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Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by 93po »

fahhem wrote: post #357
93po wrote: post #353

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dude literally just go search "Tehran hospital" on twitter, there's hundreds of videos and images of endless body bags, and multiple independent major media outlets all reporting casualties in the thousands, not just Iran International

The notoriously reliable source of (mis)information Twitter. I see lots of videos, including people talking about rioters, foreign-backed militias, and lots of inflammatory words, but no pictures or videos of thousands of bodies. I feel for the dead, especially those shot in the back to instigate foreign intervention, they didn't deserve to be harmed. But I lay the blame on their murderers and their backers and funde…

i saw tons of body bag pictures and videos, and unless you want to tell me they're fake and only AI, then it seems you're not trying really hard to find them because you're pretty set in your opinion despite evidence to the contrary

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by 1shooner »

subscribed wrote: post #378
1shooner wrote: post #64

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>the more people who use it, the more robust and far-reaching and reliable it gets. I was under the opposite impression, that meshtastic's whole problem is that it doesn't scale well at all.

Fair, meshcore is supposedly better for that. Personally I just using it as a transport layer for Reticulum. Slow and finicky but easier to link distant nodes.

I'd really like to learn more about Reticulum. Are you using a specific app on top of it? Do you have a meaningful user network you communicate with, or is it still more just proving out the system?

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by mdnahas »

inemesitaffia wrote: post #374
throwaway2037 wrote: post #133

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Not to side track too much from this discussion, but I looked at that PolyMarket event: "US civil war before 2027?" Currently, it is priced at 91.3 USD cents for No. If you bet 100 USD, the payout for No will be 109.43. That is very good return -- ~9.5% for 12 months of lending (as PolyMarket required full payment at the time of trade). That is twice the (retail) risk free rate at the moment. I am actually tempted to…

Several civil wars aren't known as such until long after

Examples, please.

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by fahhem »

93po wrote: post #381
fahhem wrote: post #357

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The notoriously reliable source of (mis)information Twitter. I see lots of videos, including people talking about rioters, foreign-backed militias, and lots of inflammatory words, but no pictures or videos of thousands of bodies. I feel for the dead, especially those shot in the back to instigate foreign intervention, they didn't deserve to be harmed. But I lay the blame on their murderers and their backers and funde…

i saw tons of body bag pictures and videos, and unless you want to tell me they're fake and only AI, then it seems you're not trying really hard to find them because you're pretty set in your opinion despite evidence to the contrary

Did you see thousands? Or dozens? I'm not saying there were 0, just that the scale and intensity of the GP's claim, and yours, is unjustified by the evidence.

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by nsvd2 »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #303
nsvd2 wrote: post #145

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If you haven't been paying attention to American politics, there are currently widespread protests due to a woman being shot by ICE last week. It looks like the current administration may be seeking violent unrest in the hopes of delaying elections.

I love comments like this. You pop out of your (presumably New Zealand) prepper bomb shelter to get enough WiFi signal to make a post. I will bet against people like you all day long and make lots of money. How much are you willing to bet that there will be civil war in the US in 2026? Let's meet on PolyMarket!

You have a very unusual opinion of me!

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by vrighter »

nine_k wrote: post #327
danesparza wrote: post #248

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You also make yourself a bright shining beacon to anybody looking for a resistance network because Lora operates on very specific frequencies. It would be easy to spot you with an RF scanner.

Obviously, put that relay node on a hill, on some structure where you don't live. Or maybe on the roof of your tall apartment building, among all the satellite dishes and their associated boxes. Pretend to be one of those. If it's a self-contained, solar-powered node, it needs not be next to you, or to anyone. It should be safe and secure, to be of use during a natural disaster, or an outburst of violence.

Until you actually need to use it. You need to get the data you want to transmit over to it. Where you'll either have another transmitter at your location. A cable snaking back to your location. Or a directional antenna pointed at your location.

Unless you plan to manually go up the hill with a flash drive each time.

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by [deleted] »

ezst wrote: post #369
elAhmo wrote: post #291

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OP, not a bot. CF definitely chose to be political in the message, so regardless of what Italy did or who is right and wrong, posting that message is just a message that reliance on CF can just be a bad idea long-term.

Just for context, did you see this from CF's CEO? https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492 The bits about Vance, Musk and "freedom of speech" are not only completely unnecessary, but well over the top.

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Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by miroljub »

Alifatisk wrote: post #261
miroljub wrote: post #250

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And you believe they won't try again and again until they push it through? All of these have already been rejected multiple times, and yet some parts of it are already enacted, some will be soon, and the rest will come after a few more tries.

It's important to differentiate between speculation and facts, just because something is in our belief doesn't make it a fact.

> It's important to differentiate between speculation and facts, just because something is in our belief doesn't make it a fact.

It's called "opinion". You can also have one. Try it, it's liberating, even if it's not a fact.

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by phoronixrly »

tastyfreeze wrote: post #341
danesparza wrote: post #248

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You also make yourself a bright shining beacon to anybody looking for a resistance network because Lora operates on very specific frequencies. It would be easy to spot you with an RF scanner.

Any licensed wireless networking gear is going to operate in very specific frequencies. The government requires it! If we were going for "the best" gear for avoiding detection you would have frequency hopping with jumps far enough apart that a listener has a harder time pinpointing a transmitter. Making repeaters roving makes it even harder for your adversary.

The same government can trivially make these frequencies completely unusable by just blasting noise across all the ISM frequency bands. As far as I read, it is already happening in Russia, making LoRA anything but long-range...

Re: Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Post by inemesitaffia »

mdnahas wrote: post #383
inemesitaffia wrote: post #374

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Several civil wars aren't known as such until long after

Examples, please.

The English Civil Wars (1642–1651).

The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

I'd even consider the American one a big example.

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