Digital Sovereignty: We need devices we truly own more than ever
summary
Argues that liberal democracies face a coming digital winter unless users can run hardware and networks they truly control, and shows concrete work: a Commodore-compatible mega65 retro computer and a sandboxed cellular Megaphone with removable modem plus peer-to-peer servomesh radio to keep messaging off-grid. Claims resilient systems must be simple enough for a single maintainer, boots in seconds, and can be audited or reverted; demos include tiny demo programs (sub-100-byte graphics) and phone designs that isolate radios to avoid hidden backdoors.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23Outline
- 2:12The Pax Americana
- 3:20Cold War
- 5:28Putin Trump
- 6:45Freedom of the press
- 9:42Coup detat
- 12:38Military neutrality
- 16:54Digital dystopia
- 18:23Digital winter
- 20:01The open source community
- 21:43Cant trust modern machines
- 26:05The role of the open community
- 27:18Simple systems
- 31:21Time for optimists
- 32:22Questions
- 33:37How do we get people to care
- 36:16Bingo
- 39:43Question
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