Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire

Testing out running a SimpleX`SMP` and`XFTP` server once again. Trying to see if my woes of having it build on non-x86 (on ARM in my case) will work.
Let's hope.
#simplex

2025-03-21 12:17:17

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In relation to this, the`gogga` logging library now depends on version`dlog` strictly greater-than-or-equal to`v1.0.2` as that is where the fix for`dlog` has been made.
Commit details: https://github.com/deavmi/gogga/commit/37b8af6f47b72669bfb037b07d069943ef465a53
Release commit: https://github.com/deavmi/gogga/commit/eec50f0921e280ca6ea4e2e0d79bb8a7b82743f4

2025-03-21 11:16:11

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Eddie Money goes hard.
I wanna go back, is a good song too.

2025-03-16 12:40:10

Okay, I think I have a good temporary solution to the VLAN trunk link between my garage lab and my room lab.
Wired Ethernet it is again - now monitoring it!
#homelab

2025-03-15 14:37:12

Got my very first listing up on XMR Bazaar - ready to take orders!
🌐 Listing: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/btb9/
#xmr #xmrbazaar

2025-03-15 13:10:12

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Agreed

2025-03-15 13:00:41

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JSON cope

2025-03-15 10:51:05

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I used to have it wired, and I think I should return to that setup

2025-03-15 10:50:16

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NPU and TPU are the same, no?
Frigate seems neat

2025-03-15 09:57:50

I need to do something about my garage link <-> room lab.
The WiFi link just ain't working that well and I am under the impression that the placement of my access points ain't good.

2025-03-14 23:09:07

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🤣

2025-03-14 21:32:23

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Is that a Heltec?

2025-03-14 20:05:18

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What 🤣

2025-03-14 18:41:56

Eu sou um rapaz inteligente 😎
https://nostr.download/ff0fc40f76ea1510aaf8bd5572ac6806e688cb47e1b06b9be8eb8200f32db4dc.mp4

2025-03-14 10:41:03

Coding big stuff teaches one about architecture and really let's you put all your learnt theory of concurrency, design patterns, threading, API design etc. to test. In doing so you end up learning what your style is and also what works in certain cases and within those same cases what won't work.
You'll often iterate on the design several times till it feels right, after which you'll maybe redesign sub components as well.
Feelsgoodman.

2025-03-13 17:31:26

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Dude, what a bitch she it

2025-03-13 15:17:01

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Thanks my man!

2025-03-13 15:01:11

How to convert hex to nsec with nak?
#asknostr #nak

2025-03-12 20:05:27

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And BTC to XMR and alternatives

2025-03-12 20:03:21

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Oh, neat!

2025-03-12 19:36:13

🌐 New blog post out: IPv6 Nostr relays for the masses!
Read it here: https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/nostr/
#nostr #ipv6

2025-03-12 19:25:03

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My router gets hit with SSH attempts.
It's hilarious.
That and also people seemingly trying to fudge /cgi-bin/luci :-)

2025-03-12 17:41:57

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Yeah he is a bot, he has replied to me before. Defs LLM

2025-03-12 17:34:11

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Ah, it does work!

2025-03-12 17:01:06

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I will do some further testing at home

2025-03-12 16:17:53

What is the name of the developer who works on 0xchat?
#asknostr

2025-03-10 18:09:52

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Non privacy coin

2025-03-10 17:44:17

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Certo!

2025-03-10 15:49:07

Cooking https://nostr.download/ef7b2861512598dbbe2742395745c7c7d65e09c6b4a4c36bffcc4ab0174c0417.jpeg

2025-03-09 13:44:22

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Awesome, thanks!

2025-03-09 13:37:58

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Thanks man!

2025-03-09 13:37:53

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Yooo, try again!
Fixed it

2025-03-09 13:27:35

Trying to figure out why my relay won't perform NIP-05 verification on me.
Can y'all check my profile and see if your client sees my profile as verified?
#asknostr

2025-03-08 20:26:42

Banger
https://l-imperatrice.bandcamp.com/album/tako-tsubo

2025-03-08 20:06:05

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Segurament bro 🤣

2025-03-08 15:53:12

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The other diaspora, like Mozambique, pretty much speak mainlander Portuguese.
Other than some blacks which may speak Pretoguese

2025-03-08 15:51:52

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Porque, eu dou 🤙

2025-03-08 08:49:25

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Não

2025-03-08 08:48:20

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Voters obviously hardly decide what they want 🤣

2025-03-07 22:16:06

Faxx
#nevent1q…z8ez

2025-03-07 22:08:47

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Trump doesn't care about Americans either.

2025-03-07 20:23:35

The+Tom+Woods+Show:+Ep.+2595+The+Myth+of+Social+Justice
Episode+webpage:+https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tomwoodsshow/woods_2025_01_17.mp3
Media+file:+https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/35/arttrk.com/p/ADCT2/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tomwoodsshow/woods_2025_01_17.mp3?dest-id=227196

2025-03-06 21:12:00

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This looked like sentences. Not a bulleted list 🤣🤣
Was a whole ass manuscript

2025-03-06 18:40:28

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Feel sorry for the boyfriend.
It's so over.

2025-03-04 16:26:32

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That's quite funny 🤣

2025-03-04 16:25:11

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What are you making?

2025-03-04 16:15:55

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Flux is a infra provider for running many things, Simplex Queue Servers included, it just happens to be funded via a crypto token.
That is like saying it is bad if people host SimpleX on Amazon because Amazon acceots US dollar tokens.

2025-03-01 09:29:56

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Your implication is that you need to be "lead" by those mere mortals

2025-02-28 22:13:34

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I can give you nots but I won't agree on maximalism.
Only maximalism for the Lord.

2025-02-28 22:11:25

Not Biden
Not Putin
Not Zelensky
Not Trump
Not Bolsanro
Not Lula
Not Bibi
Not Hamas

2025-02-28 14:54:03

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Thanks for the info!

2025-02-27 14:13:03

@nprofile…zp3l How do Zaps work with Coracle?
NWC or?

2025-02-27 13:50:50

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War is so dumb

2025-02-26 15:46:43

A recent build I put together for work
#dlt645 #electronics https://nostr.download/9606916862157080e89d5207ab43f5b07b84be4854a905db6907489f74f5e48e.jpeg https://nostr.download/8845af0f1ffb5bbc143fb7b2e7d68de309b546aa60c1186883ad3c92a156006c.jpeg https://nostr.download/6d35ba6ac0ee4ab546c4d6e845ec6902ec3f56cd8e5a7ba4f881279bb5e7b953.jpeg https://nostr.download/cc7faf07771255bf63da9e4d25a5ad089fd44ba5310a525709f80a5de4063a77.jpeg https://nostr.download/ef7b2861512598dbbe2742395745c7c7d65e09c6b4a4c36bffcc4ab0174c0417.jpeg https://nostr.download/db93d713575019b5f1f77c303c5d88c1b898a0a070c1257ba6526001472412ac.jpeg https://nostr.download/65057fa5249789a5add175e0306772f4cce6a907b4078aff40e5ed7fc8b83e4a.jpeg

2025-02-14 06:21:05

Blossom test
https://nostr.download/9162a4e6d9114a5a90cd60b5a081d5138813d4ecaf71715b5701b7336083b6f7.jpeg

2025-02-13 21:02:26

2025-02-13 20:36:57

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Brazil maxxing

2025-02-11 16:01:04

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Well, give me a follow then - I won't dissapoint!
My blog has a feed at /blog/feed.rss I believe - I also post here on this account (nostr)

2025-02-09 16:06:55

Great stuff this
https://soprani.ca/
#sip #xmpp #pstn

2025-02-09 09:06:28

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Yeah the Hollywood view where everything must be explicitly stated is something I have thought of as well.
"We are now at war" versus noticing things.

2025-02-08 21:14:27

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Long standing alliances 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

2025-02-08 19:25:11

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Keep being facetious.

2025-02-08 19:24:45

This looks promising
https://jmp.chat/esim-adapter

2025-02-08 19:02:18

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Will be good for me to be able to place local politicians in compromising positions

2025-02-08 16:52:43

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Let me know what you think :-)

2025-02-08 16:33:35

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SimpleX me

2025-02-08 14:25:51

Considering writing a book on "Radical networking"

2025-02-08 12:34:49

🌐 Part 2 is out: If you're into cool graphs them you'll like this one
Article: https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part2/
#lora #rnode #ipv6 #babel
https://image.nostr.build/c97e875564d4e902053d0064983b5c8c5375d1c47dbcc54a124712300dd2ab1c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c97e875564d4e902053d0064983b5c8c5375d1c47dbcc54a124712300dd2ab1c.jpg

2025-02-08 12:26:48

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Sell hardware?

