Relays can be used for anything, and a car contains a fair number.
You can make a pulse jet engine from a muffler parts, but a solarpunk society would probably not do that. :)
Copper brake pipe and cooling radiators can be used as heat exchangers for other stuff.
Air conditioner parts can be reverse-used for Stirling engines or to pump heat in other contexts.
Wow, really interesting tools. :)
But sadly not for me - I left biology behind at some point and have fallen off the sleigh so badly that I'd probably need a year of study before I could use this tool for something less than practical (e.g. make a bacterium glow in the dark).
This one didn't have rocket boosters, but was also nice: :)
( it traveled 180 km on one charge, back in 2009 :D )
Apparently, the Caspian Sea Monster is back, and it's electric now. :) If I had a need for watercraft (I live on land and I don't need more than a SUP board), this would be something that I'd try building (naturally with seatbelts and airbags to survive a crash). :)
Wow. :)
I was expecting something with rotor sails, but I click, and it's a fancy new derivative of schooners. :)
As a result, I guess that rotating masts aren't optimal after all - too much moving mass, impossible to take down during a hurricane, etc.
I also guess that this sailboat has a fairly good motor, for use during total lack of wind (rare) or storms that would damage sails or masts.
Regarding infiltration of the police - a similar theme played out in Greece during the 2008 economic crisis, when Golden Dawn vied for power - they tried hard to infiltrate the police, and succeeded to a considerable degree.
At some point, they made a mistake, though - GD thugs killed a popular leftist rapper named Pavlos Fyssas. He was able to point out who stabbed him. His death caused widespread rioting. Rioting incapacitated GD temporarily by blocking and damaging their party offices while the security service raided high-ranking members for evidence (apparently they didn't manage to infiltrate counterintelligence and in the confusion probably couldn't dispose of evidence even if they knew of incoming raids) ...and evidence was plentiful. They were banned and leaders got meaningful sentences in courts.
Only in a country where entering the police force requires lengthy studies to obtain a diploma (and background checks), is there some chance of random bozos not worming their way in. Most states of the US aren't such a place, sadly.
I wonder what the structure could have been in the past? A navigation light pillar? A ventilation shaft riser for some underground thing?
Tesla's favourability with car repair technicians probably never exceeded 5%. :)
It's a maintenance nightmare and a far cry from even slight futureproofness. If someone dumps it on you for 1000 euros with a working battery, take the battery apart and sell the rest for 500 euros. ;P
(sums slightly underestimated) ;)
Yep, indeed, I'm already discovering differences too. :) A good document for techies to read seems to be here.
https://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html
I also think I see a problem on the horizon: announce traffic volume. According to this description, it seems that Reticulum tries to forward all announces to every transport node (router). In a small network, that's OK. In a big network, this can become a challenge (disclaimer: I've participated in building I2P, but ages ago, but I still remember some stuff well enough to predict where a problem might pop up). Maintenance of the routing table / network database / is among the biggest challenges when things get intercontinental.
Interesting project, thank you for introducing. :)
I haven't tested anything, but only checked their specs (sadly I didn't find out how they manage without a distributed hashtable).
Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from.
Sounds like mix networks like I2P and (to a lesser degree, since its role is proxying out to the Internet) like TOR. Mix networks send traffic using the Internet, so the bottom protocol layers (TCP and UDP) use IP addresses. Higher protocol layers (end to end messages) use cryptographic identifiers.
There is no central control over the address space in Reticulum. Anyone can allocate as many addresses as they need, when they need them.
Sounds like TOR and I2P, but people's convenience (easily resolving a name to an address) has created centralized resources on these nets, and will likely create similar resources on any network. An important matter is whether the central name resolver can retroactively revoke a name (in I2P for example, a name that has been already distributed is irrevocable, but you can refuse to distribute it to new nodes).
Reticulum ensures end-to-end connectivity. Newly generated addresses become globally reachable in a matter of seconds to a few minutes.
The same as aforementioned mix networks, but neither of them claims operability at 5 bits per second. Generally, a megabit connection is advised to meaninfully run a mix network, because you're not expected to freeload, but help mix traffic for others (this is how the anonymity arises).
Addresses are self-sovereign and portable. Once an address has been created, it can be moved physically to another place in the network, and continue to be reachable.
True for TOR and I2P. The address is a public key. You can move the machine with the private key anywhere, it will build a tunnel to accept incoming traffic at some other node.
All communication is secured with strong, modern encryption by default.
As it should.
All encryption keys are ephemeral, and communication offers forward secrecy by default.
In mix networks, the keys used as endpoint addresses are not ephemeral, but permanent. I'm not sure if I should take this statement at face value. If Alice wants to speak to Bob tomorrow, some identifier of Bob must not be ephemeral.
It is not possible to establish unencrypted links in Reticulum networks.
Same for mix networks.
It is not possible to send unencrypted packets to any destinations in the network.
Same.
Destinations receiving unencrypted packets will drop them as invalid.
Same.
P.S.
I also checked their interface list and it looks reasonable. Dropping an idea too: an interface for WiFi cards in monitor/inject mode might help some people. If the tool gets popular, I'm sure someone will build it. :)
Interesting article, thank you. :)
I wouldn't get one for myself because I have lots of big plants (hazel, cherry and sea-buckthorn), but it makes me wonder - why did some species of fungi start glowing? Did they do it by accident, for no good reason?
I'm not a chemist either, but I do know a bit of chemistry.
Typically, you need a solution of NaOH (sodium hydroxide) to directly reduce iron oxide in an electrolysis cell. If your iron oxide contains impurities, those may react with NaOH and ruin the fun. Also, if you have exposure to CO2, your NaOH will gradually degrade, producing NaHCO3 and losing potency.
My impression: wet electrolysis is great for making high purity iron, but it would be hard to make it work for energy storage.