The idea of a national ID would never pass in the US. Both parties are against it for various reasons.

The regresivists has beta tested this in slovakia.

They found a crackpot doctor, a wannabe politician, and put him in charge of investigation of the management of the pandemic. Instead he went on the holy anti-vax crusade.

https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/news-digest-fico-s-pandemic-investigator-calls-covid-vaccinated-people-corn

So… nobody changes the default settings, therefore everyone should change the default settings… to the wrong option?

edit: Why is it that homo sapiens is always willing to go an extra mile just to hurt itself?

Why are they always coming up with some kind of bullshit excuse? :D

I’m confused by the pessimistic reactions, though.

Companies converging towards the semi-open platform is a good thing. The locked down hardware and exclusives are not something we as customers asked for. It was something the cartel just shoved down our throats.

What bothers me is the backwards compatibility that microsoft has always just hand-waved in regards to the sunsetting of the xbox HW. A clear yes or no would be nice.

A bit of unrequested advice… Help expand, or start a mesh network in your area. The SX1260 lora chips are a modern miracle. Plus, It’s basically hiking and socializing activity masked as a tech hobby. There’s also a chance of learning a little bit of physics, or community organizing as a bonus.

With the new people you meet, there’s also a chance of finding a new hobby. I’ve met an unexpected number of paraglidists through my various tech interests. People from all kinds of backgrounds are really into flying. Who knew?

On the other hand, it’s one of the least intrusive proposals I’ve heard in this round of debate. The parent flags the account as a child, the browser sends one (or more, in this case) extra bit indicating if it should receive the adult content (whatever it might be) or not.

No ID verification, no face scanning, no credit card checks, no companies building profiles of everybody on earth and sharing them with shady institutions. Plus, it pushes the responsibility back to the parents, who (hopefully) know the child the best, and can adjust the restrictions either way if needed.

Now I can finally accept that the age verification issue is merely “controversial”, instead of absolutely evil global conspiracy.

I was sitting at the neurology office. As the doctor starts to scroll through the pictures of the inside of my head I see a huge blob. Well, this is it, I thought. It’s finally happening…

But then I remembered that scene from the Breaking Bad. These pictures can be decieving if you don’t know how to read them.

“Looks clear” the doctor says. “That thing? Probably just some calcificate…”

But now I know. I’m not ready.

edit: I’ve never told this to anybody, and now I realized the first person I shared this traumatic moment with is a fucking communist. I hate the internet sometimes!

the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money

That’s not something the Graphene devs could change. The firmware on the existing truckload of old hardware is simply outdated and insecure. To fix that would require somebody to write completely new firmware for those devices. You’re free to take the job. Help the community, and the environment, by reviving all those old devices. Free of charge, or course ;)

Couldn’t we use some yeast or e-coli instead of cows?

That’s the most unpleasant sound I’ve ever heard. The farting base tone from the tiktok videos is a masterpiece compared to this :D

Your bank does not need to use the app trackers to spy on you. They already know everything important there is about you.

What the banks are worried about is fraud. Fraud costs them money. But the thing is, the app development cycles are long and complicated, and instead of a pragmatic approach, they just bolt on more and more obscure non deterministic authentication schemes and heuristic checks. That’s why the app wants to know things like your location and access to the list of other installed apps, and simple username and password are not enough to let you through anymore.

The device attestation for them is probably just another checkbox to tick on the list of “at least we tried”. Regardles of whether it’s actually relevant for security. As long as it saves them more money that it costs them, there’s no reason to not enable it.

Finally! It was too complicated finding a shady privider who allows number spoofing for outgoing calls. It’s about time all the phones had this feature natively.

Is this related to Glance in any way?

Because fuck fat people. Let them die of a hearth attack. /s

I once did a connection between this, on the top of the hill:

and a SenseCAP Card Tracker T1000-E, on the roof of the tall office building, 40km away, under the ideal conditions.

However, it wasn’t until I’ve installed the proper RF filter and this monster of an antenna that the connection became reliable in the nearest city and even villages >50km away.

So you can absolutely start small, and if the need arises, upgrade later.

The most important thing is the location. LoRa works best with direct line of sight. The higher you can place it, the better.

Of course, a higher gain antenna will provide an advantage. It will narrow the radiation beam, so it shines more to the sides instead of wasting power by covering the areas above and below.

In an area without any obstacles it will extend your range. In an urban area it can overcome some obstacles by better reflecting the signal off of certain surfaces. Or so I’ve been told, I’m not a physicist :)

In our mesh, the most popular antenna for stationary repeaters is Mikrotik Omni, 6.5 dBi. You can use any reputable vendor in your area, but avoid the cheap stuff from aliexpress. They often lie about the gain, and can be a hit or miss.

Be careful about the antenna connectors, though! Most of the ready made repeaters come with RP-SMA connectors. The normal SMA, or even the N-type connectors are certainly more popular with the traditional radio crowd. There are adapters, or ready made cables with appropriate ends available.

Then there’s the interference. You can have the best location and high gain antenna, but if there’s a mobile cell tower broadcasting on a close enough frequency, you’re going to have a bad time. This might be highly dependent on the region and the chosen lora band. (433, 868 or 915 Mhz). If you suspect this might be a problem, the RF filter can be screwed in, in front of the antenna.

Hope I didn’t scare you. Best of luck!

I second the SenseCAP Solar Node P1-Pro. I wasn’t able to beat the price or quality with my DIY build.

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What data?