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Comment · 6 months ago
That cooling system looks crazy. What an unbelievable density.
Comment · 6 months ago
Teach him Rust

Oh wait, wrong Thread!

Comment · 6 months ago
> Guessing my exact location - Oslo Opera House - was impressive though.

Not really. They have almost global picture coverage thanks to Google Streetmaps.

They only need small snippets of a picture to geolocate you.

Comment · 6 months ago
For me a coffee is more kind of a ritual addiction.
Comment · 7 months ago
> GPS is also unreliable in Ukraine, especially near the front line.

There are GPS antennas that physically can block out signals that are not coming from the sky with a huge amount of decibels. Maybe Aliexpress has some of them in stock? This was heavily ITAR-ed but this ban was lifted recently.

Other option: try to sync against the DCF77 signal from Germany. Not only the beep-beep-beep time signal but also the integrated phase modulation. Jamming VLF is difficult. 77KHz is in the range of ADCs.

Then make a voter: if GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/Beidou is available prefer them, if not fall-back to DCF77. If this fails: free-running.

Comment · 7 months ago
That's not even complicated.

You can use ESP32 with GPS modules and their PPS signals. The PPS signal from the module often has has a roughly precision around 60ns against the global GPS standard.

With that signal you can PID-control an internal timer of the ESP32 - which then can be used to timestamp audio frames. Send that to a central host over Wifi and you can use your standard localization math.

The trick is to use the internal ESP32 10MHz hardware which automatically kicks timestamps into a register if a GPIO does something. Not using high-level C constructs that must eat their way through x API layers.

This costs like 20€.

Comment · 7 months ago
Very nice idea! That makes it much easier!
Comment · 7 months ago
You’re considering whether it would be possible - and perhaps quite elegant - to use an XY‑scanner to raster‑scan the end of an optical fiber across a prism, disperse the light, and then capture the resulting spectrum with a CCD line sensor.

With that setup, each pixel on the line sensor would effectively record the full spectral content of the light at that scanned position, all in a single acquisition.

Comment · 7 months ago
I haven't seen a single functional real-world Reticulum network in the wild.
Comment · 8 months ago
fefe = Felix von Leitner

fx = Felix Lindner

Please don't mix up the names and nicknames.

Both are highly renowned security experts.

Comment · 8 months ago
Feels like they had to develop around their component shortage. Very weirdo microcontroller/DSP mix.
Comment · 8 months ago
Restricted?

Even the monthly consumption of toilet paper on a base has this classification.

Comment · 8 months ago
We avoid censorship by ⸻ more often and talking to ⸻ about ⸻.
Comment · 8 months ago
Bruh...

Can it mine bitcoins or run worms?

Comment · 8 months ago
Due to lack of memory leaks which will stop increasing RAM prices?

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