You are right that this sort of project should not be attempted by a beginner. It would have to be a collaboration between several experienced engineers. OP should not attempt this alone.

My hope is that by the time these surveillance systems become mainstream, OP has enough experience to collaborate with others on such a project.

And since you mentioned throwing Arduinos at cars, I thought I’d mention that there’s apparently over a thousand cars that have had their ECU replaced by a specially-designed Arduino. I guess there’s several open-source ECU projects out there. Might not be street legal in all jurisdictions though 😅

In that case, you are correct.

Space Station 14

Nobody is exercising hierarchical authority in those situations. Prioritizing feeding yourself over feeding others is fine. Your backyard garden is your personal property.

In the real world, most food is grown at a large scale. Producing massive quantities of food and withholding it from your community would be considered a form of hierarchical authority. The means of production belong to all.

If you want to get involved in open hardware, a good first step would be to learn KiCad. It’s is used to create electronic circuit schematics and turn them into printed circuit board (PCB) designs. Here’s a pretty good tutorial to get started with it. Please ignore the instructor’s obnoxious Ronald Reagan quote in the second episode.

A PCB is usually not enough, of course. You should also learn FreeCAD so you can design the mechanical aspects of the hardware, whether that be a simple enclosure, or a more complex system with multiple moving parts. Here’s a good FreeCAD tutorial.

I mention KiCad and FreeCAD specifically because they’re both free and open source. You can check out this awesome list for a list of cool open hardware projects and learning resources. Two projects that really stand out to me are the LumenPNP pick and place machine and the Voron 2.4 3D printer.

For in-person groups, see if there are any makerspaces/hackerspaces in your city. That’s where you’ll most likely find like-minded people.

Here’s two examples of evil things that China is doing:
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Internet censorship in China

The fact that they’re considering denying access to basic human necessities like food indicates that they aren’t anarchists. That would constitute a form of hierarchical authority, which is not permissable.

Unless of course they’re all anarcho-primitivists and don’t believe in large-scale agriculture, without which you couldn’t feed everyone. In that case, they’re just stupid :P

I thought it was an SS14 meme…

this is the only controller that might retire my wavebird

I wonder if it’s genetic, or just very common. All five of my siblings and I have had this.

Ohh I get what you’re saying now. I think a lot of people read what you said and thought you were against both the far right and the far left. We probably should have asked for clarification before jumping to conclusions haha. Apologies if my previous comment seemed a bit condescending.

I’m also a leftist, and yeah, fuck Gavin Newsom.

If you want a genuine answer, people are upset because you’re expressing a centrist opinion. Centrism more or less advocates for maintaining the status quo. The status quo sucks for most people.

You’re also equating the far left with the far right. To understand why this is upsetting, we can look at some basic definitions. If someone is on the Left, they are generally in favor of more equality, while those on the right want more hierarchy. Equality and hierarchy are opposites. You can see this in a more concrete way by comparing the goals of far-left organizations to the goals of far-right ones.

I think a lot of the confusion comes from the Cold War. Countries like the USSR and China would claim to have far-left intentions while acting in right-wing ways. You cannot achieve left-wing goals through right-wing action.

Even the term “Communist country” is an oxymoron, because Communism advocates for a stateless society, and governments never voluntarily give up power.

Neoliberals?

Search for the dark net bible.

Been using Linux for about 8 years now. My DE of choice has pretty much always been XFCE. Here’s an overview of the distros I’ve daily driven.

Linux Mint -> Debian -> Arch -> NixOS -> Arch

I tried NixOS for about a year before switching back to Arch recently. There were just too many problems I couldn’t find a solution to, and I realized that the advantages of an immutable OS just aren’t that important to me.

Arch really is a dream to use, and the setup is pretty easy if you use the archinstall script. And most importantly, their wiki is amazing.

I’ll raise you one

sudo rm /bin/evil-age-verification-binary

Or if it’s done through systemd: git clone, remove the offending code, and compile.

Government never has and never will be beholden to the people. When we put someone in a position of power, we become beholden to them. The whole idea that the people consent to being governed is ridiculous because we’re never given the option to vote against having a government.

Also, the measures necessary to enforce it at large scale would probably be unethical.

I believe what you are referring to there is a state. States enforce laws at a large scale. All anarchists oppose the existence of states.

Er, and who would enforce this?

It is everyone’s responsibility to oppose hierarchical authority wherever it appears. There are probably hundreds of ways to do this, and some methods will work better than others depending on the situation. The rapid response networks in Minneapolis are a great example of this.

Have you considered that the people were only given two options, bad and worse? The bad option wasn’t working out for people, so they decided to try the worse one, and now we’re here.

There are countless examples of the government ignoring popular demand. Extensive polling shows that most Americans support a wealth tax. It’s not going to happen because almost every politician is paid for by billionaires. Have you heard of super PACs?