This is why datacenters in central texas are desperate to build anywhere in the edwards aquifer... so they can get "free" water from natural springs (already stressed by draught) and dump the effluent into city wastewater systems.

This community is laughably caustic and abusive. My friend attempted to create a simple tutorial site and their org harassed him for over a year. He didn't even mention the word "meshtastic" and they made dozens of false trademark claims that his site could be "confused" with an official site.

I was previously a fan, but I'd never seen behavior like that from an "open source" project.

Heh, that isn't my experience.

I created a client Linux: https://gitlab.com/kop316/gtk-meshtastic-client and even posted it on their discussion page: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99 . One of the maintainers responded positively to me: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99#discussion... .

One thing to keep in mind is that it's not even a very good mesh network.

There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic. Or find my comments on meshtastic here.

If anything they showed there's demand for a public mesh. Unfortunately, they didn't want to learn from AlohaNet or any of the other meshes.

> There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic

Do you have a link? I went through recent ZT issues and didn't find what you're referring to

You’re understating it. Meshtastic is horribly designed. If you designed a wireless mesh network making all the worst possible choices, with the most shortsighted design decisions imaginable, you’d get something a little better than Meshtastic.

Alohanet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet

I have not seen that at all. Honestly, people are almost too welcoming and also maybe even too accepting of PRs for example.

Hmm, I can copy paste just fine from the build page?

I don't know if the page actually f's with copy/paste or not since I already have the extension. It's usually most useful on forms where they force you to type in stuff.

I can't wait for blower 3090s from China / MSI to get cheap (although I fear this may never happen)

Yeah, but the B60 is basically half the speed of a 3090... in 2025. I'd rather buy 5yr old nVidia hardware for $100 more on eBay than an intel product with horrendous software support that's half the speed effectively. This build is so cool because the 2x 3090 setup is still maybe the best option 5yrs+ after the GPU was released by nVidia.

s2 is one of the coolest technologies that more people need to be talking about - I'm still begging them to move one layer lower -> turning s2 into an incredible middleware for edge IOT deployments!

PLEASE if someone from the team sees this - I would pay so much for a ephemeral object store using your same edge protocol (seen in the sensor example from your blog).

Cheers!

Hi mertletee, I'd like to understand the request better, mind dropping me an email? It's in my profile

Is there any way to use this in conjunction with a mask overlay filter in ffmpeg if I just want to "glitch" part of a video?

30% fraudulent H1b, TN, and PERM visa mills (predominantly from india).

H1B visas are clearly a massive factor. Well before AI.

AI is barely a blip on why the job market is dead for entry level, and dying all the way up the ladder.

Every one of my engineer friends says the same thing. "My team is 80% indians" and more than half are not qualified for the job they have.

The whole thing is a fucking scam for them, every company, top to bottom. Recruiters, hiring managers, referrals, CEO's. All one thing in common.

I'll take my downvotes, I don't care, everyone here knows I'm right. And those with their head up their ass can enjoy getting replaced and spending years looking for another role.

If people don't wake up to this fact, things are going to get very ugly very quickly. They already are in the retail sector.

Upvoting!

This is 100% the reason, saying its A.I. is gas lighting

Appointing indian leadership is the single biggest sign of moving to an extraction phase for a company.

The idea is they think the current value of the institution and IP is higher than their ability to innovate, so the try to outsource and reduce labour cost as much as possible intending to do the bare minimum maintenance for as long as possible.

This gets compounded by every layer trying to get the most out of the company as fast as possible, hiring in a way that has no long term outlook.

I honestly have no understanding of why people thought passkeys really improved anything... Why would I want to give a massive tech company the ability to usurp ALL of my accounts under the guise of being "more secure".