What gets me really excited is the idea of messaging in low internet connectivity areas (aeroplanes (to someone else on the plane)) on the subway/underground

The idea of Bluetooth/WiFi direct mesh, with “internet gateway” devices (maybe those people are rewarded in some way)

In this dream of mine, people can communicate, send data, through non ideal internet conditions (maybe one person on an aeroplane has internet, and they are the gateway for others)

There may be some relay servers running on AWS or whatever, but people could also run their own relays (I guess all devices are a relay)

I’ve tried to get this working myself, using a library called “reticulum” I found in GitHub (good library, but I couldn’t get Bluetooth/WiFi mesh working)

I’m not seeing any WiFi direct/Bluetooth mesh capability with Simplex

It looks like a p2p messenger - which is cool, but that’s not what tickles my pickle

I think I tired Briar, but I either couldn’t get it working on android or on iOS

My mouth waters at the idea of decentralised, infrastructure-less, encrypted, p2p, mesh messaging

Thanks for pointing me towards Berty!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_behavioural_disturbance

Top Google result

(I have no idea)

Just an FYI, I’m not an “EU person”

I’m a senior leader in a tech organisation. My teams and I frequently need to implement solutions that are compliant with market specific regulations (which have global reach), so I am some what familiar with them.

The EU is broadly doing a good job in my opinion, the US has room for improvement!

I partially agree with you.

There’s been some regulations by the EU that I strongly disagree with. (weakening encryption)

There’s also some regulations I strongly agree with (forcing apple (and others) to adopt usb c, GDPR, opt in to marketing and tracking, right to be forgotten)

I can see why you might think that EU regulations only apply to the EU, but where changes are significant enough for a manufacturer, they might not create multiple hardware and software setups in different markets (see usbc in iphones). There’s also knock on effects in other markets (califorinia, Brazil, india, all have their own version of GDPR)

I feel like I’ve got you wound up, that wasn’t my intent! I was trying to be tongue in cheek. I do believe in regulation though, so maybe that’s where we disagree. Sorry ol’ chap!

Maybe Google knows what’s coming and they want everyone to buy and keep a lot of the last ‘optional privacy’ phone before EU laws shut down future phones.

“I’d go there this instant”

• 1000 years at 10% the speed of light

I have been playing around recently with an odroid n2+

I’ve installed lineage os, android TV (I tried core elec, but I couldn’t get steamlink/moonlight working)

But using android TV, with Plex or Kodi, I can’t play Dolby vision (everyone has purple skin)

Is this a known limitation for odroid n2+?