China manufactures basically all Apple products, lmao

Just imagine how much more advanced we would be if we still had the USSR, instead of the USA.

afaict, the only person from a post-Soviet country (Azerbaijan) in those replies was a communist lol

It’s literally the best game ever made, you won’t regret getting around to it

Using AI to track and adjust your sleep, just like the good ol’ days hundreds of years ago.

I’m in favor of the real Israel flag.

Personally I’d like a partially-background-removed IRL flag burning published by an Axis of Resistance group to be our israel-cool emoji, but that’s just my opinion.

I don’t know about reticulum but I wonder if you could (in theory, I’m sure it doesn’t exist yet) have a semi-dumb node that can make basic routing decisions without implementing all the heavy stuff like crypto. because honestly there’s plenty of compute available on a lot of these meshtastic devices for something like that, tracking node lists and at least a local route table, but not for running the whole stack

They’re working on a C implementation to basically that, but it’s not very closed to being finished yet. Reticulum is all Python now, which doesn’t work great on microcontrollers. It’s like this with a lot of mesh projects, where they have grand plans with awesome features, but stuff goes slowly thanks to a lack of developers.

running encrypted comms over anything ham would be illegal

Yeah, sadly. In America you could buy a license for a business band, those are right near the HAM bands and generally allow encryption, but the convenience drops off a cliff (at least several hundred dollars). Or you could move to a cool country without those restrictions.

Sydney Sweeney is the Hasan of the left

Some of those are far-right (exploding-heads, gab, poa.st, etc.)

you can’t, because reticulum isn’t LoRa focused, the reticulum node is the computer/phone. There’s a bunch of other interfaces it can transmit over, like AX.25 (HAM radio, really only useful in EU), serial, Tor, I2P, the internet, and more.

also, since the processing is done on a more powerful chip, it means that it has significantly more efficient routing than Meshtastic. Meshtastic doesn’t pick a path, it does flood routing where it has everyone retransmit, while reticulum only transmits as much as it needs to.

(well, you could have a dumb LoRa repeater, but that wouldn’t really reticulum, even if it could extend the range of reticulum broadcasts)

Meshtastic came first, there’s a lot of existing Meshtastic networks, and Meshtastic does all of it’s processing on the microprocessor (while Reticulum requires a separate computer in addition).

If you use a radio, the police will know everything that’s being said. We know from the right-wing Oregon militia occupation that the police are monitoring, they are recording, and they can defeat even most encrypted radios (P25, DMR, etc.).

I think I’d prefer e2ee lock-screened apps, even if you have to do it with Signal over cellular. Phones (unfortunately) provide an unmatched balance of usability and security.

you said yuourself the hummers are armored, you’ve got this

lora used in a more security conscious

Meshcore and Reticulum do that, though they have a much smaller userbase than meshtastic.

you can do offline wifi hotspots too. also, they can connect together in a mesh network, where contacts in range can forward to contacts out of range over various mediums, so bluetooth isn’t limited by it’s range.

also you can sneakernet messages with removable drives.

also also, usability and security are often in contradiction. all too much is done on WhatsApp, Telegram, and even normal social media.

delete it

nah, that bad post is staying

I think peak security protest communications are either runners operating off of memory, or GrapheneOS phones w/ airplane mode ( sixth paragraph) running Briar (which can do direct internet-less communication).

It’s e2ee, has PFS, checks integrity, and does authentication, making it markedly better than Meshtastic.

Group chats that are secured like their direct messages are is still on the roadmap, so it’s not perfect for protests.

PSL has organization wide DemCent, DSA will probably have at most Caucus-wide DemCent. DSA still has many libs and much connection to Democrat electorialism.

erm, I’ll have you know that the orcs are Asiatic hordes /s

you’re not wrong exactly.