If you arent aware of what Cybersyn was basically the socialist government in Chile made the internet before the internet was a thing and they had this central control room for it that looked straight outta startrek then penochet blew it up. Unlike the modern internet which sucks Cybersyn had experimented with a light switch looking thing but instead of turning off or on the lights it was used to measure the general mood of the country. If people were feeling unhappy they turn the switch off if they are great they turn it on. All this info is piled into the control room and it makes a map of all of Chile and you can see the literal vibe of the country. We almost had a vibe switch on our walls.
Comrades. I propose we pull our money together to rent an abandoned factory somewhere walkable and we build Cybersyn 2. We get the technocrats involved because we would need some of their skills, and eventually we create ai and ai can predict the future, we build a communist machine. And somewhere down the line we liquidate the tech bros but thats not important right now. Communist polycule in the city making an ai god that will tell us exactly how to enact communism. Whos with me or whos with me????
The modern internet doesn’t suck; corporate websites & mobile apps suck. People don’t kvetch about the quality of Hexbear/Lemmy much. Devs are never returning to office; Cybersyn wouldn’t be a physical location this time. AI mostly sucks and isn’t even needed. Humble, non-enshittified open source software gets the goods.
The modern internet was created by the military the ownership of domains was done poorly. A lot of countries couldn’t get ipv4 addresses because the us government hoarded them all so we had to create ipv6 addresses, and the funny thing is we dont use like half of the ipv4 addresses, at most these vital bits of digital infrastructure so many countries would kill to have are being used for fucking email servers in the pentagon if anything at all.
Fourteen years ago there was an alternate path we could have taken: IPvX: Better than IPv6?
IPv6 is coming, but it is difficult and expensive to implement because it is not backwards-compatible with IPv4. This page explains the problem and a proposed solution: IPvX. This is a fantastic proposal from Bill Chimiak that may save us all from a large expense of time and money, and spare us from a whole new set of security problems.
As things get worse and more chaotic, we might see the rise of this type of system out of necessity. Supply chain issues, genuine shortages, mass migration, etc. are all problems that will need solutions that something like Cybersyn can solve, and that the current roster of institutions can't or won't. The infrastructure is all there, as is most of the software required. It's not really a technical problem, it's a political one. The people in charge don't want interconnectivity at a societal level because that would inevitably lead to communism.