2025-02-08 12:25:21

# Why?
Because in the [last post](https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part1/) we did it and now I want to continue working on it.
# What?
In part 1 we got setup with two RNode's running in their TNC (terminal node controller) mode. We were able to turn these into virtual networking interfaces that would appear on both $node_A$ and $node_b$ as `tnc0`.
## A new topology
What we now want to do is to introduce a third node, $node_c$, which will be placed into the following topology:
![](diagram.png)
What we want to setup this time is the following:
1. Every node from $node_a \space ...\space node_c$ should be running an identical Babe configuration as we showed last time
2. $node_a$ must be in radio range of $node_c$
3. $node_b$ must be in radio range of $node_c$
4. There should be **no** radio overlap between $node_a$ and $node_b$. We don't want overlap as we want to force traffic from $node_a$ to travel _via_ $node_c$ in order to reach $node_b$ **instead** of going directly from $node_a$ to $node_b$.
## Hardware
For this we will be making use of the [LillyGo T3S3](https://www.robotics.org.za/development-boards/esp32-lilygo-boards/H596) for each of our three nodes:
![2025-01-12-16-41-17.jpeg](https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part2/2025-01-12-16-41-17.jpeg)
In terms of antennas I will be making use of [these](https://www.robotics.org.za/communication-wireless-Industrial/antenna-866mhz/YN-868MHZ-5DBI) antennas. They seem to perform rather well and are easy to mount on any surface that is magnetic - which will probably make testing easy for accomplishing the topology shown prior.
![2025-01-12-16-41-40.jpeg](https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part2/2025-01-12-16-41-40.jpeg)
# Setup
## TNC
Firstly, plugin each RNode and then run the following command. After each successive command unplug the current RNode and plug in the next RNode:
```bash
rnodeconf /dev/ttyACM1 -T --freq 868000000 --bw 250000 --txp 20 --sf 8 --cr 6
```
After this each RNode will be placed in TNC mode.
Next, let us start up our TNCs. Run this on each node:
```bash
sudo ./tncattach /dev/ttyACM1 115200 --ethernet --ll -vvvv
```
## Version of babel
For these tests we were using the `1.13.x` series. Anything where the the $x$ in `1.x.y` is different is incompatible.
You can build `babeld` with the following:
```bash
sudo apt install build-essential -y
git clone https://github.com/jech/babeld
cd babeld
git submodule init
git submodule update
make
sudo make install
```
## Babel
Firstly, let's revise what the Babel filter should be per each node. This should be saved to a file named `filter.txt`:
```
redistribute local ip 0.0.0.0/0 ge 0 deny
redistribute local ip fd00::/8 ge 64 allow
redistribute local ip ::/0 ge 0 deny
```
Now let us start Babel on $node_a$ and $node_c$ like this:
```bash
sudo babeld -d 5 -H 5 -c filter.txt tnc0
```
We start Babel on $node_b$ like this so that we can expose the control port which `babelweb` will use in order to get routing information from:
```bash
sudo babeld -d 5 -H 5 -c filter.txt -g 3001 tnc0
```
Let us also start `babelweb` on $node_b$ with the following:
```bash
./babelweb2 -static bweb/static/ -node [::1]:3001
```
We can confirm it is running by visiting `http://localhost:8080/` in your web browser.
# Testing
Let's begin testing.
## Assigning some addresses and _making some routes_
Let's assign the following addresses to the `tnc0` interface on each of our respective nodes:
1. $node_a$
a. `fd20::1`
2. $node_b$
a. `fd20::2`
3. $node_c$
a. `fd20::3`
b. Note: We don't need to do this for forwarding to work, the forwarding address used is the link-local one and that is used for link-layer (MAC) address resolution when constructing the Ethernet frame for forwarding
We can do this easily on each node as such:
```bash
sudo ip addr add <ip> dev lo
```
Yes, I am adding it to `lo` - it doesn't matter. The address just needs to be assigned to _some_ interface in order for it to be assigned to the host (and of course picked up by babel for advertising). **Also**, it is a full `/128` that will be generated. We are not doing any sub-netting at each router where hosts behind it are non-babel nodes - therefore this is perfectly fine for our use case. Our assumption is that each host _is_ also a router.
## Tests
Here we do some tests.
### Test 1
The antennas used were:
* $node_b$ long-pole
* $node_c$ long-pole
* $node_a$ magnetic-base
In this test I, $node_b$ (my laptop), was sitting next to $node_c$ and as we can see from the tests, it appeared that I had direct reachability to both $node_b$ and $node_a$:
![image.png](https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part2/image_1736510131867_0.png){:height 379, :width 659}
### Test 2
The antennas used were:
* $node_b$ long-pole
* $node_c$ long-pole
* $node_a$ magnetic-base
Here I got up with my laptop ($node_b$) and then moved to the middle of the house, effectively between both antennas.
We can see a few things start to happen here. The neighbour relationship between my laptop ($node_b$) and $node_c$ stopped, the hellos being sent by either router were not being received. It is via this mechanism that reachability will drop every 5 seconds (when an advertisement is not received within the `hello_interval` then the reachability starts to drop at each time window):
![image.png](https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part2/image_1736510330941_0.png){:height 362, :width 659}
We can also see from above (and below) that the new routes for $node_b$ got installed. Meaning that in order for $node_b$ to reach $node_c$ it must first go through $node_a$. In fact we can see this here in the ttl values (purple ones):
![image.png](https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part2/image_1736510463846_0.png)
It seems the tests were a success! 🎊️
# Automation
## Startup executables
We can neaten up things a little to make our setup more automatic. By this I mean automating the startup of `tncattach` and `babeld`. This can be accomplished with a systemd unit (on SystemdD systems of course).
Create a file named `/etc/systemd/system/tncattach.service`:
```
[Unit]
Description=tncattach
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/tncattach /dev/ttyACM0 115200 --ethernet --ll
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```
Create a file named `/etc/systemd/system/babeld.service`:
```
[Unit]
Description=babeld routing daemon
After=tncattach.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/babeld -H 5 -c /home/deavmi/filter.txt tnc0
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```
Make sure to adjust any paths above including **binary executable paths** and **configuration file paths**.
Now run the following commands to start both services now and install them into their target - of which will be the target that runs on boot-up:
```bash
sudo systemctl enable --now tncattach
sudo systemctl enable --now babeld
```
## Automating addressing
Let's also have the IP addressing automatically configured.
On $node_a$ create a file in `/etc/netplan/lo.yaml` with the following:
```yaml
network:
version: 2
ethernets:
lo:
addresses:
- fd20::1/128
```
On $node_c$ create a file in `/etc/netplan/lo.yaml` with the following:
```yaml
network:
version: 2
ethernets:
lo:
addresses:
- fd20::3/128
```
As for $node_b$ (which is my laptop) I will not be automating it.

