An eletric heater powered by an old #bitcoin miner, with a meshtastic node embedded in it. It uses #meshtastic to bounce data to a gateway to submit PoW. By default, that could go to the person who built the heater.
The user just plugs in the heater without ever having to deal with any of this, nor connecting their electric heater to their wifi. Then they get a small check in the mail each year for running their heater.
If the customer is technically savvy and interested in obtaining bitcoin, they could reconfigure the heater to mine for them.
A: 50% of the time.
Sample size: 2
Source: personal experience
Guess my node will be down until Wednesday when I can get up there and bring it down to hopefully be flashed via USB.
But this is why I took a backup immediately before flashing it, and was flashing a node that I can get to without borrowing a bucket truck.
It's important to test these things in the lower risk environments first. The node on my workbench went just fine. The rooftop one disappeared.
Uhhh, nRF Connect just flashed my firmware without ever asking for a BT pin... 🤔
That doesn't seem good.
#meshtastic users/developers:
1. How often does an OTA uodate render a node non-functional?
2. What can we do to improve reliability?
I need to get this yard/garden work done so I can get back to #Signet. I had to use the new (unreleased) build to import my Keepass database to a new Signet. Not ideal. 🫤
If I can get the Mac- and Windows-specific updates done, I can get this merged in and cut a new official release.
If you are ever in Urbana, drop by Meadowbrook Park
The first thing a friend said was "That sucks. Race condition." I wish they were wrong.
I'm just going to keep it at debug logging for now. I don't want to take on development of yet another project. I don't have time to get to know another code base. I struggle to keep up with what I contribute to now as it is.
I was about to say there's only 10 documents, but now I see that is just the first page of results...
There are 2566 documents!
I pulled up a random one and it was 34 pages of non-searchable text. So I guess this might take a while to go through, and hardly anyone is going to be willing to do that work, no matter how much they believe it was the Mob/Russians/CIA/aliens/deep state.
Nope.
Seeimg some wild packet sizes in the pcap though... 26Kb... even 50Kb in a single packet? Seems sus 😑
They are both my nodes. I'm testing out the software.
OK, I'm looking for some help from a fellow lnd node runner.
Problem 1: My comnection to my peer keeps dropping about every 3.5 minutes
Logs say "pong response failure" and "timeout while waiting for pong response -- disconnecting".
The error in the peer's log says the same. That it also had a timeout while waiting for pong reaponse.
I can reconnect with no problem at all.
There is not any network issues such as packet loss (see notes on the pcap below for the evidence to back this up). Tor is not in the mix for this test.
I am able to sends sats if I do so quickly after connecting to the peer. So it seems like things can work properly if the connection issue can be sorted out.
I took a pcap of a connection, transaction and disconnection. Near the end, I see the client (node which initiated the connection) just absolutely slamming PSH,ACKs to the tune of 37 of them in just under 0.001 seconds. Then it sends a TCP Retransmission 0.006 seconds later and gets an ACK 0.036 seconds later, which is a perfectly reasonable response time.
The next batch is some TCP keepalives and keepalice ACKs. Some PSH,ACKs and ACKs in sub ms response time, followed by a retransmit and and ACK from the other side.
Finally 2 more keepalives and Keepalive ACKs in 0.012 seconds and then we get the FIN,ACK from the client followed by the RST,ACK from the server (remote peer to which we connected).
The FIN,ACK did come 5 seconds after the last ACK, so I feel like the server should have responded sooner, but at the same time I don't feel like a 5 second lag should cause a connection to be dropped and no attempt to ever be made to connect to it again. Also, these blitzkreigs of packets within 1ms is absurd.
Any ideas on where I should look next? I guess take pcaps on both sides and compare them?
This is absolutely brutal. I wouldn't expect most sysadmins to go through this much trouble to track down this issue, let alone any normal human be expected to do so.
If anyone wants to do some coinjoining, now would be a good time. It looks like the miners are getting bored. 😝
Welcome aboard. I have a little garden and after a few years, I'm still figuring out what works and what doesn't.
Square foot gardening sounded great, but the plants weren't happy being packed together like that. Not enough airflow to the leaves, not enough sun, etc. We got better yeilds from 2 bean plants for 4 ft² than we did with the 32 plants that were recommended for that same space.
Happy to have more people on here to share their experiences
It's been a month and a half since the JFK assassination files were released and I haven't heard anyone pointing to what was in them that took this many years to finally be made public.
I know this feeling so well. I also prioritize the garden.
