I wonder whether there's a "nothing stops this train" aspect to all centralised systems, and to state systems in particular.
The state may even realise that ever increasing surveillance ends up doing more harm than good, but by its nature, it's an impersonal system, and has no effective means to bring about stronger communities (where it tries, it's counterproductive). So, when attempting to solve problems, it just keeps pulling harder on the system levers it can control, until eventually something breaks.
Agree that they are obvious, although in a busy area if you aren't looking out for them I think it's easy to get picked up on the cameras before noticing and avoiding.
I think this stage is part testing, part picking up any wanted people they detect (plain clothes police came back and forth from crowd into the van), and a large part normalisation to mass public-space facial-recognition monitoring.
Yeah, it's all part of the net that's being assembled around us. If a phone's IMEI, IMSI etc gets linked to the incoming digital ID and the increasing volume of facial data, the correlation step will be much lower overhead, and so I expect much more pre-correlated data will be gathered.
Seeing more and more of these mobile facial recognition units around London. https://nostr.download/2904594e7f0fb0ffb7c0a9cb0bd5a34166a709d81389cea9cf2ba889a710a750.mp4
I’m revisiting one of my most-shared videos: What Does $6 Trillion Mean? $6T sounds abstract , until you translate it into real human time and sacrifice.
Money created from nothing doesn’t vanish… it erases value, warps incentives, and steals the weight of our decisions.
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Can't zap this post. Message says wallet not properly configured.
Should really be working now.
I tested it by zapping my own post 😳, which would normally be bad form.
nostr:nprofile1qqstkqt54cs6djkp5z5u3d9vd6la54kw29s9cv2mrqjfwz7zwhmj8xspz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgnwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxtcdg6x8w now hosts an off-grid, solar MeshCore room server and repeater, building up decentralised communication capability.
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Any mesh radio notriches using MeshCore?
my weekend project to learn more about bluetooth mesh networks, relays, store and forward models, encryption models, and a few other things: https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat
nostr-only TestFlight if you want to play with it: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QwkyFq6z
LoRa's long range but low bandwidth already enables telemetry messages from as far as orbiting satellites with $20 hardware (https://tinygs.com/).
For motivated, low time preference users, such as Nostriches, I think there must be a way to hyper-efficiently encode/decode longer text messages using local language models, trading work at sender and receiver for better transmission efficiency, mitigating bandwidth constraints and enabling far wider mesh coverage.
Whether or not it can be made to work, I'm finding it interesting to explore https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdpgmuuxq7wl3w8nmjlj75h7tpjm6t65ce7g5jfsdkwx603a6y6ccpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygx3tkfhf0ccqg99hjd5s6dkqu6ytlw88r65qu397q0sf96q9chxcgpsgqqqqqqs5pjyw6
It starts with an gentle interest in mesh radio, ecash etc and soon you are on your way to being hardcore like this guy;
Maybe a book cover image provides deeper context than just the book title in text form?
The AI should recognise the book cover image and base the chat on its trained knowledge of the book's contents and related concepts.
Is there a good first prompt?
As I'm from the UK I have 868MHz nodes, so anywhere I go in Europe there's a good chance of picking up a mesh. I usually seek out a sightseeing spot like a tall building for the line-of-sight range.
Tall buildings are good but balloons are better. Back in the UK when someone had a balloon up over the English Channel, it got me connected all the way over to the Netherlands.
Maybe we could have a Nostr balloon node at some point!
Great work! Is this going to be a regular activity at events?
I picked a couple of nodes after Nostriga when sightseeing from the roof of the
Latvian Academy of Sciences.