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by bergie 5mo ago
I'm right now anchored at an atoll in the Tuamotus, French Polynesia. 3/10 boats anchored here have Meshtastic.
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by bergie 5mo ago
Isn't that exactly the idea of Reticulum? http://reticulum.network/manual/whatis.html
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by bergie 5mo ago
I think there are people playing with Halow with Reticulum. That's one advantage of having a multi-transport system. There is also a Bluetooth transport now: https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=720
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by bergie 5mo ago
A lot of the "early internet" protocols would likely pair quite well, especially ones based on UDP. However, Reticulum has its own active "small web" implementation with NomadNet and the Micron markup.
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by bergie 5mo ago
I'm looking at setting up rngit mirrors of all my repos on our boat NAS. Conceivably it also allows issue tracking and collaboration without centralized infra https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html#mirroring-rep
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Distributed Development(reticulum.network)
2 points by bergie 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bergie 5mo ago
We started this trip with a summer cruise in Scotland, so who knows where we'll end up
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by bergie 5mo ago
A few boats, yes. But it is still a "new thing". Before leaving Panama I ordered a stack of cheap Heltec V3 Meshtastic boards so we can give some to our buddy boats
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by bergie 5mo ago
We are in the South Pacific with our sailboat, and are using Meshtastic every day to talk between ourselves and with various buddy boats. The boat has a solar-powered repeater (CLIENT_BASE) on the mast that increases communications range si
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by bergie 5mo ago
The salaries are indeed lower, but you get so much more for the money. Better healthcare, better food, livable cities. Lots of major cost items like a car (or three!) are things you can simply skip.
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by bergie 5mo ago
> a person working with a bunch of agents is a lot more productive than just a person [citation needed] I try LLMs for something every couple of months, and I have yet to see them produce anything actually correct. Calling non-existing l
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by bergie 6mo ago
Now, I think the author would consider it "solutionism", but the other day I spent a bunch of time browsing Reticulum's NomadNet sites (using the Columba mobile app). And while aesthetically it was more early 90s than 1999, i
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Rediscovering the Handcart(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
3 points by bergie 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bergie 6mo ago
At least some of the Boox devices support Play Store, meaning that you can install termux. https://lockywolf.net/2024-08-07_Using-an-ebook-instead-of-a...
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by bergie 8mo ago
Reticulum shell is also an option, and would also work over LoRa https://pypi.org/project/rnsh/
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by bergie 8mo ago
Somebody gave him a synopsis of Moon is a Hard Mistress that went something like "AI organises a libertarian polygamous utopia on moon after seceding from earth using mass driver as the threat"
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by bergie 8mo ago
They rebuilt DeX on Google's desktop codebase. So obviously a lot of features were lost. Hopefully what we'll gain is wider app support.
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by bergie 9mo ago
It is kind of funny how most of them scapegoat that Dye guy (who was poached by Meta). As if a single person was responsible for all that bad design, and it isn't a failure of the whole organisation.
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by bergie 9mo ago
This thread is going to be very contextual. I'm currently sailing on a small sailboat, and hence the items will be quite different than what would be useful ashore: * Wacaco Nanopresso - manual espresso pump. Great coffee anywhere off-
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by bergie 9mo ago
https://bergie.iki.fi - my tech stuff https://lille-oe.de - sailing stuff
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Off-grid boat telemetry with Meshtastic(signalk.org)
2 points by bergie 9mo ago|1 comments
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by bergie 9mo ago
For travelers, this Balkanization of payment mechanisms is quite a hassle. You can't have Swish (the Swedish payment system) without a Swedish bank account. You can't have Yappy (the payment system used in Panama) without a Panama
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by bergie 9mo ago
We can turn on the deck lights on our boat remotely via Meshtastic. Works great when dinghying back in the dark.
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by bergie 10mo ago
I think the primary problem is that the polygons for regions would take quite a bit of space in the limited microcontroller. Though bigger reason likely is that very few people actually travel between different regions
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by bergie 10mo ago
For a single hop you can expect close to similar ranges as a VHF set. We saw 30NM distances on open sea when leaving Curaçao. Could be a lot more with antenna situated high up. Where the magic potentially kicks in is the mesh hops. With tho
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by bergie 10mo ago
No, you need to switch the region manually. Not a big deal to do for a couple of nodes. The trickier part is to figure out the correct preset for more exotic locations. I've had to ask a couple of times from the local Meshtastic commun
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by bergie 10mo ago
We're using Meshtastic quite extensively for communication on our boat. Each crew member carries a mobile waterproof node (Seeed T1000e), the boat itself has a node, and we also have a Meshtastic tracker for the dinghy. We often sail i
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by bergie 11mo ago
These trips happened all the way to late 1940s. Here's a good book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Grain_Race If you get the chance, the Pommern is a beautifully preserved ship from that era in Mariehamn
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by bergie 11mo ago
That's true only in constrained waters. But obviously they need to see you from afar to be able to make that course change. That's where AIS transponders help a lot. We've crossed some of the busier shipping lanes of the worl
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by bergie 11mo ago
> that your choice of sailboat should entitle you to having something that is literally hundreds of times larger and less nimble than you have to make the effort to go around you. That's how the rules of the road work. See: COLREGs.

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