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[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

No WiFi needed.

https://sidewalk.amazon/

If you don’t want to click the link I don’t blame you. It’s a LoRA style node based network that the TV or FireStick will connect to if you don’t allow it on WiFi. It’s free to connect to so there’s more incentive for any tv maker to use it.

[-] xav@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

Wow. The modern world is awful.

[-] ArsonButCute@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Could "We the People" hijack this network to use it in totally normal and completely legal ways and definitely not for operating a peernet-like network

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Good question, but the throughput is really low and I’m not exactly sure how the endpoints (or exit nodes, if that’s what they are called) work.

Would be a neat project though, and could add a huge node network to the existing LoRa stuff it it’s compatible.

[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

I wonder if legal to not allow disable in EU.

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