SMH @ activists using techno-fascist platforms for communications during an operation subject to state-actor level interference. I thought we recognised and acknowledged this problem 15-20 years ago already.

https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1965431513320927706

Screenshot of twitter post by craig murray proxied by a nitter instance. " Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg 21m I was on a whatsapp group with members on the Global Sumud flotilla and their supporters around Europe. Whatsapp appear to have disabled the whole group chat.  Sep 9, 2025 · 3:06 PM UTC"
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not sure what you mean. I use Meshtastic a lot, both as a hobby but also for remote sensor reading and herd tracking. Works a treat.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know this is off topic, but herd tracking? Critters? I'm always curious about people's lives.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cows.

    A friend of mine was taking over his family farm with access to open moorland for grazing and as an experiment we wanted to see if we could implement tracking without giving a monthly small fortune to a company for a proprietary product or noisy polluting methods like a helicopter. BLE beacons are cheap and long-lasting so each cow got one, and we bodged together about twenty solar powered Meshtastic nodes with GPS that were small enough to be worn on their collars (since the cows tend to heard together only one in the group needs a node), plus another dozen we could install at choke points on the land (old gates, land bridges, etc) the cows were likely to traverse. The nodes were like this, but smaller and shitter. The nodes were programmed to report every time they saw a BLE beacon nearby, with the mobile ones also reporting their own GPS location, all being fed into Home Assistant for mapping. I just checked and apparently, aside from a couple of storm-damaged fixed nodes and replacement batteries it's still going strong after two years.

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