Good point! I didn't think to do that to check positions, that would have confirmed if the gps was accurate. But one new comment had confirmed that it could indeed have been a tropospheric duct, which is quite exciting, as I didn't realise that was possible with LoRa, and don't think I had seen mentioned before, even though I had read about AR events where DX occur, TV signals etc. So cool!
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That is an excellent question! I have noticed it can change, and have been paying more attention to those numbers since raising the station g2, but this is a really oddly specific collection of nodes, all from one place. Maybe I should post a pic...
OMG how did I miss seeing this before now
I'm not sure, there's lots of nodes closer, I would have thought if there was an MQTT connection that would see them first not a specific location further away? 🤔
Hmm. When you've hopped a plane, have they tended to be a cluster of nodes? I guess if it was a node on a flight from a particular airport it's maybe possible... I need to go look at flight info, we're not in an area with much air traffic at all, and the time frames don't make sense, how could they keep refreshing for hours? 🤔 And the time of day, there's just not usually flights occurring in the middle of the night here either.
Fairly unlikely it was a plane due to the time frame in which the nodes were refreshing - was over at least 4 hours from when the first distant node was seen, to no longer seen / refreshing. And all the nodes were apparently from this one distant area, which is about 4-5 hours drive away, because it's on the other side of a big bay. And didn't see any other familiar nodes that were closer, of which there are quite a few.
Interesting article, and it did change my view slightly of what ATProto is, but not by a huge amount.
Given the current political climate, a few days ago I randomly started wondering... what if some governments around the world acknowledged that communicating through Farcebok or Xitter is no longer tenable, and committed to providing social media infrastructure hosted in their own countries as a public good: "your tax dollars at work!"
Would ATProto make sense in these cases? They have the resources, and ATProto might seem more attractive/robust for that kind of scale compared to ActivityPub?
Saw it once decades ago. It's very rare to see here. Avoid, but you really don't have to try.
Pretty sure he'll be dead before lasting that long... I wonder what the odds are on exactly how though
Bold of them to assume that Trump's presidential term will end at four years.
Holy fucking shit. That will now be the NUMBER ONE TALKING POINT I will be leading with when doorknocking this election:
"Hey, do you or any friends have young kids? Yeah? Did you know if the Libs get in they have just suggested to change ratios to as little as 1 educator to 50 kids? No? Well that is what you risk if you don't put Libs last. Terrifying, huh? Thanks for your time!"
Thanks! That's super exciting. Will try and send out some DMs next time it happens - just to get the more reliable ack. I doubt many people are awake at the times it is probably strongest signal though.