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thevoiceofra@mander.xyz to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Meshtastic - An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

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Meshtastic - An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

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thevoiceofra@mander.xyz to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Rutgers University Confirmed: Meshtastic and LoRa are dangerous
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In 2020, I was the first YouTuber to make a video about “Meshtastic,” created by Kevin Hester. The project name was a merge between Mesh and Fantastic. Alrea...

Long range (LoRa) mesh networks are interesting alternatives to communication, especially when state actors are blocking internet access for various reasons.

More details about meshtastic: https://meshtastic.org/

About its current state of encryption: https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/encryption

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    What up with everyone using the acronym LoRa. It is becoming confusing.

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      We ran out of acronyms a long time ago.

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        In other words, a ROOAALTA.

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      When talking about LoRa, I always think about the wireless protocol/chip… Its been around for a long time (specially when capitalized like that) … What other Lora are you talking about?

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        In generative AIs LoRAs are “Low-Rank Adaptions”. Basically an overlay for existing networks to teach them new things.

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      It stands for Long Range, so would otherwise have been LR.

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      perhaps LoRa is the name of the singularity and it is all coming together

    • ℕ𝕠𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 𝕆𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝@lemmy.world
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      tell us then, beside your waifu name “lora”, what/which else is named after your waifu, that confuses you?

      /s

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        Not sure why you decided to ask that person the question like that, but when it comes to AI, LoRA stands for Low-Rank Adaptation. They are used to fine-tune models. Next time be a bit more polite.

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