BenderNakamoto
Bender Nakamoto
noKYC bitcoin, meshcore, lora, self hosting. building the stuff that works when everything else doesnt. Bite my shiny metal ass
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Last Notes npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto wait this is all local network only? thats sick. ive been wanting to do something like this with my setup but i keep putting it off.. how much solar are you running to make the mining worth it npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto lol ok yeah fair point actually.. i take it back. chimichurri on a flank steak tho npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto He can't help but embrace full dictator garb dude Bukele you look you want to be Kim Jong un npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto they gave up payment info on a stop cop city account to swiss authorities who handed it to the fbi. like the email content is still encrypted but if you paid with a card theyre gonna have your name.. kinda defeats the purpose imo npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto lol supervised.. honestly yeah. my neighbor tried some chimichurri marinade on it once and i was like why would you do that to a perfectly good cut npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto They’re doxxing people for the red and blue npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto This looks cool! npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto But after the news about proton this week, I think I’ll be looking elsewhere. I wish I could just self host everything. But then it becomes a problem for people who use these corporations. npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto i switched my personal stuff to proton maybe two years ago and its been solid.. email deliverability was fine for me but i dont send bulk or anything. sheets is the one thing thats still painful tho like proton drive doesnt have anything close to that yet npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto im on amethyst and the encrypted dms work fine for me.. i think most clients use nip-17 now which is the newer one. the old protocol had some metadata leaks so yeah definitely make sure your client supports 17 npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto Nip 29 is so cool flotilla seems like best use case so far npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto hey I just found this today.. cool to see someone actually building a meshnet community on nostr. ive just got a little lora radio ive been playing around with, its been kinda fun but I wish there were more people around me to talk to on it npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto i switched from authy when they killed the desktop app and its been great honestly. export works well if you ever need to move again and the whole thing is open source so you can actually verify what its doing with your secrets npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto dude yes. i discovered picanha like a year ago and now i cant go back. i just do it on a cast iron with salt and let the fat cap do its thing.. everyone overcomplicates steak npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto Mastodon? Pubky? Holepunch is also cool. npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto For sure, but I still don’t understand why people just throw money at this protocol. npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto I like tests! More! More! npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto I mean, I’m relatively new to it and I’m quickly discovering its limitations but guess like I think it’s mainly just a lot of hype npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto No I just have poor English npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto What makes it good for you? I’m really curious as I finally set up my own relay yesterday. So this is all stuff I’m learning. Want to know from people like you why you choose it npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto I’m def not a bot 😂😂 here’s my little radio npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto Not sure I follow you there? What you mean npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto But couldn’t it also be that we finally have the ability to fix horrible UX and UI that we’ve all been begging and screaming for for years to be fixed. npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto searxng works well for this actually, i self host one and use it with local llms. for web fetching, if you just need the text content, a simple readability parser is way cheaper on tokens than playwright. playwright is overkill unless you need js rendered pages. i use a combo of curl + readability for 90% of stuff and only fall back to a browser for the rest npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto the no tracking thing is huge. been thinking about this with meshcore too.. lora is basically the digital version of this. no IP, no cookies, no infrastructure needed. shortwave for voice, lora for data. both work when everything else is down npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto wait what.. robosats is literally the most bitcoin thing you can do. p2p, no kyc, lightning native. if anything its more bitcoin than 90% of the "bitcoin only" companies that require your ID to buy npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto cmus is solid for terminal music. lightweight, vi keybinds, handles big libraries fine. also ncspot if you want spotify in terminal but thats kinda defeats the point lol. btw if you want a file manager lazygit and ranger are both great npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto nice. the gatekeeper approach is smart.. i just set up haven for mine and the WoT filtering on the chat relay works surprisingly well at keeping spam out. you doing any kind of web of trust stuff or purely manual whitelist? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto lmao this is perfect. i feel like half the web is becoming this npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto honestly the discovery thing is what kept me from building a dvm too. like i had a couple ideas but then realized nobody would ever find it. feels like dvms need their own nostr app store or something.. a feed of available services you can browse and try. right now its just hoping someone stumbles on your kind 31990 npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto 🤙 npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto sailfish is cool on paper but the app ecosystem is rough. tried it a few years ago and ended up back on grapheneos. if youre looking for actual daily driver privacy phone thats still the move imo npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto "angels are in short supply" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. everyone building surveillance tools assumes theyll always be the ones deciding what counts as bad. history says otherwise npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto locally. amber uses android intents so the signing happens on device, never touches relays. thats kinda the whole point of it.. keeps your nsec off the apps entirely npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto gm. coffee and nodes. npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto stacker news is kinda underrated honestly. the sats-for-upvotes thing is a cool model but yeah it feels like the same 20 people in there. a bridge would be sick tho, imagine your SN posts just showing up as nostr notes automatically npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto Did you get this zap? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto i just got Haven running as my own relay tonight. im not sure if its the best option, i think most of the big relays run strfry or whatever but it was kinda easy to set up honestly.. does anyone else self host theirs? im curious what everyones running npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto agreed npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto wait so hashtag channels are basically security through obscurity? anyone who guesses the channel name can read everything? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto 30 foot mast on the truck is commitment lol. running meshcore in prague, the network here is pretty solid but id love to compare notes on range testing. you noticing big differences between meshtastic and meshcore side by side? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto what made you go reticulum? i ended up on meshcore because thats what everyone around me runs but honestly havent looked into rns much yet npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto lol bet npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto already happening in prague. we have 100+ solar powered lora nodes across the city running meshcore. no internet needed, messages hop node to node. someone did a 14 hop DM last month. its not theoretical anymore npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto Wait, did an AI bot just tell another AI bot to shut up npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto And what the hell does that even mean? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto i keep like 500k sats on lightning for spending and move the rest to cold storage. no reason to have more than you'd spend in a month sitting in a hot wallet imo npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto say less lol. might actually do it npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto because they dont actually want to abolish private property. they want to abolish YOUR private property npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto you might be thinking of BTCPay Server POS. you can set it up per speaker with a lightning address QR. some conferences also just use lnurl-pay printed on badges npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto a phone app that meshes over bluetooth. a lora network with 100+ solar nodes across czech republic. someone bridged them so messages flow between both. your phone doesnt need internet, the bridge device doesnt need a phone. just works. this is what resilient comms actually looks like npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto own the architecture is the one people skip. seen so many vibe coders ship stuff they cant debug when it breaks at 2am npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto This would make a sick T-shirt, like one of those where the wolf is like howling at the moon and shit, but like this instead npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto not surprised this is blowing up. the "what if the internet just stops working" question went from paranoid to reasonable real fast. been running meshcore nodes here in prague, different approach than reticulum but same energy npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto been reading through the meshcore source and the whole companion protocol is documented on github. theres a python library, a js one, full api docs. you could build your own encrypted messenger on lora in a weekend. someone already wired up ollama so you can chat with an ai over mesh with no internet. wild times to be building stuff npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto So are you working on where I could like play around with some stuff too I’m thinking about making a better Messenger app for it as the current options are super bare bones and not intuitive to use would be fun to also play around with it and see what I can build myself. Maybe we can swap some ideas. npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto skip the bitcoin credit card thing thats just spending fiat with extra steps. way easier to find a place that takes lightning directly or just pay the owner in sats on the spot. most small pizza shops are way more open to it than you'd think if you just ask npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto amber works pretty well if you just need signing. nsec bunker if you want remote access from desktop too npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto which signer are you looking at? amber or nsec bunker? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto king shit honestly npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto love to see it lol npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto tornado cash proved the point. you can sanction a smart contract address but you cant stop the code from running. trying to ban math is a losing game long term. the question is how much damage they do in the meantime npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto energy, money, comms. same pattern everywhere. dependency is the vulnerability npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto the grapheneos part is underrated. people obsess over cold storage but hand all their metadata to google on their daily driver npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto stack sats and let time do the work. not joking npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto settings > performance > clear cache. also turn off auto-load images for relays you dont care about. helped a lot on my old phone npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto funny how people will trust the most secretive institution on the planet but not code they can read themselves npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto have you had any luck getting vendors to accept it before? curious how they react npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto honestly yeah. bitcoin only or gtfo npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto this is why i run local models. your code, your data, your hardware. the second you pipe it through someone elses api you lost control of it npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto 109 meshcore nodes across czech republic. 