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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Happy to report that meshtastic is still functioning, despite not being charged a monthly service fee.

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[–] rockyracoon@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What ways do you use meshtastic? Did you setup any friends or family with terminals? It's kinda just like a group text right?

I've been thinking about setting one up myself but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Im not sure I could convince anyone to use it even if I gifted them a radio. And I get enough of hams just chatting about their gear on HF...

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I have not done so yet, but I'm going to set up a few of my family members with nodes, but I'm going to get them one of those helltec mesh pocket nodes since it's also a phone backup battery. That way they'll be likely to actually carry it with them.

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[–] FapFlop@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

This is the way. You get permission to install an infrastructure node on their roof to help build out mesh connectivity. If this house is on a hill, great. If it’s not, that’s fine. It can still help contribute.

The mesh must grow.

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[+] reddig33@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (12 children)

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[–] Uss_entrepeneur@piefed.social 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

not always, when I’m out in the middle of nowhere, I also see sos

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

By out in the middle of nowhere, you would have to not be able to connect to any carrier network at all. If you are a Verizon customer and can't get Verizon signal, but you can see an AT&T tower, you will connect to it to make 911 calls, or a T-Mobile tower, if that's the one you can see. It doesn't matter. Every carrier has to carry 911 calls for every other carrier.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also iphones I think use satellite for SoS capability now if no cell

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I know my Pixel 9 can too.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 point 10 months ago

Oh nice I have the 8, didn't know the 9 had satellite

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[–] Uss_entrepeneur@piefed.social 3 points 10 months ago

good point, hadn’t thought of that

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Newer phones can do satellite emergency calls too.

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[–] Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

If you can get it to connect. None of our phones could

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago

Is that true for wifi calling too?

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

So the glitch is in auth/access/accounting, like the intern just pushed to prod.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I thought this wasn't a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it's a state thing.

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[+] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 child)

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 10 months ago

I managed to find it.

Subpart B—Telecommunications Carriers

§ 9.4 Obligation to transmit 911 calls.

All telecommunications carriers shall transmit all 911 calls to a PSAP, to a designated statewide default answering point, or to an appropriate local emergency authority as set forth in § 9.5.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 10 months ago

Verizon tried to charge me a dollar for an emailed version of some instructions their CSR was flubbing on the phone.

Glad to see that they seemed to have found their dollar somewhere else.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Glad that they mention, albeit a ways in, that reports of other carriers being down are because people try to call Verizon-serviced phones and freak out on Downdetector when it doesn’t go through.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

Downdetector has never been a reliable indicator of anything except people freaking out.

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[–] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Fuck Verizon fuck I.C.E.

[–] LemUser@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

People, switch to USMOBILE https://www.usmobile.com/

[–] Ancalagon@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago

It's also a way to track you without you being able to communicate.

[–] PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago

thanks, ChatGPT

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[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

In before it's confirmed to be a DNS issue.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

A haiku:

It’s not DNS

There’s no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

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[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Wow, 12 hours

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year... but I'm sure that's just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting...