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In Europe flying is subsidised and ridiculously cheap. That would need to end. Further than removing subsidies, if flight cost would include its negative externalities, few would f…

They did match it to the _released_ Pixel

Yes, on a boat you have to wash the panels periodically to get rid of salt and bird poop. The latter can be a surprisingly big problem. Southeast of Galapagos we had a booby sit on…

Git over Reticulum is another option. You get git, issue tracking (work documents), release management https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html

http://bergie.iki.fi is my personal site. Has been updated quite sporadically, but has a post history stretching back to late 90s. https://lille-oe.de updates whenever we go sailin…

That's the way. Get on a train, sleep, wake up in a new city. Last time I did interrail (some 15 years ago), you could sometimes pay a bit of extra to get a spot in a sleeping car.…

Doing a JavaScript port of Reticulum. We'll need it soon for a boat project

You still need a build tool, and that tool is likely broken if you need to return to the project in a year or two. TypeScript benefits can be had without a build step by leveraging…

Starlink has worked great for us so far from Europe to Polynesia. Prices keep going up, so would be nice if the service had actual competition. The backups are sadly becoming trick…

But the Tove Jansson illustrations make it all worthwhile. Adorable. https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/

Back when I was working at a website builder, we used IPFS for distributing content between our serving clusters. If also made the sites available on IPFS, but that was a secondary…

I resisted WhatsApp until we started cruising with our sailboat. So many processes require WhatsApp. In many places you can't do customs and immigration without it. Well, maybe not…

It has sort of killed books . I'm hesitant to buy anything published after 2022 if I don't know the author. So much slop out there...

I will be trying git over Reticulum for my next project. Fully peer-to-peer including issue tracking and releases. Reticulum itself already moved over, maintaining GitHub just as a…

Absolutely. The 11" MacBook Air was the best laptop Apple ever made.

I think the reasonable way to look at LLMs is similar to how you'd work with junior developers. They can churn out code, but do need constant guidance. Of course, (some of the) rea…

The traditional longer-range P2P is HF radio and maybe Winlink email on that. APRS over HF is also possible, and Reticulum would be too if hams were allowed to use encryption. On t…

I'm right now anchored at an atoll in the Tuamotus, French Polynesia. 3/10 boats anchored here have Meshtastic.

Isn't that exactly the idea of Reticulum? http://reticulum.network/manual/whatis.html

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/…