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Comment · 3 days ago
Unlike the SS, surveillance goes both ways now...
Comment · 3 days ago
The Android app (and OS while we're at it) is such a horrible mess compared to Claude, just pure horror coming from Google, i'd be ashamed...
Comment · 12 days ago
They hopefully get sued into oblivion
Comment · 15 days ago
Are inline AV1 as well supported by browsers as animated AVIF?
Comment · 27 days ago
So long for monopoly laws...
Comment · 1 month ago
Funny thing for me, it was NEVER the code...
Comment · 1 month ago
Oui, j'ai hâte que l'on partage d'avantage avec l'Europe que les É-U...

Bonjour du Québec.

Comment · 1 month ago
When is this turned into an RFC?
Comment · 1 month ago
So has the spec been built with a bluetooth capture dongle, would it be better?

That said, I'm in Canada which has some different nuances around the same exemption and IANAL

Comment · 1 month ago
I'm currently toying with a similar process which I think falls under the interoperability exemption:

- Get an apk online, you haven't accepted a EULA.

- Run jadx to get some code to work with

- Ask Claude to extract the protocol specification cleanly for a Bluetooth device with capabilities etc.

- Use Claude to implement a version as a TUI/CLI in go, rust, whatever.

I get to use a device I own with a local Bluetooth connection from my machine, maybe Home Assistant. I do not contact any online services (there are none anyway in that case).

Since it's to avoid getting locked in with proprietary OS, it's a clean room reversing through a spec and an LLM produced a non copyrightable output... Can I just release this however I want? Probably a basic MIT or CC0, whatever...

Comment · 2 months ago
It'd be nice if it could use a mic to self calibrate according to a target response profile curve.
Comment · 2 months ago
I think that unlike Meshtastic or Meshcore, this one is transport agnostic.
Comment · 2 months ago
Exactly, it's making connection across vast set, not bringing the magic intuition.

Has anyone tried feeding all of human knowledge to an LLM prior to Einstein's work and tried to have it reinvent physics?

Comment · 5 months ago
Pretty sure it's been the year of the Linux desktop for 30 years for me...
Comment · 5 months ago
Oh yes, Wi-Fi was cheap, but before HaLow we ended giving up because we couldn't get a meaningful density for the network to get far enough across town to start to be remotely useful, even with 10-15dBi antennas mounted outside.

About the messaging aspect, I mean that though a messaging app is great, I feel that the end goal is having an independent network from the telcos, carriers, etc. In that sense we're going to need to allow more than an SMS replacement.

And from there is born the problem. Bootstraping such a network for more than geeks is relatively impossible in that context. You either have a device that does one thing as a drop-in magic solution for newcomers to jump on, or you chase the better solution, but that brings as much complexity, if not more, as running the Internet...

And while I'm happy to see p2p and mesh research continuing, participate when I can, I just feel like it's a pipe dream that is far far away and I'd like to see it grow beyond the few dozens of decentralization geeks in every city :)

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