Yeah dream on. I’m an engineer and know what structured data is. And yet I miserably fail to store my private files in a way that I can find them back without relying on search tools. So how on earth are we ever going to organize all the world’s data and knowledge? Thank god we found this sub-optimal “band aid” called LLMs!
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bkummel commented on Start your own Internet Resiliency Club bowshock.nl/irc/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Mesh networks are the foundation - they are essential to disaster resilience. Then what services to run over them ?
Real time chat: wild unsecure simplicity proven to run anywhere (IRC), bells & whistles with contemporary security (Matrix), some mesh native that almost no one knows ? What about post-disaster onboarding of actual users ?
Store & forward messaging: SMTP & friends may work nicely, but with actually distributed servers - in each local disaster POP. Also needs timeout and retry parameters to keeping stuff in queues practically forever.
Forums: anything better than ol' NNTP ? Other protocols merely adopted intermittent indirect connectivity - NNTP was born in it !
Is anything more sophisticated or more interactive realistic for actual disaster ?
An onboarding kit with clients for each major OS (à la AOL CDROM !) might be handy too, for snearkernet distribution over USB dongles.
I think the point of the article is not to use that mesh network as a replacement for internet. I think the author's idea is that the mesh network would provide the "resilience club" a communication channel while they work on recovering the regular internet.
bkummel commented on Start your own Internet Resiliency Club bowshock.nl/irc/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Mesh radio bandwidth is pretty poor. Firstly, you have to compete with many interferers (albeit this might get better if the power goes down), including other LoRa radios, but more to the point, long-distance connections consume bandwidth and aquire delay and delay variation at every intermediate hop. It might be reasonable to use it for text messaging, but with per-hop bandwidth ranging from 0.3 kbps to 27 kbps, which will get divided down further over shared multi-hop links it will be impractical to use it for anything else except perhaps very-low-bandwidth telephony over short distances or visiting minimalist text-only websites.
It might make more sense if augmented by fixed multi-megabit point-to-point microwave radio links to act as a backbone, with LoRa only functioning as an access network.
I'd be interested to hear what experiences people have had with doing this for real.
I think the point of the article is not to use that mesh network as a replacement for internet. I think the author's idea is that the mesh network would provide the "resilience club" a communication channel while they work on recovering the regular internet.
bkummel commented on Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one heyopenspot.com/... · Posted by u/fliellerjulian
I'm awful at faces, but I'm worried about leaving myself open to a possible liability
Yeah, let's focus on the liability, let's cover our ass. Instead of worrying about what this headshot thing really is about: giving everyone a fair chance by factoring out possible discrimination based on gender, race, haircut...
bkummel commented on Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers mackow.ski/blog/cot-the-r... · Posted by u/m4tx
Frameworks that do “everything” are not a good idea. I’m from the Java ecosystem. Spring is the “batteries included” framework there. If you have migrated any real world application to a new major version once, you’ve learned forever that “all in one” frameworks are bad. Please don’t do it!
Instead, use scaffolding tools, that give you a head start on creating a new project, using smaller, specialized libs.
Also, don’t use an ORM. Just write that SQL. Your future self will be thankful.
bkummel commented on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop tech.slashdot.org/story/2... · Posted by u/mraniki
bkummel commented on Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/ShaneCurran
This seems random and contra intuitive. The article is also confusing, containing a section on how to set a solid color as a background, while that is actually what causes the issue...
Hear, hear!
bkummel commented on Making Beautiful API Keys docs.agentstation.ai/blog... · Posted by u/savannahkc
I'm not sure whether the result is more readable than a UUID. With a UUID you at least know that it can only be [0-9A-F]. Besides, who on earth _types_ API keys? You should copy/paste them and store them in a password manager. So they don't _need_ to be readable.
bkummel commented on Making Beautiful API Keys docs.agentstation.ai/blog... · Posted by u/savannahkc