Devices for Hypermobility

[Macrobius]

Anyone have any experience with the company glocalme.com ? They make a device for 'pay as you go data' (portable wifi hotspot) that works whever 4G and with latest models 5G connectivity is available. Pricey, but there are times you want connectivity and don't need an 'always on' plan because you have one that works for you most of the time.

https://toseethe.world/reviews/best-mobile-wifi-for-travel-glocalme/

 

[Lord Osmund de Ixabert]

Why anyone would want that is beyond me.

 

[Macrobius]

Why anyone would want that is beyond me.

I know you're a lumberjack and that's ok -- for the same reason you have an axe and a saw. To do work and get paid.

You have an internet connection right now or you wouldn't be poasting. If you travel or need data in your car beyond what your 'mobile' plan allows, typically to work form a laptop; or if your crappy comcast internet connection goes out and costs you money or a day's work now and then, some kind of backup is nice.

You can read the review I linked for the general concept.

The other use case is not covered by this -- you are sailing around the world and need GPS etc for navigation, and want a data feed to learn where the storms are so you don't sink.[1]

[1]: https://www.starpath.com/catalog/books/1886.htm



4G/5G coverage is decent if you are near the coast -- not sure about the middle of one of the Great Lakes or Great Bear lake in Canada.

 

[Nikephoros II Phokas]

That "Glory to Ukraine" header graphic isn't a great sign. It suggests they'll boast about things and then when it it gets tough ask Version or ATT to bail them out with free gibs.

 

[Lord Osmund de Ixabert]

The mind is better than any machine. It's not ver' difficile to do with one's mind and sensory apparatus to do the same things that a machine does poorly. The firmament, moon and sun make a skyclock that can be used for navigation and telling the time, and once you know how to use them to this end they are much more accurate and reliable than any modern device.

The craters of the moon 'coincidentally' contan a map of the earth which can be used to determine the shape and relative sizes of large continental land masses of the earth, large islands, oceans, even major rivers and mountains. The moon is a 'God's eye' view of the earth, if you will.

(The moon is essentially negative image of the earth, overlaid by an image of all the constellations in the sky, which can be seen on the moon, if the rest of the sky be too cloudy to see the stars, and you don't have a map of the constellations at your disposal. As long as you can see the full moon through binoculars or telescope you can find an image of the heavenly bodies thereon.)

We have also a 'sixth sense' for navigation, as well as remote viewing, an ability which is lost only through disuse, and our dependence on machines to do these things is one of the reasons why most people never develop these abilities.

Indeed, it's why they give us these technologies--to weaken us!

Internet and video games are given to us not for our betterment, but so that we don't discover the fact that we can already communicate telepathically with anyone in the world, and interact with anyone we want to in the imaginal realm (mind at large, which is objective and not subjective in nature, and into which every human being can 'plug' himself; virtual reality and video games being cheap counterfeit of this, and a complete waste of one's time).

 

[Macrobius]

My ancient android mobile phone went missing for most of yesterday. Fell out of my pants pocket and under the car seat.

The great part was how little I cared.

Mobile devices used to be fun. Sure, they were evil, but who could do without them? The world is changing though... I smell it in the Ether.

These days, I mostly use my 'mobile device' to authenticate email or for MFA apps. It is protected by a PIN so even if it were lost at the store, very little of value would be lost.

All I would need to do to protect my privacy would be to delete my gmail inbox contents...
... which I do every year anyway if not oftener, as a security precaution.

Part of my being non-plussed was that I'd recently purchased a @GlocalMeMoments device, and was planning to ditch my expensive 4G data plan anyway.

In other words, buy a pay as you go data device, and your mobile device will have wifi in the car or wherever, and you WONT CARE.
You have apps... they need data... you have data... if you lose the device in your pocket you probably have 5 or 10 in a drawer somewhere that will do just as fine.

Oh, the fun part. I finally found a use for timeline.google.com -- their tracking proved to me the phone wasn't dropped at a store, but made it home.

I'll be interested to see if that works with the 'wifi hotspot' approach I'm using now instead... but again YOU WON'T CARE

 

[Lord Osmund de Ixabert]

Hypermobile like the deracinated cosmopolitan Jew. Imitating the kike is what you do.

