The Internet Times

Today I want to take a look back at where we were just a decade ago.   I’ve recently dug into my personal archive of notes —the actual scripts and research I prepared before every single broadcast at Radio Trelew Noticias . If you look at the metadata and filenames, you’ll see the timeline of a world in transition: from the screeching sounds of dial-up modems to the birth of the "phablet" .   To give you a better feel for the atmosphere at the station, check out this video of us in action at the studio . Sitting at that table with Meirion and Romina , we tackled the "future" every week. Here is what we were talking about:   1. The TDA Revolution & The End of 3D We spent a lot of time explaining Televisión Digital Abierta (TDA) . It was a massive social plan for Argentina, using the ISDB-T (Japanese-Brazilian) standard to bring high-definition, free-to-air signals to everyone . We helped listeners understand that they didn't need a new TV—just a decoder . Ir...

Lately working with Lora device I have learned that we are really close to create big impact changes with relatively little investing.    I've started my mesh during a research to communicate my postbox with my Home Assistant setup. In all the apartments where I lived this really got me; I wanted that when the post agent left something for me it should notify me somehow. This could have been because I've worked far from my place, or even because otherwise every time I need to go check it. During this mission I only counted with a bunch of ESP32s that could be used for communication using WiFi, Bluetooth and ESPnow. That's awesome but unfortunately not enough.  Suddenly when looking for sensors for other project, I've found SX126X and SX127X which are modules for LoRa communication. And pretty cheap ones!    2022 I've got some Heltec V1 (Stockholm)   Is good to mention that this technology uses ISM which basically is that the states provide a license-free b...

A screen that tells you when the next train is coming, built with the same complexity as a Mars mission. It all started on the blue line to Kista , riding Stockholm’s Tunnelbana. Half asleep, I was staring at the glowing “next departures” board when it hit me: "What if I built one of those for home?" Sure, I could’ve just opened an app like any normal human, but I chose the long, slow, bug-ridden path. Naturally. A while later, for my birthday, Roberto gave me a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W . Why? No idea. But clearly, it was fuel for my urge to overengineer things. With that little board in hand, my fate was sealed. Weeks later, we went to a Hopsworks meetup in Södermalm. Being a good Scandinavian tech event, it was full of beer. And not just any beer— Hopsworks has its own craft beer line , with labels that look like they came straight out of a DataFrame. Absolute chef’s kiss. They were showing how they use the Trafiklab API to feed an AI model that predicts public transport del...

A lo largo del tiempo, como Argentinos fuimos encargados de llevar la política a nuevos espacios. Fuimos pioneros en debates abstractos, generamos discusiones de todo tipo contemplando todos los aspectos y aristas que un tema puede encontrar. Así y todo íbamos olvidando gran parte de nuestra gente. Así y todo nos íbamos blindando del otro. Así y todo, conseguimos ser de mente abierta pero tan cerrados para no entender que hoy no es ayer, para no entender que somos muy distintos y debemos vivir juntos. Nos dimos cuenta que ni la distancia ni las rejas nos separan del todo. Que la "necesidad" se hizo compleja, y que los derechos son un reflejo de esta nueva lucha de clases. Podríamos asegurar que el conflicto es lo nuestro, y que no sabemos cómo resolverlo. Así y todo es nuestra misión llevar paz y construir. Así y todo debemos saber que no somos tan diferentes, y que esa distancia que generamos no es más que una diferencia de potencial o voltaje político. Todo nuestro ...

June 27, 1950, in Czechoslovakia is executed at 49 years the defender of women, lifeguard, parliamentarian, lawyer and mother  Milada Horáková. Milada started in politics at an early age, in 1929 she was a member of the Czech National Socialist Party, during the Second World War she was sent to a concentration camp by the National Socialist regime. After the war returns to Prague with her husband in May 1945. After the "t" in which the Communists take the power of parliament, Milada resigns in protest, also refuses to be bribed, help persecuted politicians to escape the country and rejects the idea of ​​exile. This defiant attitude of Milada soon alarmed the communist government that imprisoned her for 3 years, led to a controlled trial in which she defended herself saying: "Nobody in this country should die for their ideas." However, although personalities such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein wrote letters to the president...

Until a few years ago the citizens of Peronia were famous for something they know how to do very well playing football, survive inflationary crises, and since the proclamation of Pancho as pope they are now also known for this fact. Bergoglio has been very controversial in his speeches and in his way of approaching international politics, he has been received as a lover of  human rights, but rejected some people that come from countries where the most common thing is precisely having their rights violated. What is his scale of values? 
 It is not surprising that Bergoglio has a very critical stance towards capitalism, competition, the free market, individual freedom and the pursuit of our own ends. He always makes us see he condemns private initiative and boosts that so common word in Peronia: social justice. 
 Social justice is a very trendy word in Peronia, encompasses everything that is "right" and at the same time does not define what is justice or what part of s...