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Nyash-mesh

Judging by the message in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, yesterday, the so-called “bloggers law” signed by Putin appeared on the official legal information portal, which commands popular “bloggers” to go through official registration in Russia and abide by the media law on pain of blocking.

I put the "blogger" in quotes, because this word is a fig leaf. Anyone can download the PDF of the law and make sure that article 10² begins like this: “The owner of the site and (or) pages of the site on the Internet, on which publicly available information is placed and access to which during the day is more than three thousand network users” Internet "(hereinafter - blogger), when placing and using this information, including when placing this information on this website or website page by other users of the Internet, is obliged to ensure compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation ..." .

Therefore, it is not only the blogosphere concerned. Such pages are, for example, not only all my blog posts on Habrahabr this year (except for one less-attended translation , not reaching up to 3000), but also, for example, the description of the jQuery API , and even the README.md file in the repository of the node-sqlite3 module , which (as part of the npm-package) is subjected to tens of thousands of downloads monthly:
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[module information]

In addition, such are generally all-all of some popular foreign sites (repositories, shops, libraries, galleries, manuals, media, blogs, games ...) and individual pages, the owners of which, of course, will not run, raising their pants, register in Russia - and, moreover, keep carefully the results of half a year of close monitoring of all its visitors for presentation to the authorities.

The law begins to act on August 1. It remains 86 days before the situation with the Internet in Russia turns into a completely North Korean situation. That is, although in the second half of last year I compared the situation with Kuwait ([ 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ]) - sorry, I was wrong: even Kuwait was still very long for us (maybe even forever, forever ! ...) will be an unattainable oasis of relative freedom of the Internet.



How to escape from the disconnected Internet?

About two months ago (or rather, on March 9), I already stated on Habrahabr my idea that the IT community needs an immediate exit from the Internet to some such non-Provider network, the members of which are at the same time each other’s links. that in order to close it, the government would need not to affect dozens of providers (as is the case with the Internet, which was doomed therefore), but to organize mass repressions against tens of thousands of ordinary people, which requires more effort and everything but it does not reach a desired without significant side effects (e.g., without depopulation IT-infrastructure).

One of the options for the IT provider-free association can and should be a Wi-Fi network with a mesh topology (the so-called mesh network), consisting of Wi-Fi wireless routers (including mobile devices) owned not by some providers, but by members network. I hope it is also clear that this option was not invented by me: successful projects of more or less non - Internet mesh networks exist in Spain and in Greece, which I also mentioned there, and before me it was publicly mentioned in Habrahabr.

On top of the transport layer (mesh network), a variety of client applications will be able to work - both Internet-like and others (for example, hypertext Fidonet).

To this opinion two months ago I have nothing to add on the merits today ; however, now that Putin’s law has made this opinion even more relevant, it needs to be widely and voluntarily distributed — hence, memes, slogans, chants, poems, that's all.

On April 25, I came up with (and tweeted) that the nominal name for a Wi-Fi-mesh network that unites animeshniki, fidoshnikov, IT specialists , etc., can serve as nyash-mesh ”. This word is derived from the anime slang concept " nyasha " (which is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable and means "so cute that it mumbles" that comes from the Japanese word "nya" meaning "meow") and it is similar, for example, Of course, the name of the anime website Nyasha ( nya.sh ), but the direct source of inspiration for me was, of course, the recent super-popular memetic video nyash-myash dedicated to Natalia Vladimirovna Poklonskaya — the prosecutor general of the Crimea — and provoked by her own phrase “nyash- the ball is not d I will omit. "

If the anime anime terminology is used to promote the actions of the prosecutor's office, then use the same symbolic series in favor of the animeshnik persecuted on the Internet (who invented it) or the IT specialists (who often suffer precisely from the actions of the prosecutor's office without a trial - recall, for example, blocking YouTube and VKontakte or the actions of the Oryol prosecutor’s office against the wiki , or the sweeping of the Internet by the Anapa prosecutor’s office bypassing the “black lists”) - this, as they say, God himself ordered.

The term “nyash-mesh” is not only endowed in itself with alliteration and internal rhythm, but is also excellently suited for composing poems about the informational and technological consequences of the law signed by Putin.

Putin! Runet for dinner do not eat -
After eating it, you will get nyash-mesh!

Reader ! You sweat yourself with anticipation:
To replace the Runet comes nyash-mesh!
What the fuck are you angry at Putin?
Nyash-mesh stitch - and fidosh-anmesh!

Crimea, get ready ! When running nyash-mesh network
There will be cries: "Poklonskaya, do not let!".
(Where they are not silenced, there is a nyash-mesh-network
It will not rise - everyone will hang in TOR.)

And so on.

Most likely, the future nyash-mesh-network will work on the popular (and more than once discussed at Habrahabr) CJDNS protocol (the name of which can also become memetic, as it resembles the extremely politically correct exclamation “Tse zhids, NS!”).

However, the light and the CJDNS wedge did not converge.

I previously mentioned Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny on Habrahabr as the author of the initiative on the Russian Public Initiative website, which received the necessary 100,000 votes of registered voters on the Internet, but was rejected at the consideration stage, before reaching the State Duma. (Consequently, it is precisely Navalny that we owe to the fact that I am now considering a technical solution to the problem - and not, for example, preparing a petition to the ROI with a request to repeal Putin’s law on closing access to visited sites.) Now I want to additionally indicate the microblogging in Navalny’s tweet, which mentions the article “ How a little-known iOS 7 function can change the world ” (published in Computerra on the same day, April 25, on which my microblogging pro-dash mesh dates back ).

It turns out that in the seventh version of iOS, Epplom has its own platform called Multipeer Connectivity Framework , which is designed to automatically create mesh networks using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for various applications - in the ComputerRite , for example , FireChat is viewed. In one of the screenshots of FireChat, it is not difficult to see the phrase “Internet is not needed”.

But on Habrahabr, shifttstas reviewed FireChat a month earlier (March 24) and recommended , in particular, to download this application to itself on the iPhone in reserve: "who knows what the times will be ...". And these times have come: anyone who does not have time to download FireChat from iTunes.Apple.com for 86 days risks in August stumble upon a notice that access to this popular "unregistered blog on the network organized by the CIA" (to iTunes. Apple.com on the Internet) was permanently closed in Russia.

I believe, therefore, that various mesh networks, including proprietary, will spread and thrive — in this respect, the triumph of baihuism (百花 运动) will come . The concept of “nyash-mesh”, being collective, can be applied to the whole set of them - just as we call the entire set of blogs in the blogosphere.



It is clear that now we are not the last of the laws aimed at the gradual de-certification of Russia - with time, no doubt, it will reach confiscation of smartphones, tablets, netbooks, nettops, laptops, computers, wireless routers, iPods, smart glasses, smart watches, smart TVs, game consoles and consoles.

But so far it has not come to this - you know what to do.

Applications.

Firmware

Nyash-mesh

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/221959/


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