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jeromegv··on An Introduction to Meshtastic
Yep that’s one of the issues with Meshtastic and why it’s hard to scale it past a certain point. Meshcore has much higher hop limit
jeromegv··on An Introduction to Meshtastic
The firmware is open source. There are many apps, some are open source, some are freeware.
jeromegv··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
Well, on legacy code base, you still needed humans to write those lines of code. There's a maximal amount of lines a human can write in a year.

Now with LLM we are talking of millions and millions of line of code that could be generated in a single day. The scale of the problem might not be the same at all.

jeromegv··on US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
Majority of migrants are actually not “from” Mexico. It’s just a bad argument.
jeromegv··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Your anecdata to this one time you took a trip to California doesn’t help.

You can just look at % of urban residents that use transit, which is lower in US than any western country. Clearly transit isn’t built or available in a sufficient way to majority of people

jeromegv··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
It’s almost like there’s consequences to making it as hard as possible for people to be legalized.
jeromegv··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Rails encouraged density around the train stations.

Rail is not responsible for the car sprawling type of communities which are mostly a 20th century phenomenon.

jeromegv··on Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
Quite an imaginative technique you got there.

Signé -Un Québécois

jeromegv··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore

The vibecoder was on MeshOS, which indeed is not open source

jeromegv··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
It wasn't ai assisted coding, it was vibe coding from someone with no real coding background. A communication protocol can't be vibe coded, how do you enforce security if the person is unable to understand what the tool created?

Especially when they try to hide that they were using those tools in the first place

jeromegv··on Why The Split? [Meshcore]
Definitely not, the design was quite carefully made to avoid the pitfalls of Meshtastic. The developers documented quite a lot of their early work. It really didn't feel like a vibe-coded type of environment.
jeromegv··on Vercel April 2026 security incident
https://techforpalestine.org/vercel
jeromegv··on Vercel April 2026 security incident
I knew from that moment never to use any Vercel product. If your leadership is that compromised, you know the rest of the ship is heading into a wall.
jeromegv··on The CMS is dead, long live the CMS
I want to avoid a database, so it would be file storage on git for content.
jeromegv··on The CMS is dead, long live the CMS
What do you use to edit texts on a dashboard or cms?

My wife needed a website. I’m not much of a frontend coder but I looked at the price of squarespace for a year and decided to go that route with AI.

Website is Astro. I easily update sophisticated designs with Claude or Gemini cli.

Hosted for free on cloudflare, it’s super fast. Any git update deploys to the website in a minute.

Got an hosted email form with astro action.

The only thing left is integrating a CMS. I was thinking of keystatic but it’s not compatible with Astro 6 yet. That’s the issue with vibe coding a stack you don’t know as much, without realizing it picked a version of astro that was so new that some tools didnt quite integrate with it yet.

jeromegv··on Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers
Absolutely in a competitive market.

There’s an argument to be made that Amazon has so much of the online buying market that’s it’s not competitive and can likely get away with increasing price. And I tend to agree with that

jeromegv··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
Reminder the whole world is not the United States of America. While you make the choice of voting for someone who thinks tariffs are good for the local market, no other country joined your bandwagon.
jeromegv··on How the AI Bubble Bursts
Yep, especially if we look at what happened just last week, both Google and Anthropic have dropped how much you get out of your existing plans.
jeromegv··on Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
Meta is definitely lobbying in Canada, I don't know why you think this is so far fetched.

Near impossible? No, meta is frequently making themselves part of conversation on various regulations in the country.

jeromegv··on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
In what world did the Mastodon CEO made money out of Mastodon beside the small public salary he's been taking? You are making things up.
jeromegv··on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
Elon Mush has introduced political biais in the algo, not all opinions are worth the same when you have a white suprematicst at the reign.
jeromegv··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Is that the same cooperation seen in the West Bank where Israel keeps sending settlers and make Palestine land smaller and smaller every single year?

I highly recommend to watch the Oscar winning movie “no other land”, for anyone that thinks that Israel would just let them leave in peace

jeromegv··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
I don’t think we can truly compare the missile attacks of Hamas vs the bombing campaigns of Israel

Look at any photo of any neighborhood in Israel, is there anywhere that remotely looks similar to the pile of rocks that Gaza looks like now?

Universities, hospitals, so much infrastructure, all gone. So much of Gaza is now people living in tents. Israel destroyed so much civilian infrastructure that existed.

How’s that similar to you?

jeromegv··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
That's not how it works.

There is a normal process in place for importers/brokers to request refunds if a specific tariff was overpaid or a tariff was ruled to be illegal.

But if you imported through DHL and you were not the broker, that is more complicated, you might need to ask DHL for it, and they might not want to do it for you (as they don't have a standard process in place).

jeromegv··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
Meshcore is open source. It’s « some » of the apps that are not.

https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore

jeromegv··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
You aren’t reading this right. Gps sharing is off by default on meshcore.
jeromegv··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
What mattered was that Pollievre waited weeks to defend Canada against the US threats. That scared a lot of voters. Showed us who he really was.
jeromegv··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
I mean… we elect leaders to represent us and protect our country. If the other guy looked like he was willing to give the country away, well, that means he wasn’t the best person for the job. Trump rhetoric just showed us how ready Pierre Pollievre was to lead us: aka, he wasn’t.
jeromegv··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
Go talk to actual Canadians. Lol. Only people that agree with you are Canadians now?

Everything I hear around me is people coming back from the US, they don’t feel safe with their family.

Oh, just saw you created your account an hour ago. Never mind then, just making shit up to troll.

jeromegv··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
If Trump only hires people best for the job, why am I only seeing old white men next to him 99% of the time? Are they the best of the best?
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