1
It's sort of like CB if every radio was also a repeater that passed on everything it heard, and the distances involved were much smaller.
Posted by: Rick C at Wed Sep 4 23:06:30 2019 (Iwkd4)
2
Propagation delays are horrible, volunteers supporting mesh nodes come and go, but relying on every peer does not work, vulnerable to disruption by intruder nodes, often jammed solid by congestion. At least in the U.S. every mesh is a stupid, predictable failure, unless it is bankrolled by an organization, but often even then. However, the idea continues to intrigue researchers. In Hong Kong the distances may be smaller and the mesh density greater than in typical American deployment. Also, it's temporary.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Sep 4 23:30:53 2019 (LZ7Bg)
3
If you remember truly decentralized pirac... er... file-sharing network like Gnutella, eDonkey, etc., then you know what to expect from a mesh. BitTorrent crushed all of them because its performance was thousands times better, thanks to trackers. Trackerless torrents are still as bad as the old meshes and even Bram cannot do anything about it.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Sep 4 23:33:00 2019 (LZ7Bg)
The extradition treaty is being formally withdrawn by the Hong Kong government.
Note that she refers to the 5 demands as being made by THE PUBLIC rather than something like running dog wreckers and saboteurs. While Mayor Lam nixes one of the demands (which is for what amounts to an internal affairs audit of the HK police) she yields on the Extradition Treaty and offers to parley on the rest. Which is significantly better than a bloodbath.
I'm still not optimistic, but there is now room for rational hope.
1
From what I'm reading, the biggest concern is that the Extradition Treaty is NOT withdrawn, she's only declared her intention to ask the appropriate member of the executive to move that the treaty be withdrawn in October, AFTER some media heavy festivals and AFTER people stop paying attention. And that the committee or board responsible for withdrawing the treaty is extremely unlikely to do so, as they are currently staffed by very pro-PRC members.
