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Nobody is safe. :( #USpol

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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.

#FuckCars #urbanism

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every time I contemplate "upgrading" the stock exhaust on my bike, I remember it's already louder than a car exhaust.

Most car exhausts, anyway. Not the M3 that my neighbour across the road drives.

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The last place I lived was originally on a country road and was generally pretty quiet. But growing up population of the nearby city meant more and more traffic, and subdivisions (one was which ended up against my back property line). By the time I moved, the area had become solidly suburbia and the road became a major secondary road and quite noisy

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From here:

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.

#capitalism

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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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Said parties have both rigged it to be this way and have convinced the people that this is the only way it can ever be. :(
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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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in reply to bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵

@bazkie same in UK, but I think its also because neoliberalism provided short term gains - a young adult working in the skilled trades or the remaining middle level office jobs which exist and haven't been outsourced/replaced by AI can afford to get a used Audi on finance and just about run it - they get scared of green/left parties as they think "tax will go up and petrol will be £2/2€ a litre again" and that's a powerful paranoia (especially if they are in a long term relationship and have now got kids to feed/fund through school)
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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..

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@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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@bazkie I moved to Suffolk, which is not /that/ far from the Netherlands (especially at the point of Lowestoft which is the furthest Eastern part of England) and has many cultural and trade links with NL, also I am a former radio pirate and was always curious about the pirate radio scene there and started listening to the stations and wanted to learn the language (piratenzenders are quite surreal, with 3 different languages of music and songs which are a mix of synthpop/disco, country and western and seashanties 😁 )
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@vfrmedia ohh right I think you mentioned that before! those piratenzenders sure are something else :D it's funny how it combines, eh, "rural culture" with everything else!
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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)

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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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I wonder how hard it'd be to wire up #MeshCore with #IRC . 🤔

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not so hard. there is already ways to push to other platforms.


How hard would it be to upgrade the battery in a T-Deck+? #MeshCore #Meshtastic

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magnificent! A battery swap is just plug and play on the original t-deck; on the plus, expect the same or *possibly* leads to solder.
Then you just need to close it up again with a case that fits.


Do folks recommend #MeshOS for a T-Deck+? #MeshCore #Meshtastic
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Chatted with some other hams on #MeshCore and we all hopped on 2m FT8, which is usually dead silent around here. :P #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

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Had to drop £8 to unlock repeater management features in the Ripple firmware. :( #MeshCore

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sorry I misread. meshcore-open is a phone app that allows you to configure repeaters remotely. Which they make you pay for in the proprietary app or place arbitrary restrictions on if you don’t pay. there is a an open source alternative to ripple OS on T deck called aurora but I don’t think it includes remote config of repeaters. If you want to remotely manage repeaters without shelling out maybe use the phone app for that side of things. It would be a good feat to add to aurora though



I can't for the life of me get this stupid Heltec V4 #MeshCore repeater to connect over serial. I'm trying to reconfigure it (I can't use the Web flasher, devs! >:( ), but I can't get into it at all because it defaults to the EU band and I'm in the US. How do I get the thing to respond?

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All I know is that /dev/ACM0 shows up when I plug it in, and flashing worked when I pointed esptool at it.
[ 2134.200736] usb 1-10: new full-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 2134.454250] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 2134.454254] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2134.454257] usb 1-10: Product: CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller
[ 2134.454259] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
[ 2134.454261] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: 0001
[ 2134.482271] cp210x 1-10:1.0: cp210x converter detected
[ 2134.488259] usb 1-10: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 7194.421598] usb 3-2.4.3: new full-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[ 7194.542171] usb 3-2.4.3: New USB device found, idVendor=303a, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 7194.542176] usb 3-2.4.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 7194.542178] usb 3-2.4.3: Product: heltec_wifi_lora_32 v4 (16 MB FLASH, 2 MB PSRAM)
[ 7194.542181] usb 3-2.4.3: Manufacturer: Espressif Systems
[ 7194.542183] usb 3-2.4.3: SerialNumber: B0A604C675F4
[ 7194.613215] cdc_acm 3-2.4.3:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device


Man, you really are SOL if you can't use the Web flasher. >:( #MeshCore

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I sometimes have to use the flashing procedures from the chipset manufacturer when I do it manually.
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i've built the firmware and used platformio to write it in my devices.


Finally got #MeshCore (the Ripple GUI) flashed onto my LilyGo T-Deck+. :3 #Meshtastic
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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?

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #LoRa

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Huh, I've never seen anyone do this: it's always been more or less standalone.
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it is quite possible to have two MC nodes plugged into R-Pi or analog, each running meshcore (eg python) listening to the node, and talking over the net to each other.

i run a bot on the #olybot channel, and it is "easy enough" to have it talk to another set up elsewhere.



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
[  2694][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2701][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2707][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2714][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2720][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2727][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2733][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2740][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2746][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2753][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2761][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2767][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2774][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2781][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2799][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2807][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2813][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2820][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2827][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2834][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2841][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2847][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2854][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2861][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2868][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2875][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2881][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2888][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2896][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1
[  2902][E][Wire.cpp:513] requestFrom(): i2cRead returned Error -1


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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@enot
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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Thanks! That took care of it for me. :D
% 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 mode

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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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Neil E. Hodges

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

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