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  • Dusty@l.dusty-radio.comtoTechnology@lemmy.worldFree Public WiFi
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    1 year ago

    Any synopsis? Or is this just to drive clicks to your blog?

    This community seems to be inundated with just random links with no actual information added as to why I should want to click it, or what is actually at the link.

    This is a prime example. It’s simply a link to a blog, with “Free Public Wifi” as the title. Literally nothing else. No synopsis, no information as to why I should want to click it, or read whatever is written. Just an ambiguous title linking to an ambiguous blog.

    Of course it’s also cross-posted to as many other communities as possible.


  • Dusty@l.dusty-radio.comtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlLibrePlanet
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    1 year ago

    Thank you, I am quickly getting quite sick of people just link bombing communities without adding anything to say what the links actually are or do. There should be rules around it. I already block bots (which doesn’t seem to work) I guess it’s time to start blocking other accounts that do this.















  • Your definition of emergency communication is way off. Sure you can use some app for training for that situation, however it’s the least reliable way to get communications out in an actual emergency where others are actually going to hear and respond to it.

    The best communications in an emergency, are those that are the most widely used. Which would be voice first, CW second. Having to carry around a phone, to use some app that someone else has to be actively listening to using another phone that is held up to a handheld, is not how I would want to be doing things in an actual emergency.

    I also wouldn’t rely on vara during an actual emergency. Sure a it’s fun to play like using vara or a ht held up to a phone is going to help in any way during an emergency, but if you are relying on them, you are doing it wrong. I certainly wouldn’t want my life to depend on them.


  • seems awesome for recreational and emergency communication

    In an emergency, using voice or CW will be heard by a lot more people, and understood by them a lot easier, more reliably, and better than having to have an app on both ends.

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool tech (after I figured out what it actually is), but it should not be presented as useful in an emergency. In an actual emergency, the last thing that should be done is flaffing around with an app on the phone, and making sure someone on the other end happens to have the app installed as well.