CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@sundogplanets

In the South of the US, we called the noontime main meal "dinner", and the main meal at 6pm was "supper". We drank a lot of tea, but did not have a customary time called "tea".

Outside the South, "lunch" is the noontime main meal, and "dinner" is the main meal at 6pm.

In Brazil, we once saw a small restaurant called "Lanches Makdonaldo", which I took to be "Lunches kinda like McDonald's", but I just learned "lanche" is kinda like NZ "tea".

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@c_merriweather @knowprose @BenjaminKlein @info

Interesting! Or could do something similar with (modified, or from-scratch, with extra features) walkie-talkies maybe?

@c_merriweather @knowprose @BenjaminKlein @info

Just looked at Wikipedia and that's all I know of Meshnet, but it does sound like the kind of thing.

@knowprose @c_merriweather @BenjaminKlein @info

Yes, that could be it.

@Cyberbeni @BenjaminKlein

I'd forgotten about Meshtastic and MeshCore (never knew much about them, anyway). I was thinking of something stealthy, designed to avoid established (and monitored) infrastructure and protocols. A network that would assemble adaptively and then be gone in a flash. It seems like a very difficult thing to do, in view of how the spectrum is so intensely partitioned and used, so maybe it's just impossible.

Just daydreaming, by a mostly ignorant guy.

@BenjaminKlein

Or maybe to create a new kind of "peoplenets", letting groups of like-minded folks set up small, loose, evanescent networks? To communicate via relayed signals between cheap, low-power, unregulated, not-commercially-monopolized radios? Kinda like the Internet was visualized, way back when, but for little folks to use, not the ellisons or the emperor's troops? Secure and encrypted?

Great sci-fi story idea, eh?