Awesome job! Thanks again! Upgraded without issue 🤘🏼

Ah, cool! I got my 4 devices today and I have managed to play with them a bit. They are pretty cool! I was able to walk over to a park near my house and spoke with people across the world with no data in my phone :D

I ordered four of the simpler devices this weekend (LilyGO T3-S3 LoRa 868MHz - SX1262) and I have been reading about antennas.

Since I live in a city I am not super optimistic about the range. But I am still very curious about the concept, and I would love to be surprised.

After doing some search about antennas, I have decided to test the following combination:

• 3dBi 868MHz ISM Band Dipole Terminal Antenna for the LoRa that stays at home:

• Sighunter 868 MHz to bring with me.

I also have a vector network analyzer (LiteVNA) that can be used for checking antennas, so I will also try to build some antennas myself. I doubt that my custom antennas will approach the performance of the professional ones… But I just find it such a cool concept.

Have you already gotten to play with it? What is your experience so far?

Yeah, I found out only after choosing that domain name… This TLD also gets penalized by the automatic e-mail spam detectors (like SpamAssassin). I wouldn’t pick the “.xyz” TLD if I were picking today 😅

You are awesome! Thanks :D I hope you get to relax this weekend!!

Sure.

If I make my own AI image generator and create a nice image with it, or use some AI engine that gives me full ownership of the output, I can choose to share it online with whatever license I want to share it with. I don’t see why the regular copyright rules for digital images and photographs would not hold… If someone shares their AI creation online and wants others to share with attribution, or not share at all, what is wrong with that?

I can take a ton of photos of objects with my phone, upload them to Flickr, and they are all copyrighted. That doesn’t mean that other’s can simply take similar photos if they wish to do so. The same with AI. One can decide whether to share with attribution, pay someone to let them use it, or to generate the image themselves using AI. It does not seem like a problem to me.

Thank you for your hard work!!

I appreciate that you going through this test period. I hope it all goes smoothly and that at least a few hairs remain on your heads by the end of this week. Good luck!

Oh, I had not noticed that page. I was hoping getting the NiDAQmx (https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-daq-mx.html#494543) driver installed would be enough. So this means that even if I succeed it might still not support it 😅

I was quite naive when selecting this card. I knew nothing about PCIe and I figured it would be a very simple matter to read out the values…

I just found some videos about writing PCIe drivers from scratch, but since I know nothing about PCIe I have no idea about the level of complexity that it would take to reverse-engineer. I suspect that it might be a very difficult thing to do, maybe even practically impossible.

Groooovy, these are awesome!

Most definitely allowed 😄 👍

Ah, actually, I responded thinking that you meant the /c/mycology community.

I’m not the creator/mod of the uncle_ben’s community, and the sidebar says “A community for the uncle ben’s mushroom growing technique.”, so I am actually not sure. I think it would be fine… Sorry!

Sure, what’s wrong with bird seed tech?

All fungi are magical ;)

The mycology community is more general in scope. Psychedelic mushrooms are not excluded, but there can be so much specialized discussion in that sub-category that is worth it having a more specialized community.

There is also the first community !uncle_bens@lemmy.ml dedicated to growing, but it is not very active.

Nice to see he has had a graphics upgrade :p

I wouldn’t use this language myself because I am not ready to defend that it is reasonable to apply the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in this context.

I think that they might be referring to Article 1, and possibly 5.

If this is their interpretation, then calling someone a worthless piece of trash is also a violation. You are talking to another human being as if they have less dignity, and you are treating them in a cruel and degrading manner.

For example I can go up to someone and insult them for all sorts of things - “you’re an ugly stupid worthless piece of trash” and that’s ok but I say “you’re a dirty [racial slur]” all of a sudden it’s different?

If it makes you feel any better, telling someone “you’re an ugly stupid worthless piece of trash” would get you banned from my instance too, so it is not so different.

I would like to make a list at some point with several community integrations and ask my instance’s users whether they would like some of them installed into the instance. This application will definitely go on that list! I do need to take into consideration how many resources each of the apps consume, to make sure I don’t bloat my server. But this one seems quite light. Is it?

Thank you for making this open source!

I’m not sure about Web Hosting. Many of us use a dedicated virtual private server (VPS)

I use https://serverspace.io, I think Lemmy.ml is hosted with https://www.hetzner.com/

These are servers that you access via SSH and can install the instance inside of it. I personally install using docker compose, but there are some other methods that are claimed to be easier. The cost starts at ~$5 / month. Currently I pay about $15 / month. You would then rent the domain name from a domain name registrar (I use namecheap.com) and ask them to point the domain name to your server’s IP address.

No, there is no API to get the votes (https://join-lemmy.org/api/). If my understanding is correct, now that I upvoted your comment my instance will push that information. I’m not sure whether it pushes it to dandroid.app first or to all instances, saying basically “Sal@mander.xyz upvoted https://dandroid.app/comment/441785”, and so every instance that has that comment can save my user ID in the “upvote” list of that comment, and that upvote is counted.

If only the vote direction was federated, then it would be very easy for me to spam the message “Upvote https://dandroid.app/comment/441785”. I would not even need to create an instance for that, I just need to speak ActivityPub. And it would be more difficult to detect that I am doing that, because the database would only hold the vote count.

I don’t think there is a way to ask an instance to reveal this list. You can only get it by directly querying the database if you have access to it. This is why if you fetch an older post or comment, it will arrive with a single or zero votes.