Aw come on. You can put more effort into a rebuttlal than that. I used all those fancy words to explain my opinion. Don’t just cop out and fold like that. It’s lazy and trollish behavior.

I know as much as you do about it. All that either of us know is what we directly read in the article. And it has a clear bias and motive imo.

I never said they shouldn’t seek funding. I’m calling out the article for being an obvious vehicle to solicit funding. They already published it. I don’t opposed that. I oppose the method and hype train mentality exhibited.

It’s true, the idea isn’t utterly original, but I don’t think it’s meritless. But I’m not going to read into something like this article and fantasize this contraption as the ultimate solution to water scarcity in deficient locals.

Please don’t mistake my skepticism for willful ignorance. But please do get off of your high horse

Nope. I havent. Never put any effort into it. But I do know a fluff piece when I see one. My point was, this isn’t revolutionary tech. And it’s not being rolled out all over the place either. They built it and rolled it out onto a Caribbean island. Is it actually scalable? Is it practical? We don’t know. What I see is that it’s part of a campaign piece to solicit funding. Fairly obviously too.

This is just building a better mousetrap. Sure, some good can come from it. I hope it does. But I’m not going to prop up every article that doesn’t pass the sniff test. Cancer already would have been cured a thousand times over if you were to believe every article promising that “this is the fix we’ve been waiting for”

So my first thought is… This man made a dehumidifier… And yeah. He did.

Then it says it’s powered by ambient thermal energy. Sounds cool.

A sloped tarp and a collection bottle in the early morning can do that.

I mean. I’ll give him credit. 1000 liters from something the size of a shipping container isn’t an insubstantial amount, but even the lowest tech can manage significant results at the right scale.

Give me some solar panels and a long line of consumer grade dehumidifiers.

Sufficient space was never the issue with extracting moisture from air.

The pole isn’t the issue I see. It’s… well. How does one dispose of a camera that is watching you dispose of it?

Seems like all they gotta do is watch you walk up, get a face or a plate, and then knock on your door later and write a hefty fine.

Tal has a big up against crockett that will play big come the general election here in Texas.

Talerico is a white male. Crockett isn’t. This is Texas we are talking about and, as disappointing it is to say, it will play a massive role in an already uphill battle. He’s just more electable at face value for that fact alone.

I like both candidates, tal gets the edge for his funding methods to be sure, but the electability argument is a big one when you are talking about a Senate seat that hasn’t been held by a dem since LBJ.

I am a dairyman. I’ve been fighting against this bullshit raw milk stuff for my entire career. I used to drink it. Mostly for convenience, I mean it’s right there. And even ignoring listeria, e coli is no joke either. Every tank gets tests for salmonella, e coli, and others contaminates. If that threshold is exceeded, that tank won’t be accepted and it goes down the drain. The checks for quality and safety are actually pretty impressive. I keep those numbers low. But it takes one stubborn bacterium to wreck your colon.

The one argument I’ve found that works is. “You don’t hate pasteurization, you hate homogenization”

Turns out. Most people will agree with pasteurization if you explain it. What they want is that more natural, olde time feel of when the cream separates from the milk. That’s an entirely different process. That process is called homogenization. It’s literally a tool of making a consistant product. But it seems like a good portion of our population don’t want that. And now here we are.

These folks want something to blame. And if I can reframe their concern into a situation that has them putting a quick boil on their thirty dollar a gallon raw milk and getting the perceived effect they wanted… Well yeah.

I resemble that comment!

Square home 2.

It’s funny, if it wasn’t for the gun charges, his worst issue would have been with the zoning committee.

Note to self: only legal firearms in the doomsday bunker. Just in case the state is thermal imaging for secret grow ops.

Don’t need to decrypt anything if someone gets caught with an easy phone unlock or flips. End to end means end to end. With the size of some of the groups and potential to infiltrate, I would assume that the comms are already compromised to one degree or another. If you get one of the ends, encryption means nothing. I bet kash’s FBI just doesn’t know who has it yet.

If that’s not a sign the bubble is about to pop, I dont know what is…

Why not both? 😉

Great typo, I’m leaving it.

If they can’t charge an admittance fee or a per message fee, they won’t implement it. It goes against their business model.

But we can dream.

If I recall correctly, you can, but it removes your node from the public networks everyone else is using because hams cannot use encryption for coms as part of the rules for ham operation, as the non ham network is encrypted by default. You would have to build a secondary network independent of the public node list.

Correct me if I’m wrong. But that was my understanding of the difference.

Oh it’s a hundred percent just the novelty communication technology that is in vogue right now. I don’t really know if it’s a true zeitgeist technology or if someone with a lot of product to sell who is playing with the social media algorithm. But I guess I don’t really care much.

The trick is to find a way to seize on that opportunity. Now that our mesh network is structurally sound and sufficient, I’m working on using a raspberry pi to automate our ham club meeting dates, testing dates, and field days, and then blast those messages once a week or so over the mesh network. That way, an impulse buy turns into the discovery of a fuctional network and afterwards, a random person can discover a whole local community of people with all sorts of new things to learn.

You can lead a horse to water. But you can’t make him drink.

first you need a trough. That’s the mesh network. After, the horse needs to be thirsty. That’s the curiosity people have. information, the when and how and where, you can automate and passively tell them about. that’s the water.

I’ve come to the realization that mesh nodes are little more than a gateway drug into the world of ham radio. And for that I’m grateful.

It’s not as good, and does everything worse than radio. The only real world use I have found is for when cellphone networks get overwhelmed at things like music festivals and large sports games. No one else’s texts go through, but I can toss by buds a node to put in their back pocket and we can stay in touch.

our local mature club is building our local mesh network out now as an introduction to the ham world. And it’s working. It’s getting the younger kids and adults through the door. And from there, it’s an easy thing to get them interested in more useful and fun forms of communication.

RGB cold in her grave is to blame for our troubles now? Fucks sake if it weren’t for her we would be miles worse. Stop taking one persons missteps and snowballing it into apocalypse. There are so many active agents of chaos already alive and well.

Seriously, a random time traveler stepping on a butterfly and consiquently the dinosaurs still existing make more sense that that garbage. You have the benefit of hindsight. Just like alcohol and weed, please use it responsibly.

My room temperature has central air conditioning and I like it cooold.

No one was wondering. In the USA we have intelligence quotients that are high enough to convert, even at room temp. Its surprising I know, but room temperature I.Q.'s don’t operate on metric here. It takes a little more effort you see… Very smart.