thenthenthen
4 hours ago
What is LXST? The search results are not very helpful. Edit: “Lightweight Extensible Signal Transport for Reticulum”
jalict
4 hours ago
Little more context:
Reticulum is a alternative network stack to IP-based networking. It flips quite a bit in terms of topology, enough that most known networking tech has to be re-thought.
LXST is a format and protocol made for real-streaming across Reticiulum networks. It is made by the person who also created Reticulum.
tingletech
3 hours ago
It's very interesting, I've been playing with LoRa radios and planning to take a look at it. It has rather esoteric licensing however. LXST and the sideband chat client are CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 but the main repo looks like a BSD, but with custom clauses:
"""
- The Software shall not be used in any kind of system which includes amongst its functions the ability to purposefully do harm to human beings.
- The Software shall not be used, directly or indirectly, in the creation of an artificial intelligence, machine learning or language model training dataset, including but not limited to any use that contributes to the training or development of such a model or algorithm.
"""
lukifer
2 hours ago
These were added about a year ago by the creator, Mark Qvist, and from what I understand, those terms are highly contentious in the Reticulum community, with some projects creating forks without those terms (which are then disavowed by Qvist).
I'm taking the simple pragmatic step of ignoring them entirely. I doubt either one is legally enforceable. (If I have a Reticulum search engine, am I supposed to try to detect and block search queries for "how do I make a transformer model", because that would be used "indirectly" in the creation of an artificial intelligence? And who decides what constitutes "harm"?)
I suspect something which aims to be as ideologically pure as Reticulum is also going to select for this kind of tilt-at-windmills idealism. I do recommend the Qvist's "Zen of Reticulum", which is a beautiful work of documentation as praxis: https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html