• Mniot@programming.dev
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    21 minutes ago

    I once did some programming on the Cybiko, a device from 2000 that could form a wireless mesh network with peers. The idea was that you could have a shopping mall full of teens and they’d be able to chat with each other from one end to the other by routing through the mesh. It was a neat device!

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    44 minutes ago

    Have a look at meshtastic. Yes, you do have to get a separate device, but range on it can be several tens to hundreds of miles depending on the mesh density.

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    5 hours ago

    If you’re in Bluetooth range can’t you chat with your mouths? Or is it for secretly chatting when you’re in a group of people? I don’t get the use case.

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      2 hours ago

      Could be useful on a plane: If you have different seats than someone and don’t want to pay for your airline’s ridiculous data prices. Although, most airlines I fly on(american, delta, air canada, united) all have free RCS/Facebook/Whatsapp, but not necessarily Signal, Telegram, Matrix, or your preferred secure service.

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      5 hours ago

      I have no idea if this is correct. But imagine if you have a setup like Apple’s AirTag. Except when you receive a signal (message) you also relay it to whoever’s path you cross for the next X amount of time. The more people using the app the bigger the mesh network gets.

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    5 hours ago

    Neat idea 10 years ago “discovered” recently by a tech bro who thinks he’s the first one to think of it. He got his clicks, I guess.

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    7 hours ago

    I’m happy to see a niche decentralized thing from Jack more than if it was another commercial start-up. And I have nothing against yet another bluetooth chat. But I’m not impressed. In the whitepaper nothing is written about spam protection, so it wouldn’t work as a reliable P2P app at scale. And the UI… It’s mere a toy for Jack’s personal nostalgia about “the good old times”. And nostalgia driven development doesn’t work in general, I would say.

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    1 day ago

    messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet

    So he’s made a shitty version of Briar and crammed crypto into it?

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    1 day ago

    Let’s build an app to liberate communications but only release it inside a closed garden. Great idea

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      I don’t trust Jack. But this does seem marginally interesting. Actually decentralized, no servers supposedly. We’ll have to see. Again I sure as hell I’m not going to trust dorsey. And he’s got it under some cringey edgelord “unlicense” license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name. The actual concept seems intriguing. But definitely nothing to get excited about currently.

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      1 day ago

      From the description it seems to be rather clean. And perhaps not to be limited to Apple for too long.

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    1 day ago

    I wanted something like this for weddings or group camping type events for sharing photos to multiple others at once.

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        7 hours ago

        Airdrop is two people at a time. Say we had a group of 8 people I don’t want to do 7 air drop exchanges to get all the photos.

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          12 hours ago

          QuickShare, AirDrop and LocalSend all use WiFi, which can be a problem when using a VPN (it is for me).

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            5 hours ago

            Sounds like the problem is your vpn client if you cant chose what traffic goes into it

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              7 hours ago

              Right but turning the VPN off invalidates the purpose of using a VPN. And even if it didn’t, it’s not convenient to disable on both devices and then turn it back on. The whole purpose of this software is convenience.