| ▲ | torlok 8 hours ago |
| Then get more? Sounds like a fantastic way to waste military resources. I have no clue why this mythical US military might and efficiency idea persists after so many failed interventions. |
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| ▲ | subscribed 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Here's a funny example of making it harder to find: https://youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?t=178 |
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| ▲ | bb88 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Triangulation is damn easy. If the US can put on bomb on a suspect satellite phone user back in the 2000's (and they did!), they can certainly send a bomb on that today. Sat phones during the second gulf war (maybe even the first) became a liability. The transmission lit them up like a god damn beacon saying, "Bomb goes here!". | | |
| ▲ | fragmede 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Triangulation, the math isn't the hard part. Where exactly on the continental United States are you proposing dropping ordinance? MOVE in 1985 was controversial even back then. | |
| ▲ | esseph 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good luck if your mesh network is on 2.4/5/6ghz. It'll blend in with background radiation from home routers. | | |
| ▲ | ssl-3 an hour ago | parent [-] | | It can have challenges, but triangulation can be done with signals that have recognizable patterns or features -- even in a sea of other co-channel noise sources. If you can observe the signal strength of your neighbor's home router while standing next to your own even if the signals differ in strength by some orders of magnitude (which is easy on Android; no idea bout iOS), then anyone else can also do the same. |
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| ▲ | 1shooner 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >the more people who use it, the more robust and far-reaching and reliable it gets. I was under the opposite impression, that meshtastic's whole problem is that it doesn't scale well at all. | | |
| ▲ | bigfatkitten an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Meshtastic uses naive flooding, which is fine for sparse networks (ie you and your three friends out hiking), but which doesn’t scale well at all. | |
| ▲ | culi 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm genuinely interested in learning more about the shortcomings of meshtastic if you have a link to share. Groups like the Anarchist Black Cross seem really supportive of the tech for disaster situations. Even Benn Jordan claimed it played an important role during the floods in NC | | |
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| ▲ | kevin_thibedeau 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The intervention part is an administrative problem the military isn't designed for. For the core mission of collecting intelligence, eliminating targets, and occupying land, the US has an unrivaled track record over the last 85 years. |
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| ▲ | ungreased0675 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You must have missed the S-tier op that went down January 3rd. |
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| ▲ | torlok 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | That was a single mission planned over months. We're talking about a continuous subjudagtion. |
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| ▲ | bb88 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No, just blast the hell out of the ISM bands on which they operate. This seem certainly feasible for a military apparatus the size of the US. |
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| ▲ | torlok 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm sure everybody's going to stay on ISM bands to remain compliant with government regulations while being attacked by the government. | | | |
| ▲ | esseph 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The economic impact of that would be massive re: business operational impact. Directional radios would still win out on p2p links. |
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| ▲ | kingkawn 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The interventions fail only after enormous slaughter, which people are understandably keen to not be subject to |
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