) If any explanation to the immunity is given, it's going to be some psychological one. Misanthropy, loneliness, trauma. If the show will drag long enough to widen the focus from Carol and Manousos, we'll see that even the most accepting and tame immune people have some kind of backstory that leads to deduce a common denominator among them.