kudra

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Honda now has an electric Ruckus. Will they bring it to the US? in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Excellent reference.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're going through

Harry Potter creator and terrible fucking human says to commit sexual harassment on women in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget MZB.

Friendica's marketing is terrible. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for this comment! It really explains exactly why Friendica is struggling.

Is a real shame as IMO events (and groups) are really important to get a critical mass of adoption in Fedi. I look at sites like Allevents.in which allow people to submit but most of their event data is scraped from FB. We need Fedi instances which make searching events easy. So many groups and individuals and organisations feel unable to leave FB because they can't see anywhere else to tell people about events, at the moment that is pretty true. But it needs to be an allrounder site, not an event specialist site.

But not being able to connect to busy Lemmy communities would mean Friendica isn't an ideal allrounder, and even if the Friendica instance got big and has very busy groups, it would have issues.

I hope that these issues get solved!

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 144 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Oh, it's dangerous and harmful all right : to their business model.

I think the big G is probably starting to get pretty nervous about self hosting. It absolutely is a threat to their existence. They are nothing without users.

There's a lot of us fed up with enshittification and every video that helps people break free of their capture is extremely dangerous to them. Seriously.

Bottom-Up vs Top-Down Abolishing Capitalism in c/degrowth@slrpnk.net
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, they acknowledge we need to change from obsession with growth and show solidarity with nature, but capitalism isn't the sole culprit as they repeatedly state. We diverged from solidarity with nature long before capitalism was a concept.

Bottom-Up vs Top-Down Abolishing Capitalism in c/degrowth@slrpnk.net
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I honestly don't think it's that simple. Read Ishmael. We have a culture that is broken, and has been for much longer than capitalism has been around. Capitalism has turbo charged the obsession with growth, for sure, but ever since we decided we were above nature and unique and special as a species, we have been going in the wrong direction.

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism in c/degrowth@slrpnk.net
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Great article, I think I'll go share it on LinkedIn 😁

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“We’ve Taken Too Much”: Limestone Coast locals urge action as sinkholes suffer major water loss (glamadelaide.com.au)
Always know where your towel is. in c/genx@lemmy.world
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

OMG I need to make one of these.

BYD’s electric “K-Car” spied, targets Japan’s iconic mini-vehicle segment in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

This is great. Kei cars are so fantastic, I love my Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV and all cars with this kind of shape and style are just so damn practical. Would love to see exports targeted to other countries too not just Japan, but that still seems so far off. Sigh.

1 month without US tech giants in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So, I didn't watch all of it because an ad about AI came on that wasn't skippable and was lasting more than 5 seconds. It was intolerable. Seriously, people publishing on YouTube about this kind of thing NEED publish at least one other place & to add links to alternative video hosts.

Trump adds a new piece of art to the Oval Office - a statue of himself moments after the assassination attempt in Butler in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

🤮

ICE drivers shocked at EV savings in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude, this is an EV community. We ALL know what ICE stands for in this context. If you see ICE and EV in the same sentence or headline, it is VERY clear what the acronym is. Maybe if it was a tabloid newspaper where few people know much about EVs your complaint might make sense.

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Ekhilur - a functional degrowth economy in Spain (medium.com)
 

So, I just came across the real, working model of a functional #degrowth economy, using negative interest rates as a key driver.

This is really happening in Spain!

And could be replicated anywhere.

Super interesting.

#ekhilur

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What's happening with our mesh? (sh.itjust.works)
 

So, I'm scratching my head, and hoping someone here can help, or have had a similar experience?

I live at 500msl in a small rural town of about 300 people. Started experimenting about a month ago and have a few T1000-E's and a station g2. The waterproof enclosure I ordered for the g2 finally arrived a few days ago and it's now up on a modest pole attached to my house (about 4m high), signal is much better and we only have 3 regular members of our mesh at this stage (still testing before advertising to locals).

Even before raising the g2, we'd had a few times when a couple of nodes would appear for a few hours in the early hours of the morning. We are in an area popular with hiking and 4wders so this isn't particularly unlikely especially as these are given as ideal use cases for Meshtastic, and sometimes people do get up early for this kind of thing!

But last night, we had an absolute explosion of nodes in the early hours. All had gps locations of around a very specific area on the coast, approximately 180km away as the crow flies. I think one or two of them had been seen before but I'd wiped my nodeDB a few times since then so not completely sure.

The similarity to previous times when we saw a few nodes in early hours, but many more (with g2 higher, makes sense regardless of how), makes me wonder now if something atmospheric is happening.

Could this be tropospheric ducting? If so has anyone managed to actually communicate with this kind of connection over MT?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation

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My mesh beginnings (sh.itjust.works)
 

So I was interested in mesh comms years ago. Serval mesh and other wifi meshes were of interest, but never seemed to actually... work.

Then I got a couple of Gotennas. Used them once at a festival and then they went in a box.

Got them out about a year ago and tried to use them, discovered the company who made them decided to stop support for the common plebs who got them kickstarted, and now only do commercial / military apps. Greeeat. Look into HAM radio for the APRS, but hear from a friend that used to do it that in our country it's a higher level license to do any data, lot of expense and time, and thus there were few people actually doing it, so decide not to go that route. They mention Meshtastic briefly.

Skip forward and see a mention of the T1000-E... yes, I think this is the solution. Buy 4, and then a few days later see mention of the Station G2. Buy one.

They arrive and I get them set up and have a tinker... now it's time to start telling other people and ask if they can help me test.

I live in a really small rural town of 300 people at 500m on a sortof plateau (small gradients around town) in a mountainous region, couple of hours from a major city. The power fairly regularly goes out, usually from trees dropping power lines in heavy wind, and this is only going to get worse with climate change. Power out means no broadband. If the power is out more than a few hours, no cell connection either (which isn't great to begin with). So here is a clear use case for local comms in emergencies a few times a year at least.

So I contact two local friends and ask if they would be interested in testing a new radio mesh thing. Unbeknownst to me, BOTH of them actually have experience in HAM / CB radio.

They both are keen to have a play and I give the first a T1000-E a few days back, and with a bit of trial and error, we get a stable connection between our houses that are about 400m apart. This is without even getting antennas on roofs. Then yesterday other friend comes over and I give them a T1000-E and he pops back home - only about 200m to his place. Easy connection, no issues. Other friend is away during the day but I announce on LongFast that we have grown the mesh, but I go to sleep before he gets back.

I wake up this morning to find a smatter of conversation between them after I went to bed, and this is my favourite comment:

"I look at the s/n ratios and think it's impossible, but it works. Some very clever design and tech."

😀

So hopefully, we will get more people interested and even potentially a connection to two other towns nearby. Both have significant hills in the way and one is in a twisty windy valley, so we'll need to get creative or maybe need to set up private mqtt server to relay between key nodes but aware that won't be useful in emergency situation with no internet/cell data, but we're learning as we go: I'm happy to have two people on board with more experience than me too.

#meshtastic

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