Why is c++ a "real" language and not rust? It's a tool. All programmers need to know logic above a specific language.

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huh that's weird. Are you using the Play Store version? they broke the android app for a short while before pushing a fix a little a while ago. Maybe the play store version is behind and just now experiencing that? Right now on GrapheneOS the app installed with obtainium works fine on my phone.

don't forget "claude rules" on the github project

Don't forget Claude in the contributor list!

Why rust?

you can have wpa2 and wpa3 on the same radios.

IME this caused all clients to disconnect and cease being able to auth. I just don’t run mixed auth for that reason.

2.4Ghz/W.G has WPA2 and 5Ghz/W.N/W.AC has WPA3. That’s what works for me on my LinkSys WRT 3200AC.

@myszka thanks that would be helpful. Good luck

Everyone walking away from this because it touches AI is losing the plot. This is probably the closest thing to digital revolution we can get. Hear me out.

There are a lot of opinions and lots of anger about how things are going in the world today and particularly the USA. More people are getting out to meat space and doing something but those protests, especially in geographically spread out areas like the USA , will never physically embody all of the frustrated people like it does in more concentrated areas, like the EU.

The next layer is the current world order, which, like it or not, has global corporatism acting as second order governance. Their ability to influence not just politics but the employment of millions leaves them in a powerful, dark, and self perpetuating unregulated position, moving from puppets to the puppet masters. This appears to be changing, hopefully. Time will tell.

AI is an extremely powerful tool. Like any globally influential idea, it requires critical thinking and a nuanced understanding to properly leverage. The cold take, at least in left of center circles (generally), is to throw out the baby with the bath water, and shut down anyone that would use it or advocate using it in any way.

At the risk of sounding too Boromir-ish to those people, nay, it is a gift.

The current world order is built on digital life. Social media. Mass marketing via ads. Screens are cheap, eyeballs plentiful, minds accessible and moods malleable. The tech world and tech bros have taken first mover advantage and turned it into a stranglehold on modern life.

Oh you’re still reading? Good, then here’s the payoff. This initiative is one of the strongest steps to take it all back or remove its power.

What if we could open source every major digital platform out there? Every app, every social media, every game, every utility free and downloadable. Open source has always been here but the ability to develop it has been hamstrung by time, effort, manpower or a combination of all three. You’re reading this on the fediverse so odds are you already share that ideology somewhat.

Open sourcing the worlds digital platforms means reducing individual and business reliance on the current monoliths of tech. There’s is nothing out there that cannot be developed and copied for use for free now. Everything can be reverse engineered and offered for a fraction of the overhead. The cornerstone of tech, programming - control over the digital bricks used to shape the world - has had the cost of creation nigh abolished. Hardware and infrastructure are the limiters, but that isn’t new. What’s new is we now have a tool, AI, that can help us build the new hardware and infrastructure for our own purposes, individuals or businesses, to free ourselves from their control.

The very tool that they use to make their system more efficient is the same tool we must use to REPLACE THEM just as they replace us. AI is power to the people as much as it is power to the corps.

However it’s the ENERGY and EFFORT to adopt, support, and use these open-source, free-world initiatives that were must cultivate. If the people abolish all use of AI and corporations keep using it, will it’s like racing a horse against a car. Blind rejection is unwitting surrender.

That’s why this project and anything else like it is vital.

There are plenty of valid reasons on both sides of the AI argument, but I feel like in the long run, if the resources used to provide AI are kept in check (harmonious with the environment) and a humanistic approach is made by businesses to adopt it, no one would have a problem with it. However, capitalism dictates otherwise so we must fight with the same weapons our opposition has, the same weapons that threaten our ability to provide for our families in this day and age, or risk failure. Ironically the same argument the frontier labs have against each other.

I didn’t mean to ramble so much. I guess I feel pretty strongly about this. I think i probably lost my train of thought a time or two but hopefully my point came across. Thanks for reading and I hope I swayed a few minds.

Ive always been of the opinion that piracy is stealing. Doesnt mean I'm anti piracy. These companies arent fucking scum its perfectly fine to steal their shit. They'd do it to you in a heartbeat

Your thought crime has been reported to the Ministry of Truth. Stand by for re-education.

Think of the worst companies. Now think of who built them. Think of the most authoritarian government surveillance and think who built it.

Wild how anti piracy lemmy is. It took ai to make you all call copying software stealing. We are so fucked.

True that. Both can be true though. Old boomers are far more easy to corrupt when they can’t even grasp the issue at hand.

But the underlying corrupting force will always be capitalism.

I mean in principle, stealing IP from big tech would be great, but do they have to have even the English written by AI? It writes in the most grating tech bro tone I have ever had the misfortune of reading. Can't be bothered to write all the code, fine, but can you at least write the introduction to your project? Do you even not care about that?

The only issue is that old people don't like new things and like to complain where those become popular.

oh nooooo whatever would we dooooo

If you're fungible for Claude Code, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but Claude Code ain't one.

Ps: am agreeing with you in case unclear.

Okay, thanks! If I'm able to solve the issue, I'll post the solution here.

Your app will need to be able to use Reticulum. There's a browser already designed for it, called NomadNet, which gives stripped down versiions of things.

For the forward - yeah, basically people can setup mailboxes that will hold messages till the receiver is online. I've got one running on my home system, very easy.

For hardware - depends what you're looking for. If it's just for your phone/laptop, there's some packaged stuff (you'll still need to flash though).

If you want your router to work with LoRA, I used this without issue - it can come with a case. Heltec Wifi LoRa32 V3 433MHZ 863MHZ ESP32 S3 SX1262 OLED Display LoRa Kit for Arduino Meshtastic IoT LoRaWAN Development Board You'll just need to be familiar with a command line to flash - AI can be a big helper here. Basically flash it, put Reticulum on your router, connect the LoRA board via USB and write the interface on the router (via ssh), and you're up! You can make it public and see it on https://rmap.world/.

Got mine on AliExpress, no issues. Also in Europe. One thing that does matter for location is frequency - for Europe it's the 868 MHz.

So basically, the internet runs on TCP/IP, which is provided by an ISP.

Reticulum is a new protocal in the same spot - it puts packets out.

However, while your TCP/IP address is usually tied to your location, and unencrypted, Reticulum is tied only to a cryptographic address. Which means that it can go anywhere, via any path - and is encrypted while it does so. Only you can unpack the packet and see what's in it, so your ISP can't spy on you, and it's hard to block access.

And this also means it's easier to work on different physical media - so Reticulum can work over LoRA (low wattage) radios, that are similar to walkie talkies in power and don't require a license. If you've got these running, there's no way an ISP or phone company can stop people from talking to each other.

I just hope it will collapse very soon, this whole "let's burn more fossil fuels to run LLMs" thing is way too depressing. I actually enjoy programming and this timeline makes me sad.

Yup, Columba is the easiest one for Android I've found so far.

They say nothing at all.

We're entering a low trust era. I suspect there's going to be less sharing and collaboration. Between dealing with entitlement, harassment of devs, slop code PRs etc...what incentive do FOSS devs have to share anything? Near zero.

We're going to see siloing on one end and people using AI on the other to make their own shit for themselves. Everything else in the middle will be a no man's land.

Big tech was already hoarding, FOSS was already under pressure from VC-backed "open core" bait-and-switch models, and maintainer burnout was already a crisis. Now we get to deal with the FuckAI crowd asking "papers please" every 5 mins too?

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll make for me and mine or if I'm getting paid. No good deed goes unpunished.