Gadgets For People Who Don’t Trust The Government
Kick off the new year by ripping data from weather satellites and talking to your friends through a lawn light.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
2:58 – Meshtastic Solar Light
10:44 – Flock Safety Detector
13:55 – Anarchism (Taborites)
15:30 – Weather Satellite Ripper
21:58 – Anarchism (Zapatistas)
27:03 – Stingray Detector
31:40 – Failed Spotify Alternative
35:17 – Anarchism (Goonan v Dempsey)

@BennJordan
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
To those using the cell towers, fiber lines, electric poles built by undocumented immigrants on their devices they received from undocumented immigrant labor in ports, truck driving, logistics, and delivery to login to a data center staffing undocumented immigrants so they can complain about my support for undocumented immigrants below a video filmed in a studio I literally watched undocumented immigrants build a year ago:
lol 🫡👌🏻
@gobe30
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
A lot of people do the last thing and they call it homelabbing search it up on youtube there is a bunch of stuff on it.
@corderoau
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Meschtastic will probably suffer the same fate as Linux. Already the government creep is starting to ooze its way in and seep into what was a working operating system. I can smell the festering rot of politicians already.
@corderoau
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
It's natural for humans to be anarchists after all who wants to be shit on by somebody less than themselves. And let's face it, who in the government is really deserving of being above us. I would suggest not one of them. It's human nature, but unfortunately it's beaten out of us by the time we're about 19 or 20. School is all about that basic brainwashing to educate you to be a compliant little corporate plug-in.
@j2kinflarc768
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
32:45 I have an older desk top that hasn’t been connected to the internet since 2009, plus at least 5 hard drives I can connect to it, and several mp3 players and iPods. I have over 20 years of music available if you literally took 20 years to listen to it all. Why? Because the internet was once an open source.
@j2kinflarc768
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
So I’m not unintelligent, yet I’m not a genius. What I am is totally ignorant to most of the things that you talk about 😂 I want to point that out because I don’t want people to feel stupid because they don’t understand most of what you say, like me.
We all have our own things that we have spent our lives learning, and just because we don’t know anything about other peoples life work, doesn’t mean we should feel like we aren’t intelligent.
I’m an aircraft mechanic. I also work on plenty of different mechanical things in my life. Lots of them depend upon knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, aerodynamics, and all the “tools” necessary.
Here I’m just out of my depth, but I’m learning, and going other places on the internet to dive deeper.
I’ll definitely use my current skills and the new ones to build some of the projects. Starting with Meshtastic. I live in Florida and often without power and internet.
@Chaotim
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
You are my hero in so many ways. Thank you for existing and putting a smile on my face today. God bless
@LeucistSerpent
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Combine this with some analog AI, cyberdeck, and other MESH-based internet and we got ourselves a cyberpunk setting.
@marshmallowsgamer9405
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Nestor Makhno my beloved
@norwegianzound
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
What's the problem with ICE or the Police? The majority of American voters voted to give up everyone's rights. It's called democracy.
@quietlike
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
You know what else isn’t illegal, not paying taxes.
I’d much rather kick out trespassers than pay taxes that fund those trespassers after they sneak in.
If you’re fighting for them, fight for your own money, and start talking about a tax strike before you start protesting ICE.
Seriously, unless you’re an illegal, taxes should be higher on your list of priorities
@DieselRamcharger
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
i love how anarchists think flock wouldnt exist in their little ideological love bubble.
@Jdshald
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
We need better spyware jammer tech than this
@NanachiBell
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
its stupid we have to even think about this shit in the first place. in most developed countries we have to actively fight to get our rights back, the rights our governments sold to people who only see us as cattle to consume their products. then, the people actually making life better for everyone gets labeled as skizos or criminals
@pepuletrz
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
love the mesh…great gifts for friends or friend.
@pepuletrz
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
remember you can abolish passively or actively…play nice kids.
@simoanoho
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
black children tend to steal more toys than whites, what then? imply rules to guarantee equality or safety ? Maybe choose a leader or group of experienced people who are good at leadership ? Wow you created a primitive country! maybe the reason why children are childish and stupid is becuase they are anarchists, but they are anarchsits cause they dont understand things, but you should know better, if someone doesnt have moral sense of good and evil then he is capitalist? evil? or maybe just not-fixed yet, our morality came from G-d, not from brain therefore anarchists will be stupid forever
@privileguan9127
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
I'm a bit disappointed that the elaborated clickbait of the gun was just a tracking device for the surveillance cams. I was hoping for an EMP device to disable them entirely.
