shortwavesurfer
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- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 4 hours ago:
I believe this is only for the European market though. Aldi has stores in the United States, but I don’t believe it’s available here.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 3 days ago:
I’m going to call bullshit in that there are several networks that might be capable of doing this such as several blockchain networks or IPFS.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 5 days ago:
The next headline will read, OpenStreetMaps gains users as Apple adds ads to maps.
- Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together 5 days ago:
CMEs cause very long-length disturbances so you need a conductor of quite a length to cause problems. The power grid is one example. Anything that’s on a solar panel and not connected to the grid would not be a problem because the wires are much shorter and don’t have enough space with which to build up a charge.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 6 days ago:
I now no longer hold anything over an emergency stash of U.S. currency, because I no longer believe in the value of the U.S. currency. I do not want it. I use Monero.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
Agreed. If it doesn’t work with Home Assistant or requires me to use an account to use it, I’m completely not buying it.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 1 week ago:
No, it’s totally free and open source, and you can host it on your own server if you wish.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 1 week ago:
I’m assuming that they were more referring to the outage that occurred today that pulled a ton of the internet services, including signal offline temporarily.
You can have all the encryption in the world, but if the centralized data point that allows you to access the service is down, then you’re fucked.
- Comment on The Reason You Can't Afford A House 1 week ago:
Housing prices are falling 15% yearly on average in Monero. My house fell 40% since last October. Ot used to cost 1000XMR and now its only 600XMR. I expect it to keep falling as well.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Meshtastic?
If so it runs on the ISM bands EU868MHz and USOL915MHz and uses chirp spread spectrum as its modulation. Packet radio such as APRS uses 2m ham band normally and is AFSK AX.25
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It sounds like your area is probably outgrowing longfast. They actually wrote an entire blog post about this particular issue.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t care how bad meshtastic is because mesh core does not have open source client applications and therefore I won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole.
I’m one of those go-open source or go-home people.
Though, meshtastic have been doing some things recently to try to improve the routing, such as removing the repeater functionality entirely from the software, because repeaters did not show up in your list, and making it more difficult to use router mode so it gets used incorrectly less.
They just recently added a new client base mode that will act as a router for nodes in its favorites list, but act as a client for everybody else. So all you have to do is put up your node in your tree, or on your pole, or on your roof, and favorite your portable nodes, and it will act as a router for those, but it will act as a client for everybody else.
I believe they have also either entirely removed or turned telemetry way, way down so that it does not transmit telemetry very often or only on request. I’m not totally sure which.
What’s the channel utilization in your area? If you have 40 devices now, it may be time to move to a faster preset.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I think this is actually a very interesting thing.
Back in January, I purchased my first meshtastic node, and while it’s not solar powered, I know a lot of the repeaters are.
I have a Heltec MeshPocket which is a 10k mAh backup phone battery and meshtastic node. With how little power the meshtastic node uses i think i will get 30-45 days before needing to recharge.
I live in hurricane country so it is possible to be without power for a while.
- Comment on US regional bank stocks fall amid Wall Street concern over credit markets 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a Silicon Valley Bank repeat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Some shitcoins dropped 80%. Monero and bitcoin held up well though
- Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 2 weeks ago:
I agree. You should just charge one price, and that way customers know exactly how much it’s gonna be.
- Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 2 weeks ago:
Find the place with the highest fee, roll it into the base price that you offer nationwide. Problem solved. In the place where it’s exactly as high as that, you won’t make any profit. Anywhere it’s lower than that, you will make a profit.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 weeks ago:
What preset were you using at the time? I know that longfast is not the best preset for larger networks that have a lot of users.
Personally, open source matters to me much more than the speed or congestion or whatever, which is why I chose meshtastic. Because the mesh core, foam applications are not open source.
Until there is an open source version, I absolutely refuse to touch it. I know that the underlying software is open source, but without having open source interfaces, I’m still refusing to touch it.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like a fantastic way to go. You might also look at meshtastic.
It’s a much different use case, being for text messaging and stuff like that only. But, while it may be low bandwidth, it’s still incredibly interesting.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 3 weeks ago:
In other news, today is “no shit” day.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 3 weeks ago:
I think the best idea would be to duplicate it multiple times and share it with multiple people encrypted so that only you can open it.
Things like IPFS, for example.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I can think of one useful function. I have a lot of friends who are totally blind, and there’s an app called Be My Eyes, where a sighted person can take a look at something through your phone’s camera. But, being blind, a lot of blind people are absolutely terrible at aiming cameras, because they can’t see what they’re aiming at.
In this case, the object ends up out of the camera’s field of view, or at an angle, or upside down, etc. etc. etc. Whereas, I think having a pair of smart glasses on your face would make the camera platform be much steadier.
- Comment on ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? 5 weeks ago:
Proof of work.
- Comment on The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 1 month ago:
The internet is fragmenting in front of our very eyes. The only things that will be left when it’s all said and done will be Tor, I2P, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Nostr.
- Comment on PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto 1 month ago:
Agree. monero or GTFO
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 1 month ago:
I see both sides of this. As a blind person myself, I frequently interact with people who have service dogs and such. Hell, at one point in my life, I had a girlfriend who had a service dog because she was deafblind and I have seen her be denied rides in person.
Every driver who signs up for Uber in the Terms of Service has a thing about having to accept service animals, no matter whether it’s a pet ride or not. It’s just in the account Terms of Service when you create your driver account. If you read them, you will find it.
So if you absolutely unequivocally do not want service animals in your car, you cannot drive for either of these services.
I guess you could do like the restaurant deliveries or whatever, but to take passengers, you couldn’t do it.
- Comment on Blockchain lender Figure valued at $7.6 billion as shares jump in Nasdaq debut (Sept 11) 1 month ago:
A lot of crypto backed loans, where they will give you fiat for crypto, are actually over collateralized. So for example, if you want a $10,000 loan, you have to deposit $20,000 worth of crypto. That actually makes the loans quite safe, and if the price of crypto falls, you will lose your crypto unless you deposit more collateral.
- Comment on Nepal’s Gen Z picks new leader on Discord, crypto community in shock 1 month ago:
The way real crypto people find fake crypto people is to figure out if they are on Discord.
Real crypto people use things like matrix and SimpleX, because they’re not centralized.
Those crypto people on Discord are just virtue signaling cucks.
- Comment on The myth of central bank independence 1 month ago:
IMO, right idea, wrong conclusion. We should have no central bank whatsoever. Those closest to the money spigot in a fiat currency will always disproportionately benefit, and those farthest away will always be harmed.
I trust Monero and Bitcoin far more than I trust any fiat currency on planet Earth and no longer consider my wealth in a fiat currency.
I save in Monero, and if I need to purchase some fiat in order to pay for something specific, I will do so at the time of requirement. Just like I would go to purchase a dozen eggs at the store when I need a dozen eggs.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 month ago:
Tor and i2p say hello. The internet itself will be totally usable. The clear net is what will become unusable.