WiFi doesn't fare any better than BLE under rubble unfortunately, but WiFi is going to be a useful technology to build disaster response tools in general
Patrick Collison (of stripe fame) put together a collection of historical ambitious projects that got done quickly, look into the biographies of people mentioned in there. https://patrickcollison.com/fast
If someone is looking for something similar with less hassle, let me plug my friend’s product :) https://www.inklay.app/
I’ve been using it for the better part of a year now to show the weather, a dashboard and some comics and am very happy with it, it just works and looks great too
SpaceX has no qualms launching competitors constellations, it has done so with Kupier already.
Sure the prices might not be quite as good as what Starlink gets but definitely comparable in big-O notation (especially compared to other launch providers).
the average techy has through some combination of general news like this and just enough technical know how formed an unrealistic threat model for themselves.
Not only do I agree with you, but I don’t think anyone would be able to tell an attack was imminent if they were to see the URL anyway.
I was just providing facts to the comment above that didn’t seem to think RCE are a thing anymore.
There’s apps that just scan the qr code into a text field no matter what its content is, then you can inspect the URL manually.
Unfortunately there’s a deeper problem in this security model, in that only a tiny tiny fraction of the web’s userbase knows how to assess a URL, and even experts can easily struggle
Clerk notebooks always evaluate from top to bottom. Clerk builds a dependency graph of Clojure vars and only recomputes the needed changes to keep the feedback loop fast.
Of course it’s nothing more than an organization of people promising you that they will keep the lights on for you insofar as it is feasible, but i’m not sure you can get better than that in practice
Reading trough the Jepsen analyses is also invaluable (not for the faint hearted, you might find some software that is dear to you absolutely torn to shreds in there): https://jepsen.io/analyses
Finally, all of the classic papers are worth a read: spanner, bigtable, google file system, dynamodb, chubby, dapper, the google paxos engineering paper, the main ones from Lamport… that said distributed system is a vast field, resources as far apart as the bitcoin paper or the original Shapiro paper on CRDTs might be of interest :)