02-16-2023, 06:20 AM
I was promptly reminded to contribute this info
( to the Pinephone community,)
after posting my success at
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/229
Why is this relevant to Manjaro and Pinephone?
I bought a Mobian Pinephone when it came out.
After slogging my way through a number of distros
I ended up nailing Manjaro Phosh into place and
abandoned further attempts to find a better distro.
The struggle to keep Phosh running has gotten easier,
thanks mostly to other people posting here for
the quiet folk like myself to read and benefit from.
I have simply been trying to keep a linux console access
to do simple tasks, like checking on servers and whatnot.
My use case is for Zero participation in the Apple/Google prisons.
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The idea of e2e mesh comms like Briar and FireChat
always seemed to be a natural for a linux phone
instead of a "walled garden" like Android or iOS.
I have, yearly,
watched for anything that would mesh on linux
without wild joyrides of moving target suite-package development.
A few weeks ago I stumbled across a reference to Reticulum
which not only aims at meshing over WiFi and Bluetooth
but includes something I have years of work in hacking:
data over radio modems.
I used serial stream data for monitoring various
geophysical exploration data acquisition equipment
along with maritime environmental data packets.
Across vast regions of jungle, mountain and shallow marine projects.
Building and running such meshes was bread-and-butter
Along comes Reticulum which
proposes to build long-arm meshes
which could possibly sustain data flows across vast regions.
Reticulum is not an application orgy.
It is a protocol the rest us can build upon.
I hope it does not, as many such projects do,
evolve into a "moving target" that requires mandatory updates
on a monthly basis rendering users to holding abandonware.
It also looks like a 'holy grail' because it ditches the entire
DNS-ICANN prison overlords.
That, almost in itself,
raises interest toward integrating with global reach of things like i2p.
Anyways - Nomadnet installs and runs well enough
as "betaware" on PinePhone.
My personal bet is that without any lingering bloatware (Electron
),
it could be a screamer on Pinephone Pro,
so I guess I need to buy one of those and test it.
Reticulum is very primitive at the moment
but collecting interest+participation in a parabolic learning curve.
If you want something that should eventually put
naked emperors like Telegram/Session/.etc/++ to shame,
you might try this out and see where it is headed.
And you could be a part of it.
Visit the github because that is where most of the real interaction takes place:
start here:
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/229
My perspective is that this is a welcome and timely development,
in context of much of what is happening in the word today.
( to the Pinephone community,)
after posting my success at
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/229
Why is this relevant to Manjaro and Pinephone?
I bought a Mobian Pinephone when it came out.
After slogging my way through a number of distros
I ended up nailing Manjaro Phosh into place and
abandoned further attempts to find a better distro.
The struggle to keep Phosh running has gotten easier,
thanks mostly to other people posting here for
the quiet folk like myself to read and benefit from.
I have simply been trying to keep a linux console access
to do simple tasks, like checking on servers and whatnot.
My use case is for Zero participation in the Apple/Google prisons.
----------------
The idea of e2e mesh comms like Briar and FireChat
always seemed to be a natural for a linux phone
instead of a "walled garden" like Android or iOS.
I have, yearly,
watched for anything that would mesh on linux
without wild joyrides of moving target suite-package development.
A few weeks ago I stumbled across a reference to Reticulum
which not only aims at meshing over WiFi and Bluetooth
but includes something I have years of work in hacking:
data over radio modems.
I used serial stream data for monitoring various
geophysical exploration data acquisition equipment
along with maritime environmental data packets.
Across vast regions of jungle, mountain and shallow marine projects.
Building and running such meshes was bread-and-butter
Along comes Reticulum which
proposes to build long-arm meshes
which could possibly sustain data flows across vast regions.
Reticulum is not an application orgy.
It is a protocol the rest us can build upon.
I hope it does not, as many such projects do,
evolve into a "moving target" that requires mandatory updates
on a monthly basis rendering users to holding abandonware.
It also looks like a 'holy grail' because it ditches the entire
DNS-ICANN prison overlords.
That, almost in itself,
raises interest toward integrating with global reach of things like i2p.
Anyways - Nomadnet installs and runs well enough
as "betaware" on PinePhone.
My personal bet is that without any lingering bloatware (Electron
),it could be a screamer on Pinephone Pro,
so I guess I need to buy one of those and test it.
Reticulum is very primitive at the moment
but collecting interest+participation in a parabolic learning curve.
If you want something that should eventually put
naked emperors like Telegram/Session/.etc/++ to shame,
you might try this out and see where it is headed.
And you could be a part of it.
Visit the github because that is where most of the real interaction takes place:
start here:
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/229
My perspective is that this is a welcome and timely development,
in context of much of what is happening in the word today.