2025-02-08 11:26:38

🌐 IPv6 with Babel over LoRa? "You must be crazy", she said.
⚡ Anyways, here it is: https://deavmi.assigned.network/blog/ipv6_over_babel_part1/
#lora #rnode #babel #ipv6

2025-02-08 10:41:11

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Bahia 🖐️

2025-02-08 10:25:48

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He's crazy.

2025-02-08 10:20:17

Voyager cannot handle big Markdown posts.
#voyager #asknostr

2025-02-06 18:31:17

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Nice, thanks man!

2025-02-06 18:26:01

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And the voting?

2025-02-06 18:23:10

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Check again?

2025-02-06 18:18:32

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Let me know if it works please :-)
My profile should be updated, maybe opening it again on your client should pull it agaib

2025-02-05 16:48:22

Almost done with my reticulum article.
Now just the section on interface models remains!
#reticulum

2025-02-05 16:46:44

Regarding Palestine, Trump just says the quite part out loud.
I can't believe what I heard but I assumed it was coming. It's just quite hard when you actually hear it.
You hear of business interests that plan to build in Gaza (which is fine if it wasn't being done on private property that has prior owners - the many Palestinians), so I guess when you actually hear the plans - it hits you.

2025-02-03 21:13:44

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Manifest

2025-02-01 21:25:25

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Oh and also graphviz, or whatever it is called.

2025-02-01 17:19:32

Having weird problems with Docker and Reticulum in certain cases.
Debugging that this weekend, if I finish that then the tutorial will most likely come out sooner.
I can't publish something broken.

2025-01-31 20:21:25

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I don't use it. Only reticulum

2025-01-31 18:02:40

So load shedding is back 💀

2025-01-29 18:29:03

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Talk about monovision

2025-01-29 16:00:32

Getting back to Reticulum and Nostr stuff now, setting up my machine that will be my node - amongst other things.
Will take some time.

2025-01-29 16:00:04

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Nice, you got a website?

2025-01-29 14:53:09

Been toying around with Bitcoin and LND (Lightning Network Daemon) ⚡
I've learnt a good amount so far, but there's still more to learn.
#bitcoin #lnd #lightning
https://image.nostr.build/33b86045583ad8fe2ea97075f35a19b9d7e9d69632a4311781add9d5ee1b4b84.jpg

2025-01-29 10:22:49

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Niice

2025-01-29 10:22:37

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Bom dia

2025-01-29 10:22:22

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Frikken amazing

2025-01-29 10:22:14

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Lightning nodes picked up on this and the Bitcoin then was in the confirmed wallet balance

2025-01-29 10:22:01

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A then did some mining to process mempool and get that tranaaction done and into blockchain

2025-01-29 10:21:46

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(Its in mempool)