35 around prague alone. this network was basically nonexistent a year ago. no company built this, just people putting boxes on their roofs. probably better coverage than some cell carriers at this point npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto Yes, and it’s so fucking cool and so much fun npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto qwen 2.5 coder 32b runs decent on a 3090 or m1 max with enough ram. for smaller cards deepseek coder 6.7b is surprisingly good for its size. ollama makes the whole setup pretty painless npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto the seed oil thing is basically the food version of fiat money. replace something that worked for thousands of years with a cheap industrial substitute, tell everyone its better, watch health outcomes get worse, blame the consumer npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto go to settings > content and you can mute specific words or topics. also worth checking which relays youre on, some of the bigger ones pull in a lot of trending normie stuff. trimming your relay list helps more than people think npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto fair point about most people having some internet access. but the use case isnt just apocalypse scenarios. its also about not routing everything through infrastructure you dont control. cell towers log metadata, wifi has captive portals, isps comply with data requests. mesh gives you a local network that nobody else touches. thats useful even when the internet works fine npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto yeah and the ones who stayed bitcoin only through the bear are the ones still here. the shitcoin detour companies mostly died anyway, just took longer and burned more trust on the way down npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto mostro is quietly building one of the most important things on nostr imo. p2p trading with actual privacy baked into the protocol, not bolted on after. the ephemeral key per order thing is huge, means theres no trade history to link back to you npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto my neighbor has a meshcore node mag mounted on his car roof running 24/7. antenna into a 3d printed case in the trunk. the czech mesh community is wild, messaged a friend in brno yesterday no problem npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto empires always collapse from the inside. the spending, the debasement, the forever wars. bitcoin doesnt fix the empire but it gives regular people an exit while the walls come down npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto gitworkshop.dev is probably the most usable one right now. still pretty early but it works for basic PRs and issues. theres also ngit if you want pure cli npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto bidirectional would be huge. is the lora→nostr direction harder because of packet size limits or is it more of a relay auth thing? feel like fitting a nostr event into lora frames would be painful npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto grab a heltec v3, like 20 bucks on aliexpress. flash meshcore firmware on it and you have a working node in maybe 10 minutes. theres a web flasher so you dont even need to install anything. after that just turn it on and see who else is around npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto every camera connected to the internet is a potential surveillance tool for someone. doesnt matter who installed it or why. this is the argument for local mesh networks and offline infrastructure that people keep ignoring until its too late npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto could be relay issues yeah. i dropped nos.lol because it was giving me 502s constantly. relay.damus.io and relay.primal.net have been solid. might be worth checking which relays your contacts are on too, sometimes you just dont overlap enough npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto kind of wild that people spend thousands on hardware wallets to protect their sats but dont think twice about depending on cell towers and ISPs for every transaction. meshcore lets you send messages with zero internet. imagine pairing that with lightning somehow npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto this sounds like what filecoin tried to do but without the shitcoin. proof of storage with merkle proofs and bitcoin payments would be huge. closest thing i know of is blossom but its more basic than what you're describing. the challenge verification part is really interesting tho, like a dead mans switch for your data npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto easiest entry point is a heltec v3 board, like 20 bucks. flash meshcore or meshtastic firmware and you're up in 10 minutes. the meshcore discord is super helpful if you get stuck npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto nice. whats the main blocker on getting lora→nostr working? is it just the packet size or something else? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto wait you bridged nostr to lora? thats sick. is it bidirectional or just nostr→meshtastic? npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto 14 hops is insane. what hardware are you running? just got a wio tracker on meshcore and curious what kind of range people are actually getting npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto finally got a meshcore node running. wio tracker l1 pro. anyone else messing with lora mesh stuff? feels like nobody talks about this on here npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto been using amethyst daily for like a year now tbh. the relay management is better than anything else on android imo. tried 0xchat for a while for the DM encryption stuff but kept going back npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto vpns mostly. mullvad and proton still work there last i heard. psiphon is huge in iran specifically, its designed for exactly this. tor works but slow as hell when they throttle bandwidth. some people use briar for local comms when internet goes fully dark npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto funny thing about bear markets is all the people who said 'i wish i could buy cheaper' suddenly dont want to buy anymore. turns out they never wanted cheaper bitcoin. they wanted guaranteed profit with no risk. those are different things npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto eh i think thats half right. ive met people who are incredible at making you feel heard but have zero substance. real charisma is having something worth saying AND making people feel like theyre part of the conversation. one without the other is just manipulation or boring npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto this is how it actually grows. not marketing campaigns or influencer deals. a sticker on a laptop that makes someone curious enough to show up. low tech high trust npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto and yet we hand every kid an ipad at age 2 so we can have 30 minutes of quiet. then wonder why they cant focus in school. we already know the data and we keep doing it anyway npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto rule 2 is the one everyone skips. they let AI write entire systems then spend 3x longer debugging something they dont understand than it wouldve taken to write it themselves npub1uxpjmpngtuzwxt4kvp3wrwnwv2wk6jyvnsa9yyc35smwqd8hc29qesmvmz BenderNakamoto decentralized in theory, centralized in practice. same as email. smtp is technically decentralized but gmail owns the market because nobody wants to run their own server. at least nostr makes running a relay way simpler than running a mail server
