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Since NASA demonstrates it is possible to keep servicing software on a 50 years old hardware, traveling into space far far away, I want someone to buy software and original tooling rights for the Nokia 1100. Then prepare a firmware upgrade for the variant with WAP capabilities to replace them with a more modern, very optimized, stack and have it installed on the (millions of) remaining devices. Then deal with carriers convincing them to provide ad-hoc 2G CSD service. Finally setting up internet services for the puny device. One can always dream.

With recutils csv2rec I have my invoices list.

With recutils recsel | recfmt -f template.fodt I have my invoices.

soffice and curl to generate .pdf s and email them off.

With recutils recset I have my invoices status updated. Done.

Minimalist vps, download the executable, copy and paste apache config, activate and you are good to go. With certain providers you don't even need to buy a domain.

Personal, small and medium sized projects are 99% of all projects.

You are a big name --> don't need GH for followers and contributors. You are a small potato --> GH gives way more followers than contributors.

CI/CD is not good on GH either.

At this point the problem is discovery. With a federated search engine the actual forge host would not be an issue anymore.

Can we have Scott Forstall back now.

I wonder if delegating LiFi to do downstream and very narrow bands of Wifi for upstream would solve congestion problems. As example if existing smartphones could receive LiFi signal with current front facing sensors.

Ceramic heater replacement anyone?

It has to present text lists, tables and small icons. Makes mobile Safari crawl to a halt. With multi gigahertz, multi core cpus and hardware accelerated js. It is pathetic.

I came to realize spending few minutes every so many years to cast a vote in between the purchase of that great massage gun and groceries shopping, for party members who have been extensively vetted and not by you, doesn’t entitle to any control. Democracy is simply the most successful strategy to make believe into fairness and reduce costs of exercising power. With the capability to excise taxes and leverage them into debt that will always be repaid, one way or another, until the last citizen breathes government is, and always was, the greatest business of all times. Corporations who invest at every level, all the time, to make a buck do buy control. Mostly proportional to their investments into the wheels of government.

Substack.

WP also has better integration with Microsoft services. Was it a key factor after abandonment of Microsoft Alternative project few years back?

It still is https://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/users/verification/global/gefs...

You have clearly never spent anything but holiday time in a underdeveloped county. If ever. You won’t draw similarities otherwise. Completely different standing points.

Small codebase. Must be on GitHub which kills my browser and is used to train Microsoft LLMs? As an Alt-something kind of service they could spend the additional (small) effort and switch to something more suited. Chisel as example is currently hosting development of the entire Arcan framework, IPC system and all UI implementations on top of it. I believe Chisel would be more than capable to properly serve Ygg dev ops as well.

I remember Notes subtly replicating the texture of paper. And text being drawn black, not some shades of gray, with effects to maximize, and not reduce, readability and fidelity. Then Scott Forstall was gone.

I was referring to looking at a display to be timely informed about an event, crossing the threshold out of acceptable air quality, that can occur at any time of the day. If air quality is consistently bad you don’t need a measuring device but a good air filter. If instead it is not then relying on constantly looking at it is a poor solution.

To be honest, if you have to look at a display to be alerted about bad air quality it’s likely either you know about it already or you are needlessly obsessing. Either way it is the reason I built a service to remote push notify myself. Peace if mind.

Thinking about when I had to upgrade my elderly parents from ADSL to FTTC, because of old apparatuses being scheduled for decommissioning, often wondering why regulators went down this path. Forcing CPEs replacement when, especially for tens of millions of elderly users, enabling ADSL2+ Annex M would have been sufficient. Most FTTC apparatuses are backward compatible with ADSL2+ and only transmission power auto backdown is necessary. To prevent degradation of neighboring VDSL signals.

My parents have now 150/30 Mbps. Totally unaware of it.

With battery powered scooters, battery powered mopeds, battery powered quadricycles, battery powered cars and battery powered buses zipping around I believe big oil and power corporations keep up investing into the hydrogen complex system just as an additional avenue to sustaining their representatives in politics. Who can contribute offsetting all of those investments by keeping up the flood of public subsidies to gas, diesel and all other revenue streams of their sponsors.

