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http://bergie.iki.fi is my personal site. Has been updated quite sporadically, but has a post history stretching back to late 90s.

https://lille-oe.de updates whenever we go sailing.

That's the way. Get on a train, sleep, wake up in a new city.

Last time I did interrail (some 15 years ago), you could sometimes pay a bit of extra to get a spot in a sleeping car.

Doing a JavaScript port of Reticulum. We'll need it soon for a boat project

You still need a build tool, and that tool is likely broken if you need to return to the project in a year or two.

TypeScript benefits can be had without a build step by leveraging JsDoc.

Starlink has worked great for us so far from Europe to Polynesia. Prices keep going up, so would be nice if the service had actual competition.

The backups are sadly becoming trickier, as fewer and fewer carry SSB radios or operate shore stations.

And yet we do have SSB, and also an Inreach as backups. You never know when Elon wakes up and decides he doesn't like sailors.

But the Tove Jansson illustrations make it all worthwhile. Adorable.

https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/

Back when I was working at a website builder, we used IPFS for distributing content between our serving clusters.

If also made the sites available on IPFS, but that was a secondary concern.

I resisted WhatsApp until we started cruising with our sailboat. So many processes require WhatsApp. In many places you can't do customs and immigration without it.

Well, maybe not 100% true. There might still be the remnant of an old paper-based process around, but since nobody uses it, it would be a recipe for spending days queuing in random offices.

Once we're back in Europe, it will be a happy moment when I can finally uninstall the app.

It has sort of killed books. I'm hesitant to buy anything published after 2022 if I don't know the author. So much slop out there...

I will be trying git over Reticulum for my next project. Fully peer-to-peer including issue tracking and releases. Reticulum itself already moved over, maintaining GitHub just as a mirror

http://reticulum.network/manual/git.html

Absolutely. The 11" MacBook Air was the best laptop Apple ever made.

I think the reasonable way to look at LLMs is similar to how you'd work with junior developers. They can churn out code, but do need constant guidance. Of course, (some of the) real juniors will eventually become seniors. It remains to be seen if LLMs will.

The traditional longer-range P2P is HF radio and maybe Winlink email on that. APRS over HF is also possible, and Reticulum would be too if hams were allowed to use encryption.

On the passage from Panama to Polynesia we had daily HF radio contact with Hawaii and California. Sometimes radio weather was pretty bad, but generally it worked out.

In practice nowadays passage communications for 99% of boats is WhatsApp over Starlink, with maybe Garmin InReach as backup.

I'm right now anchored at an atoll in the Tuamotus, French Polynesia. 3/10 boats anchored here have Meshtastic.

Isn't that exactly the idea of Reticulum?

http://reticulum.network/manual/whatis.html

I think there are people playing with Halow with Reticulum. That's one advantage of having a multi-transport system. There is also a Bluetooth transport now: https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=720

A lot of the "early internet" protocols would likely pair quite well, especially ones based on UDP.

However, Reticulum has its own active "small web" implementation with NomadNet and the Micron markup.

I'm looking at setting up rngit mirrors of all my repos on our boat NAS. Conceivably it also allows issue tracking and collaboration without centralized infra

https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html#mirroring-reposito...

We started this trip with a summer cruise in Scotland, so who knows where we'll end up

A few boats, yes. But it is still a "new thing". Before leaving Panama I ordered a stack of cheap Heltec V3 Meshtastic boards so we can give some to our buddy boats

We are in the South Pacific with our sailboat, and are using Meshtastic every day to talk between ourselves and with various buddy boats. The boat has a solar-powered repeater (CLIENT_BASE) on the mast that increases communications range significantly.

This all works great with no local SIM cards or other subscriptions or infrastructure needed.

We plan to run experiments with Reticulum when we stop for the cyclone season. Reticulum would open a lot more possibilities with both LoRa and internet-based comms. The Columba app seems to do a lot to bridge the usability gap, but work will need to be done to integrate Reticulum with our boat systems the way we have with Meshtastic (alerting, telemetry, digital switching control).

The salaries are indeed lower, but you get so much more for the money. Better healthcare, better food, livable cities. Lots of major cost items like a car (or three!) are things you can simply skip.

a person working with a bunch of agents is a lot more productive than just a person

[citation needed]

I try LLMs for something every couple of months, and I have yet to see them produce anything actually correct. Calling non-existing library methods, confabulations, etc.

But sure, they produce a lot of stuff in a short while. The utility of any of that another question.

Now, I think the author would consider it "solutionism", but the other day I spent a bunch of time browsing Reticulum's NomadNet sites (using the Columba mobile app).

And while aesthetically it was more early 90s than 1999, it filled me not only with nostalgia, but also with some optimism for the future of the Internet. Something I haven't felt in a while...

At least some of the Boox devices support Play Store, meaning that you can install termux.

https://lockywolf.net/2024-08-07_Using-an-ebook-instead-of-a...

Reticulum shell is also an option, and would also work over LoRa

https://pypi.org/project/rnsh/

Somebody gave him a synopsis of Moon is a Hard Mistress that went something like "AI organises a libertarian polygamous utopia on moon after seceding from earth using mass driver as the threat"

They rebuilt DeX on Google's desktop codebase. So obviously a lot of features were lost. Hopefully what we'll gain is wider app support.

It is kind of funny how most of them scapegoat that Dye guy (who was poached by Meta). As if a single person was responsible for all that bad design, and it isn't a failure of the whole organisation.

This thread is going to be very contextual. I'm currently sailing on a small sailboat, and hence the items will be quite different than what would be useful ashore:

* Wacaco Nanopresso - manual espresso pump. Great coffee anywhere off-the-grid. We also have their grinder but that's not listed as it is above the $100 threshold

* Klean Kanteen insulated water bottle - fill up from watermaker water, stays nice and cool

* Seeed T1000-e: waterproof Meshtastic radio that allows me to communicate with our boat and crew also when out of cell coverage

* Shelly 1: WiFi/Thread relay that makes it easy to automate navigation lights and other circuits

* Ruuvi Tag: waterproof battery-powered Bluetooth temperature/humidity/pressure sensor. Battery lasts arpund two years. We have a few of these around the boat, including one in the fridge