 

[Macrobius]

Tomorrow I will be returning my 'comcast modem' with prejudice and terminating their service.

Moving on to use 5G devices and stuff like that -- Hell, maybe pigeons with BTC wallets strapped to their feet who knows.

I'll let y'all know how it goes.

 

[Charles Silvius Haddock]

Tomorrow I will be returning my 'comcast modem' with prejudice and terminating their service.

Moving on to use 5G devices and stuff like that -- Hell, maybe pigeons with BTC wallets strapped to their feet who knows.

I'll let y'all know how it goes.

Very interesting, but please explain rationale.

I encountered terrible problems with $cumca$t about 10 years ago, but their service improved in my old area since that time. I have since left their sphere of influence.

 

[Macrobius]

Very interesting, but please explain rationale.

I encountered terrible problems with $cumca$t about 10 years ago, but their service improved in my old area since that time. I have since left their sphere of influence.

Oh it's very simple -- we had a one year contract with them end and want to take our time picking a new provider. We have a backup provider (the glocalme NumenAir devices) which are adequate for my work in a digital nomad setting. So, we decided to test out our infrastructure for travel, and we don't have any house guests (children) here at the moment so its a good time.

Next broadband March 1st give or take, or soon if we run into 'issues'.

One thing about 'working remotely in the cloud' is that it takes very much less bandwidth to pull down keyboard-video-mouse actions when the virtual desktop is up in the cloud anyway. The main things that chew up data (esp for 'normies') is 1/ video streaming 2/ downloading large software packages for local installation 3/ sharing 'media' often two and from a mobile phone either over 4G/5G or 'home wireless' to save data charges.

A really futuristic solution to 'centralized carriers' who generally suck anyway is the Helium network (blockchain proof of coverage as an incentive to build out a community run P2P mesh network).

Helium – Introducing The People's Network

www.helium.com

I haven't tried it so no comment.

 

[Macrobius]

Quoting from the Fambly Slack (our Boomer/GenX to Millennial/Zoomer communication gateway):

heh.

We just got back from returning the Comcast modem and telling them where they could put it

We be digital nomads for now.

 

[Macrobius]

We returned our broadband and are moving to 'digital nomad' mode for a month.  The first think I noticed is that the Kittyman Range Extender no
 longer worked for lack of a router (this is expected).  I was worried I'd have to buy another router just to set up the local home wifi network for
 within-household communication, but fortunately I thought of a work around for that.

The Numen Air device seems to be visible throughout the whole household however, and a second one is arriving tomorrow, according to Amazon
 'before 10PM'.  Eventually I will give one of them unlimited data and use the second as a spare with very limited data.  The device have limited
 battery life (They do however work when charging, after a small amount of time).

The Numen Air device have a 'USB mode' that works with your laptop to make their net access directly available 'as if wire line' (NOTE: does not
 work with Macs, only Windows and I hope Linux!).  My router solution will be to set up a virtual machine (Ubuntu on VMWare VM likely) that routes
 packets between the Numen Air and Kittyman Range Extender, at which point household Wifi will 'just work' again.

Tomorrow, I'll test out how my ideas for using my HP laptop + GLocalMe to do all my [[client name deleted]] work pans out.  I'm pretty confident it
 will work better than Comcast without the xFi device up there, which was *necessary* for professional grade communication.  Kittyman Range
 Extender proved, on Friday, to be a superior alternative -- so my worst case is getting Kittyman live again :D

'Kittyman' is the name (SSID) of the wifi network on the Linksys RE 6500. The rest of the convo should be intelligible. As far as I can tell the xFi device is just a Comcast controllable device that is a simple bridge ('range extender' in the consumer market). I've no idea if it has any other use than being a captive device but dayum they want a lot of money for it.

Anything I can do with VMWare + Ubuntu by way of routing can be moved to a Raspberry Pi, btw, which can host VMWare's ESXi operating system (for free because in beta) as discussed elsewhere. [1]

[1]: http://www.thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/tech-contracting-survival-thread.423/#post-3819

 

[Macrobius]

BTW, my 'speed test' on the non broadband setup is

24.5 Mbps download / 2.68 Mbps upload - clearly workable, since basically 1990s typical Ethernet office speeds, which is ALL ANYONE NEEDS.