Indeed. Guaranteed capacity for FTTH in the EU is often 0.1% or so of peak. Consistent with your answer.

I am not sure maximizing throughput to gigabit and beyond is materials efficient though. Fig 33 shows energy efficiency is squarely on the FTTH side anyway: https://europacable.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Prysmian-s...

A software update completing download in an hour instead of one minute often doesn’t lead to any practical difference. The same number of users is being served but the latter requiring gigabit class CPEs.

Alas it does offer some up selling opportunities. As promoting Cat 6 or even 7 cables to home users.

I read about “future proofing” and “expansion” possibilities of one’s fiber connection. And related user equipment.

My story is in the opposite direction.

We and everyone else in the neighborhood had symmetrical 1 Gbps installed about 15 years ago. We all paid the ISP for the top tier of full capacity.

During Covid decided to take inventory of our actual bandwidth needs.

Anything that can be deferred doesn’t count. Gone from instant bandwidth requirements are all cloud backups, OTA OS upgrades and apps updates. They need to complete overnight. Overlapping is not a requirement.

Videos are automatically played at 480p or less on iPhones, 720p or less on iPads and 1080p or less on HDTV. We purposely didn’t buy 4K TV because at our viewing distance has no benefits whatsoever. Aggregate peak bandwidth required here is 25 Mbps at a stretch. That is also enough for my wife to work from home.

We don’t deal with large datasets or raw videos over the internet.

So we found ourselves with one cable connected TV and the usual assortment of mobile devices connected to one WiFi 4 1x1 hotspot. At 70 Mbps we never noticed any loss of quality in our digital lifestyle.

After about ten years we replaced the hotspot with one capable of WiFi 5. An overkill but needed the extra port.

Eventually convinced the ISP to lower our subscription to the lowest available tier of 200 Mbps. We don’t notice any difference. We could afford the extra bandwidth. But don’t see the benefits of it.

My understanding is EBA’s RT1 is enabled by SEPA Instant CT. Itself an industry lead initiative under ECB oversight. ECB is tiding things up with TIPS by evolving the specifications and also providing the service directly in central bank money. At a much lower price.

TIPS represented more than 50% of all TARGET number of payments at the end of 2024: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/payment_statistics/large_val...

Beyond TARGET, ECB noted repeatedly the reliance on international card schemes for electronic payments and card transactions in the EU. The latest report restating that accounted for approximately 61% of euro area card transactions in 2022: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr2502...

In the first half of 2024 SEPA Instant CT accounted for 15% of the total number of credit transfer transactions processed by euro area retail payment systems: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/stats/paysec/html/ecb.pis202...

With the harmonisation and almost free nature of ECB TIPS, becoming mandatory for all European payment service providers by the end of 2025, that figure will keep growing: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/intro/events/shared/pdf/fs22...

I don’t speak French but BdF presents a side by side comparison: https://www.banque-france.fr/fr/a-votre-service/particuliers...

As far as I understand SEPA ICT was developed by the Euro Payment Council. An industry body. ECB TIPS, albeit maintaining compatibility with the scheme, provides an harmonised service across the entire Eurosystem and beyond.

They are mostly based on previous generations SEPA DD and CT. Italy’s Satispay as example. ECB TIPS further improves on that.

Hopefully ECB’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) service will enable the same widespread adoption. With a price of 0.002 euro per transaction it’s guaranteed to become the most convenient solution.

Where is Scott Forstall mark in all of this evolution I wonder. He was responsible for adapting macOS, hence XNU, to iPhone. The most successful Apple product of all times. And where is he now?

They discovered sipping espresso with friends and neighbors. Weird. But Substack gained some clicks I guess.

Care to expand?

Also I often wonder what the aggregate statistics of `top` load average and standard deviation looks like over billions of consumer devices over time.

Sorry to intrude with something unrelated. But YC closed the earlier discussion. Saw your comment about Kannel WAP of few months back and wanted to ask if do you know of any WAP Push full service provider still in operation.