I've been working as a #journalist now for 10 years. I recently got the chance to sit down with #Kyoto-based #Malaysian writer Peck Gee Chua to discuss my work covering underrepresented voices, #humanrights, and climate across #Asia.

The full interview here: https://peckgee.substack.com/p/10-years-of-amplifying-voices-a-conversation

Note to Canadians:

If you have the CDCP dental plan, there is a deadline that was poorly communicated through a letter you may not have received. You have to renew your coverage in the next two hours or there may be a coverage gap. To renew, go to https://canada.ca/msca and do a whole bunch of onerous bullshit

EDIT: The deadline is in fact June 1 at 11:59 PM so in fact you had 26 hours when this post was made and 23 still. Also you can renew without an MSCA acct here https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/dental/dental-care-plan/renew.html

So, in my experience, #MeshCore > #Meshtastic and for the simple reason that MeshCore gave me the tools to diagnose and solve all the reachability problems at my house.

For one thing, meshcore makes a distinction between repeater nodes and other types of node. Rather than have every node on the network do repeating, it requires purpose-installed repeaters, with different firmware, be deployed.

You would think that would make reachability worse, but it decreases the number of hops to get to a destination, meaning you can easily get from San Diego to Santa Barbara (about 200 miles) without getting halfway up the maximum hop count.

And from my house I could easily see that there were no consistent local repeaters I could reach. So I installed one! And it had the same problem, so I repositioned it until it had multiple reliable paths out. My repeater now even provides a new redundant path from the urban areas to my South, up a major highway to the Northeast or to a mountaintop 50 miles due North.

I never had a consistent connection with Meshtastic, and perhaps I could have done the same thing, installing a solar repeater in my front yard, but without dedicated repeater infrastructure I had no way to know whether there was a sane route out. Public chats in Meshtastic for me are all one-sided with people replying to messages I never saw, and nobody seeing what I’m sending out.

In Meshcore there’s an active community and I actually get to be a part of it. I’m sold.

Former social enterprise darling Tony Meloto arrested in trafficking case

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2237175/gawad-kalinga-founder-meloto-arrested-in-trafficking-case

#Philippines #gawadkalinga