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Mercury

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Fri Jun 26 21:59:42 BST 2020

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:13:59PM +0000, Phil Leblanc wrote:

I think this is the best summary of the overall project direction. I

quoted just a bit but maybe the whole paragraph could find its way in

the Gemini FAQ or in a Gemini "vision" document. I _did_ read as much

as I could before posting but didn't see this orientation as clearly

stated.elsewhere.

I've never stated it that way before. :) My own understanding of thesethings clarifies over time in response to other people's ideas about thedirection things should take. For which I am grateful!

Please note that my initial post was just a question: "Is this Mercury

concept still alive and are members of the community interested in

it?"

I _did not_ suggest to "throw out TLS" and made it clear in the

following discussion that my "gripe" (if I may say!) was not with TLS

but with _mandatory_ TLS.

Duly noted! I guess my reply was, implicitly, addressed at variousfolks who expressed disapproval of the TLS idea at various times.

Maybe the whole discussion got side-tracked by my SUV analogy. It was

mostly intended as a joke.

I then made the mistake of answering too seriously to your "please

disambiguate" question. I am sorry for that.

No need!

BTW I loved your "vegans carrying loads of USB keys on their bikes".

Good one! :-)

I'm not even sure I was joking! If we genuinely want to minimise"Environmental Damage Units" per byte transferred per metre per second,where EDU is a vague all-encompassing measure which incorporates CO2emissions, consumption of non-renewable resources, etc., I don't doubtthat there are certain combinations of payload size and distance where"bikenet" is actually quite competitive, especially if you replace theUSB keys with 1TB hard drives. A plant-based diet would undeniablyhelp decrease the EDU total, but it may not even be necessary tooutcompete higher tech solutions. It gets even better if you considerthat the bike is a general-purpose tool which could also transport food,medicine, etc. at the same time...

I didn't know that. I guess this is why I asked on the mailing list. I

do understand now that it is a touchy subject. I am sorry for the

noise.

No need to apologise, really!

Cheers,Solderpunk