Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

[james]

On 2/29/20 4:44 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 26/02/20 03:10, james wrote:
>> I'm just not convinced that our USA government continuing to "sell
>> bandwidth rights", is constitutional?
>
> Problem is, if bandwidth is "opened to all" the reality in the past
> would have been a free-for-all leading to a major tragedy of the
> commons.

Agreed. but now, there are plenty of technologies, software systems and 
RF testing gear to ensure the bandwidth channels can be "shared" 
robustly and there implement a vastly better efficiencies 
(bits/s/bandwith); than the current models of exclusive license for a 
one time pop of money to the government. Just like Oxygen, we all have 
the rights to the RF spectrum, imho.
A one time sale, particularly when analyzed, decades later, is a gross 
miscarriage of justice, imho.

I hope somebody finds this (with better searching fu) 
handoff-visualizer, to track Rf signals via mobile cells
and a gentoo lappy.

It's a signal/comm-channel handoff graphic tool....


https://github.com/chonyy/handoff-visualizer

and

https://github.com/chonyy/handoff-simulator



If somebody cannot find it in a overlay, I'd be willing to take it over 
and update, on an overlay....

It'd really help remote campers to find signals, when backpacking in the 
mountains or even hills. Adding an altimeter data input and getting the 
devs to go '3D' with this rendering, would also help folks home-building 
UAVs




> Much like we're seeing in space and low-earth orbit now. If
> we're not *very* careful, soon we will not be able to launch low-earth
> and geo-synchronous satellites, because there'll be a massive debris
> belt that will destroy satellites within a few years.

Some experts are say that we're all ready on that coarse. Space vessels 
to capture, collect and then send into deep space, our current cadre of 
commercial/military space junk. I think they'll do this, but send the 
space garbage directly to our sun, just burning up and adding to the 
total mass of the sun. Here is the real twist. Global corporations, are 
standing up claiming rights to space rights, on behalf of nations that 
are very technology poor. The next few wars will most likely sort out 
rights, i.e. First to deploy-use, will get the rights, regardless if its 
a gov or corp, or group, like the HAM-operators, imho.


> The new high-frequency bandwidths I'm not too worried about - like
> low-earth orbit stuff there will decay into the atmosphere and
> self-cleanse over 30-40 years - high frequencies don't travel far - but
> where there is the likelihood of interference some sort of regulation is
> necessary.

YES YES, but who is the arbiter with final say?  The guys with the best 
missile technology, that's who, from a pragmatic point-of-view.


> Do you really want your home network to collapse in a heap every time
> your neighbour jacks up his power because your network is causing his
> home network to collapse in a heap?


With all due respect, as an EE_rf guy, it's already solved by who has 
the best technology. That is scan and avoid the bands/protocols being 
used. Less and less technically (Rf) astute folks want to work for any 
government.....

Random 'bit-burst' over a multitude of frequencies is not hard to do and 
solves this scenario, at least for the technology superior Rf types. 
Consumers and idiots are at the mercy of the Rf mercenaries (whom are 
always a decade or more ahead what is legally possible). ymmv.


> (That's why my home network is
> mostly cat-5 or ethernet-over-power :-)

Good for now. However, there are Rf sniffers that can pick up the 
signals from those aforementioned signals, quite easily. It use to be 
james_bond sort of stuff, but now it is cafeteria.

  Fiber should replace both of those, pretty soon.
Routers where various types of connectors for both multi-mode and 
single-mode fiber, are pretty cheap, if you know where to look. If you 
build new, put pvc conduits in the roof and walls, so you have ample & 
hidden pipes. That way it's pretty trivial to pull the fibers later, for 
pennies.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6233376B1/en


> Cheers,
> Wol


5G-multipath supersedes all of this, where the algorithms that implement 
the multi-path, are 'walk-once' or pseudo-walk-once.  Upgrading 
multipath to Asycnronos-multipath, is still in the development phases, 
or folks are not publishing details....No way the brightest fed/mil 
hacks can stop this, as they will not even know where it is, who is 
doing it and how to monitor it, in RealTime. Make it mobile, and how the 
elite hackers go and do whatever they want, whenever they want, 
clandestinely.


Several vehicles with links between and cellular bandwidth, can hop 
around a city, clandestinely and there is nothing our most sophisticated 
law enforcement can do, currently. There stuck buying commercial gear 
that is decades old in capability. The average cop, or intellectual at 
the FBI is able to wheel-deal with this stuff? Are you kidding me? Add 
to that the fact that these 'kids' hate most governments, due to their 
sell-out to mega-corps, the war is already afoot. Our last hope, imho, 
is if the US government returns to the fundamental christian value 
system, that made our country great. Greed, un-bridled, is changing the 
quality of our lives, regardless of your personal belief systems.


Besides those few and fleeting technical folks are bailing on the US and 
every major company they work for, cause there is an economic 'feeding 
frenzy afoot'.

Lawyers, Legal-type and the Lazy-wealthy, are on a crash coarse to be 
relegated to irrelevancy. A few more proxy-wars, and the public (now 
being massively educated) are simply going to ignore, bypass and hide 
from regulators.
To stay secure, that is the only, current,  pathway forward. If you knew 
just how corrupt, our evil, leaders and owners are, at the major 
carriers, it would make your skin crawl....


Half of the tech-kids inside the US DoD are already running things and 
getting ready to boot the old-corrupt general-politician types OUT, by 
exposing their corruptness. Trumps takes credit, but the real story is 
the young, elite hacks are going to be running the world, shortly. Just 
look at the myriad of new financial, digital coins in their infancy 
(bit-coin et-al).


Gentoo, as a technology, is just one enabler, of this silent revolution. 
Gentoo is the only pathway forward I see, to protect my assets, beside 
what is called 'hard assets'. Gentoo has a great, honest, trustworthy 
history, and most software stakes cannot make that claim.

Secure your bits....... and pray that Gentoo attracts the brilliant 
youth to join us, so people have hope, inspiration and return to being 
kind and generous to each other.


hth,
James