RE: 2. American civilians and East Asian overlords

LoRa and BLE are communication protocols that are used in the IoT 'smart' device technology. If you are a programmer of such devices I would expect you to be familiar with them. If you're not I would not be surprised you were unfamiliar with them. Reticulum is a new radio mesh network being developed to enable communications between individuals without depending on communication infrastructure owned by corporations, that those corporations can control how people communicate.