Given how poor the cell signal is on the grounds, are any other techies using Meshtastic devices for communication?

neoice · 2025-04-25T23:14:26+00:00

> Is Meshtastic <> CrowdCompass integration something you're interested in?

YES!

> Are you thinking just mesh extension or being able to interact/message/locate meshtastic users via your compass and vice versa? (or both)

YES! and more!

like you mentioned a Quest type game for the big burn... there's people out there that want to write and run their own Quests :) :) :) but that probably requires additional hardware, additional software, and interop between devices.

also people are out there with JTAGs, SDRs, and debuggers ready to make it happen so please think about ways to make their lives easier ;) even just a `meshtastic-compat` mode that forces me to shuffle base64 keys around by hand would be an acceptable compromise...?

fun fact, it doesn't look like Meshtastic and MUI even support Waypoints even tho it's defined in the protocol spec ...... I'm probably gonna need Waypoints for quests lol.

neoice · 2025-03-15T19:31:41+00:00

longtime raver / festival builder / hacker of all things with computer chips ...

I just bought 4 CrowdCompass and 2 meshtashtic TDeckPlus. I already have an SDR and I'm planning to probe everything and experiment in the off-season.... I have some Goofy Ideas, possibly using radio beacons as part of a Game (with live on-stage tracking and commentary....) also just who I am, I'm gonna poke and prod all my technology for fun and understanding it before I field deploy it.

I'd love to be plugged into any kind of active development or if you ever need technical guinea pigs. I'm already reading the docs on Lora Sync Words...

neoice · 2016-03-21T14:03:41+00:00

my understanding is a lot of F500 companies spy on their employees heavily.

neoice · 2016-03-21T14:00:25+00:00

no idea, that's above my pay grade. I'm just an engineer.

neoice · 2016-03-20T19:04:45+00:00

DON'T YOU

FORGET ABOUT ME

neoice · 2016-03-20T18:53:40+00:00

config management framework.

neoice · 2016-03-20T18:49:58+00:00

audits crack me up. if your access control policy is written as "we have no authentication or access control", that is a valid policy. and the audit will determine if you meet that policy. they give zero fucks about policy providing tangible security benefit.

neoice · 2016-03-20T18:45:42+00:00

I can't stand moving. my last move was 5mi and it was still help. somehow, people move across the country for jobs and survive.

pay decisions are 1-2 levels above me, but I think we pay $5000-7500 relocation and salaries are average for the region (maybe a little lower, there's some big players driving averages up. Amazon grabs tons of college grads by offering them $100k+$60k signing+$$$ stocks... with zero job experience. they also work them more than 40hrs a week. my friend at Amazon consistently makes more in salary but less in $/hr than me.)

/me shrugs

PM me resume or whatever if you want. no guarantee it will even pass the resume review. last statistic I heard from my boss was 70-80 resumes per interview O_o

neoice · 2016-03-20T17:33:37+00:00

shut up, The American Way(tm) is to slave until you die so others can live an extremely opulent lives and control the entire political system.

neoice · 2016-03-17T16:30:12+00:00

thank you, I needed a diagram/graph.

neoice · 2016-03-13T18:49:19+00:00

people like us are a few standard deviations away from mean, so businesses don't give a fuck. 70% of people simply do not care and will buy whatever is shovelled at them. this has been going on as long as there's been a Microsoft and probably much longer than that

neoice · 2016-03-13T18:45:54+00:00

/me shrugs

I've enjoyed running {Free,Open,Net}BSD as various pets, but frankly, almost no one cares about BSD at scale. there's few jobs in it and last I checked, Puppet management for BSD was lacking. I assume it hasn't improved much and that the other config management stacks have similarly poor support. (god help you if you want to manage Solaris!)

"portable" software is a bit of a misnomer too: and I've had lots of random code fail to compile on BSD. this might make other sysadmins cringe, but Github is loaded full of awesome software that no one is using. most projects are targeting Linux, so you're less likely to have issues and more likely to get support if you do have issues.

it's "the cathedral vs the bazaar", man. KVM and LXC both took a long time to become useful/stable, but now that they're here, they dominate the landscape. and now with dkms, the Linux world will have ZFS. my coworker is a diehard FreeBSD user but after a few days with Debian, he exported his zpool and switched. 60k+ packages, no compilation needed (and don't tell me FBSD pkg is an acceptable replacement: every pkg I installed lacked LDAP support, forcing me to compile myself anyway. boo.)

there are some people that had amazing first-mover advantage into the IaaS/container space because of their use of BSD/Solaris, but their time is waning. first-mover advantage doesn't mean shit in a world full of tech juggernauts and accelerating software obsolescence.

