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mikeytown2

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About mikeytown2

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mcarper; my proof: https://keybase.io/mcarper/sigs/SL8IGGu6pG2UwmtUcIb3Vp-JplS4rQmN8xovC7lW4PQ ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48065649

    It's because we've tried Meshtastic and MeshCore. Look at where the bytes go in the network. Meshtastic it's usually under 5% of traffic is text and for MeshCore it's over 50%. If …

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    Comment #46440885

    He went off the rails as a reactionary move is how I see it. He got mad because his issue was deleted. I'm banned from the discord for a disagreement with one of the developers; bu…

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    Comment #46436444

    Here's an example of an issue they didn't like getting deleted https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/issues/1159

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    Comment #46436231

    You can run a full blown weather station on MeshCore with wind rain temperatures etc

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    Comment #46436203

    There's only so much bandwidth available so pick and choose what the firmware is good at. MeshCore went all in on messaging and tracing. Meshtastic is a more noisy protocol which i…

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    Comment #46436168

    Both have GitHub projects that you can compile firmware from. One is MIT, the other is aggressively GPL

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    Comment #45807662

    You'd need two radios, one antenna stacked on top of each other. Z offset of a minimum height of 1m/3'. In the X,Y offset of 0,0. You want high gain 8-10db antennas in this arrange…

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    Comment #45807629

    6 seconds or so

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    Comment #45806135

    Checkout MeshCore; we're doing 400 miles using 12 hops going from north Vancouver to Eugene Oregon https://analyzer.letsme.sh/map?lat=47.36113&long=-122.20419&...

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    Comment #45410209

    They're looking at ways to have regular nodes repeat on the network. Right now it's a one line change to enable it. Doing it well and smart is what's holding it back

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    Comment #45396872

    Checkout MeshCore, it has the concept of a room server which is a private store and forward server. Also see this https://github.com/mikecarper/meshfirmware/blob/main/MeshCor...

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    Comment #45396835

    Check out the alternative https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore Seattle has the largest functioning mesh core installation in the world

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    Comment #45053928

    Drupal isn't one person last time I checked; but yes this is correct for almost all projects

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    Comment #45010221

    Yes you can get decent reception inside buildings. It operates in the 915mhz band. Similar frequencies to old school pagers. Lora is an interesting RF protocol, it has really good …

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    Comment #45010201

    MeshCore has verified public key sharing; see what happened to the other network at defcon. Direct messages are encrypted.

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    Comment #45007730

    Range is line of sight. If you can see it, even if 100 miles away, odds are it'll work. Seattle area has one of the better networks for MeshCore. Tacoma to Vancouver BC is the rang…

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    Comment #45007698

    It's mostly open source. https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore They have a couple minor things that are paid features.

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    Comment #45006967

    If you need to communicate with people in your area and not be tracked; MeshCore software with LoRa hardware like the this https://lilygo.cc/en-ca/products/t-lora-pager is somethin…

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    Comment #44872541

    I don't see prices of previous auctions. What do these go for roughly?

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    Comment #44801244

    Sound Cards with IDE ports for CD-ROM drives were definitely a thing back then

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    Comment #44542165

    The rule is only on the IM; freestyle can't be butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke.

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    Comment #44316388

    Use your phones slow motion video to check flicker. Phillips has one of the better led bulbs out there

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    Comment #44273556

    EDAN gives you a fast, accurate snapshot of whether your program really benefits from faster memory or extra cache. You get clear signals on where latency matters and where it does…

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    Comment #44093374

    Kids text only cell phone. LILYGO T-Deck Plus. I can track and communicate with them and not have to worry about giving them full internet. Any sort of disaster they also are usefu…

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    Comment #44091496

    https://github.com/mikecarper/meshfirmware CLI Meshtastic flasher that works well. No internet mesh networking sounds awesome; just the bandwidth is extremely limited