It's not that bad. ATZ and ATDT are the main two you have to remember. Wait, is that not what we're talking about? So, it has a confusing name too?
Why the rush? ATDP
The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
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Re: The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
#32When he was ranting about crypto, I had assumed that Bluesky had done another silly Coin or something. Nope, this is just apparently a dislike of public keys and signing messages, which seems like a great idea for a federated protocol.
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#33Any other embedded programmers or older people that remember what an AT protocol really is confused every time they see a story about Bluesky?
To be fair, anyone who's worked with cell modems knows that the other AT protocol is also an obtuse crock of shit.
That was the protocol I thought I was going to read a rant about by the title, and I was all ready to agree wholeheartedly with the author.
But it was a different protocol that I have no experience with. It might be a crock of shit, too, but it's hard to tell from that rant.
Interestingly, the original modem AT protocol was reasonable. Then as modems became more featureful, the protocol kept getting extended, and extended, and then I stopped using POTS modems and thought I'd never have to deal with it again.
Until I built my own cellphone discovered that not only does it live on, but it's been extended even more.
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#34This isn’t about AT modem commands then! Pretty interesting rant until he harped on about capitalism, and this > Criticism of Mastodon should be looked at seriously, especially when it's from black people, as this space is overwhelmingly white.
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#35It's not that bad. ATZ and ATDT are the main two you have to remember. Wait, is that not what we're talking about? So, it has a confusing name too?
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#36Any other embedded programmers or older people that remember what an AT protocol really is confused every time they see a story about Bluesky?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, anyone who's worked with cell modems knows that the other AT protocol is also an obtuse crock of shit.
That was the protocol I thought I was going to read a rant about by the title, and I was all ready to agree wholeheartedly with the author. But it was a different protocol that I have no experience with. It might be a crock of shit, too, but it's hard to tell from that rant. Interestingly, the original modem AT protocol was reasonable. Then as modems became more featureful, the protocol kept getting extended, and ext…
I’ve always wondered if a cable/DSL modem is an actual AT-style modem somewhere in there, but I’ve been way too scared to ask.
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#38I'm amused. First, that it's the AT protocol... I thought someone was getting pissy about their 45 yr old vintage 1200 baud modem. Second, that people are discovering that Twitter 2.Oh isn't truly federated but just pretends to be. The open source community's spent how many years designing a non-proprietary protocol and putting out reference implementations (and extending it to Facebook-like and Youtube-like and Wordpress-like offerings)...
But no, everyone's all just butthurt over Elon Rocketman and will accept whatever garbage anyone puts in front of them.
Re: The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
#39I'm amused. First, that it's the AT protocol... I thought someone was getting pissy about their 45 yr old vintage 1200 baud modem. Second, that people are discovering that Twitter 2.Oh isn't truly federated but just pretends to be. The open source community's spent how many years designing a non-proprietary protocol and putting out reference implementations (and extending it to Facebook-like and Youtube-like and Word…
> I thought someone was getting pissy about their 45 yr old vintage 1200 baud modem.
Meanwhile I was expecting a Linus rant about a kernel merge for it
Re: The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was the protocol I thought I was going to read a rant about by the title, and I was all ready to agree wholeheartedly with the author. But it was a different protocol that I have no experience with. It might be a crock of shit, too, but it's hard to tell from that rant. Interestingly, the original modem AT protocol was reasonable. Then as modems became more featureful, the protocol kept getting extended, and ext…
I’ve always wondered if a cable/DSL modem is an actual AT-style modem somewhere in there, but I’ve been way too scared to ask.
Some things are best left a mystery. Ignorance really can be bliss.