m_eiman

There’s Multipath TCP.

> You'll find a lot more in the ActivityPub specs, plus a lot of open implementations and helpful guides.

I've read that there's a problem with interacting with Mastodon if you only rely on the protocol specs, that they do things their own way and have different requirements than the official specs.

Is this still a problem? If it is, are Mastodon moving to be more closely aligned with the spec, or to doing more of their own thing?

> 'Disconnect from the internet' is a kind of 'Security through obscurity'; which isn't very good security.

Just think of it as a very efficient firewall.

> as an aside, you knew what you signed up for when you made Firefox your main browser

I did - a better browser than Internet Explorer. Granted, that was 20 years ago.

> I encounter colleagues conversing in Hindi, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Greek etc. Any of those conversations is one I'm locked out of, and unable to contribute to.

This is really rude of them, and it's something management should work very hard to fix. Because as you say, in addition to being rude it's terribly inefficient for the company. If they employ people from all over the world, they should probably mandate English as the only allowed language in just about any situation.

If you have speakers of different languages in a conversation or group, it's just common sense to use a language everyone can understand and use.

Yes, it's easier for Danes to speak Danish when four out of five in the group understand it, but standing around there being the fifth person who can't understand a word of what's being said is not a nice experience.

The only downside is that you'll never get any new customers, and your product will wither and die.

I remember coding im_kit on BeOS and chatting along over ICQ, AIM and others. Happy days!

I cannot read this without laughing out loud, thinking about the crap Apple has been getting for having exactly such policies in their app store.

My standard reply is "one to two weeks".

> software engineers can't estimate how long something will take with any kind of accuracy.

Sure we can, it's always one of:

- A couple of minutes

- Today

- A week or two

- Probably around a month

- I have no idea, could be any of the above or more