WYGIWYG

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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • 0 chance they hand out new SSID, that’s money and work and confusion, imagine every medical entity changing over that code?

    First, the govt would need to make a lookup table.

    Anyone that used their old ssid for something, or a system that had the old ssid in it, would need a translation to the new ID.

    Sooo at what point could you safely stop accepting old ID’s because they’re all changed over? Never. Some random medical provider in east bumfuck, TN, still uses your SSID from their own paper copy. So you’re stuck accepting old SSIDs and translating them into new SSIDs on demand, which completely breaks any security of changing IDs in the first place.

    There have been enough nexus/credit leaks over the years, it’s hardly news that those ID’s are compromised.






  • We’re already offered some protection by up/down votes not mattering. Botting yourself doesn’t buy you much visibility. The real concern for me would be Mods or channel owners on the take. Just like they can’t buy themself views, we rely on mods to bury bullshit and not bury non-advertiser-friendly content. Of course, if a channel goes rogue, we just abandon it on that node and move to another. The pure nature of federation makes us less attractive to advertisers, They’re not going to want to chase dozens of smaller channels all over the place for eyeballs. Also, we’re nearly too small to care about while there are targets as big as Bluesky and Reddit around.






  • Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands,

    Some nodes have up to 5 watts, but you have to put them in ham mode with your license, it also disables encryption (ham requirement)

    You can stitch together several different cheap radios in different frequencies using MQTT.

    TBF, I’d be super happy just to move back to APRS, (i’m a ham) but the equipment is stupid expensive.



  • So, I setup meshtastic.

    Put an antenna on my roof.

    Have a decent number of mesh radios. Put one in each car in relay mode.

    Setup a locally run LLM and made an interface to it.

    Working on setting up a BBS.

    I’m in the high density suburbs, I can, when the weather is just right, reach a single node that doesn’t seem to be able to reach any other nodes.

    If I go on a drive, I can see 5-10 nodes.

    Adoption in the mid-Atlantic US is just so damn low, it’s not really usable.

    We need some antennas up high, but there aren’t any reasonable options around me.