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I'm profoundly disappointed on the integration of I2P with Android apps. Only works through the installation of an external app/server on the phone which besides uncomfortable to the user, is not something verifiable. Besides the gov sponsored Tor network, does anyone here has recommendations of a good private network library for Android?

Geogram for Android, version 0.1.0 is now available for testing at https://github.com/geograms/geogram-android/releases/tag/v0.1.0 To test the offline chat and message capabilities you will need two android phones with bluetooth. just let me know what you think and if it is working for you

Explaining geogram during the NOSTR-02 event at the embassy of Coimbra in Portugal. The current version is open for beta testing and you are welcome to follow the developments at https://t.me/geogramx Expected release to public is March 2026. https://blossom.primal.net/c2377131e6efc64f6ba173477e7602b26beb6bcf7aa900353310acbbe14376e9.mp4

NOSTR meet-up in Portugal on the 1st of November (saturday). This year the focus are radio transmissions and data networks outside the internet, using satellites for free. It will also be launched on that event a special type of relay that bridges radio communications with other relays living on the internet. If you are in Portugal, let's talk NOSTR.

Using an HackRF inside the airplane to listen other airplanes. An extra bonus is seeing on the offline map where we are flying at the moment.

What a disgrace. It is harder to setup ESP32 unit tests running on the laptop than to write embedded code. It's been 30 years and this development environment still feels like 1995. Fantastic.

The experience of using Claude AI on the command line is pretty wild. In the old days it would literally take me days to debug how to compile some obscure C++ project on my machine, now the machine is running all the commands by itself, upgrading the toolchain, testing the results, adjusting and improving at a speed and quality that no human could reach. Any programmer versed on using them will get a 10x boost at minimum on his performance. Haters will always hate AI. This is a new tool and we are engineers, just learn to use them well.

Cheap 20 EUR walkie talkies are not meant for 24/7 data communication. If we want build a world without internet nor IP addresses, these cheap walkie talkies will have to perform just on those harsh conditions. Since last night that it has become possible to send text messages on a web browser through radio, using the speaker and microphone built into the smartphone/laptop. This means communications that belongs to you and the other people around. It is still early. Still missing to properly receive text messages on cheap walkie talkies too (quite hard), slowly we are getting there. A true off-grid communication network without fancy hardware.

Handling radios is hard. So difficult to get conditions of transmission and reception to be stable on both ends, even more difficult to make this easy and stable for others without the capacity to fine tune them.