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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by iloveDigit@piefed.social to c/Meshcore@feddit.org

I spent over 100k sats on 2 pieces of landfill trash, because of retailers and other websites and random people lying about LoRa mesh protocols being "open source."

The goal was already to spread the word about lies these retailers and other related sites spread, e.g. gaslighting users about end-to-end encryption, but there's no point using the network to spread the word about the lie of being open source. It's a fool's errand, the corporations already scammed my money out of me and they'll just use me to make even more money while I try to tell people to stop wasting the money.

So now I have a SenseCap and a Wio Tracker L1 Pro shipping to me for nothing except to scrap for parts like the batteries, and throw the malware transceiver/computer parts in the garbage so nobody can use them to spread this piece of shit malware cult.

Have fun downvoting/removing/banning me, to the majority here moronic enough to side with the scammers even after reading the truth.

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[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

No evidence, just whining about products you haven't even received yet?

[-] terabyterex@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

meshcore (the community ypu posted in) is open source under the MIT license https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore

[-] hobata@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

So what's all the rage about? If you are so afraid of proprietary stuff, why you do not use encryption a layer above?

[-] machine2918@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

What? Maybe EXPLAIN why it's a scam? Right now this just read a someone spouting nonsense, of course you'll be downvoted?

[-] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

I guess this must be pure hallucination then, and not a real repository of open source lora mesh firmware and protocol - for the exact devices mentioned

[-] iloveDigit@piefed.social -2 points 1 month ago

I'm here 5 days later to say, while too lazy to read the context, you're probably missing what I was talking about which is the LoRa spec itself being proprietary

I'm less angry about it now because I simply bought shares of semtech, the company courtrooms will force me to pay for lies about being "open source" every time I buy a meshtastic device

Still pretty angry though

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

You're upset about the LoRa modulation technique being proprietary, despite the meshcore protocol built on it being entirely open source?

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