Now that #Hamvention is over we should get an uptick in new #MeshCore and #Meshtastic nodes.

Just finished Red Star Rebels by Amie Kaufman. I very much enjoyed this #book. It’s 2067, and the Graves family has transformed Mars from lifeless rock into a chaotic patchwork of settlements—and everybody wants a piece. Enter Hunter Graves: handsome, ambitious, and with spectacularly bad timing. He shows up at the United Nations base just as an emergency evacuation sends everyone scurrying for safety. Except he’s left behind. Uh oh. Also stranded: Cleo, a sharp-tongued stowaway with no intention of dying today, and even less patience for overconfident trust fund boys. But the enemy of your enemy might just help you survive, so here we are. Turns out the evacuation was just a cover for the mercenaries who came next, and they plan to blow up the base—and every trace of their crime—in eight hours. Now, Hunter and Cleo have one shot to stop the explosion, escape alive, and deal with the inconvenient fact that they’re falling for each other. The clock is ticking. #books #ScienceFiction #scifi

Idea: Replacing the Emergency Alert System with the mesh Currently, in the cellular networks of countries, if a government agency declares a state of emergency such as tornado warnings or a public health emergency of some sort, the system can be activated to blare a loud alert tone on your phone and override do not disturb no matter what time of day it is. I'm thinking we might need to replicate this functionality if we ever want the mesh to replace the cellular networks. My idea for doing this would be that any message would be technically capable of being an alert message and would come in as a standard text message as it does now. However, what would change would be that upon a new message receive, you would start a timer, and if some user configurable number of, say, thumbs up reactions were also received within that timer frame, it would then blur an emergency alert style tone. Let's say Alice has hers set to five, and Bob has his set to ten. Any new message that comes in would ding both Alice and Bob's device in the standard way, and at the same time would start a five minute timer, and if Alice received five thumbs up reactions on a message before that five minute period was over, it would blare as an alert. But for Bob, that threshold would have to be ten thumbs up reactions before it would blare as an alert within that five minute frame. Otherwise, nothing would occur.

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idea: Replacing the Emergency Alert System with the mesh · Issue #447 · zjs81/meshcore-open

Currently, in the cellular networks of countries, if a government agency declares a state of emergency such as tornado warnings or a public health ...

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Oh, thats not horrible. A cheap 20-cell #braille display costs 2.5 #Monero new but i found one in good condition for 1.2. A friend of mine needs to replace their display at some point sooner rather than later.

I have a friend who is getting a BA in psychology and am wondering if anyone could use their help in the #Monero counter-economy. If you have any opportunities, or know of anybody who has any opportunities, send them my way so that I can pass them on. Thanks in advance for all the suggestions. #MoneroCircularEconomy

You can absolutely connect your machine running#HomeAssistant to your Wi-Fi network. Just don't be dumb enough to connect it to the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network since #Zigbee and #Thread use the same frequencies.

Remember, every time you price an item directly in #Monero, you make a government bootlicker somewhere cry. By pricing items directly in Monero, you say to them, "your paper money has no value here. You are not welcome."

Fucking yikes!

The Verge

A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

I’m fine. Yarbo owners might not be.

Why the actual fuck is #Bitchat not using proof of work by default? I had to reset my app because Arti was failing to connect to the Tor network, and by default, POW is off. And that's stupid as hell.