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  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.ziptoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•< :-( >English
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    12 days ago

    Greek-Latin question marks

    Actually the Greek question mark (;) looks like the Latin semi-colon (;)!

    Last time I looked it up I think I found they are the same characters, and I tried compiling C with a Greek question mark instead of a semi-colon and it compiled fine! But I’m curious if it was because of something else, like my computer’s keyboard layout, or the compiler simply being able to handle them 🤔

  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.ziptoMeshtastic@mander.xyz•Cross State CommunicationEnglish
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    4 months ago

    What is “too far away”?

    Hmm, you’re right, I guess I don’t mean the distance of the link by itself, but rather the fact that the number of hops and the dependence on central (?) high-power long-range nodes limits how far a message can go

    While technically a mesh network, I’m not sure that with 3-7 hops it provides the benefits of one; in theory, just by being mesh it should be able to have a much larger (unlimited?) reach, just like the Internet.

    Instead, from what I understand, user nodes are recommended to not participate in the routing, = they are just clients, but by being “mesh” they would be expected to actively participate in the network.

    In this sense of “peer-to-peer”, we could say that my ISP is also a peer, and if it lost the connection to all other ISPs it could still continue working within the reach of its infrastructure, = my ISP is off-grid as well, and my connection to the ISP is independent since they own the fiber

    Instead, I think the focus should be on building a distributed mesh network that is resilient and can’t be taken down by the failure of a couple of nodes. Similarly, with the dependence on LoRa radios: if e.g. the import or usage specifically of LoRa™®© chips is banned, the nodes who chose to use alternative technologies would not be affected and the network could continue to operate normally

  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.ziptoMeshtastic@mander.xyz•Cross State CommunicationEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Hello, sorry for the random question, but I’m new and still trying to understand the benefits of joining the network and how it works

    What is the point of a network that:

    • Is off-the-grid but can’t connect nodes that are too far away
    • Is independent, but forces people to use LoRa which creates a dependence on LoRa-licensed radios
    • Is decentralized, but obviously needs few centralized higher power backbone nodes in order to function (e.g. in this case)
    • Is peer-to-peer, but from what I read it’s recommended to not have your node accessible at all times (or have it read-only?) in order to not have the TTL expire
    • Cannot connect remote networks together, but also can’t bridge them in some other way

    Is the main use case just connecting e.g. a couple of sensors on a remote farm a few kilometers away from your house, and have 2 neighbours relaying the messages to you along the way? 🤔 Why does that need a decentralized peer-to-peer network if it can just be done by simple repeaters?

  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.ziptoTech@programming.dev•Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot featuresEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m not sure I understand the people in the thread advocating for the feature; they’re asking Microsoft to not have features that are hostile to the users?

    If the managers have decided they don’t want you, and they only want vibe coders and to force AI hype on you, why would you do their job for them and try to persuade them to keep their monopoly…

    Just accept that it’s bad and go somewhere else; 😕 the fact that people are used to using github and that “it’s what everyone uses”, doesn’t mean that people should stay there forever, or that Microsoft would care about the feature requests people make; stop threatening to leave or comparing github to codeberg etc, and just go create a codeberg account and start git pushing there today 🤔 (And maybe keep the github projects but only use them as mirrors for accepting PRs etc)

    (I’m not saying this in a hostile way; but I really think the solution is to just go and do sth else about, it instead of trying to reason with Microsoft)