If you’re gonna repost stuff from ml at least re-upload it so I don’t have to connect to it.

• Not every <input type="text"> is suitable for political opinions.
• Political opinions are like assholes: we all have them, they all stink, we all think our own doesn’t stink, and the world is a better place when everyone doesn’t have them on constant display.
• People who inject politics into everything are generally insufferable and there’s a reason major communities have rules prohibiting politics.

To give perspective with a 3000 mah battery I am still lasting days.

Is that connected via bluetooth or just running the LoRA radio? Curious if the V4 is any less power hungry than the V3. I never did a rundown test with one of my 3,000 mah V3 units, but my daily driver had a 2000 mah battery and barely made it 14 hours before it was throwing the battery low warning. I kept it connected to my phone the whole time under most conditions.

Same conditions but with the nRF-based T1000e, it runs for about 2 days on a 700 mAh battery AND has GPS (I didn’t have GPS on my daily driver node). The difference is amazing.

Could be any or all of that, yeah. You can also set the level of precision for your reported location, but I don’t think even the lowest precision settings would put it 1,000 miles away.

I live near-ish to an airport, and I’ll occasionally see nodes that are 1 or 2 hops and 100-200+ miles away. Best I can tell, the airborne node is legit relaying those which I think is pretty cool. Not really useful, but cool.

LoRa is a proprietary radio interface, so I don’t how how FOSS you can go with it, but the Meshtastic firmware itself is FOSS.

What are your use-cases? Are you looking for something to use as an everyday carry? An outdoor solar node to relay messages in your area? A node to use as a base station? All of the above?

For everyday carry, I semi-recently bought the SenseCap T1000e and I love it. I did a post about it here: https://startrek.website/post/34105873

Seeed (the company that makes the T1000e) also makes a nice outdoor, solar powered node: https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Solar-Node-P1-Pro-for-Meshtastic-LoRa-p-6412.html

They’ve also got a lot of options for various other configurations as well: https://www.seeedstudio.com/LoRa-and-Meshtastic-and-4G-c-2423.html

Those are all “turnkey” devices, but I’ve heard good things about the Heltec V4 if you want to go a more DIY route and make your own case and add your own accessories (GPS, accelerometer, etc).

Pluribus does that, but also bounces around, so not sure if it fits.

I don’t think it ever fully went away, though. I’ve seen it as recently as 2018.

I’m sure we’d be forced to use it if we own an android phone or Gmail account

That’s part of why Google’s attempt failed so hard. They did force you to use it if you used several of their products. Comment on a YT video? Now you have a Google+ profile with that in its feed.

They basically created a social media profile of your activity, automatically, any time you interacted with a handful of their products. Like, WTF were they thinking?

Personally, I love that layout.

I’m always at a loss for what to put up as wall decorations, and I hate rats nests of cables. Win-win!

New U.S. rules will soon ban Chinese software in vehicle systems that connect to the cloud

Seems to me that the easiest way to get into compliance would be to not make the car connect to the cloud/internet. I’m gonna drive my 2017 model until I can buy a new car that isn’t a smartphone on wheels.

which does not explain why this port or the others are blocked. I also lack the technical background to understand this decision.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but understanding the reason for that decision is pretty important if you’re planning to run your own email server. A misconfigured email server (which is very easy to do) becomes a problem for everyone else when it inevitably gets used to spam. There’s also a lot of ancillary things to configure correctly as well (DKIM, SPF, DMARC policies, spam filtering, etc) lest everything seems to work but no one is able to receive mail from you or it always ends up in their spam folder.

While I disagree with port 25 being permanently blocked on residential (and often even business-class) connections, I understand why in the grand scheme of things.

I don’t read Finnish, but here are the general reasons why:

1. Port 25 is for SMTP transport and typically only used for server-to-server (MTA) email traffic. This is unauthenticated between servers. Clients (MUAs) connect through a “submission” port which is pretty much expected to be authenticated/access-controlled. That’s why you can send emails to an email provider but you can’t be an email provider yourself. By blocking port 25, malicious people or people that have been compromised with malware cannot just blindly blast out spam email. This reduces spam considerably, though with a compromise of slightly restricting what a residential connection can be used for.

