Walter @walter@programist.ro

@jens, the complete healthcare IT infrastructure in UK had to be rebuilt with modern tech and, just like Signal, they've been burning ~£50m/year on maintenance.

Their first approach failed miserably at every level, but they've won the "corporate tech buzzword bingo".

Their second implementation was identical, cost only 0.1% to the 1 year mark, it was completed with 150 times less human work hours for a 10 times smaller maintenance bill. (That link also has some slides.)

@dch @info_activism

@jens @dch @info_activism, you should check the talk about replacing the NHS mainframe and how they managed to avoid huge bill on hosting and development.

Hint: It's not corporate-hype-buzzword driven development.

https://heypresents.com/talks/replacing-the-big-nhs-computer

@theruran @nytpu, commands should not have to deal with pesky human interfaces at all, the locale data is only getting in the way, most of the times. And the POSIX character set should be abolished together with related parts. With proper binary data structures, the commands don't need to process text at all. As for paths, the parts would be "objects" passed around.

This is better for security, for resource consumption and for user experience/accessibility. 2/2

@theruran @nytpu, I might borrow that last paragraph some day, it's basically the reason why I've started to research ways of ditching typewriters from CLIs in favor of some sort of structured binary data with an optional layer for humans.

I kind of got stuck at figuring out a decent compatibility layer for the standard POSIX streams and pipes, but that commit gave me some ideas to play with, and I might also find a replacement for the pesky argv. 1/2

@rigo @bortzmeyer, for those interested, there's a paper with interviews and a video presentation from one of the authors at 35c3.

Romain Fontugne, Ksenia Ermoshina, Emile Aben. The Internet in Crimea: a Case Study on Routing Interregnum: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03100247

A Routing Interregnum: Internet infrastructure transition in Crimea after Russian annexation: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9864-a_routing_interregnum_internet_infrastructure_transition_in_crimea_after_russian_annexation

@rigo @bortzmeyer, I'm halfway through the document and I've seen no mention of Ukrainian ISPs in Crimea before February 24th 2022.

So I searched for various terms, thinking that it will show up later in the document. But to my surprise, in a document about internet fragmentation, there's no mention of Crimea. I find it hard to believe that the authors didn't hear about this or didn't find it relevant. This is troubling, to say the least.