Unlicensed (let's ignore pedantics here unless you are curious) radios have useless range for communications. What a shock.
At least meshtastic has a repeater infrastructure in some places. I prefer the tech of reticulum so far but no one to play with and no repeaters.
Yeah if I started using any of this stuff it would definitely be reticulum
reticulum works over LoRA like meshtastic but you gotta run custom firmware
I do have a lora pie hat sitting on a rpi 4 8gb + 2tb drive with touchscreen enclosure just collecting dust…
That is the most overkill lora device I've ever heard of.
🤷🏻♂️ never ever used it since put it together a few years ago…
I've never made a meshtastic contact except to myself and I own 3 devices.
I need other stuff other than the rpi? Rekt
You need a second lora node to talk to yourself. Most users find that is all they have to talk to.
The worst part of building meshtastic nodes is realizing you're all alone
Then you put it in a box and never turn it on again so the next guy doesn't hear anyone either.
i am thankful to have such a vibrant mesh here. i've only had a few ACKs but, i really enjoy the "mesh news" as I receive a ton of packets..
tho my main use is talking to my IOT devices so the wider mesh is not really my main usecase anyway.
Yeah I had planned on using it with iot sensors as part of a diy home security system… but that hasn’t happened as of yet lol
the PI would be epic for that. I can't use analog sensors on heltecv3, which kinda made some of my plans for more alerting stall out till I figure out what the hell is wrong w me 😂
I wish I knew what the hell to do with all this stuff… I used to be a tech wiz but it just seems so hard now a days…
just pull it all out onto your desk and make a huge mess, that's what I do 😂
My desk is... Not great. If I push some stuff around I can make room to use my mouse.
I've been looking into reticulum but all I have are standard WiFi / Ethernet devices and idk about running custom firmware on a router to act as a hub...
Not gonna happen lol
You do understand we think bitchat is fed ware right?
Everyone has an opinion. I'm undecided. I don't personally have a use for the app, but I did test it. Bluetooth connections could span a city block distance between two phones.
Can you show me in the open source code where it's doing fed things? I understand questioning this, but it all seems a bit paranoid, with no actual data to back up the beliefs.
What if the feds are the ones trying to discredit it? 😂
Jack is a fed imho so it’s inherently designed by a fed, released by a fed for the fed to use against us…
So you can't point to the code where it's doing the bad things, it's just a belief.
I don't care about Jack either way personally. I'd love to see an actual code review done, outlining the security of the app. Baseless speculation from personal beliefs doesn't do much for me.
Idk why you think there needs to me an issue with the code base for it to be a fed honeypot?
Jack supported Nostr too. Do you think we're in a honeypot right now?
It’s very fucking possible…
But Jack didn’t build nostr… he gave devs a pittance
If you wanted to take the bitcoiners most concerned about decentralization out of the conversation how would you do it?
A way of segregating themselves in their own little corner, without having them make a fuss. That way the govt and big finance could more easily control the narrative, and implement things like ETFs and government Bitcoin reserves, while their voices are confined within a little bubble with no reach. All the while they could remain confident how free they were, while still being surveiled, all their communications being in the open, and signed to their identity with a cryptographic key.
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Build your own cage for your captors right..
What I describe there is Nostr.
Yes I know that…
Ooof twisted
I'm not advocating for it's use. I just see a lot of paranoia with no facts. It would be nice to see some actual data, that's all.
I don't have the skills to audit the code. The things I do have the skills to see look bad. I know some who follow me don't even have those skills.
Should I just keep my mouth shut? Without a formal code audit by professionals what I've posted is the best we've got.
I made it a point to state facts before drawing the conclusion I arrived at by those facts. My facts may not be a red handed line of code but they are still facts.
Now do Nostr:
- funded by the same billionaire
- anyone who uses it exclusively has their reach to communicate on the Internet cut down by several orders of magnitude, confined to a small echo chamber.
- gets featured in the mass media anytime a social platform has censorship issues.
I don't disagree but at least I have the ability to shut off those sketch permissions and attempt my shitty opsec with nostr. Bitchat is almost impossible to use privately which is the opposite of its marketing.
I never really used those other social platforms. This is probably the biggest reach I've ever had on any social under any name and this specifically is probably my biggest post ever for engagement.
nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qrxnfk is it possible to make these permissions toggleable? Is there a technical reason for them to be absolutely necessary?
Android requires location permission for Bluetooth low energy because it could be used to detect your location via nearby devices. Android requirement.
