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Why can't I just write this up as a PR to Firefox and stand a snowball's chance of getting it merged, though? Everything's somehow simultaneously extremely stodgy and completely beholden to whatever Google decides to ship this week.

Why don't browsers know how to render a Markdown content-type yet, all by themselves? It's ubiquitous now and it's not like it's hard to parse, but every site has to translate it into HTML itself for the browser.

Sometimes I feel embarrassed, because people see me, see that I’m female, and I worry they automatically assume I’ve got a rotting crab factory somewhere.

You can stop worrying, this never happens. Nobody is going around assuming people will probably smell like fish at normal social distances because of their sex. That's not a thing.

Do people think vaginas in general might smell like fish, like if you go and stick your nose in one? Yeah, that's a common factoid or comparison. But anybody who is looking at you and thinking of what your crotch might smell like at a distance of 2cm is not someone you want within 100m of you anyway.

If it really bothers you, take up some kind of smelly shampoo or perfume or something. Then you can know you are thought of as "the person who always smells like peaches" or whatever.

I'm going with "it's not actually harder to promote decentralized options". But they tend not to have marketing teams.

If one were to assemble an active professional marketing team for a decentralized tool, the team would be similarly effective as they would be for a centralized tool.

Isn't that because people are canceling it for some reason? I haven't kept up with it enough to form an opinion, but I understand a lot of people want to ditch the project over something they don't like about the dev(s).

But it's the same platform! They all interoperate!

Can I ask you a question?

If I was trying to use ChatGPT I would say "hi" before explaining my whole deal for five minutes because I don't want to hear "API Limit Exceeded, Buy More ChatGPT".

Of course, I would never.

Power efficiency is extremely important for an off-grid network, because it translates more or less directly into battery and especially solar panel area requirements. You need the final node design to be hoistable up the tree.

Meshtastic's not really a company exactly. MeshCore exists if you don't like it.

Semtech does IIRC have patents on and make all the LoRA chips. But the patents will expire eventually, and the LoRA chips they make are well-behaved modules that do what you tell them and not locked-down bits of nonsense that are a pain to work with. The data sheets for the modules are easy to find, and you're not stuck messing around with firmware blobs you need to load into things. You can get boards with the Semtech radios on them from a whole bunch of manufacturers. You'd be hard-pressed to find a competing radio tech with modems available at a similar price point that we "should" be using instead.

And while the ability to use any link for e.g. Reticulum is nice, it also means that without coordination you have no idea what link you should use, and so you can never see anyone because you have no idea what technology or even what LoRA channel to look for peers on.

And Meshtastic now can go over UDP anyway.

No?

I mean, how else are you meant to play the game actually?

I guess you could be like opening ports just to particular IPs. And you need a game that isn't Swiss cheese that gets immediately hacked.

But like hackers don't sort of seep in through port forwards; they need to physically identify and exploit a particular vulnerability.

In terms of the transport, sure.

But if you put the password in a URL, the user's browser is going to turn around and store that plaintext password in its history, then sync it to the user's other devices, and then pop it up on their screen in the address bar autocomplete, perhaps when the user is screen sharing or streaming to hundreds of people. The browser does not expect a password to be stored there and will mishandle it.