No gamers or video watchers here.



Lent is coming. Consider abstaining from Food, Sex, and Data.

[1]: mid 90s tech... CHEVRON ONE IS HOLDING!



Fear no SKY BALLOONS. HODL. Repeat... HODL your position, Aryans.

( It was a cheesy script ... like no one has ever broken a combination lock by trying all the last positions one at a time until you feel a click)

Thread related: https://tunisbayclub.com/index.php?threads/what-christian-rock-are-you-listening-to-right-now.1743/

 

[Charles Silvius Haddock]

Interesting synchronicity: Last night I was at a gathering for Stuporbowl Stunday (normie relations can't be helped) and the topic of the text-based internet of yore came up. For example, the text-scrolling predecessors of MMORPGs circa the 1990s were discussed. This was in describing to the youth present how gaming has changed and all. But there was a lot to recommend that era beyond what would seem to current sensibilities "bespoke primitivism". I don't miss the slow speeds, but I do miss the overall much higher IQ, the quirkiness and creativity of that time, the search engines that actually functioned, and the basically unregulated nature of it all. What's funny is the improvements since that time really appear to be more thanks to engineers (hardware) than developers (software), the latter having in many cases made the whole thing much worse (not that there aren't notable exceptions). And being that we're both of us developers, we ought to regard that as a disgrace to our profession.

Luckily I think there's hope via the whole Web3 concept now emerging.

 

[Macrobius]

...What's funny is the improvements since that time really appear to be more thanks to engineers (hardware) than developers (software), the latter having in many cases made the whole thing much worse (not that there aren't notable exceptions). And being that we're both of us developers, we ought to regard that as a disgrace to our profession.

Luckily I think there's hope via the whole Web3 concept now emerging.

Oh I quite agree. I think a number of factors are at play with that, one of which is that during a time of very rapid expansion of engineering capabilities (building on the work of Solid State Physicists in the 1950s) -- we really have in 'Engineering' (Technics) the dying embers of Faustian culture, as it was 'bombed to bits' in the homelands of Europe, playing out in a way the world may not see in any form later in this century. Our Civilisation is not /our/ culture, and as Ezra Pound said 'was not yours to destroy' anyway.

The primary 'revolutions' post 1960 were in molecular biology and the development of the 'internal logic' of the silicon chip and friends. The theoretical basis of programming was nearly complete by Knuth in the 1970s and we really haven't progressed beyond that (depending on what you think of quantum computing anyway and the hierarchies of TCS [theoretical computer science, not Tata Consulting]).

One of the problems living through such times of rapidly opening *cheap* opportunities is that it's hard to buck the economic logic that informs so much of human behaviour. It is now cheaper to throw machine learning at a problem than it is to throw scientific research at it. And we are in the early stages of infatuation with the possibilities, where a 'self-driving automaton' that works quite well 99% but kills you 1% of the time still seems like a viable tradeoff or at least a cool grift for snake oil sales.

Going back to say the 90s it is clear the tipping point was the transition from 'Frequentist Statistics' by such masters as RA Fisher in his _Mathematical Statistics_ -- the long march of 20th century Anglo-American and Germanic inspired (Faustian) science and technics -- right down to the time that computing Bayes Law became *computationally feasible* at scale and suddenly the 'Monte Carlo' method of the Manhattan project (work of Nick Metropolis) became so cheap it was a shame not to use WinBUGS on a PC (Bayesian Updating Gibbs Sampler) -- on every biological and sociological problem you could think of.

Suddenly 'academics' -- having a high IQ and doing Science got undercut by the opportunity cost (alpha vs beta in the Brave New World sense) and the betas one -- catastrophically for the IQ-led Faustian Race (and our Jewish hangers on tbh).

 

[Macrobius]

Continuing my thought from the previous post: there are as you say a few rays of hope, around 'Web3' though I don't think they are what the people doing VC right now (Venture Capital, not Vinyl Choride, which is also in the news) think they are.

