Mercury

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On Thursday 25 June 2020 18:04, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> I will reply to this whole Mercury thread tomorrow (probably relatively
> briefly), but a quick request for disambiguation, regarding the SUV
> analogy: is the objection here mostly on the grounds of prefering
> minimalism, simplicity, easier DIYability? Or is there actually an
> explicit environmental component here, regarding the energy overhead of
> encryption?

Limiting the environmental footprint of internet is useful.
For example, this site https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ will run longer without encryption...

Limiting the latency is useful too.
So light document should display directly after request.
The one request per file paradigm make latency more visible, when I click one image, it should display fast.

Encryption is very important too.
So Gemini for strong encryption and Mercury for public data or DIY static encryption seems perfect.

Not everybody have fiber internet connection and a protocol able to serv data on limited network is valuable.
http://www.rowetel.com/?p=7207
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/26/lora-mesh-network-with-off-the-shelf-hardware/


freD.