This matches my recollection. Easily repeatable development and test environments that would save developers headaches with reproduction. That then lead logically to replacement of Ansible etc for the server side with the same methodology.
There were many use cases that rapidly emerged, but this eclipsed the rest.
Docker Hub then made it incredibly easy to find and distribute base images.
Or like there is an expectation companies will treat your information with respect and act with integrity. It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer about how they will act before they do.
> It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer
It is basic market dynamics that the harder you make it to enter a market, the more reluctant entrants will be. Whether the regulation that makes market entry more difficult is "good" or "bad" is simply irrelevant.
I am in favour of the middle ground. Rather than expending effort self hosting email, which while plausible is unequivocally a heavy lift for most, make use of smaller providers such as Fastmail or Protonmail. Just please stop consolidating the internet.
After using gmail for around a decade, I switched to fastmail a few months ago and have been extremely happy with the change.
I still have a lot of accounts associated to my gmail email, but i've been slowly migrating things over when convenient. It has been a much smaller lift than I anticipated and absolutely worth it.
I am also going with Protonmail, not because I can't setup my own server, but because I don't want to take care for yet another server, whose loss (be it by hacking or by my mistake) would be catastrophic for my whole digital life. I will rather pay to somebody else who know what they are doing.
Pretty cool. I wish Meshtastic had more focus on routing and a way to safely do store & fwd. It’s difficult to actually mesh well with it. I run a few solar powered higher altitude nodes and provide reasonable coverage but I’ve observed many messages never reach their destination.
Looking at their GitHub there are some things upcomming
- They want to make device telemetry opt-in. This will cause the network to be more quiet
- A few patches ended up in master for handling corner cases of their flooding and next-hop routing algorithm
- There's also a merge request ("Add packet replay feature") which maybe can solve the reliability problem
Currently bigger Meshtastic networks are very very unreliable. I almost cannot traceroute a device that is one or two hops away. And our channels are not very saturated (10-20% ChUtil).
It would not. We would need to make a case to add Meshtastic. Amateur radio has had a much better chance since the days of the Space Shuttle. Astronauts routinely make ISS to Earth contacts with amateur radio operators. There is also ARISS.
Correct. Developed by the late Bob Bruninga. I had many email exchanges with Bob and we were able to send SSTV images through his NO-* series of amateur radio satellites with some technical advice a few years ago.
APRS is much more extensive and even available via commercial ham radio
Because he’s not a locksmith, he is a contracted technician that performs duties in the illegal absence of a building super. There are more details to my case that will just make your jaw drop more but I chose to keep focused on the fundamentals. And yes if I owned the apartment I would not want property management having a key. However I include that detail to indicate how poorly managed my building is without listing off 10 other things.
Completely agree. It’s worth spending time to experiment too. A reasonably simple chat support system I build recently uses 5 different models dependent on the function it it’s in. Swapping out different models for different things makes a huge difference to cost, user experience, and quality.
