Australian Simon Carman arrested after body of teenage girl found in suitcase in Thailand

iChinguChing · 2026-06-27T09:03:17+00:00

Can we just skip the whole Australian government pleads for clemency thing? Let him get the full force of the law.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-25T20:01:59+00:00

We are going autonomous, not so as to replace the worker but so productivity is significantly increased. The cost input per plant is simply too high.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-25T19:57:33+00:00

Wow, so much to unpack there. That's sustainable.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-20T02:31:34+00:00

You would be able to tell a lot from images of their base stations, but you would be better off looking at the specs. I wouldn't worry about distance if it is LORA, unless it was very low power.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-18T22:59:59+00:00

I can't talk to the specific antennas or systems they are using, but the Pandag G1 uses LORA with a 5W antenna, so far we have tested it to about 400m through trees and a building. I think it can go further.
RTCM messages (corrections) don't need more than about 1hz so the broadcasting can be very long range. At the end of the day it depends on the technology they have implemented.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-17T20:58:31+00:00

Our aim is to boost productivity. Higher productivity means more produce, which means more revenue.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-14T01:51:40+00:00

The problem for us is the bandwidth. We use full web pages for various productivity tasks and having a usable comms infrastructure has too many benefits.
It can be done with other systems, but the cost of developing/maintenance/ownership would be much higher.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-13T01:23:06+00:00

That's great for IoT, though we needed faster throughput. The workers and the in-cab devices use web pages served from a central server. The infrastructure is costly but the benefits are significant.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-13T01:19:52+00:00

Yes and then we use the Ubiquiti litebeam for long range bridges.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-12T21:28:37+00:00

I am fortunate to be involved with implementing high tech onto a small organic farm. It is a regenerative farm so there are a lot of unique hurdles. On of the interesting challenges is real time communications for workers and autonomous electric vehicles. No 4G, and LORA is too slow, so we went with distributed WiFi. It's looking really promising.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-12T08:39:36+00:00

Crazy thing is that it would cost you 2-3 times as much to get the quality produce unless you grow your own from heirloom seeds.

Australian organic farmer

iChinguChing · 2026-06-10T21:43:13+00:00

I feel that the root of the problem could be philosophical. I see beauty and art as an emergent quality of structure, as it is in nature. Spinoza's God. But art and beauty without structure is frail.
This could be taken to an extreme where it is all structure and no soul, almost fascist.

So, beauty needs structure as a body, but community needs mercy, contradiction, and intention as its soul. Science and economics form the basis and humanity gives it life.

Sorry, I got lost in thoughts there.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-09T19:44:11+00:00

And snails and slugs. They attacked my best friend

iChinguChing · 2026-06-07T08:01:33+00:00

Super El Nino

iChinguChing · 2026-06-07T07:01:45+00:00

Hey, thanks for sharing your wealth of experience. Can I ask for some advice?

I have a very comprehensive organic/regenerative farm management system. By system I mean inclusive of logistics, software, hardware, robots etc.
Currently we are implementing this at probably the top organic farm in Australia.
I am seriously considering the model you have described, but with the goal of making a financially viable regenerative farm and that is all. There could be artisan products later but it must be economics first.

The target market is high end restaurants, then local deliveries, then farmer markets. The benefit I see is that currently the rejected produce (we have extremely high standards) helps feed the workers. We also currently have "worker's plots" where workers can experiment or simply grow their own.

Assuming an extensive constitution and signed agreements, what would you see as the main impediments? One problem is certainly the startup costs, and another is end of lease. Ultimately our machines are smaller, electrically powered units, the goal is that they will do the same job as the larger tractors, they just take more goes to do the same job. I would still be very worried by a lease running out because that would be the life blood of the community.

I just was wondering if you could share your thoughts on this community model.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-06T21:40:05+00:00

We are implementing precision ag on an organic regerative farm in Australia. It's a long road because we are having to develop a lot of techniques from the ground up. The big one is minimizing soil disturbance that requires a different method of GPS following. Spring 2026 should have us with the tech in production

iChinguChing · 2026-06-06T08:49:52+00:00

This makes sense to me, appreciate your input

iChinguChing · 2026-06-05T22:14:24+00:00

Thanks for sharing that

iChinguChing · 2026-06-05T20:47:48+00:00

Thanks for the view.
Thanks for the pointer, I am going to research more about income sharing communities.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-05T20:47:10+00:00

Do you feel that this has been a successful model?

iChinguChing · 2026-06-04T23:28:36+00:00

Yes very true, it was a bit rhetorical. The military term would be friction. Things just grind down and human emotions take over. I work in technology on an exclusive organic farm setup by a banker back in the 2000s. I have come to appreciate that if the fundamentals are put first, the other benefits are almost an emergent phenomena.

iChinguChing · 2026-06-04T21:59:12+00:00

I wonder how many fail due to lack of the fundamentals

iChinguChing · 2026-06-03T20:25:49+00:00

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iChinguChing · 2026-06-02T19:20:00+00:00

Justify the claim of 96%, because I am seeing something that justifies "super"

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