@fmors 14 years on Twitter (2008-2022) and I didn't learn a single thing.
4 years on the Fediverse and I feel like MacGyver 😂
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Look at you go Elean. That is fantastic news so far. You are self made techie.
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@superuserdo not a techie yet but a humble disciple in awe of real techies 😅
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I totally understand. Its so cool though that you are into self-hosting and learning your way around.
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@superuserdo I try my best 😅
@_elena I'm finding it pretty quiet here to start out as well. But quiet's not necessarily a bad thing as other platforms are noisy. Do you know a hashtag or way to broadcast a question that has a hope of getting answered?
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@andyfuturo sure! the hashtag is AskFedi
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@_elena Be careful! Meshtastic/meshcore starts off cheap. But then you find your house covered in all different types of little radios and wonder how you got here. 😁
GL on the LoRa journey! If your interested, check out the community [email protected]
https://mander.xyz/c/meshtastic
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@michael ha thank you for the heads-up! I'm already addicted to self-hosting as it is... another addictive hobby? Sign me up 🙊 😂
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@_elena You know...I have a project that uses #yunohost and #meshtastic together. Maybe I should do a blog post or something.
Its a once a day weather report for my region. It posts at around 6:00 am the weather pulled from NWS. Its useful both as a weather report but also a test to see if people get the messages. If they do, they know their node is in a good spot.
Looks like this:
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@michael YunoHost AND Meshtastic !!!! Awwwww !!!! Yes please write that blog post 🤩
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![import meshtastic
import meshtastic.serial_interface
import meshtastic.tcp_interface
import subprocess
# By default will try to find a meshtastic device,
# otherwise provide a device path like /dev/ttyUSB0
#interface = meshtastic.serial_interface.SerialInterface()
interface = meshtastic.tcp_interface.TCPInterface(hostname='192.168.1.97')
# or something like this
# interface = meshtastic.serial_interface.SerialInterface(devPath='/dev/cu.usbmodem53230050571')
#alertcommand = "KCMA 092355Z AUTO 24008KT 10SM CLR 23/15 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP152 T02280150 10244 20228 58017"
alertcommand = "metar"
alert = subprocess.check_output([alertcommand, "KCMA"]).decode('ascii')
print(alert)
print(len(alert))
# or sendData to send binary data, see documentations for other options.
interface.sendText(alert)
#print(f'Our node preferences now:{ourNode.localConfig}')
interface.close()
~
~](https://media2.ai6yr.org/media_attachments/files/116/166/860/854/192/895/original/30a0d462050feae3.png)
@_elena Hi there Thank you for your inspiration but when I see my money maybe it’s hard to self host TT
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@mokonoha Understood. That being said, self-hosting could be achieved on an old desktop computer or laptop, FYI. No need for a VPS.
Check out YunoHost's guide: https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_started/install_on
@_elena Ooooh. Let me know what you find out about Heltec and mesh radio!
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@DoomsdaysCW I will definitely write about it
@_elena pretty much my journey since birdsite was bought! On the #selfhosting part, though, I went with my own home server running #FreeBSD (ZFS is awesome!).
And with #meshtastic this year, I went from "zero" to "regional community builder / crazy dude deploying stealth nodes in trees" in a matter of months 😅
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@_elena Tech people do doomsday prepping in a different way. Lol.
@_elena
One of us! One of us!
@_elena and here i am...fresh new out of FB hellhole knowing absolutely nothing, wondering left and right and seeing this...is radio communication getting back or do i read it wrong? :O
Haaa looking at meshcore also! :)
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@weldon thank you, I'll check this out (I got multiple recommendations about it)
@_elena it's very hard to get people's on fediverse or #opensource platform. I barely managed to get 3 friends over signal from WhatsApp. 😂. Nobody wants to leave WhatsApp or insta 😅.whenever I tell them about signal or Mastodon they laughed and asked me... What? Signal? Mastodon?
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@GOKUSHRM @_elena the few people i've managed to convince to open a Signal account just message me through WhatsApp anyway, or uninstall the app after a few weeks 
more attention needs to be brought to the fact that WhatsApp is extremely likely to be backdoored and it's owned by an *evil* corporation that lives off of exploiting people's interests or insecurities for hyper-targeted advertising, it's in their best interest to PRETEND their platform is secure so users think they're not being watched 
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@synnef @GOKUSHRM I wrote about how I deleted my Whatsapp account and moved to Signal in January 2020: https://therealists.org/2020/01/quitting-whatsapp-facebook-s-grand-illusion/
The post was written at the time of my departure and I convinced 90% of my friends and family to install Signal to keep communicating with me. I got entire groups to move there. My proudest moment in my FOSS journey 😅
For those who didn't move, we kept communicating via SMS or iMessage.
6 years later I feel super grateful about how smooth this transition was
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@_elena so slow, I joined Mastodon in january and already am on Meshcore now ;-). The indoctrination pipeline has accelerated maybe? Looking into Reticulum now to integrate off-grid with grid communication.
@_elena I've noticed a logo of people using Meshtastic and Meshcore on the Fediverse since my return. I haven't done any Lora stuff in a while (got multiple Heltecs and others plus a bunch of antennas). I might have to give it another go one of the days and see how busy the local scene is now.
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@_elena I'm glad that your experience has worked out so well. My year 1 mirrored yours and has continued to be so largely bc the fediverse seems oriented toward and around techies. I'm not one and am not interested in becoming one.
So how do I find community here?
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@rebelyn2 I would say follow a lot of hashtags of topics that interest you and you will find your people...
I love this about the fediverse, that you can simply follow hashtags and easily populate your feed with interesting content....
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@_elena Sorry to but in, but one thing I've never been able to find my people on is sound design. If anyone knows where the sound designers are hanging out and how to find them, I'd be interested to know. the hash tags around sound design that I've tried haven't yielded much.
@[email protected] I’d suggest buy two nodes, so you can tell if it’s working or not. The second one is always going to be useful if you put it somewhere near you and high up. Having two is reassuring when you see it working between the two.
In fact, there’s MeshCore and Meshtastic, it’s worth being on both depending on the exact area (some are more MeshCore, some are more Meshtastic), so really, I’d suggest getting four nodes!
You’ll end up buying more than that in the long run, maybe not all at once in one go.
I also wrote up a page on which nodes I recommend for giving to family members, once you’re into it and can’t stop buying nodes (too early to reveal that?) https://pikopublish.ing/u0421793/bolg/whichradio.xhtml
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@[email protected] @[email protected] go for it - but set the expectations low (ie here try this, it doesn’t work)
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@u0421793 thank you for all the helpful insights Ian. I've bookmarked your toot and I will definitely use it as reference 😊
@_elena 👏🏻
I'm starting my Big Tech de-cluttering.
If it's not a secret, what else are you self-hosting?
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@banshee7076 awesome!
In terms of other things I'm self-hosting:
- Umami (a privacy-respecting, FOSS, Google Analytics alternative)
- LinkStack (a FOSS Linktree alternative)
- Pixelfed
- I just installed AppFlowy (a FOSS Notion alternative) but I have yet to set it up and try it
Edit/Update: I'm not self-hosting it but paying for Linkwarden (a FOSS Pocket alternative)
@_elena
Year 5 (2027):
Elena for President!
Country to be determined.
Although FediVerse sounds good.
🥰
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@_elena I'm in this picture and I like it.
People who use X are increasingly radicalised until they end up as Nazis.
People who use Mastodon are increasingly radicalised until they end up as C programmers.
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