If you haven't been following MeshCore, it seems to be really hitting strides with adoption and growth. There are scaling issues [1] and overall the protocol has its limitations[2] , but its really interesting to play with and cheap, which is helping fuel adoption. Since devices are cheap and software is too, so given enough time, it is likely these issues can be sorted out (and it may not even look or smell like what we're working with now, as long as people can upgrade firmwares and software)
On the west coast of the US, there is a consortium of independent networks that are likely to merge (to some degree, TBD). https://www.wcmesh.com/
I'm in SoCal right now and while this network is impressive, the Cascade network is really really awesome (I was able to use it first hand last week!). https://cascadiamesh.org/
One of the challenges that remains unsolved is how local networks are forming around non-default-for-the-region settings and making those well know or obvious to new users.
Take away from the map from analyzer.letsmesh.com for today is that ohio is extremely overrepresented, why? This weekend is Hamvention!
I regularly use about half a dozen programs that interface with radio equipment. Most of it works but getting it all working together is extremely complex.
Since primarily interested in FT8 and MeshCore here in the local SoCal MC region (wcmesh.com) I put together a Pure-Golang implementation to combine both modes into the same GUI client. The FT8 modem might be the only functional Golang decoder right now, unsure, but it’s entirely open source and here:
It’s unclear, my next step is taking the few days worth of recordings along with the ground truth that you can get from ‘jt9’ and giving Claude the task. I’ve been running decode shootouts on 128c aarch64 and made some progress but I needed to finish the UI.
Im going to take all of the data and use it for a corpus for training and see if I can get a small model built that can run easily on mac arm64
I wanted something better than WSTJ-X and Gridtrackr with the endless knobs and complications and developed this along with my favorite french intern (Claude).
The /lib/ golang FT8 library is not yet complete and struggles with around 15% of the decodes that WSTJX will get at very low signal to noise ratios (-18 to -25). But otherwise matches at around 85%.
If you have an newer ICOM or Yaesu radio and use MacOS, you can simply just run the program, configure your callsign and LOTW logins and you are off. Every logged QSO goes into a standard ADIF file that gets signed/uploaded automatically and DXCC grid tracking can be enabled on the map overlay.
The waterfall scope overlay is my favorite feature though as you can live watch decodes and quickly cross reference what you see, get magnified view of a decode and do QRZ lookups etc directly on the waterfall.
I wanted to play around with Claude cli for a bit this morning and spent about 2 hours setting up hosting and making this (obviously) satire security company website.
Security Engineering is mostly about control and minimizing attack surfaces. Apple iOS implements this exceedingly well, with defaults, while still being one of the most widely used platforms on the planet. I believe IOS gets it right the vast majority of the time with solid architectural changes and not just endless patches and knobs that are hidden and forgot about. This is the key difference of "It just works" verses other platforms.
If someone wants to run another platform, go for it. Of course are shortcomings in iOS (as with any system), but viewing entire problem space of security and privacy, the default install of IOS + Safari could rarely be any better for the average consumer. This is why Security and Privacy is literally a paid feature of the IOS platform, and anecdotally everyone professional I know (who isn't in tech) is using IOS devices.
Personally, I'm planning to blocking RCS and any third party app stores on any of my own (and families) devices -- again, control and minimizing attack surfaces and eliminating an entire class of issues is better than trying to manage them to no end.
Yes, if someone locks you in a prison cell you're safe. Except from the warden and guards. You get to read only what they let you, eat only what they let you. But, you're safe
This isn't a very honest statement, either. Your choices for mobile platforms are Android and iOS. That's it. That is not a free market; that's a duopoly, and stating that you have a "choice" is, while literally true, misleading to the point of being disingenuous.
Moreover, it's extremely clear that Apple is not pursuing the edge of the security-freedom efficient frontier, but is intentionally sacrificing freedom in order to lock consumers in to its ecosystems, acting in ways that are clearly anti-free-market and anti-competitive and are entirely deserving of lawsuits like the one in the posted article even if there was more competition than there is now.
