Mercury

[Phil Leblanc]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:08 PM defdefred <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Limiting the environmental footprint of internet is useful.
> For example, this site https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ will run longer without encryption...

Right.


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

Yes. But as Solderpunk just said, the whole industry is marching
towards more efficient and integrated solutions to these: reducing the
energy consumed and the latency  -- ... at the expense of ever more
complexity.   Having a look at Early Data and how to safely use
pre-shared keys (PSK) in the openssl documentation just made me cringe
:-)

> Encryption is very important too.

 Yes it is. And Gemini / Mercury could be a great playground to
explore alternative options.

> http://www.rowetel.com/?p=7207
> https://hackaday.com/2020/02/26/lora-mesh-network-with-off-the-shelf-hardware/

Cool!!   thanks for the links.  I am sure more and more hobbyists and
hackers will develop interesting alternative network solutions. I
think Gemini/Mercury could be a great fit in these new spaces.

Phil