necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

This only works if your environment is bare metal to begin with. In some cases you may be in an environment where a lot of applications are proprietary, virtualized, or otherwise constrained in some other way. It is not an environment where you get to pick and choose how everything is setup. In such a case, having a distinct small application that fits as "an OS" in a virtualized environment can fit a lot better in, than trying to retrofit a baremetal containerized environment into a large enterprise datacenter where everything is already running Windows servers and proprietary services, managed by other people than yourself.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

> While recording the versions of all packages used is a step in the right direction, an even more comprehensive solution is to package up the entire environment using something like Docker, or to use online computation, such as Google’s colaboratory notebooks.

An even better way would be to describe the environment using Guix with channels or something similar accompanying the code, or a Nix flake or any similar environment descriptions with fully fixed dependency chains. Docker can be _forced_ to use a fixed version, but any `apt update` will ruin that completely, and both Nix and Guix are tools that on top of providing these environments for executing code with the same set and versions of tools, also provide the ability to generate container images that can be shared.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

If you want some of the ergonomics and DX of Rust, but in a GC'd language, OCaml (the language also used to implement early Rust compilers) might be more the path to be taken. Great tooling, handlings errors in sensible ways, and pattern matching, allows you to move business logic faster and focus on shaping data rather than transforming the bytes of them.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

To be clear, I am all for self hosting stuff, but it needs to be in a proper, affordable, standardized package that can be kept secure and useful. A phone is NOT that.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

The article doesn't make sense. It can technically work with a bunch of dynamic DNS systems. An IPv6 address isn't fixed to your device like a MAC address is.

Even assuming it would be doable, it would be a security nightmare, and we'd end up relying on some centralised systems anyway lest we burden the internet with absolutely insane amounts of continual p2p discoveries.

If you want a personal website, why not use a service like neocities? It's free, and just lets you go ham with static content. Don't feel like writing HTML pages manually? Make a TiddlyWiki and upload that.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

SMTP is as much a protocol for sending as it is for receiving. IMAP isn't a "receive emails" protocol, as much as it is a "manage mails on a server" protocol.

I'm not sure if people working with these protocols have built applications implementing their specifications before, but they should. It affords you a much better picture of why these protocols are designed as they are, good and bad.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

SMTP and XMPP do not exactly accomplish the same goal, nor have the same intentions. Sure, they both overlap in areas, but they're both interfaces (protocols) for implementation of tools. Tools that are suited for certain jobs.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

If I was hiring a network technician, I definitely wouldnt hire someone who didn't know what ARP is. It's too easy and fundamental to the field. It took all of like 3 weeks at the trade school I attended to cover IPv4, MAC, ARP, basic routing protocols, TCP, and UDP, and we were definitely chilling. Understanding those things isn't complicated. You just need to know what computers are, and what "networks" are, then it all very easily clicks into place.

necrophcodr

3 years agodiscuss

That reason could well be that the hardware doesn't support it, or that it is too slow.

With that said, if the hardware cannot what is required, and SoM chips are required, then... Maybe better hardware should be used.

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