u/Siletrea

got a fabric haul from a seamstress friend and I thought me being itchy was just from dust, but then I found one of these on my arm AND on the side of the bag!

zoomed in

no clue what it is! please help me identify this so I can reliably get them OUT of my home!

its absolutely tiny

I'm in west coast Canada and these things are so tiny that I'm lucky to have gotten this pic!

Hello! I started diving down the communication rabbithole looking into all of the popular LoRa systems and ways to access them, Reticulum, Meshtastic and Meshcore. I especially like trying to repurpose my older devices for newer more modern means as the "everything is obsolete after 3 years" phase were in with technology pisses me off to no end!

I personally am a artist who cannot code, I can read Python but cannot write anything despite several methods and years of attempts, I have looked into re-purposing my old CDMA flip phone (LG KEYBO ENV2) as a LoRa device but with no documentation and a hoard of people actively discouraging even looking into it? I turned my attention to my favorite traveling gaming device, my 2DSXL.

the part that got me very excited with all of this was how a Reticulum system could seemingly connect different signals to get the message across to messenger systems like Meshcore/Meshtastic through various means, with 1 video even showing "cell phone Ethernet", because thats apparently a thing?!

The second interesting part to this is that the 3DS already has something built into it that can be theoretically connected to a node to read and write messages, Streetpass and Spotpass.

Streetpass and Spotpass in working practice can send small packets of data between devices and over Wifi and radiowaves in sleep mode via device hopping to either fill your MiiPlaza with fun characters to play minigames with for streetpass, OR with Spotpass it allowed for trailers and demos and even limited time events to be available through Nintendo Zones which were made available through partnership with ATNT amongst other things.

These systems have already been decoded! and ambitious projects such as Aurorachat have a basic chat room already going through Wifi, the only thing really missing is a smart programmer with a 3DS and access to a LoRa system to connect the dots.

I have been researching this for a few months now and am certain that this is actually possible! I'd love to be proven right so I can join in on this amazing communication network.

here is all of the information I've gathered on the subject for your viewing pleasure and I hope you see the possibilities like I do!

https://3dbrew.org/wiki/StreetPass
https://gist.github.com/wwylele/29a8caa6f5e5a7d88a00bedae90472ed
https://github.com/NarcolepticK/CECDocs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpotPass_and_StreetPass
https://gbatemp.net/threads/homepass-recreation-streetpass-reverse-engineering.562161/
https://auc.unitendo.org/
and while I'm hoping noone will use it maliciously (or will hopefully patch this attack out) this does show alot about how the system works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNawOg6-EGQ

and for those interested in why I fully believe this is possible? please check these videos below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnYVh7K6xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ibr7gm8uVA

thank you for your time and I wish all readers a great day!

Hello! I started diving down the communication rabbithole looking into all of the popular LoRa systems and ways to access them, Reticulum, Meshtastic and Meshcore. I especially like trying to repurpose my older devices for newer more modern means as the "everything is obsolete after 3 years" phase were in with technology pisses me off to no end!

I personally am a artist who cannot code, I can read Python but cannot write anything despite several methods and years of attempts, I have looked into re-purposing my old CDMA flip phone (LG KEYBO ENV2) as a LoRa device but with no documentation and a hoard of people actively discouraging even looking into it? I turned my attention to my favorite traveling gaming device, my 2DSXL.

the part that got me very excited with all of this was how a Reticulum system could seemingly connect different signals to get the message across to messenger systems like Meshcore/Meshtastic through various means, with 1 video even showing "cell phone Ethernet", because thats apparently a thing?!

The second interesting part to this is that the 3DS already has something built into it that can be theoretically connected to a node to read and write messages, Streetpass and Spotpass.

Streetpass and Spotpass in working practice can send small packets of data between devices and over Wifi and radiowaves in sleep mode via device hopping to either fill your MiiPlaza with fun characters to play minigames with for streetpass, OR with Spotpass it allowed for trailers and demos and even limited time events to be available through Nintendo Zones which were made available through partnership with ATNT amongst other things.

These systems have already been decoded! and ambitious projects such as Aurorachat have a basic chat room already going through Wifi, the only thing really missing is a smart programmer with a 3DS and access to a LoRa system to connect the dots.

I have been researching this for a few months now and am certain that this is actually possible! I'd love to be proven right so I can join in on this amazing communication network.

here is all of the information I've gathered on the subject for your viewing pleasure and I hope you see the possibilities like I do!

https://3dbrew.org/wiki/StreetPass
https://gist.github.com/wwylele/29a8caa6f5e5a7d88a00bedae90472ed
https://github.com/NarcolepticK/CECDocs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpotPass_and_StreetPass
https://gbatemp.net/threads/homepass-recreation-streetpass-reverse-engineering.562161/
https://auc.unitendo.org/
and while I'm hoping noone will use it maliciously (or will hopefully patch this attack out) this does show alot about how the system works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNawOg6-EGQ

and for those interested in why I fully believe this is possible? please check these videos below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnYVh7K6xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ibr7gm8uVA

thank you for your time and I wish all readers a great day!

Has anyone ever noticed that the only real "updates" you ever get in your emails from Neopets is almost always NC Mall based? I missed several plot comic updates during the megapause and with it thousands of points and limited time items because they NEVER tell you when a new comic page drops!

Obelisk battles? radio silence
plot stuff? "entering the final chapter!" and nothing else!

Neopets has always been a off and on type of thing for me as I find things extremely stale with how broken the site seems at times, the worst part is the extreme FOMO around the only interesting thing they've done in several years.

would someone code savvy please type up something so users can add their own URL's to it so if the page thats linked in gets updated with new things, it'll give you a popup or notif?

I'd use it for knowing when patch notes get put in for some of my favorite games as well as neopet plotline comic page drops, obelisk battles, release notes, a whole bunch of stuff really!

that way I don't have to scour every inch of the site daily and can focus on the few dailies I do and some battledome training without worrying constantly that by logging off for a week that I'm not missing something super important with timeline exclusivity (like when they said the plot would resume at a set date but when I got there they had 3 more chapters released comic wise and I missed out on WAY too many goodies)

hoping someone here sees the value in something like this and makes a tampermonkey script or a firefox extension or something.

what it would need?
a icon that can show a number or something noticeable when a update occurs on the URL's
a quicklink to said URL
an easy and clean way to add new URL's or swap out old ones