Notices by Bruce Perens K6BP (bruceperens_k6bp@mastodon.radio), page 2

There is room on top of the 40-foot container for that many and 5 feet for antennas and cameras at the rear, any more and they would shadow each other.

My off-grid site allows me to turn facilities on and off remotely. I found that on overcast winter days it can't really support Starlink and the 4 currently-installed cameras with the 4 "300-watt" panels over a few overcast days with no snow coverage. The theoretical 1200-watt system provides 100-200 watts. I am adding 4 "400-watt" bifacial panels on the next trip there.

ANT, and later ANT+, are wireless protocols used by various athletic training devices, I have a heart sensor using one and a rowing machine that reads it.

The protocol will end-of-life. Garmin (its creator) cites regulatory changes (I guess the US FCC Part 15 [Title 47 CFR Part 15] or its equivalent elsewhere). But there is also the fact that BLE (Bluetooth Low-Energy) has obsoleted it.
https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/ant-changes-ending/99373

Post Open has an Odoo CRM / Web Site Manager / Invoicing / Kitchen Sink. This will take me a little while to get going, as I don't know anything about Odoo yet.

We had a meeting of the Security, Privacy and Government Regulations committee of the Post Open project, and discussed issues about identifying developers, issuing a 2FA or PKI device, running our own git repository, and paying people internationally while complying with tax and anti-money-lanudering requirements. It's very early in this and the committee will be recruiting for various sub-projects.

... as WiFi. Only the Open Source world has the _persistence_ to fix bad implementations until the protocol actually works by the book, and the wide body of expertise necessary to pull that off.

The result is that I'm not seeing all of the flakyness that I'd usually experience with a commercial WiFi access point, even one that is running OpenWRT but doesn't provide the necessary _access_ to fix everything broken about its WiFi. It's a clear difference in performance.

One of the most awesome things about the OpenWRT One is that it has an entirely Open Source WiFi driver that is FCC certified. This is very important because what you often see in commercial WiFi implementations these days is a pre-FCC-certified module with an embedded driver that is just good enough to be sold and doesn't ever have bug fixes applied. It's actually extremely difficult, maybe even impossible, for a company to come up with a correct implementation of a protocol as complicated ....

@eigen - it's still there under a different listing, just search Aliexpres for openwrt one. Price went up but now it's free shipping so it's actually a couple dollars less.

The government has been unresponsive, but everyone has seen one of these drones in New Jersey.

Nice that OpenWRT One lets you get to the console just by plugging a USB C cable into the front, and into your computer. No messing around with pins and special cables.

The OpenWRT One Wifi Router, hardware designed by the

OpenWRT project, for Open Source. Fully Open Source, FCC-Certified WiFi. The box is a lot nicer than those plastic ones. Besides the regular FLASH, there is a write-protected one that rewrites the main FLASH when you throw a switch, so you can't brick it. Order it here, takes about 12 days to ship. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807609464530.html

The Post Open project needs your help to achieve a successor to Open Source that pays developers fairly for their work. Please consider a donation to help us bring the project to fruition.

Our goal is to collect USD$25,000.

We've been operating the project for over a year without funding. We are dealing with prospective grantors, but haven't yet received a grant. I can't sponsor the project out of my own pocket any longer.

Thank you so much for your help!

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/help-create-post-open-the-next-generation-after-open-source

I put together a deliverables list for Post Open. Am I missing anything?

https://perens.com/static/Deliverables.pdf

@hennichodernich - I'm not endorsing it, but I think there should be a community effort to make an entirely free firmware. I guess this would take re-engineering the interconnect in the FPGA code, and the driver. I also think running it on a full Linux distribution is overkill, it could run on Busybox.

I got interviewed about Post Open by the Slashdot audience. The questions were pretty good and I put a lot of detail into the answers, worth reading:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/09/0344229/slashdots-interview-with-bruce-perens-how-he-hopes-to-help-post-open-developers-get-paid

Tsunami impacting the San Francisco Bay area at 12:10. Get away from the coast.

@hennichodernich - OK, I understand the interconnect is different. What about the SDR portion?

Valerie and I canvassed for Adam Gray in Modesto. He won by about 100 votes. At least we have a small victory.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-flip-seat-californias-central-031946930.html

@hennichodernich - I also see this: https://github.com/jks-prv/Beagle_SDR_GPS/tree/master/verilog.Vivado.2022.2.ip , schematics for KiwiSDR 1 and 2, and I didn't look deeply for the kernel driver under the KiWi SDR code, but it bears looking at.

@hennichodernich - That's unfortunate. I do see a schematic for RX-888.