Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communication

Re:Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communication by myself248 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @12:33PM (#26926167)

I feel like every such project should be asked to justify its existence by explaining why it's not actually identical to some other similar project. Reviewing the existing literature might save a lot of repeated work.

Even if the answer is "the community that runs this one is friendlier", hey, that's a valid differentiation, okay. But seriously, there are ten bazillion wireless meshes now, what makes this one worthy of anyone's attention or effort?

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Re:Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communication by montroser on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:53PM (#26926865)

Justify to whom? If you put in the research and work to build a thing, you get to have it exist.

Even if there are already similar projects, each next one may end up with a novel variation that could contribute to the broader understanding. Or even if not, even if it's just like all the others, it still has value for those learning from being involved.

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Re:Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communication by zamadatix on Saturday April 24, 2021 @02:05PM (#26926960)

To the people these pages are for, doesn't seem like they were built and spread for the author's own reading. Not that "I wanted to build my own to learn" isn't justification as well or wouldn't let people know what's special about it one just can't find such information in the pages.

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