don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights.

defend them yourself using freedom technology.

(you’re on one)

LET US PROCEED TOGETHER APACE.

ONWARD. 🫡

Nice! My understanding of router vs repeater is that they both essentially behave the same way in terms of rebroadcasting packets that are received, but a repeater purely does rebroadcasting whereas a router can also perform other Meshtastic functions. A router will show up in the node list whereas a repeater won’t and a repeater may use lower power than a router since it isn’t doing as much.

Also, it is worthwhile having a look at the RAK wireless RAK4631 modules if you are planning on deploying solar repeater/router nodes. The Nordic device that these are based on seem to be a lot more power efficient than the esp32 devices.

Just set up my first #meshtastic device. Now what? 😄

GOOD MORNING, NOSTR ONLY 🫡

I’m just happy we’re shifting the Overton window and asking the right questions, like “if Epstein didn’t bank himself, who did?” nostr:note1we7xmqgf2e37wq84hj8fkjlg0vhnsk2cfmvmg3ksuve05kw3we8sycfps0

my human powered skateboard 🛹

ride home from the tire shop

GOOD MORNING FAM 🫡

1.2lbs 🥩

GOOD MORNING NOSTR, DESPITE RAMPANT SPECULATION I FAIL TO SEE HOW I BENEFIT FROM ANY OF THIS BULLSHIT. JUST THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE PUBLIC. CONSIDER ZAPPING DEVS WHO BUILD SHIT YOU RELY ON.

RHR WILL BE TOMORROW AT 1800 UTC.

On Propaganda

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A while back, I had a friend that was a pastor and he was railing about guns on Facebook, how they should be banned and so on. What had brought on this tirade was a shooting by a Muslim guy which left a bunch of people dead.

In a sense, I understood his anger. At a very surface level, a bunch of people died, so there had to be someone or something to blame. Indeed, every shooting of any kind brings out these emotions, and the powers that be are especially good at using tragedies to further their own agenda.

Indeed, that's one of the evil things every authoritarian does is exploit times of vulnerable emotional states to further their agenda. Some would even say they manufacture such instances. But the point is that they further *their*agenda, and not what should be learned.

My pastor friend for example had many other angles to approach the topic that he was far more qualified to talk about. He's studied theology and other religions, so he could have talked about radical Islam and aspects of that which led to the shooting. He's also counseled a lot of people, so he could talk about mental health and talk about what puts people in those states of mind. He's also a Christian who knows the depravity of man, so he could talk about how sin and vice lead to these tragic outcomes. Instead, he talked about guns, because that was what the elites were focused on. He had never held or shot a gun and couldn't tell you the first thing about them, like what's considered automatic or semi-automatic.

Yet because the propaganda was strong, he spoke exactly on the issue the elites wanted him to talk about and placed the blame on the thing the elites wanted him to place blame on.

This guy, by the way, was not stupid. He's an Ivy League graduate and very sharp. But perhaps that's why he was so susceptible to propaganda. His success was largely based around following what the authorities told him. Intellect is no protection against powerful rhetoric.

We all outsource some of our knowledge, but the problem with a fiat system is that we all too often are *forced* to trust entities that we had no input in. These entities are the most likely to get corrupted and used for tyranny.

We need more interactions, more direct connections so that we can figure out whether someone is trustworthy. That's a decentralized trust model and it's about time we get used to judging such things for ourselves.