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Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by simgt »

Qqqwxs wrote: post #243
simgt wrote: post #174

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Is it an RTK base station? If so I'd love to know more about why you set one up.

It's functionally equivalent to an RTK base station (the configuration script I'm using is even called "RTKbase"[0]), but it's being used for researching GPS-based soil moisture retrieval[1]. Basically the GPS signal bounces off the ground and causes an interference pattern that changes based on the wetness of the soil. There is actually a permanent survey grade GNSS reciever about 200 m away from the u-blox receiver…

Thanks for the details! I had no idea that estimating soil moisture from the signal was a thing

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Post by ForOldHack »

moffkalast wrote: post #147
ericb wrote: post #51

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I would add an LLM like QwQ-32B to the mix--that has a ton of compressed knowledge embedded in it. I would also store it in a steel Oscar the Grouch style trash can for a cheap faraday cage, which gets you protection from solar flares, and EMP blasts.

Learning things from scratch is really hard too, just a copy of wikipedia gets one absolutely nowhere if you don't know what to search for. Having something that you can plainly ask how to start that will point you in the right direction and explain the base concepts is worth a lot more, it turns raw data into genuine information. Yes it can be wrong sometimes, but so can human teachers and you can always verify, whi…

See the Wired article on the rewright of German history. And The George Galloway article. The enshitification has not only begun, it's in rising force.

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Post by ForOldHack »

xandrius wrote: post #193
simgt wrote: post #172

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Why is it useful to have as much as 64GB of RAM in a NAS?

What if you want to load all of Wikipedia and images on the RAM for even faster access of every page?

No, and not even close. The bottle neck is the network, so unless he is running a database in the background, it is not going to improve speed in the least. 14TB drives are not that fast. Video 4gb, or 8gb, and as little ram as possible. Not much processing is needed either. That is why NASs are built in celerons. In 6 years, when he knows something, he will see the extreme error of his ways.

My NAS has 2x2Tn striped and a video 1Tb. It streams 4k to multiple sources. If I needed faster, I'd throw it on the install server. 4x1TB striped, and 8Gb of ram. 2xGbit net. Did it tell you this cost all of $60?

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by ForOldHack »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #114
9x39 wrote: post #69

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Too little bandwidth and too few nodes to do this in the sense I think you mean. You can build a hotspot and try setting up meshes with any of the available hardware or software packages out there, but you're going to end up being the gatekeeper to the service. HAM radio ends up working out the same way, as I understand. It's just too technical for people to have this spring up collectively without a single person or…

You might be able to define this particular problem using negatives instead of positives. Everything except stuff like YouTube, Netflix, etc. If you cut out images, audio, video, and other intensive data streams text based communication in natural language is extremely lightweight. Particularly if the protocol is carefully designed with the intended deployment conditions in mind. I guess a requirement for that is a s…

I was thinking he could just mirror hacker news discussions. Those are totally worth it.

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Post by mystified5016 »

MartinGAugustin wrote: post #241
flipgimble wrote: post #180

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If I'm reading this right, the last full zim archive of all of english wikipedia is wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim which is now about 16 months old. Is that right, or is are another more recent sources? The current US administration is actively trying to interfere with Wikipedia and censor public speech or information that is detrimental to their disinformation campaign. [1] Do you know if there is an effort to pu…

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Wikipedia is a collection of objective truth which is apparently fundamentally incompatible with "the right"'s worldview.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by mdnahas »

I tried to send Wikipedia (Kiwix) in 3 languages, free ebooks, and other digital goodies to a refugees camp. I mailed it twice on a large SD card that would work in the recipient’s phone. But it never arrived. I presume stole or censored along the way.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by habi »

moffkalast wrote: post #242
habi wrote: post #203

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But about 70% of all images are something like https://tile.openstreetmap.org/10/399/390.png , e.g. water...

> 7.8 TB, too much water. That could be easily compressed by having all of these link to one water image though, no?

Theoretically yes. But no person ever is going to look at all the tiles (on the highest zoom levels) in the sea, so they are not rendered by default, and only on demand.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by anupulu »

blazerunner wrote: post #127
bcraven wrote: post #119

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I don't agree with your assessment. Did you find the 'About Us' page insufficient?

I don't think the previous comment was trying to be snarky - I can see where they're coming from. Take my feedback with a grain of salt, as I am entirely not the target audience, but... "Stay Connected, Always" - weird way to put it, given it's for offline situations. At this stage it sounds like it could be a 4G or portable wifi solution? "Use our apps for offline content or the Kiwix Hotspot for reliable access." -…

Thank you for the feedback!

Very valid points. I’m volunteering for Kiwix and can say that they’re aware of the issues with the website. There are plans to renew it and refresh the content/copy, as well as do some user testing.

The core team is small and doing its best to prioritise and focus on what brings the best value to the users.

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