Even just a few seconds running normal pressure bidet is extremely effective. Let it run for 10 seconds, use hot water, use a rotating sprayer (or just wiggle around a bit) and there is absolutely nothing left. Don't forget your skin doesn't want poo on it and gravity is also actively working against anything sticking.
Honestly, maybe you aren't getting enough fiber. I take a psyllium husk pill a few times a week. If I take one daily I could literally get away with zero wipes some days if I wanted...
1. This will be the decade of compact hospital-grade health and bio-Informatics devices being brought into the home and personal life. Think Startrek tricorder capability but in a (likely) larger package.
2. Deep fakes will precipitate the need for digitally signed media. This likely means further reliance on root-of-trust systems like x509 certificates or some new international body designed to issue a new form of lightweight signing mechanism that works at low resolutions/low bandwidth.
3. Continued climate change will result in at-least one major U.S. city losing population due to feasibility/costs of providing either clean water or breathable air.<br><br> 4. China and Russia will split their version of the internet entirely apart from the traditional internet and will sell products and services to other countries to do the same (I.e. Iran).
5. The era of horizontal drilling and fracking for ultra-cheap gas and oil will slowly wind down and energy costs will increase to 2000’s era costs.
6. Most ominously: this might be the first decade where we see large scale orchestrated micro-drone attacks (death by a thousand paper cuts) and autonomous vehicles being used for delivery of some kind of malicious purpose (I.e. explosive delivery).
7. Massive inflation globally during 2010/early 2020’s will result in stagflation in the U.S. and other countries.
Regarding 1., what do you think will be the selling point of this transition? There is very little that hospital monitoring devices can offer to the average person (do you need a daily ECG / EKG?)
The “real economy” runs on a fiat (inflating) currency system that is effectively not zero sum. The stock market is a closed system that currencies feed into - at the end of the day it’s still a measure of a fixed amount of value and thus zero sum.
> The stock market is a closed system that currencies feed into
Currencies feed into the stock market, but it's not a closed system. If you think a company is undervalued in the stock market, and you buy shares, that raises the price of shares for that company. With a higher share price, that company can borrow money (by issuing shares) at better terms, and spend that money on growing more than they could have if they had not borrowed that money.
If the stock price is too low, the company may buy back shares of its own stock (thus enabling future borrowing). Alternatively, investors may buy up a majority of the stock of that company, thus acquiring control of that company, and either try to force the company to do a thing they expect to be profitable, or liquidate the assets of the company (which will then be distributed to shareholders in proportion to how many shares they hold).
So basically the stock market moves money to the companies based on how effectively they could spend borrowed money / how valuable they would be if liquidated.
Currency is a tool for measuring economic value, it's not the basis of economic value.
This is why fiat currencies are so useful: you can change the length of the "ruler" to accommodate changes in the thing you're measuring, so the value of the increment remains stable.
No, companies create excess value and grow. Tesla pre Model 3 is a very different company than Tesla post Model 3. A drug company is very different if they've patented a new wonder drug. New companies come into existence and offer shares via an IPO.
Investing in the stock market is literally investing in the collective appreciation of the value of the companies that make up it.
But there's stocks on the other side that represent real things that increase in value. E.g, compare Google 20 years ago with Google today and see if you think it's more valuable.
On the west coast of the US, there is a consortium of independent networks that are likely to merge (to some degree, TBD). https://www.wcmesh.com/
I'm in SoCal right now and while this network is impressive, the Cascade network is really really awesome (I was able to use it first hand last week!). https://cascadiamesh.org/
One of the challenges that remains unsolved is how local networks are forming around non-default-for-the-region settings and making those well know or obvious to new users.
Take away from the map from analyzer.letsmesh.com for today is that ohio is extremely overrepresented, why? This weekend is Hamvention!
Interesting links: