How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet.
That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Fransisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network.
The app can connect people via standard Bluetooth across an entire city, thanks to a mesh network. Chatting is speediest with people who are close, of course, within a hundred meters (330 feet), but you can also chat with people who are farther away. Your messages will simply “hop” via other Bridgefy users’ phones until they find your intended target.
That’s incredibly futuristic
Pi Zero W is $10 and has built in Bluetooth connectivity.
You can find Solar USB Power Packs for ~$25.
So for less than $50 and a little time investment to load some programs you can have an autonomous bluetooth repeater.
I think they only run at Class 2 or 2.5mw so 10 meter range… but there are DIY solutions to amplify it to Class 1 for 100 meter range.
But even at 10 meters, given this sort of program uses a packet delivery system, if you are constantly on the move you’re effectively a postman for the system as it will transmit every time it comes in range of another compatible program.
After asking Tumblr and the DMCA to please consider contacting your
users to take down ‘copyright infringed’ material (and giving the users a
time limit to do so) before issuing a ‘warning’ (i.e. give users a
chance to delete and not what is the current Tumblr policy of sending a
warning after the fact which helps no one), yesterday I received an
e-mail from Tumblr staff stating that you should ‘only post material
that you have had direct permission to do so, otherwise do not post’.
Okay, now here is a question to all the blogs of Tumblr: do you ask for
permission to post (i.e. photos, images, gifs, etc.) stuff (that is not
yours) on your blog?
I would wager that 99.9% of users do not comply with these regulations
(mainly because how and who do we contact to post stuff on line - it is
impossible) and therefore we are ALL in breach of this ludicrous Tumblr
‘copyright infringement’ policy.
That is why I am asking all of you to PLEASE reblog this message so we
can send a clear message to Tumblr management and the DMCA to amend
their ‘copyright infringement’ policy to a more helpful one (see below):
If a user posts something that infringes the copyright of an artist and
that said artist would like it removed Tumblr will contact the user and
give them three working days to take down the copyright infringed post.
If the user complies then no further action will be taken; but if the
user does not comply then Tumblr will take down the post and issue a
WARNING to that user and explain to them about being in breach of
copyright.
By doing this Tumblr will be helping its users and helping those who
want to keep their material ‘copyright protected’. It will also be
helping their sponsors and advertisers because if we are ALL in breach
of the current Tumblr copyright rules then no one will be on here much
longer and Tumblr will crash and burn due to no revenue (i.e. no
customer base).
Tumblr, all I am asking for is some common sense and communication. Is
this too much to ask for?
Va sempre peggio, e io sono molto dispiaciuta per questo. Era meglio il sano e buon sesso che vedevo in dash, alle patetiche frasi di gente frustrata, di odio e di razzismo. La dash è diventata un continuo leggere di esperti, di ogni materia, che poi, se siete così bravi, che ci fate qui ? date il vostro contributo nel settore dove siete specializzati, invece di far i saputelli qui.
Condivido ogni parola di questo post, e non perchè è anche uno dei miei preferiti, ma proprio perchè da quando hanno dato la censura, ogni giorno questa piattaforma peggiora, e all’interno del suo staff comincio a credere ci sia molta gente incompetente. Ecco saputelli, perchè non vi fate assumere voi ?!!!!
I concur with @arruffata above - Tumblr is run by
incompetent people. They do not understand copyright law nor do they understand international law (because being an American company punishing someone in Japan is an infringement of civil liberty for that individual and Tumblr can be taken to court).
Nearly 130 years ago, Italian explorer Elio Modigliani arrived at a natural history museum in Genoa with a lizard he’d reportedly collected from the forests of Indonesia.
Based on Modigliani’s specimen, the striking lizard — notable for a horn that protrudes from its nose — got its official taxonomic description and name, Harpesaurus modiglianii, in 1933. But no accounts of anyone finding another such lizard were ever recorded, until now.
This illustration of Modigliani’s nose-horned lizard was made in 1933 based on the original lizard first found in 1891. That specimen turned pale blue due to how it was preserved.
CREDIT: C.A. PUTRA ET AL/TAPROBANICA: THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN BIODIVERSITY, 2020, ANNALI DEL MUSEO CIVICO DI STORIA NATURALE DI GENOVA 56, PL. VI
In June 2018, Chairunas Adha Putra, an independent wildlife biologist conducting a bird survey in a mountainous region surrounding Lake Toba in Indonesia’s North Sumatra, called herpetologist Thasun Amarasinghe. Near the lake, which fills the caldera of a supervolcano, Putra had found “a dead lizard with interesting morphological features, but he wasn’t sure what it was,” says Amarasinghe, who later asked the biologist to send the specimen to Jakarta.
It took only a look at the lizard’s nose-horn for Amarasinghe to suspect that he was holding Modigliani’s lizard. “It is the only nose-horned lizard species found in North Sumatra,” he says.
Wooden arts and folktales of the Bataks — indigenous people native to the region — show that lizards have a special place in the people’s mythology. “But simply there was no report at all about this species” following Modigliani’s, says Amarasinghe, of the University of Indonesia in Depok.
He asked Putra to get back to the caldera to see if there was a living population. After five days, Putra found what he was looking for one evening, “lying on a low branch, probably sleeping,” according to the biologist. He took pictures of the lizard and measured the size and shape of its body parts, such as the length of its nose-horn and head. He also observed its behavior before finally releasing it the same night.
A Modigliani’s nose-horned lizard is typically bright green and yellow (top), but the reptile turns brownish-orange under stress (bottom).
Credit: C.A. PUTRA ET AL/TAPROBANICA: THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN BIODIVERSITY, 2020
Using this data, Amarasinghe compared the lizard with the one described in 1933, and concluded that the living lizard and the dead one that Putra had stumbled across were in fact Modigliani’s nose-horned lizards. The Genoa museum’s dead specimen is pale blue due to preservation, but it’s now known that the lizard’s natural color is mostly luminous green. Its camouflage and tree-dwelling behavior are similar to African mountain chameleons, Amarasinghe, Putra and colleagues report in the May Taprobanica: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity.
The reptile belongs to the Agamidae family of lizards, which are commonly called dragon lizards and include species such as bearded dragons (SN: 6/14/17). Shai Meiri, a herpetologist at Tel Aviv University, has previously shown that many dragon lizards live in small, hard-to-access areas, making the reptiles difficult to study. There are 30 agamid species that have never been seen since they were first described, and 19 species which are known from just a single specimen, Meiri says.
While thrilled with their find, Amarasinghe and Putra are worried about the lizard’s future. “The living dragon was found outside a conservation area, and massive deforestation is happening nearby,” Amarasinghe says.
But the rediscovery offers a glimmer of hope for the lizard’s conservation, Meiri says. Before the reptile resurfaced, no one knew where exactly Modigliani’s lizard lived, or whether it had already gone extinct, he says. But now, “we can study it, understand its conservation needs and hopefully implement conservation measures.”
Wait a minute… a mysterious long lost lizard? With that weird nasal horn?
On this day, 26 June 1967, rioting broke out in Buffalo, New York, after police violently assaulted two young Black boys. A crowd of 200 to 350 began attacking stores, and fought police when they arrived. Over the coming days, the crowds would grow, as would the police repression.
By the time police managed to suppress the rebellion on July 1, 14 people had been shot and around 30 more injured. It was part of a wave of similar riots across over 100 cities in what was known as the “Long Hot Summer of 1967” as anger at racist police violence and deteriorating economic conditions for African-Americans in the American north boiled over.
In the wake of the rebellions, some young Black people decided to take the struggle forwards in their workplaces, like those who formed the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Learn more about them in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/28/e12-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1460567887461690/?type=3
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