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What were your top 3 things you learned at #39c3? Talks or otherwise.

Me:

- how meshcore routing works (and I built a MeshCore node at hardware hacking area)

- that there will be a fight against AI, “fascism,” and there will be more censorship

- a bit about how the Chinese firewall works

- I got a tropic square raspberry shield at CDC! They did a pretty cool badge with tropic square, eink, etc.

But honestly, I’m a bit disappointed that I didn’t feel any truly revolutionary idea, or something that really surprised me and enriched me. (I am not talking about meeting many amazing people, friends and new friends). So I want to fix that afterwards through crowdsourcing.

What was cool?
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shortwavesurfer2009 1d ago 💬 1

I don't touch mesh core because it's not open source. The firmware itself is open source, but the software applications used to interact with it are proprietary, and therefore that's a no-go zone for me.

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Juraj 12h ago 💬 1

There are apps that you can use to interact with it that are open source. Actually quite a few.

By your logic, you couldn't use Nostr because there exist non open source Nostr clients.

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shortwavesurfer2009 11h ago 💬 1

What mesh core interfaces are open source? Because the default one that everybody uses is not open source.

I know there are other programs that use it that are open source, but what interfaces are open source?