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Re: "engineering for slow internet"
Xcl is the convention for naming Common Lisp implementations -- sbcl, ccl, cmucl... Looks cool, although I prefer to stay away from clouds...
Jun 04 · 12 days ago
@stack: it makes sense to stay away from cloud providers that you do not have control over, for obvious reasons. But, of course, in this case I self-host my own slcl instance on my own hardware, so there are no privacy concerns here.
For me and my family and friends, slcl has been a lifesaver. Nextcloud would otherwise hog as many resources as it could and clog the whole machine on simple operations, like searching a file or displaying thumbnails.
@xavi Yes, of course! Congrats on making a useful tool and thank you for making it available (and not using some insane language of the day).
engineering for slow internet — this text tells details about how is it to use modern web with limited internet. gemini & geminispace would be useful, given the current bloat of the web. but it's not all, the engineering of many day-to-day tasks, like system updates, are done by the assumptions that the internet speed is high. also, it is interesting, that when the space is not densely populated, it doesn't worth to invest in that space, even if it is a cyberspace. (: