!ROOPHLOCH hackathon
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agk's diary 
4 September 2026
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written on GPD MicroPC
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A guest is visiting this weekend to teach me about
the networking approach I'm curious about for
replicating packet-radio BBS in today's world. The
keywords are LoRa, RNode, and Reticulum.

We're going to try to get something working at least
good enough for me to post something to Gopher a
half-mile from an internet access point, and maybe
manage routing serial over Reticulum before she
leaves.

She arrives sometime Saturday and leaves Monday. If
you'd like to join us as we play with weird network-
ing, I suspect we'll be at it Sunday 0800-late UTC
and maybe Monday morning.

While we work we'll probably hang out
 * in irc: libera.chat #oldcomputerchallenge
 * on Divarin's chat-centric BBS:
    telnet mutinybbs.com port 2300

ROOPHLOCH, the Remote Outdoor Off-Grid Phlogging
Challenge:

> lasts for the entire calendar month of September
> in all timezones of Earth. If you choose to accept
> the challenge, you must author *and publish* a
> phlog and/or gemlog post sometime in September
> while not inside any permanent artificial shelter
> and without plugging your device(s) directly into
> "the grid", i.e. electricity and internet access
> must not come from a socket in the wall.... After
> making a successful post, please email
> solderpunk@posteo.net with the post's URL and you
> will have the mighty honour of being added, in
> alphabetical order of handle, to the official
> ROOPHLOCH 2026 participation list at the end of
> the month!
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/%7esolderpunk/phlog






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