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No internet required... In this video, I build a public Reticulum node and test whether it can bridge completely different networks into one encrypted communication path. I send messages from a normal phone over LTE, through the internet and Starlink, then off-grid over LoRa—eventually using a $20 drone-mounted relay to reach a phone with no internet connection at all.

repo: https://github.com/markqvist/reticulum

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 56 minutes ago

Both are terrible for that. I hope that it's a small number of people that get killed relying on LoRa for emergency communications that result in the project(s) being sued out of existence.

Hey guys, I've got a great idea: Let's buy some $15 Arduino-like devices with milliwatts of transmitter power and trust them to life and limb! Even stupider than the people who buy Baofeng radios to put in a "bug out bag" and never use. Those at least mostly work.

this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026
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