Genuinely impressed with #meshtastic thus far. I've got a pair of ThinkNode M2s, and the antennas that come with them are literally bits of printed circuit board, and yet they've managed to get a surprising bit of range (maybe 300m) out of them with suboptimal placement and no special care.
I can see that with a real antenna and an elevated position they'd go quite well.
https://meshtastic.org/
Whatever stroke of luck that was giving my #meshtastic node access to the rest of the mesh is gone. Until yesterday there was an otherwise silent node out there that was forwarding packets to and from mine.
I'm now anxiously awaiting my new antenna to arrive, because it feels wrong for my tiny radio child to be cut off from its friends.
Have my own little #meshtastic node now, and I have no idea what I'm doing. I already want to upgrade my antenna.
Genuinely impressed with #meshtastic thus far. I've got a pair of ThinkNode M2s, and the antennas that come with them are literally bits of printed circuit board, and yet they've managed to get a surprising bit of range (maybe 300m) out of them with suboptimal placement and no special care.
I can see that with a real antenna and an elevated position they'd go quite well.
https://meshtastic.org/
Have my own little #meshtastic node now, and I have no idea what I'm doing. I already want to upgrade my antenna.
@CiaraNi@mastodon.green @johnjohnston@social.ds106.us : I'm glad to say it's actually hopping!
Or at least as much as a snail can hop.
They lift parts of their foot up off the ground so they use up less slime and moisture.
I've heard it called "loping gait", but I'm not a snailologist.
@CiaraNi@mastodon.green @johnjohnston@social.ds106.us : Here's a longer discussion on snail locomotion, complete with pictures and videos.
https://kozielska-reid.eu/2021/05/15/did-you-know-that-snails-and-slugs-use-different-gaits-to-move-on-different-surfaces/
Garden waste to fibre, round two, let's go!!!
Today we're using yucca from green waste, an axe, and a tub.
I've chopped off the ends of the yucca, and pounded them with the back of the axe to bruise them.
They're now soaking for a week so microbial action can eat away the pulp and loosen the fibres.
There's no detergent here. Yucca contains natural saponins that can be used like soap.
Previous thread is here: https://cloudisland.nz/@pjf/113529177215175664
and here: https://cloudisland.nz/@pjf/113535353936853749
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#NeolithicTech
Living in a society where everyone is constantly trying to scam you if exhausting.
Sure, there's the regular scammers we think of. The ones who call or email you and pretend to be your bank, your telco, your long lost family with an inheritance for you.
But then there's all the legal scamming. Phones that come with built-in advertising IDs. Pop-ups with tiny close buttons. Anything where you have to "opt-out". Wherever bullshit Adobe has thought up this week.
It's exhausting.
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I've always been enthusiastic about technology.
For the last few years I've been particularly enthusiastic about neolithic technology.
That's not because I somehow think #NeolithicTech is "better" than modern technology.
It's because it's challenging to use neolithic technologies for corporate surveillance and mis-information at scale.
Nobody has ever asked me to weave a basket to extract money from vulnerable populations, spy on our neighbours, or engage in profitable harm.
If anyone else in the fediverse is into #BasketWeaving, #cordage, #BowDrills, and similar #Neolithic technology, come say hi?
Here's my most time-consuming coil #basket. Made from yucca fibre, with one continuous piece of two-ply twist string. It's extremely tough and hardy.
Added the handle later (yucca string and a small piece of bone), with some help from my #BasketWeaving assistant.
#NeolithicTech
If anyone else in the fediverse is into #BasketWeaving, #cordage, #BowDrills, and similar #Neolithic technology, come say hi?
If for some reason, I don't like it, that's my problem, not yours. I want you to flourish. I want you to be having the best time you possibly can. And if you share that with me, then I feel even the more special for it.
Thank you. ♥
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Many thanks to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz for asking me to repost this to the fediverse, after I originally posted it to another social network in 2015.
It still very much applies today. I love seeing and hearing about all the great stuff you and your loved ones are up to. ♥
Paul Fenwick