Piratebox

I built a PirateBox ( www.piratebox.cc ). This will be powered constantly and hidden in a high-traffic public place. Tell me your suggestions on what to load it with to share publicly.

Obviously you should install the imageboard package. Introduce people to imageboard culture, one connect at a time.

As for content, I suggest Death Grips, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, DOOM, QUAKE, and In the Aeroplane Over the Meme. Also: use Squid to change all images into anime reaction images.

Thanks for the suggests. I didn't think about the old games... do you know if I'll need an ISO or if there's a single EXE for them?

I already enabled the Kareha board, so that's a start. I'll look up the other content you mentioned.

>googles piratebox
interesting... i live across the street from a shopping mall and bus terminal. what would be the best setup for high range?

I've seen antenna hacks for the MR3020 which boosts the range somewhat, but I don't have hard figures...

piratebox sounds really interesting... if you are a nerd. normies don't understand wtf is going on. all they care about is "NO INTERNET, FUCK THIS"

don't be shocked when you've had it up for months and no one has touched it.

if you live near a busy mall it could be fun.

most people would probably stumble on it just because it is one of the only open wifis in an area.

OP here
Where I'm setting it up, there's a couple of "Free WiFi's" around, so there's a good chance people are going to find it.

You could just zip up a DOOM source port and the Freedoom wads.

As for QUAKE, I'm not sure...

In general, redirecting traffic at least once to an explanation page of what's going on, what the piratebox is, etc, would be good.

Uploading rare software could be nice as well...

name your piratebox something to do with a 'virtual book store/book trade hub' and put epub files of classic books in there. Ideally people should be able to also contribute their own epub files or other proprietary ebook formats. By either storing the files until you get to the box physically and converting them yourself, or including some kind of automated converter software, the public should be able to remove DRM protections from books they have on their decide and share them

However, 'the public' is too large a demographic imo as well as most of them have little incentive to care. Additionally, malls are cleaned rather often and your pirate box might get taken to lost and found after like 2 days, defeating the purpose.

I'd instead recommend going to a college campus, finding out which courses have the most students (usually 1st year courses that have a lot of overlap like maths), then downloading those books and spreading them. Furthermore, I've been informed that many textbooks often have a 1-use access login code to access online exercises. This data would also have to be accessed and published.

Since I assume you built this box to 'stick it to the man' or because you thought it's fun to build, I'd say the second option is the most enticing.

would be great if OP lived on campus

It'll be a necessity when proprietary operating systems or ISPs ban torrenting/piracy.

>expectation
people will randomly find it and use it
>reality
you will plant it, come back to it a year later with added

Change the logo.
I've put one inside the the cafeteria in my Uni.
All the text books on PDF format.
The image board is being used for sharing lecture notes and revenge porn.

How did you hide it?

In a bucket of cheese

Not really hide it.
But I put it inside power outlet in the ceiling.

How would people connect to this over their phones?
Anyways, pretty cool idea. School-chan and shit.

>site doesn't work without js
>hipster macucks everywhere
It must be shit.

I was thinking of doing something like this. Was going to take an old thrift store router and change the SSID to something really offensive to troll my liberal neighbors in my building but this is even better.

piratebox is a great example of autism. you think that because YOU could figure it out and be interested in such a thing, hordes of people are going to feel the same way.

as an enthusiast, if i stumbled on something like this, i'd be paranoid as fuck about it and would probably disconnect out of security concerns. too easy to exploit.

I'm currently waiting for the pi zero w to come back in stock to build mine. That could be a while though :(

Fuck the 3020. Get the 3040. It has a removable recharable battery and it's got the same board as the 3020.

okay cool

Have it connect to a wifi network and then give people a portal to Tor with it.

If you want normies to use it make a sign or something simimilar explaining them what it is and what is it used for

this is some real cyberpunk shit

you don't need a sign. it automatically routes all http requests to the piratebox page so it's impossible for them to not know whats going on unless they are illiterate and cant read.