You forgot to mention the hypnotizing video. You can get people to do anything for you after letting them watch it in repeat for more than half an hour.
> Now, I grew up in a rural area of the southern US, and I had never been out of the South, but on Undernet, I met people in other states, other countries, even other continents! I made friends all over the world and learned a great deal about other cultures and ideas.
This was one of the greatest things about early Internet.
You would need to have a reasonable amount of trust with the people you let control it, or you may have some... questionable designs mowed into your lawn haha
This went a slightly different direction from what I first assumed. For some reason I had hoped for an IRC server, connected to EFNet running on a robot lawn mower.
So how resistant could IRC be to chat control? Lets say we use SSL as well as authentication.
I assume they would come after whoever is managing the server as its not end to end encrypted?
If the server runs outside their jurisdiction (and not in a friendly one) then they would probably just block the dns / IPs like they do with video streaming?
most irc networks have many linked servers so that gives a range of operating ips. i think if even they blanket blocked, performming a netsplit on ops to takeover (if not chanserv etc) or disable channels is probably easier
Most modern electric mowers use ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers that could run a lightweight IRC client with minimal modifications to the firmware and a simple WiFi module addition.
Readit News
14. An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (idlerpg.net)
15. OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower (github.com/clemenselflein)
This was one of the greatest things about early Internet.
Still an enjoyable read and a fun project.
I assume they would come after whoever is managing the server as its not end to end encrypted?
If the server runs outside their jurisdiction (and not in a friendly one) then they would probably just block the dns / IPs like they do with video streaming?
The cheaper Chinese off-brands are probably pretty hackable.