@maxvonattica4744
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Hate the break the news to you, but your position on ICE is Pro Government. The government under Biden [who has been in 'government' for decades opened the border because that's what the Government wants. And why do you say that illegal immigrants have committed crimes? are they being charged with crimes? You state that they have committed civil violations. So what sentence are they serving for this 'violation'? a ride back home? Would you sneak into a foreign country committing a civil violation there?
The government you are advising to resist, and I agree with you on that point, but they and their mouthpiece corporate news agencies have you manipulated, tricked and confused. They have told you to hate Trump, and you are obediently following their orders. That is why they impeached him, shot at him, tried to charge him with bogus crimes that were laughable shams if you have the ability to look into them objectively. Think about it, that is why their reporting is 100% negative about him. The Government is fighting him every way they can. He's the outsider- obviously. There perpetual drum beat that the right are racist is also laughable, but you wouldn't know it if all you hear is their descriptions. Look, i hate the republicans as much, or more than democrats but some of you should really stop letting the media think for you. Example: Trump signed the First Step Act [look it up] releasing and reducing sentences for thousands of people in prison for drug offenses. Over 91 percent of those who benefited from this went to African Americans. And who sponsored the bill that locked them up for lengthy sentences? look it up. if the readers mind is small, they'll dismiss because thinking is hard and will hurt their ego [doubt they've read this far]. Those who care about truth, and want to free themselves from government manipulation will at least look this up. There is so much more to find.
@panleygoobis1289
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
36:50 that's great. this channel's so brain twisted. and yes, fighting for constitutional rights is better than fighting for the middle east in our country. Go to china if you don't believe in freedom, and think beliefs don't matter. This country's founded on beliefs, and that's the only thing holding it together against this bureaucratic invasion.
@panleygoobis1289
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
anarchism sounds so stupid, why not just call it decentralization? Like the democratic-republicans? We have a whole culture from these founding fathers of valuing decentralization above all, what's the point of calling yourself an anarchist? instead of a son of liberty, which is way better, and which has accomplished far more?
@panleygoobis1289
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
26:50 if they all had machine guns, since they had 300000 members, wouldve easily survived… In USA, if we had 2nd amendment rights, wed have an army of basically 200 million people, but instead, we're on the verge of total destruction
@brethenning9486
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Good info, but you are very bias and can't break away to just give good information. To bad because I was going to continue to learn, but will not conform to your leftist views. So By
@gpintado12
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Anarchy is true freedom
@tonybrown7241
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Why do you look so damn much like Tom Hanks?
What do you think about turning Flock surveillance cameras into Meshtastic transponders?
@Berring117
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Oh yeah, we all going on the list with this one
@lickmaballs2835
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Pixel + GrapheneOS
@fixitlater
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Zapatista! (heart)
Atira without lawers by people for the people? IMPOSSIBLE
@oaktownray510
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
5:44 I swear when he moves from describing electromagnetic resonance to demodulating that information and transmitting radio it feels like that owl drawing meme where they go from a circle to a full owl
@The-three-eyed-Prophet
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Love the shout out to save it for parts …
@captaindragon8179
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Beautiful video, shame it's not a gift guide but a idea project list for people for superfluous money, who already know how to prgram snd solder, but somehow still have more free time
@download333
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Anarchists, toki pona speakers, rust programmers, furries, trans people -> A suspiciously large overlap
@RogueWhisker
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Great video, however,
1. Jan Hus got what he deserved
2. Martin Luther should've gotten the Jan Hus treatment
@alolabokx
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Brother, you've upgraded my mindset about so many things I'm interested in—some I didn't even know I really was—just with one video… I can't quite believe it.
@DaVizzle_Bro
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
One time I started this appliance delivery job in Columbus Ohio with this company called "Temco Logistics" and they had AI dash cams that would record both the driver and passenger and anytime the AI spotted potential Flags it would automatically notify the manager.
I got a text from my manager within the first couple of weeks of joining this job that said "you don't get paid to sleep" one morning at 5:30 a.m. when we were on a 40 minute drive to our first drop off. I wasn't driving, I was sitting in the passenger seat and the sun hadn't even come up yet. That was the moment I realized I will never work for another company in my life that uses AI to track and micromanage their employees.
I will take this to the extreme and if all companies inevitably use it I would literally rather live off the land as a feral man than let some overweight chud incel desk jockey tell me how I'm going to be when I'm busting my rear end for their company.
@ZeFluffyKnight
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Gonna be honest, I don't enjoy the constant Anarchy stuff, but I hate the Government more.
@AdenFreedman
May 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
I ❤ 🏴