2. Most big email providers universally block emails that originate from an IP address that’s assigned to a residential IP/provider. Same reason as above. This means even if your ISP were to unblock port 25 for you, you likely wouldn’t be able to send email to any major email provider (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, etc) as they would just sinkhole any messages you send to users there.

That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.

Can you bypass that and host at home?

Yes, if you’re willing to work for it. You can setup a VPS (cloud server) and port-forward across a VPN connection to your home server. Your DNS records for your email server would point to the VPS’s IP, and the email server would need to be configured to use the VPS as its default route so all traffic goes in/out over the VPN connection. This is how my email server is configured.

Sounds easy enough, right? Well, good luck getting a VPS with a “clean” IP. Most VPSs you can get in public clouds are already on one or more public spam blocklists as well as many private/internal blocklists. You can clean up an IPs reputation and make it work with minimal to no delivery problems, but it’s a LOT of work and often requires finding hidden forms to submit the request (Microsoft/Outlook was a brute, and I only found the link to the form in a forum post). I’ve cleaned up two IPs like that, and it took 2-3 weeks of work before I was able to get reliable delivery.

Seems like they’re creating a new account per post now.

Suggestions (keep in mind I don’t know the technical viability of these):

1. Rate limit signups in Lemmy to one per 24 hours per IP (if I understand the rate limits correctly). Anyone requesting multiple accounts per day is immediately sus anyway.
2. Block their IP address
3. Use registrations the way they’re meant to be used instead of rubber-stamping them with a bot
4. In addition to the above, check against a list of their known accounts. There’s not an easy regex way I can see, but the account names all have a similar “feel” to them.

I get mine from ebooks.com

Not all are DRM free, though, but there’s a good selection available. It’s up to the author/publisher whether to release them DRM-free, though, so it’s not their choice.

For the DRM-free ones, you can just straight-up download the epub for them which is fantastic.

They’re separate queens and separate collectives/cooperatives.

The Jurati Cooperative is, as of the end of Season 2, guarding the spatial anomaly that formed in the beginning of S2. They’re completely absent from the third season. Which I can understand since S3 was a fan-service reunion (which I loved) and there just wasn’t room in the 10 episodes for them.

The queen from S3 is the same one from VOY: Endgame and First Contact and part of the same collective since they were first introduced in TNG.

The new one affected the other one?

AFIAK, no, they had no effect on each other. The alternate timeline queen (that turned into Queen Jurati) was not the same queen seen in S3 or elsewhere. That queen was from a 2401 that no longer exists. She and her cooperative only exist because they went back in time and took the long way back to 2401.

Loops finally seems usable now. I tried the beta a while back and it was kinda “Meh” but it’s improved significantly since. And you can browse on the website now, too. I’m not into short form videos, but credit where it’s due.

Well, I do like short form videos, but I hate panning for the gems and just let my friends send me the ones that rise to top.

It’s so common for “anti-censorship” to be code for “Nazi-friendly” that I’m immediately suspicious of any platform that uses that as a selling point.

I’m similarly suspicious, but it’s not just code for “nazi-friendly” but also crackpots, maladaptives, etc. Rational people who read and say “anti-censorship” in this context know it means that it’s not beholden to corporate or government interests. But everyone else seems to want to interpret that as “I can say whatever I want! How dare you mod anything I say?! Freeze-peach, y’all!”

I wish they’d pick a different term for these non-corporate alternatives, but I don’t have a better suggestion to offer right now.

Trash? None.

Clutter / work-in-progress: No comment.

I asked similar a few weeks ago: https://startrek.website/post/33957879

The answers were all pretty much what you’ve already listed: FreeCAD/OpenSCAD for parametric parts and Blender for sculpted shapes.

The only one not covered in that post was OnShape because I was specifically asking for ones that weren’t SaaS/cloud based.

Lol, touche. Also:

In order and in character:

1. [Chidi]: No, that would be highly unethical
2. [Eleanor] Of course. How else would you do it?
3. [Eleanor] Obviously they had it coming so no harm no foul.
4. [Jason] Nah, Pill-Boi said it was fine.
5. [Tahani] My heavens, no. I would never want to upset my friend Ray. Charles. Ray Charles was my friend.
6. [Jason] In Jacksonville we’re legally required to.
7. [Chidi] Given the ethical implications of restraining user freedom but also providing safety for the majority of people, we have to take into account several factors [ pulls out a blackboard, stomach ache intensifies ]…