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[+] 146 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (29 children)
  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Have a look at meshmap.net. That shows people who have voluntarily put themselves on a map.

    Although it can be a serious underestimation, for example in my area, I'm the only one who lists myself on the map, but there are about 10 other nodes that don't

    Edit: Also, the number of nodes on MeshMap has pretty much doubled in six months since I started playing with it.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always thought these were more like walkie talkies for messaging than telephones that you can call anyone.

    Like it would be good if cell serivce goes down.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's pretty much exactly what they are. Text message in walkie-talkies. With the added benefit that if your friend can't hear you, but another friend is in between, your message automatically gets relayed through their walkie-talkie.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I wanted to transmit, for example, temperature and humidity from a sensor once every 5 minutes, would the network be willing to carry my signals?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/device/

    SENSOR is one of the defined device roles. And whether for personal automation or public information, it is a reasonable use case for the network.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Everything I learn about this project is so cool. I can’t go through the docs right now, but I’m assuming it can prioritize things like emergency communication over sensor data.

    There’s no public nodes in a 200+ km radius around me on that site someone linked, so something tells me I’ll have to do a lot of guerilla solar panel installation if I want to anonymously set up something.

    I’ve thought about it on and off over the past two years, more of a private network for family and friends than anything, for emergencies and so on. The real, big problem is that I could be accused of espionage and thrown into jail forever if I do this. So I don’t think I’ll see anyone putting any nodes up for the foreseeable future. At least not public nodes.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can you message random people or have to already know their contact info?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Companies are starting to manufacture repeaters and they are not that expensive. You can get one for about 100 Federal Reserve Notes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why not just add networking capabilities or a SIM card?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can't expect me not to reinvent the wheel.

    As we post on Lemmy, which is a reinvention of a reinvention of a reinvention of Usenet from 1979.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought Al Gore invented the internet in the ‘90’s.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ok, rant time!!!!

    I worked for Vint Cerf back in the early 90's. I became aware of the politics around it when Al Gore pushed for funding so the Internet could grow into something bigger than a University/Military communication system. Rush Limbaugh was on the radio daily railing against Al Gore's Boondoggle. Clinton/Gore secured funding and the Internet exploded in use.

    During the 1999 Presidential election, Republicans took Al Gore's greatest political accomplishment, getting Congress to fund the creation of the Internet, and made it a joke.

    Vint Cerf wrote this letter as a result:

    https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt

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