Bahnd Rollard

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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • It is and it isnt, you do need to put in effort and manage expectations with meshnets (which makes it a hard sell for normies and people without a direct need). I was at DefCon a few weeks ago with my nerd herd and we functionally only used Meshtastic for our coms for the entire conference. On a few occasions I had to set the hop count to 5-7 but that was to get messages into or out of the main building. Once in the main hall (and using the cons firmware because it needed to default to shorter chirps to not saturate the airwaves) it worked just fine and our fleet of nodes was working perfectly.

    Do note that there were ~2500 meshtastic nodes inside a convention hall, and electromagnetically speaking, that was probably the most chaotic place west of the mississippi that week.

    As for out in the wild, Ive set up a small fleet of repeaters around town and can send longer range signals a quite a long distance away. Any further communication would require enabling MQTT, setting up servers and building real infrastructure. Thats a whole other can of worms I dont have the time to do yet.










  • You have a point, ethics yes, but not doing what needed to be done (notice how the DOJ is being told to go find crimes for 47s hit list). 45 spent his entire time fumbling for the levers of power and only managed to break them. Biden comes in and expects things to be right where Obama left them and runs a by the book administration from 40 years ago, like Carter, but he got to do a little nepotism on the way out. Now 47 is back and the shit he broke was not fixed, corrpution, nepotism and cronyism are sorta the defaults now and the were all suffering for it.

    Shit like this, in a better world is something a country has to deal with once or twice a century… Millenials alone are dealing with round 3…