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@luciedigitalni@aus.social I can recommend the audiobook, read by Wynn-Williams. I also recommend not using FB or any apps owned by this vile sociopath. It's hard to say no but we absolutely need to.

@Tatjna@moo.nz @chopsstephens@mastodon.nzoss.nz a lot of the world is going to experience what Sri Lanka did a few years back when they decided to stop importing fertiliser cold turkey. Hint: it did not go well and they restarted importing fertiliser. Which is a great shame because organic fertilisers can be returned to: just not cold turkey.

@Tatjna@moo.nz oh, and my neighbour panic bought giant boxes of cereal in March, so not so different really (I just looked longer term) and I expect many people were thinking "oh shit, this is going to be Covid all over again".

@Tatjna@moo.nz It's not just any hoe, it's a Ukrainian brand 😊​ and wheel hoes increase a single humans' productivity dramatically vs a traditional hoe. Though I would rather do low/no dig mainly, and might find there are better ways to cultivate, this is what my brain chose, and I kindof laughed too in hindsight! Got into oats after a Workaway in Tasmania where the family pretty much subsisted on oats, though they didn't grow them. I started looking into them and they do seen to be one of the easiest grains to grow in a wide range of climates, and fortunately I do like them. I had a couple of barley plants volunteer last year in my vege garden (probably from straw mulch) and I was impressed how robust it was, and saved the grains from that so plan to grow a small amount of barley too for funsies.

@Tatjna@moo.nz I panic bought a wheel hoe 2 months ago, and lots and lots of grain. I still don't know where I'm going to use it as they are best for a 1-5 acre plots and I only have my backyard at this stage, but I'm sure my direction will become clear in time. I want to grow oats mainly, they are just such an awesome crop, so versatile and also tasty.

@Tatjna@moo.nz yup. this was going to happen eventually, given fossil fuels are a finite resource, but I really thought we had more time to transition (and we still might, depending exactly how much infrastructure has been destroyed in the gulf, and how long it takes to rebuild, if it ever is). Meat and dairy are going to become a /lot/ more expensive in the coming years though.

@mike @scott this. I have been thinking about it constantly since I saw it shared yesterday.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe I'm in this picture &etc.

@isocat @pluralistic *endless screaming*

@angst_ridden@turtleisland.social @Rgsharpe@sfba.social I still have a site online with frames too!

@mattpedals@mastodon.online We need these extra penalties in all Australian cities! #auspol​ #fuckcars

@daks yes! I was confused earlier too, but I've learned more going through the process of flashing many Meshtastic and Meshcore nodes, and it's almost exactly the same: more limited hardware options though. The RNode flasher by Liam Cottle is here: https://liamcottle.github.io/rnode-flasher/ That's what I used 🙂

@cyp@hachyderm.io @rocketsoup@mastodon.social this strikes me as the kind of thing @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz would like.

@frogglin@theblower.au want.

@karstenbondy@im-in.space @augieray@mastodon.social One thing I wish people posting lists of things they wish people realised about covid, would add to their list: #Novavax and other protein subunit vaccines appear to be MUCH more efficacious and potentially sterilising. If people going on about masking and protecting people with improved ventilation would also start spreading this just as important information, it would SAVE LIVES . So few people even those who are talking about covid, are aware of this, most never even reply when I point this out - really? This is likely a real way out of the pandemic and you just ignore it?? Cuba hasn't had a covid death since August 2022!

@remi @catvalente but it is worth pointing out, these people do seem to care a lot about how they are viewed generally (something something Space Karen got very upset when he was told people weren't interested in him https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-reportedly-fired-twitter-214412417.html ) and so it seems to at least have some consequences, if only to their very fragile egos.

@daks you can get just a lora board to run an RNode and use Sideband on Android, I did it recently! But there are not many users at this stage & I think not much discussion around Reticulum, even though it was created a decade ago! I think it is the future though.

@daks actually all three MT MC and RT all have firmware that can do this, MC use only one firmware but give users too many options in the form of 11 different roles you can set on the node, and this can make a mess of the mesh with a few badly configured nodes. MC has two main types of firmware, which keeps things simpler actually, and functions better. RT I haven't played around with enough yet but I think it is more like MT in that there is only one firmware, but Sideband and RT software you can run on other devices allows you to connect through many different mediums not just LoRa, though you could use it only for LoRa if you wanted. It really is a very different beast but designed to route around a lack of standard internet infrastructure with whatever is available.