First, it has been clear since the era of Goedel and Turing that 'cryptography' (and number theory) is frightfully important as a driver of 'algorithms'. Algorithms like Satoshi's (a pseudonymous group like Nicholas Bourbaki) give us a *heuristic* but workable solution to the Byzantine Generals problem and Sybil attacks, which have created a huge opportunity. More recently, NFTs, despite the stupidity and grift of the Sam Bankman-Fried sort, are complete game changers.

I invite you to think about NFTs only don't think of them as jpgs of apes or the next tulip mania High-Yield Investment Programme (HYIP) game to hop into, but rather as the natural representation of METADATA. As you know, metadata is 'data describing data' -- database schemas, classes [metadata objects] vs object literals -- that sort of thing. Think of anything that Microsoft might consider representing in a MOF file ('metaobject framework'), or registering at schema-dot-org, as what schemas are in a data base -- a bunch of rows in a table with a names like mysql.tables or mysql.users each of which describes the SQL statement in the DDL (not the DQL etc). In short, databases have data and metadata (their schema) and it is key that the metadata, being after all *data*, is capable of defining the data tables themselves, as to their FORM, but not their MATTER, using the same mechanism as is used to store the data. We call such a schema a 'model' and then there is a sort of 'metamodel' which is the data structure for the 'system tables' in any database -- which you could also make self-describing but basically is hard coded in the RDBMS.

Now here is my assertion: every ROW in the system database (the thing the MOF describes)[1], that stores the 'configuration objects' or 'properties' (object literals) of which any software system ever designed has ZILLIONS... is a natural NFT. You want your schema under source control? Done, on a blockchain. Each such release or build or deployment configuration or possible 'registry entry' is registered, in a permanent, distributed, and irrevocable sense, by minting an NFT to represent it.

[1]: I know it's been renamed a half dozen times on different timelines. It's worse than the Berenstein Bears killing Mandela.

With this vision (meta data queries should search and return NFTs) we can now re-envision 'The Search Engine' properly -- What 'classic Google' does is not return 'all the worlds data' but a metadata representation, itself based on things such as hard coded RDF, representing the original dmoz index, or the 'Google Knowledge Graph' which build on a project freebase that slurped dbpedia which is a tabular representation of the greatest crowd-sourced collection of HUMAN GENERATED and ANNOTATED METADATA, wikipedia.

Curated data cannot 'beat Google at its own game' but curated data *on the blockchain* can.

In short, every invention of the Semantic Web -- every vCard, every Atom RSS feed, both the 'Resource Description Framework' and 'Resource Description Framework Semantics' rdfs-standard[2] and their graph sequellae 'RDF Triples' in Notation-3, along with 'Description Logics' such as OWL and LISPy schema languages like KIF -- indeed the whole of 'Knowledge Engineering' as a field ... are so many NFTs to be registered forever, immutably.

[2]: Dayum, that was a nice piece of work that.

The Semantic Web was premature -- NFTs are not. So what does a search engine look like? Well, it's a searchable store of NFTs (each of which encapsulates an URL in the conventional representation, along with a snippet, and whatever 'features' are needed to build the index)... that uses a human-machine text interface to query in 'natural language'.

Let's say I want to build a search engine to search Phora threads -- well each thread has some metadata (and an RSS like Title-Link-Description triple that can be described as a Knowledge Card or a Graph or an item in a newsfeed -- old style)... well we mint one NFT with the appropriate properties for each thread. The query searches the METADATA (the NFTs, which can all be at opensea.io[3] or the latest hotness) and gives you a QR code and text snippet to your link. Do you have the right to SEE the thread? Well, that's part of the smart contract and if so you get to retrieve the data from the IPFS using the CID in the NFT.

[3]: would you like to buy a Salo Archive thread? How about a Unicode emoji?



Very Hairy?

Now you have an uncensored, global, distributed search engine that is resistant to DDOS and Sybil attacks and lots of others. To stop the search, you have to take out the Ethereum Virtual Machine and destroy the entire global economy, Sam Bankman-Fried and friends included.