The fact I forgot the proprietary LoRa thing repeatedly, kept needing to dig in again and relearn it, and then this year I accidentally made a purchase before relearning it - all makes me feel dumb.
But the fact that F-Droid missed it the whole time too, makes me feel a bit less dumb.
F-Droid has this anti-feature warning for apps that "promote or depend entirely on a non-free network service," but it's missing for #meshtastic (dependent on LoRa)
Actually, my bad, I'm still cooking one more post
Last post about meshcore and meshtastic for now:
I'm heavily influenced by the annoyance of meshcore making me delete and redo the Bluetooth connection to my meshcore device every time I want to reconnect.
If it weren't for that, I might still stick with meshcore for now and try to convince users in my area to switch.
Both lie about E2EE and being open source; BUT meshcore is more designed for messaging, and supposed to be better than meshtastic; BUT meshcore has a broken app and no users.
Might as well not waste time dealing with the less convenient one, when I can't tell if either of them has all the potential reticulum or something new might have.
I was going to try to build a meshcore network in my area, recruiting new users and convincing people to switch from meshtastic and stuff.
But after the past few days processing a lot of info, I think maybe I'd rather just use whatever everyone else is using (currently meshtastic here, oddly) while I work on reticulum or something until I can convince people to switch to whatever I'm working on.
As I continue digging into it, reticulum seems like it could have everything replaced, without replacing the whole thing - ship of theseus style.
It seems modular and designed to be maintained and improved, so I think every problem with reticulum can be solved without moving away from reticulum.
Still trying to figure it out.
What I'm still trying to figure out - which is it?
Option 1: reticulum was going to BE an open mesh, so the authorities sent meshtastic and meshcore to slow that down
Option 2: reticulum was going to CATALYZE its own replacement with an open mesh, so the authorities sent meshtastic and meshcore to slow that down
Does reticulum's design naturally lead to itself improving, or a better thing being made?
Still need to dig into this a little more
So, meshcore and meshtastic are just distractions to stop people from breaking reticulum out of authoritarian capture?
Like "uh oh, you guys almost got the 1 bait worm off the hook, here's 2 more bait worms with 2 more hooks to slow you down"
Semtech, the company I'm angry at over LoRa being proprietary, is publicly traded.
And it's pretty small, only 13 billion dollars.
So I could just scrounge up 13 billion dollars to buy the company and make them open source the LoRa spec, but the biggest shareholder right now is Blackrock, who I might not be able to beat in a bidding war if they start driving the price up past 13 billion.
The question is, why do I assume Blackrock is so desperate to control everything, they won't let the public have the LoRa spec? Should I just try asking Blackrock nicely to take my side on this?
Louis Rossmann has a video whining about YouTube asking his viewers if his videos are "emotionally manipulative," and it's full of wall to wall comments going "noooo, this man wouldn't mislead a fly."
Everyone knows YouTube and its algorithms are brainwashing tools, but they don't want to remotely recognize a creator they like who is part of it. It's like how everyone hates the Senate, but every Senator's home state has people that approve of their senator.
It's crazy how Bitcoin is slowly turning into Garlicoin
I decided to at least check if there are meshtastic nodes in my area that aren't listed in the online map, and there are. Maybe it's more worth the money than I thought. Still not sure, didn't get any messages from anyone I tried to send messages today. Need more testing.
Might keep these 2 devices while I try to figure out how to develop a non-proprietary competitor
Devs, if you HAVE TO say "end to end" in your app's description for SEO or something...
Could you PLEASE at least speak of what your app supports, not blindly guess what devices actually do?
"This app SUPPORTS end-to-end encryption"
vs
"Messages ARE end-to-end encrypted"
One is a fact about the software, the other is such a blind guess about what the user's hardware does with the software, it's simply a lie
#devstr
I'm still mad I accidentally ordered devices with LoRa chips without knowing they're malware, but:
* Half the stuff in my vicinity at any time is malware
* These chips can also transmit and receive without LoRa, using open standards like GFSK
So maybe I shouldn't destroy the devices, but keep them for personal, non-LoRa usage?
Especially if I'm going to be trying to develop a non-LoRa mesh using GFSK
I just hate the idea of destroying brand new electronics, but I also can't undo buying this shit from sketchy retailers I can't trust to do full refunds