@daks @marsik I've been thinking that but also researching ISO - OSI to try and work out if I've missed something - but I think I've just come back to the same question 😊 I'm not a network engineer, just an enthusiast that has become absolutely depressed by what has become of the Internet, which was once really fun and vibrant and independent, but is now mostly full of corporate capture and people who are basically zombies. Reticulum is interesting because of the ideology, to specifically resist corporate capture and retain community control. I think the main difference is reticulum is designed to connect over multiple different types of networks, I've only played with Sideband so far, but that has RNode (LoRa), Wifi/Ethernet, I2P, Radio Modem, Serial Port, Weave, PLUS TCP/IP (if you /want/ to connect through the Internet: but the idea is to be as independent as possible /instead/ of requiring everything to work through TCP/IP). And reticulum is a decade old so it's not new either - I think it's getting a bit more attention now because of the rise in popularity of (newish) Meshtastic and (very new) Meshcore though, as people get LoRa devices and want to try different firmware and networks. And the challenge and fun of creating completely independent networks is absolutely addictive. Knowing you are communicating with people using nothing but your own radios that are deployed by members of the network with no subscriptions or corporations involved is extremely satisfying (and I'm sure that's part of what makes HAM attractive and has been since the golden era of radio). If I understand correctly, TOR only uses TCP/IP to anonymously route data - please correct me if I'm wrong?

@marsik @daks fair comment! Meshtastic have certainly learned how difficult it is to scale, and Meshcore has, interestingly, started from a slightly less than true "mesh" as it separates nodes into two main roles, and one role is the "infrastructure" and the other role is the "user" - but users are operating both, so it's still oriented around mesh ideals, just learning from others mistakes, heh. It will be interesting to see how Reticulum scales if it starts getting more widespread adoption: what problems do you anticipate with their approach?

@marsik @daks ok, you're talking mainly about hardware/maintenance and the problems of initial tech people involved getting burnout and needing compensation for their work. I saw a lot of that in the early days of the internet with ISP conglomeration and small ISPs cashing out. Assumedly some of them were enthusiasts before being ISPs. But this scene seems to be more like HAM radio (with many of the same people, haha), and that makes it a bit different. That HAM radio clubs have never gone away, and have never been a target for commercialisation, gives me hope that mesh radio can be a different beast, and Reticulum a bridge between radio nerd world and civilians - many LoRa radios now are plug n play, (fairly) user friendly to non-nerds.

@marsik @daks sure, so we have here a new technology (LoRa) with a crossover of users in HAM and tech that see the attractiveness of long range low power simple tech that is legal for anyone to use and connect up pretty wide regions (we have links to NSW, TAS and ACT from VIC with plans for SA and who knows, maybe all the states in Australia eventually) and which has the feel of the early internet or Twitter (132 character message limit and all) and I hope it remains not of interest to commercial entities. My HAM friend who is over 80yo was amazed when I showed him the LoRa hardware, that it should be impossible from the snr, but it works. My area gets regular grid power outages, and I'm very curious to see what else could be achieved with Reticulum above and beyond Meshcore which is largely solar powered, if we can have wifi routers and other hardware all communicating directly without the intermediary of the Telco. TOR requires the Telco's to function, unless I misunderstand the network routing?

@catvalente @starbreaker the ultimate double standard.

@juliesbits@c.im @nerdbear@masto.ai @mclare@recurse.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I had a door lock that was wifi connected, which I swapped out for a non-wifi connected programmable lock which, though I cannot unlock remotely, the batteries last massively longer. I would now like to swap out for a lock that doesn't need batteries.

@augieray@mastodon.social @karstenbondy@im-in.space no, it is not sterilising with two doses as noted in the link you post. But it is looking like it does create sterilising immunity with *3* doses. While Cuba has several vaccines, the two most prominent are both protein subunit (Abdala and Soberana-2) and they have vaccinated something like 90% of their population *over 2 yo* with these vaccines. And that's why they have virtually no covid. https://donford.substack.com/p/the-benefits-of-novavax-explained https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/cuba/ It is possible, and in fact even likely, that they will see an uptick in cases, and we may all need annual boosters - but Novavax are already in clinical trials for annual booster flu vax combination. If the world at large gets that rather than mRNA (which wanes too quickly), we probably will see covid become a disease largely controlled, like measles or polio. I am at this stage very confident that the world is going to look back at this stage of history with sadness because a great deal of suffering and death could have been avoided if mRNA had not dominated earlier - but not really much difference to the other diseases which caused huge mortality before vaccination, a lot due to PVS, especially measles - we now know that much of the damage caused by measles was to the immune system, which wiped out immune memory for other diseases.

@Tatjna@moo.nz correct. But a lot of those grains currently go to feeding animals - practises like cover cropping are going to have to come back because there won't be other options - and the mega farms of today will likely be split up when people are needed again for their muscles on farms. Small organic farms are going to be more resilient. And victory gardens will be in vogue again. If you haven't read "The Future is Rural" by Jason Bradford, it lays out the likely future pathways that have been sped up this year. https://www.postcarbon.org/publications/the-future-is-rural/ I have been meaning to post it here on Fedi since the Hormuz closure, but I'm still processing a lot of feelings about everything.

@Tatjna@moo.nz definitely!

@Tatjna@moo.nz lol. Totally fair.