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Books touched on:
- The Death of Privacy and Truth: 1984 — George Orwell
- The Corruption of Power: Animal Farm — George Orwell
- The Golden Cage: Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- The End of the Deep Dive: Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
- Rights Are Made Up: The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood
- Greed Above All Else: Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler
- A Cruel Game that the Privileged Don't Have to Play: The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
We're already living in every dystopian novel — Mr. Beat
Mr. Beat explains how some of those dystopian novels we were forced to read growing up in school have already (partially) come true.Disclaimer: Mr. Beat offers opinions in this video
Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. Produced by Matt Beat and Beat Productions, LLC. Filmed by Matt Beat. All images and video by Matt Beat. Additional images used under fair use guidelines or found in the public domain. Music by Electric Needle Room (Mr. Beat's band), Bad Snacks, Kwon, MK2, Otis McDonald, Patrick Patrikios, and Underbelly & Ty Mayer.
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Nothing makes you hate cars more than living on a busy street, forced to listen to their din day in and day out. >:(
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud — Not Just Bikes
Urban noise is a common problem, and the vast majority of it is created by motor vehicles. Noise is far too often dismissed as a minor nuisance, rather than the legitimate health issue that it is.The book "Curbing Traffic" has a chapter about the health impacts of noise pollution. I explore the research in the book, and visit Delft, the city that is highlighted in the book as being a shining example of what can happen when noise pollution is taken seriously.
This video explores the problem that farting cars, farting motorcycles, and farting mopeds create in our cities.
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There is no 'free' market, and there never has been. The 'free' market is predicated on the belief that all players will act honestly, and make informed choices based on available information. This is a completely false assumption, and has been proven so time after time.It completely ignores human nature whereby someone will always lie, cheat, and steal to achieve their own ends -- this is what we see here.
Industry players will always form cartels and collude in anti-consumer behavior -- price fixing being the prime example.
Without someone to keep corporations in line, the market would steadily skew to all of the power being in the hands of a few.
There is no such thing as a 'free' market, and there simply never has been. It's a utopian myth which can never be true.
People who go around spouting about the 'free' market are either naive, self deluded, or actively lying.
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damn, so we've had 11 years of this very thing getting worse.
when will people get it?! people keep voting for these pro corporate parties and it's depressing
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well, the same is happening here in the Netherlands. people have been voting the neoliberals into power for decades, despite things going to shit, and other parties being available here.
it's the propaganda that's working; most people still believe that free market capitalism is great, and it will take a lot more downfall before they understand it's shit.
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@bazkie about 10 years ago when I had learned just enough Dutch to read sites where younger folk hung out (and chat to them) I learned a fair few thought all the bicycles, good public transport (which folk in UK often envy!) and the high cost of learning to drive (which is same as UK) was imposed by "big government/EU" and they wanted to have cars just like young people in UK, enjoyed watching Top Gear and thought folk in UK and USA had more "freedom" (and those youths would be 30-40+ by now, many with families of their own)
At least you are highly unlikely to get Nexit as everyone can see the mess the UK is now in 5 years later..
@vfrmedia UK has been a lovely warning sign for us indeed!
..tho people have been voting far right the past few years despite Trump, so maybe most people don't really understand warning signs 😅
and about that dutch youth; keep in mind we've had neoliberal rule for decades now, so the whole "free market good, nationalization bad" has been really hammered in.
not sure if we'll get rid of it in my lifetime tbh. but most of the lovely social policies we have left stem from the more progressive governing we had before I was born 😅
btw why did you learn dutch? (maybe I asked before)
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I love pirate radio!
I don't know if it's actually a pirate station, here's an FM broadcaster near Quinault Lake here that plays all kinds of odds and ends with weird stuff in between. It might fall under LPFM, but I doubt the FCC would hassle them anyway since it's in the middle of nowhere and low power.
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@vfrmedia what's LPFM?
I wonder if maybe the FCC is a bit more relaxed these days since people listen to FM radio less (or well, I imagine that they do)
the "free market" is to economics what the frictionless spherical cow is to high school physics.
The very existence of corporations means there is no free market. Corporations are a legal construct of governments that grants a business (and later even a mere collection of assets) status as a district entity separated to some degree from the owners and workers within.
As such, there is no choice between "government vs corporations" because they are *two sides of the same coin*...it is all one big hegemony.
