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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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[–] m_randall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The documentation is a little lacking. What exactly is the range of each decide? I see the record of 100+ miles but can I easily connect people within a few miles?

What exactly does this do? Is it just a messaging app?

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

I've done my little stupid tests. I have 2 Heltec LoRa 32 V3s both with the stock antenna. Inside the city I can get 500m on LongFast and 700m on VeryLongSlow. The other node was placed inside a building on the 1st floor.

But that's obviously a terrible test.

[–] paulcdb@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure if they’ve improved it but meshtastic also used to require a module per device/phone so sadly you can’t dot them around and allow multiple people to share them like with group events.

[–] 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?

/s

[–] 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.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's a video with a lot of guidance and examples of use: https://youtu.be/EAQI2ZSmxPU?si=lF5xr8fKyCRHEk7F

[–] thevoiceofra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That's the video in this post

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