Are there starter packs that have recommended follows?
The year 2050 is closer than the year 2000.
Yeah, I bet a lot of you gen Xers are probably feeling pretty old right now
I don't think so, but if "K is for Kompressor" is by them, I could see how you could get there from my vauge description
I remember a short semi-parody of "industrisl" music which was sampled from a bunch of heavy equipment: grinders, specialized manufacturing equipment, etc.
I thought it was by someone like chin guy, or chin dude or something.
No I can't find it. Am I hallucinating? Does anyone know what I'm taking about? Including me?
Wood lathe
It's not mine, but it is in my shop and I've never been trained on it or attempted to use it.
This is a brilliant pun that will be lost on most Americans.
Anyone on here still have an X account? I'm trying tonget ahold of Matt or Jay, but the only contact info I have is Twitter. I want to email them about my Meshtastic Solar node project.
Want Bitcoin education stickers sent to any address? Could be yours, a friend, or someone you want to orange pill.
Head to Bitcoin Rocks and request some today! The only information you need to enter an address. No other information is required.
https://bitcoin.rocks/stickers
⚡️⚡️⚡️
nostr:nprofile1qqsvn6daczcrcgdaxdap9h84k33af876l6yy4gfth9gvrqhfund7nwqprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum4v3hkxctjd3hhxtnrdaksz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmccmctm3 500
That's in Chicago. The building in the background a credit rating agency.
The parts for the #solar #meshtastic node came out to $224.78 to build one unit.
My node covers at least 7 square miles in a urban/rural area with lots of trees and the antenna is not above said trees (or buildings for that matter).
A better antenna position would greatly increase this range.
Now that I have the spreadsheet, I'm going to reach out to the person at hackspace.io who said they'd host my writeup.
That'd a good question. There's a stromg case to be made for "whatever you use" because then it'll be easier for you to help them.
I like Debian with KDE, but I'm.trying out PopOS right now.
I'll report back what I think of PopOS once I've used it for a little bit.
If you want to go DEEP down the rabbit hole and escape the Communism vs Capitalism tropes, I'd got the video for you. Strap in!
Good news #FOSS friends: there will be an abundance of cheap or free hardware available this year as Microsoft drops support of it.
This means you can scarf up those machines, put #Linux on there and give them away to friends and family.
Some of them might never touch it, but most will try it out and some might like it.
There's lots to like:
- Don't have to sign up with a website to log into your local computer
- No invasive telemetry watching everything you do
- No trying to sell you stuff
- Much less expensive than buying a new computer
- Probably faster than a new computer with Windows 11
- Can come with LibreOffice, CAD modeling software, Steam, whatever web browser you want (even Microsoft Edge!), music and video players, an email client so you don't even need to open a browser to check your mail
This is going to be an unpopular take, but I think nostr:nprofile1qqsvn6daczcrcgdaxdap9h84k33af876l6yy4gfth9gvrqhfund7nwqprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum4v3hkxctjd3hhxtnrdaksz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsqj2amnwvaz7tmzw4a85cn0wskhyetvv9ujucn4d3kxjumgvfhh2mn50yhxxmmdfgk5h0 is a great idea.
It's easily muted
People who boost those posts are easily unfollowed (or muted, or those posts filteted)
It's not a centralized entity (e.g. company) who decides what gets a lot of boosts, it's regular ol' users.
For those users who do engage, they're putting their reputation on the line. Most people will put up with some shenanigans but at some point it becomes annoying and people start ignoring the boosters.
Combine this with a web of trust to avoid random bots from boosting things into your feed. The bots can boost all they want to game the system, take the "influnecer's" money, and plebs don't ever even know it's happening.
The person paying will quickly realize they aren't getting what they want (people to buy their 💩 or whatever) and they'll stop paying. So that is yet another way this spam problem works itself out naturally.
It's basically the free market doing its thing. No centralization, no algorithms being foisted upon people without them being able to do anything about it. It's all transparent.
If you don't like it, take action. Mute 'em. Filter 'em. Ask for better tools to craft your feed (like "hide buzzbot unless the author is Ross", which is a rule I don't think any nostr client can handle right now).
I like the accessibility work, but Gnome online accounts sound terrifying. Requiring a 3rd party service to log into a local machine? No thanks!
I took these pics just for you nostr:nprofile1qqs0dy5dun0lnka94f54vqka65387eyuv5rprj9unarhs68fmjwjw6gpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnsz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wc4hd85t. Enjoy
