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> Transferring files shouldn't involve that central server, so you'd need to establish a direct connection between the users That's exactly what Galene does when a user requests a …

Nice design, but that's the kind of functionality that's best integrated within a chat or videoconferencing application, since within a conference you can be pretty sure that you s…

WHIP (RFC 9725) is a standardised media ingress protocol: it serves to stream audio and video to a network server, and is supported by a number of media distribution systems. PipeW…

> Would you treat an image of the US House of Representatives the same way? No. The right analogy is an image of the Reichstag with Nazi banners.

> There are plenty of legal uses for a fully automatic AR-15 Such as?

> UTF-8 is not locale independent. The encoding itself is locale-independent. Some algorithms (rendering, casing, hyphenation etc.) depend on the locale. This is unlike the older p…

That was a long time ago. Traditionally, character's under Unix were encoded in a locale-specific manner: ISO 8859-1 in Western Europe, ISO 8859-2 in Eastern Europe, EUC-JP in Japa…

> we had many publications about it I'd be interested in learning more, but the links you provide are just advertising copy. Could you please provide links to actual technical arti…

That's not my experience. Users naturally get frustrated when I break the software that they rely upon, and sometimes they use strong words, but the resulting conversation is almos…

It will probably depend on whether NPUs are universally available in smartphones, and whether we get a standard API for accessing NPUs. But I don't know whether AI-based codecs can…

> One of the interesting usage of AV1 was specifically for low bitrate calls, and software encoding was perfectly fine, even on mobile. You really want hardware decoding on mobile,…

> For most people, 500M is probably fine. But once you have a few family members, each streaming 4K movies to their devices, You must have a very large family. To saturate 500Mbit/…

> Then I got a manual audio cassette recorder and thought "Woah, I don't think it gets better than this!" That's not how I remember it. By the time we got data cassettes, we knew v…

> On average, proprietary programs are not better than open-source programs, but usually worse, because they are reviewed by fewer people and because frequently the programmers who…

> Didn’t Microsoft somehow ruin Dr DOS? They added some obfuscated code to Windows 3.1 that made it refuse to run on DR-DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

Alternate app stores are still allowed. It's just that they are restricted to applications signed by developers who have paid a tithe to Google. Google are obeying the letter of th…

> I’m aware of alternate mainframe OSs but I’m not sure how common using one was. Extremely common at major universities and research centres. CTSS, ITS, TENEX, Multics, Unix and e…

> how does [100BASE-TX] save power vs [1000BASE-T] running at low throughput? 100BASE-TX uses just two pairs (lanes), one for sending and one for receiving. 1000BASE-T uses all fou…

>> You could have messaged an entire organization or department > This is a mailing list. The way I understand it, the layering is different. In X.400, multicasting was a feature o…

> IETF wants a working open source implementation before standardising. I don't think that's IETF policy. Individual IETF working groups decide whether to request publication of an…

One datapoint: at least in practice, it used to be impossible to delete an entry in the French INPI database (trademarks and company names) without eIDAS. It forced me to unearth a…

The ecosystem. The language is lovely, but dune/opam is not up to the standard of the Go or Rust build systems, and the set of useful libraries is somewhat skewed. Whenever I write…

There's nothing more humiliating than a Warsaw taxi driver who looks at you as you try to work out how to operate the door handle and says "Panie!" with a left-bank accent.