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(Not to pick on this project but) I think if potential volunteer developers first immersed themselves in the issue by volunteering directly for 10-20 hours at a local food bank, they would have a much easier time starting at a working solution (giving people food) and then fleshing out the existing/better solution using tech going forward. Another aspect could be donating some money and then following that money through the food bank system to understand how it works. That way the direct efforts would help and also make implementing a better solution much more efficient.

(Latency may be better or worse with OpenHD - I'm basing figures on EZ-WifiBroadcast)

Latency should be around 110ms "glass to glass" based on my experience with "WifiBroadcast", which was an earlier (first?) thing to use Wifi in this way. (1) and a few related projects (2).

It's a pretty clever hack, using Wifi without associating, but still using FEC (Forward Error Correction) and mirroring that to allow bi-directional communications for control/telemetry. Also allows RF diversity reception with multiple wifi adapters.

I was experimenting with it for semi-local telepresence robotics for art/experiences. These projects are amazing in how much cheaper/more approachable/hackable they make all this vs. analog or proprietary digital video transmission.

I'm not sure if OpenHD is directly related to WifiBroadcast/ I haven't had a chance to play with it yet (been meaning to for 6 months+), but it's at least using similar approaches with wifi (mis)use.

There have also been some attempts to use the same approach with esp32 (etc) in a compatible way, though the link eludes me currently.

(1)https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/wifibroadcast-analog-like-tr...

(2) https://github.com/rodizio1/EZ-WifiBroadcast

This is pretty deeply sad.

cool, thanks for video :)

This may be true. But some people will happily take less pay to do work that is interesting to them that they feel like actually will change the world.

Not Uber/Lyft/Instacart/Postmates flavor “change the world” - a more meaningful change.

To me at least, SpaceX is getting there in multiple ways.

I don’t understand how Tile, etc have put zero effort into stalker prevention, and complains about airtags which have some real attempts at protecting against it.

You must be absurdly exceptional at whatever it is you ARE good at!

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The MIT flea was a formative thing for me - I went and bought and/or sold weird things at maybe 40+ fleas. I first saw L0pht heavy industries there. It was one of my favorite ways to meet interesting people. In fact, it was also perhaps my second favorite museum. Enigma machines, Robots, lasers… I think there was some sort of rocket/missile guidance system there once. I didn’t realize Steve had founded it. I didn’t know him well at all aside from he seemed genuinely nice and to love what he was doing. Thank you, Steve.

Re: RMS, without passing judgement: - I think people can have great ideas but not be great long term leaders.

FSF has high ideals, and fundamentally needs buy in from people on a lot of levels for them to succeed. It needs community. They could be really thankful to RMS’s getting things going but I don’t really understand why, now, they would add him back to the board. Is he saying new things that aren’t linear from the creation of FSF where his continued high level involvement is more helpful to the end goals than the community upset I would hope the board was aware of as a possibility?

I really like this model.

Apps that don’t need cloud service yet cease to function and lock access to my own data if a subscription expires have really turned me off of subscriptions.

Letting users keep what they have paid for up to that point after subscription lapse, and making it easy to pay for access to the newer features is a great way to support developers while not ripping off consumers.

The base app getting updated on ongoing basis is better for consumer and doesn’t require maintaining separate codebases for the developer for bug/security/device support fixes.

Nice work and well thought out. Would love to see this approach spread.

Actually pretty impressive results

Yeah, I'm sure that will work just great.

/s

Don’t they have enforced non-competes there?

Gravity sketch does this in their paid plans

I think decentralized solar/wind/battery is a much better idea. I’d potentially support nuclear off shore in the ocean. Nuclear just doesn’t scale safely.

Great demo!

I would like to see this happen - Getting reasonable placement on Google search has become about giving them money for Ads, or focusing on SEO over content.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure if Apple did provide documentation, people would complain that it's incomplete, or would complain when it changes. I'd love a world where all tech documentation is open, but there are competitors etc etc.

Apple is a remarkably focused company with a lot of experiments that never see the light of day. They don't sell their chips or motherboards to anyone else.

Qualcomm/Broadcom etc exist to make their chips for other companies to use and still getting real documentation from them is often not possible unless you are a giant OEM, commit to millions in orders and sign lots of NDAs.

Apple's not only created a pretty great integrated CPU/GPU and nearly seamlessly transitioned CPU platforms (AGAIN!) but they are at the very beginning of this roadmap.

I'd LOVE them to empower/support Linux on Apple Silicon (as they seem to be saying they will for Microsoft) but I expect a generation of two of chips before things solidify/stabilize enough for them to open up the platform.

And, it's not like this is something within their business model or is going to give much value back to them.

Lots of people say Apple "Needs" to do whatever... Clearly they don't as they seem to be surviving OK doing things how they want.

I really appreciate how this works to bring people together in a way that is the antithesis of the echo chambers of most other social media like clubhouse, Facebook etc.

I come away from this way more impressed by the M1 than I was going in. It's a comparison of a ~$700 stock, low end full computer Vs. $700 for high end CPU only. And the high end CPU has overclocking tweaks enabled, and overclocked memory.

The M1 generally keeps up quite well, which blows my mind. The power use difference Is pretty big as well.

Yeah, it would be great if Apple was totally open source.

But this is going to push the entire industry to do way better.

Quality Web 1.0 weirdness!

Apple Keynote does this now I believe via the iCloud web site. Not FOSS but useful

Thank you, Dang for helping keep one of the few non-secret communities on the web keep feeling like a community.

Seems like that went well. /s

Interesting point though, using 3 languages with such overlap cause a lot of issues in making the web work cleanly.

It’s a process to get there. To reach ecosystem scale people need to buy things. You can spin your own RISC-V chip but to get exactly what you want inexpensively you will need to get lots of others to buy it also.

I don’t care about games. But I think it is a social breakthrough for members of government to be interacting more as “normal” people. To actually be “one of us” (heh) and show that they aren’t totally disconnected from current culture.

Very pretty/interesting. looking forward too experimenting.

Why is this flagged?