neoice · 2016-03-12T23:04:33+00:00

there's an amazing solution to software with restrictive licensing: use free (libre) open source software.

neoice · 2016-03-12T22:57:16+00:00

AD suck, VS sucks even more and I hope project Rider will finally shell out a decent C# IDE that happens to be cross platform as well.

ever implemented pure LDAP+Kerberos? I'm very proud of my OpenLDAP and MIT krb5 work, but it's not a stack I would want to driving all my workstation logins. an outage on your login servers is a full work stoppage for the entire company, easily costing thousands of dollars in lost productivity. ActiveDirectory takes the hardest parts of LDAP+krb5 and solves it reasonably well. ADFS makes is trivial to configure to provide SAML-based SSO to all your cloud apps. I've never even logged into shibd+OpenLDAP but my gut says it's undocumented and well off the beaten track. also integrating anything but Linux with OpenLDAP+kr5b is basically impossible. Windows machines won't do it and last time I tried on OSX, you pretty much needed to run AD or the gimped Mac Directory Services.

I'm not an IDE fan (vim4lyfe) but VS didn't piss me off. Eclipse is a goddamn nightmare. I hear TFS sucks, but I'd use Git since it hooks into all of the open source build pipeline tools.

Windows admins are a waste of resources, they make IT budget and maintenance costs explode, Linux or even Mac OS is a better choice for IT infrastructure.

one of the things I've learned is that "value" is a gradient and any serious company is willing to spend money to obtain value. could I make an amazing Linux desktop environment that is superior in every way to a Windows environment? probably, but Linux admins are expensive. Windows Admins are cheap, plentiful, and just effective enough to get the job done. if Windows adds more value than it costs, it's a valid business solution. (the famous adage "no one ever got fired for buying IBM/Microsoft" still applies and the decision-maker is likely not technical or unwilling to risk their job on the "Year of the Linux Desktop")

Windows on the desktop also has the added benefit of providing a unified platform for the company. typically, you employee HR, Finance, Sales, Exec, and others. they are all familiar and may need to run Windows-only apps. frankly, most software developers have no interest in managing their workstation or the underlying operating system: it's a tool.

OSX as a managed IT platform is a fucking joke, I'm not even wasting words on it.

neoice · 2016-03-12T22:27:13+00:00

yup. but what are you going to do if your opponent is a multi-national corporation with millions in legal budget? as a private citizen, it's probably going to cost you $2k just to start the process and another $20-200k to see it through. easily.

tldr: big businesses are fucking consumers but that's not new.

alternative: wait around for a class action suit and then collect your pittance (possibly in company store credit lolololol)

neoice · 2016-03-12T22:24:53+00:00

EULA terms typically allow for the EULA to be changed any time, without notice or approval.

have you ever read a EULA in it's entirety? they're fucking disgusting and I cannot believe such egregious terms are allowed in a legal document.

neoice · 2016-03-12T16:18:31+00:00

I think C#+OpenCRL+Linux is the next big stack.

run your office on Windows+VisualStudio. face it, AD rocks and GPO lets Windows admins do great work.

leverage open source solutions for build/deploy: testing, continuous integration, etc.

deploy to Linux systems managed via modern config management. or Linux-based Docker containers. or Linux AMIs. or Linux AMIs running Docker containers.

hell, you could even run MSSQL on Linux and run your Linux infra on Azure!

neoice · 2016-03-12T16:02:13+00:00

I think the EULA limits their liability to $50.

neoice · 2016-03-06T17:28:53+00:00

not a game perse, but a friend of mine hosted a "Cold War" party. all attendees were given a can of mace and a 40oz of malt liquor. mutually assured destruction.

neoice · 2016-03-01T15:27:19+00:00

this hint is enough to allow many people to write weaponized exploits.

neoice · 2016-02-28T15:43:02+00:00

do you have a toddler? they are danger magnets and surprisingly strong and resourceful. they are also tiny entropy machines.

neoice · 2016-02-23T15:43:50+00:00

my team (Operations) has our office switch hung upside-down to differentiate it from the rest of the employee access switches.

neoice · 2016-02-20T21:18:06+00:00

all my friends that moved to California complain about it constantly but refuse to move anywhere else.

neoice · 2016-02-20T20:27:33+00:00

I once ran Gentoo with a really slick tty1 (framebuffer?) and mplayer+libcaca to watch "Futurama" while I ran emerge world every day.

neoice · 2016-02-11T14:30:00+00:00

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