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Meshtastic - An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by thevoiceofra@mander.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Long range (LoRa) mesh networks are interesting alternatives to communication, especially when state actors are blocking internet access for various reasons.

More details about meshtastic: https://meshtastic.org/

About its current state of encryption: https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/encryption

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[–] akrot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What up with everyone using the acronym LoRa. It is becoming confusing.

[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

It stands for Long Range, so would otherwise have been LR.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We ran out of acronyms a long time ago.

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

tell us then, beside your waifu name "lora", what/which else is named after your waifu, that confuses you?

[–] Jables@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure why you decided to ask that person the question like that, but when it comes to AI, LoRA stands for Low-Rank Adaptation. They are used to fine-tune models. Next time be a bit more polite.