- I once had internet only through the wifi of a cafe that was a little ways away. As I recall the average speed was 2.5 kB/s.
The web didn't work at all, but I was able to use mosh, so I used w3m (terminal based web browser) on my VPS and was able to have a reasonably pleasant time on the web.
- Sending an email for an emergency! I thought it would only happen on IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ
- And sometimes, the email bounces, and the sender dies. (Juan was a coworker of mine - this happened in 1998.)
https://xana.scru.org/posts/etiamdisco/nototolaryngology.htm...
- FWIW they did eventually implement an emergency number [1] including a jingle to help remember it.
- 0118 999 881 999 119 725
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i hate that my memory is turning to absolute mush but i think i will always be able to recite this from memory
- I got stuck in a lift once. I mashed button combinations to get eventually get out. I found out after the fact you need to hold down the buttons.
User interfaces are apparently hard...
- Would love to use Mosh but https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120
I acknowledge SSH auth requests with my security key backed ed25519-sk ssh key. Something that wasn't even on the radar back when they closed this ticket. (Just like their "solution" guardian-agent is no longer on the radar.)
- What are you supposed to do if you get stuck in a lift and you don't have your laptop (or zero cell signal for example)?
- In the US at least, the button actually has to connect you to monitoring staff. It can be the building staff if they have 24/7 support but it usually goes to an outside monitoring company. It also has to be in a highly accessible location which is why it’s at the bottom of the panel generally. The US is kind of a stickler for accessibility and safety in building codes, despite the country’s reputation.
This is an older post from the UK so I don’t know if the button was required to be connected and something was wrong or if they really can leave it as a simple alarm like that.
- I, personally, would take the opportunity to have an undisturbed nap. The thought of having no notifications and a great excuse for why I wasn’t answering sounds lovely today.
- When I was homeless and living on the streets, if it was rainy or cold I would take shelter in an elevator.
This elevator was accessible from outside and nearly nobody used it, especially not at night when the shops were all closed. I did not use the Emergency Stop button.
It was not comfortable, but I could nap. I would put it on the 2nd floor, and when the housekeeping team arrived, the elevator would begin moving to the first floor and I had enough time to wake up, stand, and stroll out as the doors opened.
- I can't see the lift obviously but in the movies they punch out the ceiling and climb out
- In real life, there is no maintenance hatch to punch out , because the elevator manufacturer doesn’t want to be liable for people falling down an elevator shaft or being crushed.
- In real life, the elevator starts working again and kills you.
- If you somehow manage to get on top of the elevator cab (indeed as the sibling comment points out, there is no escape hatch at the top), you will generally see a small control panel with a switch to put it in inspection mode. That turns off autonomous control and from there the cab will stay where it is unless you manually action the up/down switches (assuming the "safety chain" isn't broken - which if the elevator suddenly stops, it may be - so even those won't do anything then).
- Discussed in 2021:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157117 (34 comments)
- The predictive echo mechanism in Mosh is still the gold standard for high-latency or intermittent connections. This elevator test case perfectly demonstrates why handling packet loss at the application layer beats standard TCP-based SSH when the physical link is failing. I wonder if modern QUIC-based terminal emulators have managed to replicate this level of responsiveness without the stateful synchronization overhead.
- what are those modern quic-based terminal emulators? i never heard about the concept before.
