Very top of my useful bit of software is Joplin It's a markdown editor that I use for pretty much anything involving text in some form or another. For everyone else that enjoys some ramble, read on! Your first Hackerspace 'connection' can introduce you to others easily.This report will have a tidy list of all of the software posted at the bottom if you want to quickly peruse through. Once connected to someone, introductions within the network are far easier than the above process. To connect, Nexus or whomever you're connecting to *must also import your certificate*. In this dialogue, you can export your own certificate file: please do so, and *post it somewhere or email it to a nexus member*! In the same pane, you can then import the above certificate you've downloaded (and hopefully verified). Then, go to the "Add a Friend Wizard" item on the left pane, select "You get a certificate file from a friend". Then, download Nexus Cork's certificate file from: Simple! Set up Retroshare on a computer in your local 'space, preferably one connected long-term to the internet. In addition, hackerspace nodes aid in peer discovery and therefore allow hackerspace members to locate other hackers around the world, and learn more about and from one another.įinally, although Retroshare is hardly fascism-proof, in an age of sprawling GCHQ/FRA/NSA surveillance, moving more communications to at least moderately more secure platforms than Email, Facebook and Twitter is a welcome move for everyone. All hackerspace nodes can connect to other hackerspaces and global key-nodes, so that a message sent from Nexus Cork to NoiseBridge can route along the hackerspace "backbone" even if members in either space share no friends (yet). To help solve this and encourage greater use and adoption of Retroshare, I propose that hackerspaces each host a high-uptime "hackerspace node", through which all local members can connect to the broader retroshare network. This is called "churn", and it's a problem for all P2P networks but moreso for Retroshare where only trusted friends are used for routing. However, Retroshare has a problem it's entirely P2P, so there are times when a download (or a discussion in a chatroom, or delivery of a long-range email, or similar), which is progressing through a friends' connection from a third-party, may be cut-off when that friend goes offline. It's based on GnuPG and OpenSSL and is actively developed. Retroshare allows a sort of email which only delivers when both nodes are online (synchronous), a more useful "forums" feature, explicitly shared or anonymously searched file-sharing, blog-like "channels" with optional auto-download of attached files from subscribed channels, real-time chat lobbies and direct group chat, and more using plugins. It's also one of the friendliest and easiest open cryptographic applications available once inside the network, adding new friends can be as simple as clicking on them in a map or chatroom. It's a clever model, which allows more granular trust and sharing for advanced or obsessive users. Retroshare offers a social network with file-sharing built-in, designed on a Friend to Friend routing model that allows long-range communication through relationships of mutual trust. High-uptime, locally-trusting nodes based in hackerspaces could help bootstrap an efficient inter-'space encrypted network even beginners can use.Īnonymous, crypto, encryption, privacy, anarchism, decentralise, freedom, communication, social, network, interhackerspace, global, discussion Retroshare ( ) is a decentralised, friend-to-friend social network.
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