We have all been thoroughly conditioned to think otherwise for a couple of centuries now. It is thoroughly ingrained the minds of everyone in the "free world" that corporations are the capitalist free market and government is the socialist planned economy but that is pure BS.
The biggest economies in the world have arrived in the same place from two different directions...the US being a corporatocratic regime and China practising state capitalism.
As such deregulation just means re-regulation.
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Building a high-gain Yagi-Uda for 868MHz LoRa (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Note: This post is a work in progress (early May 2025). I haven’t yet finalised the build of this antenna. I built a Meshtastic node around a Heltec T114, zerofox3d’s FLEXO case, LiPo b…On the Edge of Occam's Razor 2.0
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Then you just need to close it up again with a case that fits.
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I really want to set up a #Meshtastic / #Meshcore router with a wired Ethernet backhaul. The idea is to have the router and its antenna outdoors, but run the cable indoors to our home network. Any suggestions?
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Meshtastic there are hardware options with wired ethernet instead of wifi (there is a rak esp32 option), the pakets can transferred over to an local mqtt server and from there over your lan to the mobile app,
Or to an local running linux native meshtasticD service on a computer.
In the newer firmware there is the UDP option where no mqtt is involved too. Then you need a second node (hardware or meshtasticD service) for your client side needs.
For meshcore there is no such option beside getting a raspi in the outside enclosure too and tunnel the usb serial interface through your network, or play with experimental wifi firmware and app, but no native ethernet.
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You could try socat or ser2net to get serial data over ip network, with a linux based endpoint on the other end, like a second raspberry.
The esp-based serial to wifi firmwares (running on a second esp8266 board) was not 8-bit binary transparent, as i searched for this last time for 3d printer use. So this doesnt work.
The ethernet rak node you can get on ali https://aliexpress.com/item/1005001656862435.html or look into this to see the rak partnumbers.
I have had the UDP connection by accident working, but not the other things.
It look like the meshtastic firmware had a lot of troubles on esp32 platform with wifi, but worked stable on version 2.5.23
I dont tried ethernet over cables but others said it run on their hardware
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Still can't get control over the USB serial interface to work. This is the full output I get in minicom after resetting the Heltec V3, after which the port is no longer responsive. #Meshcore #LoRa
ESP-ROM:esp32s3-20210327
Build:Mar 27 2021
rst:0x1 (POWERON),boot:0x29 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
SPIWP:0xee
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fce3808,len:0x4bc
load:0x403c9700,len:0xbd8
load:0x403cc700,len:0x2a0c
entry 0x403c98d0
[ 2606][E][Wire.cpp:499] requestFrom(): i2cWriteReadNonStop returned Error -1
[ 2616][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2623][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2629][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2636][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2642][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2649][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2655][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2662][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2668][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2675][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2681][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[ 2688][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
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Having trouble figuring out how to #Meshcore on the Heltec V3 I got. Everyone is all "web installer" this and "web installer" that, but I'm not using Chrome. >:(
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if using any companion, serial on a minicom can only be used to get some logs, if enabled (and you shouldn't get logs if using usb_companion) ...
To interact with the node you'll have to use a client that talks companion radio protocol (android client, web client or meshcore-cli) over usb or ble depending on the firmware you installed
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% meshcore-cli -s /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200
INFO:meshcore:Serial Connection started
INFO:meshcore:Connected to 36E496E5 running on a v1.9.0-b92d9bd fw.
Interactive mode, most commands from terminal chat should work.
Use "to" to select recipient, use Tab to complete name ...
Line starting with "$" or "." will issue a meshcli command.
"quit", "q", CTRL+D will end interactive modelike this
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Yeah, that was it. Still not fully working, though. :(
I ended up getting it to boot to the MeshCore firmware UI by holding the program button and running this, but the USB serial interface isn't coming up. :(esptool --no-stub --chip esp32-s3 --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 --before default_reset --after hard_reset write-flash --flash-mode dio --flash-freq 80m 0x00000 -z -fs detect Heltec_v3_companion_radio_usb-v1.9.0-b92d9bd-merged.bin
GitHub - meshcore-dev/MeshCore: A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios
A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios - meshcore-dev/MeshCoreGitHub
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Most car exhausts, anyway. Not the M3 that my neighbour across the road drives.
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