Why can’t I just write this up as a PR to Firefox and stand a snowball’s chance of getting it merged, though? Everything’s somehow simultaneously extremely stodgy and completely beholden to whatever Google decides to ship this week.

Why don’t browsers know how to render a Markdown content-type yet, all by themselves? It’s ubiquitous now and it’s not like it’s hard to parse, but every site has to translate it into HTML itself for the browser.

Sometimes I feel embarrassed, because people see me, see that I’m female, and I worry they automatically assume I’ve got a rotting crab factory somewhere.

You can stop worrying, this never happens. Nobody is going around assuming people will probably smell like fish at normal social distances because of their sex. That’s not a thing.

Do people think vaginas in general might smell like fish, like if you go and stick your nose in one? Yeah, that’s a common factoid or comparison. But anybody who is looking at you and thinking of what your crotch might smell like at a distance of 2cm is not someone you want within 100m of you anyway.

If it really bothers you, take up some kind of smelly shampoo or perfume or something. Then you can know you are thought of as “the person who always smells like peaches” or whatever.

Isn’t that because people are canceling it for some reason? I haven’t kept up with it enough to form an opinion, but I understand a lot of people want to ditch the project over something they don’t like about the dev(s).

But it’s the same platform! They all interoperate!

Power efficiency is extremely important for an off-grid network, because it translates more or less directly into battery and especially solar panel area requirements. You need the final node design to be hoistable up the tree.

Meshtastic’s not really a company exactly. MeshCore exists if you don’t like it.

Semtech does IIRC have patents on and make all the LoRA chips. But the patents will expire eventually, and the LoRA chips they make are well-behaved modules that do what you tell them and not locked-down bits of nonsense that are a pain to work with. The data sheets for the modules are easy to find, and you’re not stuck messing around with firmware blobs you need to load into things. You can get boards with the Semtech radios on them from a whole bunch of manufacturers. You’d be hard-pressed to find a competing radio tech with modems available at a similar price point that we “should” be using instead.

And while the ability to use any link for e.g. Reticulum is nice, it also means that without coordination you have no idea what link you should use, and so you can never see anyone because you have no idea what technology or even what LoRA channel to look for peers on.

And Meshtastic now can go over UDP anyway.

In terms of the transport, sure.

But if you put the password in a URL, the user’s browser is going to turn around and store that plaintext password in its history, then sync it to the user’s other devices, and then pop it up on their screen in the address bar autocomplete, perhaps when the user is screen sharing or streaming to hundreds of people. The browser does not expect a password to be stored there and will mishandle it.

It sounds like this is the free service charging to access data you already gave them with the expectation it would always be available later. And which might not exist elsewhere.

That’s not fremium, that’s ransomware.

What it is is my attempt to avoid the nonsense biannual massive Ubuntu upgrades.

Really I’ve got “Siduction”, an ostensible distro “based on” Debian Unstable. This is accomplished by just having the Debian Unstable package sources in there, plus a couple others that give you pretty themes.

I expect Debian Unstable to occasionally ship me broken packages, but I’m surprised to have it just generally not have functional migration solutions when the setup goes through major changes. Not because there’s a bug in something, as far as I can tell, but because nobody engineered anything.

dist-upgrade must die.

I spent like three hours I didn’t have the other day trying to bring a Debian Unstable system up to date, it decided to stop every few packages to tell me it failed because the t64 libraries conflict with the regular ones and nobody taught apt how to figure that shit out for me and install the right ones.

Even Ubuntu is like “oh hey there’s a new release, you’re available for three hours straight to, every two to fifty minutes, explain to a TUI dialog that you don’t have an opinion, right? Oh also can you resolve this merge conflict on this config file we think you edited, but you didn’t, by being shown the diff once and then opening nano?”

This is not an acceptable way for this to go.

So I can’t be directly bezos@aws?

If the password is going in URLs you already have a problem.

I saw NTSYNC and was obligated to reply with the complementary 90s boy band.

How the Backstreet Boys Taught me to Code

I’ll chime in that posting to a community with about 12 subscribers is not very fun. But then that’s why we have vigorous cross-posting.

Why do you think people got so into T posing?

Still waiting on the improvements to BACKSTREET_BOYS to get merged.

Often to a fault. Sometimes building the packages that make up the distro requires software that is only available and packaged for that distro.

That cop is about to shoot that dude already in jail