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It's always good when there's a storm like this, and the mesh is being used as an optional, fun thing and not a critical infrastructure thing.

#Meshtastic #MeshNetworks

RE: https://denton.social/@coop/115946243451036026

To facilitate with this response, we have several solar nodes and additional handheld devices on standby. The Meshmobile just got a set of snow chains in case we need to deploy some of these bad boys ad hoc to fill in critical connectivity gaps. Please consider contributing your neighborhood aid hubs to the crowdsourced map in this blog post so that we know good candidates for node locations. Be safe out there!

#Meshtastic #Denton #DentonTX #WinterStorm

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European Commission gathering feedback on the importance of open source

https://suppo.fi/post/9976229

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He built a privacy tool. Now he's going to prison.

This case cuts right to the heart of digital freedom. Writing privacy-preserving code is being framed as criminal behaviour, and that sets a dangerous precedent for developers everywhere.

If privacy tools are outlawed, only the state gets privacy.

Worth your time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fshsk8MCAf4

#Privacy #OpenSource #DigitalRights #FreedomToCode #SelfHosting #Decentralisation

The original mesh network showing off this morning.

#MeshNetworks #FungusFriday

Close up from below of mushroom with white stem and cap and pinkish gills.

Side view close up of mushroom with white stem and cap and pinkish gills.

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"You were the chosen one! It was said that you destroy the Sith, not join them!"

#firefox #ai #mozilla #browser #web #www #internet #community #evil #technology #opensource #foss #floss #starwars #meme #metaphor #chosenone #problem #communication #blog #online #flamewar #angry #software

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I just learned about Reticulum Network Stack.

Basically, it's a decentralized & encrypted network that can be on top of IP, Ethernet, wifi, LoRa, AX.25 or anything capable to transmit digital data.

Looks interesting.

Gonna test it on some VMs.

https://reticulum.network/

#reticulum #rns

We finally got around to putting the e-paper device on Thingiverse!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7241237

#Reticulum #Meshtastic #MeshNetworks #OpenSource #RaspberryPi

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We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever grateful for. We still have a large funding need for 2026, so please consider making a donation before the year-end if you’d like us to continue building and improving Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate
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@Baa

The XKCD All Modern Tech Infrastructure stack but modified.

On top of the modifications in the original post, there is an angry bird (Red) flying towards the tower. It takes the place of the Microsoft blob (but is still labelled "Whatever Microsoft is doing)

The remaining modifications from the original post are:

AWS and Cloudflare hold up the left side of the stack with a medium sized platform.
Unpaid Open Source Developers hold up the right side of the stack on a tiny pillar. DNS forms two tiny pillars on either side of the stack holding up the majority.
Below them the Linux Foundation forms an entire platform holding up the entire stack.
Below that is a tiny thin pillar as the basis of everything, it represents the undersea internet cables, it is being bitten by a shark.
At about the middle of the stack a giant lever is being turned slowly pushing the entire tower over, it's labelled AI.

@iuvi https://www.tinkercad.com

Back to work on The Contraption.

Screenshot of CAD program with a model of a handheld electronic device.

@cs move things and break fast!

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One year ago, #Kenya disrupted internet access while cracking down on protests, limiting media and the people's freedom of speech.

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of this deadly event: Connectivity is vital and authorities should ensure unhindered access to services 🗓️

Capture from last year’s protests in Kenya highlighting internet shutdown.

The post reads: ⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show a major disruption to internet connectivity in #Kenya; the incident comes amidst a deadly crackdown by police on #RejectFinanceBill2024 protesters a day after authorities claimed there would be no internet shutdown 📉

Graph from NetBlocks showing the network connectivity in Kenya, from June 9, 2024, to June 25, 2024. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Kenya’s connectivity remains stable at around 100% with a sharp drop on June 25. The drop in connectivity aligns with government restrictions due to protests. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 41% and 41%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red circle highlighting the decline at the end of the period.

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⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show restrictions to messaging platform Telegram in #Kenya are now in effect; the measure comes as authorities issue a ban on live media coverage of the June 25 anniversary protests, amid rising concerns over the risk of a wider internet shutdown 📵

Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Kenya from June 25, 2025. The data indicates internet restrictions affecting messaging app Telegram. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Safaricom, FaibaJTL and Liquid Telecom, with services showing varying levels of reachability, in most cases down to 0%. The restriction comes on the anniversary of June 25 Protests.

@adingbatponder right now yes but I have the settings for an RNode (Reticulum 's LoRa firmware) already configured, so if I plug one in it will recognize it and start functioning in seconds.

@adingbatponder All we did to build this one was plut it in and put it in the case! Waveshare sells their 2.13 touch e-paper as an all-in-one with case.

https://www.waveshare.com/2.13inch-touch-e-paper-hat-with-case.htm

It comes with its own libraries in C and Python. Since RNS and NomadNet are already in python, I just forked NomadNet and added some code for the UI.

https://github.com/gabbymorgan/NomadNet-Mini

Connected and tapping! With the Raspberry Pi Zero W 2, a Waveshare e-paper touch hat and a decent amount of coding, we have a device that can read the announce stream for NomadNet.

#Reticulum #MeshChat

@adingbatponder Okay so loramon doesn't work right now with rns 0.9.5+. I think I know why, but I'm not sure. I'll try to update the loramon script locally and see if I can get it to work., but right now I have no way to inspect the packets being transmitted over LoRa to see exactly what they look like.

I did however find the wire format in the Reticulum documentation, and nothing outside of the payload (which is application-specific) shows any hardware-based addressing.

Diagram of a packet example from the Reticulum documentation, showing the following four fields:

- a header packet with flags for access code, header type, propagation type, destination type, and packet type
- destination fields containing either one or two identity hashes
- context field one byte
- data field (i.e. payload)

A Reticulum packet is composed of the following fields:

[HEADER 2 bytes] [ADDRESSES 16/32 bytes] [CONTEXT 1 byte] [DATA 0-465 bytes]

* The HEADER field is 2 bytes long.
* Byte 1: [IFAC Flag], [Header Type], [Context Flag], [Propagation Type],
[Destination Type] and [Packet Type]
* Byte 2: Number of hops

* Interface Access Code field if the IFAC flag was set.
* The length of the Interface Access Code can vary from
1 to 64 bytes according to physical interface
capabilities and configuration.

* The ADDRESSES field contains either 1 or 2 addresses.
* Each address is 16 bytes long.
* The Header Type flag in the HEADER field determines
whether the ADDRESSES field contains 1 or 2 addresses.
* Addresses are SHA-256 hashes truncated to 16 bytes.

* The CONTEXT field is 1 byte.
* It is used by Reticulum to determine packet context.

* The DATA field is between 0 and 465 bytes.
* It contains the packets data payload.

@adingbatponder This is awesome! Thanks

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