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  • Good point! I didn’t think to do that to check positions, that would have confirmed if the gps was accurate. But one new comment had confirmed that it could indeed have been a tropospheric duct, which is quite exciting, as I didn’t realise that was possible with LoRa, and don’t think I had seen mentioned before, even though I had read about AR events where DX occur, TV signals etc. So cool!




  • Hmm. When you’ve hopped a plane, have they tended to be a cluster of nodes? I guess if it was a node on a flight from a particular airport it’s maybe possible… I need to go look at flight info, we’re not in an area with much air traffic at all, and the time frames don’t make sense, how could they keep refreshing for hours? 🤔 And the time of day, there’s just not usually flights occurring in the middle of the night here either.


  • Fairly unlikely it was a plane due to the time frame in which the nodes were refreshing - was over at least 4 hours from when the first distant node was seen, to no longer seen / refreshing. And all the nodes were apparently from this one distant area, which is about 4-5 hours drive away, because it’s on the other side of a big bay. And didn’t see any other familiar nodes that were closer, of which there are quite a few.



  • Interesting article, and it did change my view slightly of what ATProto is, but not by a huge amount.

    Given the current political climate, a few days ago I randomly started wondering… what if some governments around the world acknowledged that communicating through Farcebok or Xitter is no longer tenable, and committed to providing social media infrastructure hosted in their own countries as a public good: “your tax dollars at work!”

    Would ATProto make sense in these cases? They have the resources, and ATProto might seem more attractive/robust for that kind of scale compared to ActivityPub?












  • What we really need (and have always needed) is an update to the legal frameworks that classify what networks are and what protections are in place for users to ensure interoperability. The Internet has been the wild west for too bloody long, and the extractors and their monopolies need to be put away. That’s why they have been so happy to jump in with Donny Diaper at this point, because he’s letting them not only continue with impunity, but bring back company scrip.