I’ll drop this again, network layer is not really my bailiwick, but to my mind, the only thing stopping mesh networks from taking off is a lack of motivation, the tech is everywhere, especially in high density environments.

People generally don’t need the full speed of their internet all, or even most of the time, they mostly buy a speed they can afford that makes their big downloads (e.g. games, updates, perhaps streaming) more tolerable. If a mesh system could aggregate a bunch of users connections for speed they could probably buy cheaper plans knowing that when they need it they can have the speed.

Anyone knowledgeable in the ways of meshtastic or other such, does it, or anything else you know of fill this niche ? The wallet is always a good motivator…

Presumably ISPs etc would quickly make it against terms of service, but if there’s some bucks in it a lot of people won’t care…, and how can they tell?

Cheap fuckers cheaping out, shocker (context is (V)RAM). AI speedrunning enshittification, who’d of thunk.

Bad place, it’s the bad place…

You jest, but… likely profitable.

Evil.

more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.

Uh-huh, think of it like jigsaw puzzles…

That said, I prioritize ease of maintenance and simplicity, still wouldn’t expect my family to pick it up in any reasonable amount of time, nor have the motivation, more’s the pity.

I’ve moved to podman (quadlet) containers mostly, easy to read and edit, secure (mostly userspace), systemctl integration, autoupdate. I’ve done my distrohopping, fedora (in my case bazzite immutable) isn’t going anywhere, does everything I need. I run fairly lean, but have a bunch of stuff that can be spun up at a whim that I don’t use daily. It’s entertaining without being a burden, and useful stuff just happens.

Honestly, ssh and btop cover most of my monitoring needs, serious stuff gets a notify-send to my laptop. I’ve tried the web gui stuff and I don’t look at it enough to justify it, I’m not a sysad monitoring hundreds of computers, it’s just a hobby.

It’s actually traumatic (not as traumatic obviously) if you have empathy.

Oh. right…

I know, but capturing business logic in spreadsheets is a different error I didn’t want to get into here… You do what you can.

Absolutely correct, and likely the eventual outcome (tool not replacement), because LLMs are not, and very likely never will even be close to AGI (let alone techbro dreams of ASI). Code smell is a thing, and LLMs reek. It is possible to learn from codegen, but that sure as rut is not it’s purpose. mostly an excuse to drive down wages to make the rich richer.

sacrificial clauses

Very likely, great for car lobbyists (/donors) but impractical given it’s uptake. Plus tough on teens for the core demographic of miserable bastards. Pleasant fodder for the greens though once LNP goes back to Siberia for the next decade (hope, please)

Also, I don’t think they we’re expecting to be pilloried on the world stage as complete morons to the current level. It has gained some media presence,

Yup, seen it too, sucked, don’t think it’s the way forward though. Europe seems to agree, should be enough momentum.

Perhaps you underestimate people.

May I suggest Python ?

By the time you get tits deep in Excel to the point where other spreadsheets can’t hack it, you may as well be using a real programming language instead of VBA…

If you can do advanced Excel, you can do Python (and numpy will crush Excel in ways that aren’t even funny, well OK, it’s funny too).

Not to mention grammar, looking at you “we’re”.

As per Sir Terry Pratchett, a Million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten.

I find switching VPN endpoints works, bit whack-a-mole, but works. Actually I run a few with gluetun and just switch proxy port numbers.

Life is teaching you all the time (for free) if you but listen.

Especially if you’ve learned to learn, and have critical thinking, things schools should be teaching (but often avoid in favor of quickly outdated ‘job skills’ or similar because some political ideologies do better with the poorly educated).

Sure, just-in-time supply chains maximize profit at the expense of resilience, not just in agriculture. It’s long past time for it to become a legislative target for legitimate reasons of national security (for all nations). On the flip side this shock will accelerate solar hydrogen to ammonia fertilizer production, which already works fine, just needs scaling.

Iran allowing non enemy ships through Hormuz (kind of genius really) makes this pretty nothing burger except for the US and it’s allies.

Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

Jury’s out on that, they may be using the large US company play of undercut your competitors until they crash and burn then seize the monopoly (e.g. Amazon and bookstores…) then ratchet prices up and enshittify, but with the bankroll of a huge country.

That just sounds like what’s already happened with social media, Murdoch journalism and ‘fake news’. So, SNAFU…