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First Yggdrasil Network release candidate in a while, will likely aim for a general release later this week.
https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/releases/tag/v0.5.13-RC.1
#yggdrasil #yggdrasilnetwork #meshnet #meshnetworking #meshnetworks #e2ee #decentralized
Philips Hue is such a good example of how good the smart home could be:
1. Their ecosystem uses industry-standard ZigBee and is interoperable with non-Hue bulbs;
2. Their v2 hub is 10 years old now and yet still gets regular updates and support for new products and is just as reliable as ever;
3. It works just fine on your local LAN, even without internet access;
4. It has a well-documented and complete API that is accessible locally.
This is what all smart home manufacturers should aspire to.
🌳 Yggdrasil Network 0.5.9 was released a couple days ago!
https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/releases/tag/v0.5.9
This is a notable release due to the addition of new link costing based on the average RTT of each peering, which should help to bring latency down by selecting better links in the vast majority of cases.
If you are running Yggdrasil, please upgrade your nodes, and if you know anyone else who is running Yggdrasil, please pass on the message to them too!
In other news, I had the remarkably depressing experience of trying to set up a new Windows 11 PC for a family member this weekend.
The amount of steps, obscure questions asked, online account requirements and nagware throughout the setup process was shocking.
It’s clear that no one in Microsoft, at any point in the last decade, has ever even tried to sit down with a real person and watched them try to set up and navigate their new Windows computer.
It’s like no one understands users anymore.
A great example of this is to try to explain what a “file” is to a regular non-technical person.
Somewhere between file formats, naming conventions, file extensions, metadata, folder hierarchies, mountpoints/drive letters and applications supporting or not supporting certain filetypes, you are pretty much guaranteed to lose or confuse them.
To those people, application-owned documents and the iOS virtual filesystem is a superpower — it works without really thinking about “files” at all.
If you were to listen to the tech folk of HN, they would have you believe that the success of the iPad makes no sense at all. After all, how could you POSSIBLY live with a device that doesn’t have a “real filesystem” or a terminal emulator?
And yet over half a billion iPad units have shipped to homes and businesses worldwide. It is undeniably a successful platform.
It’s astounding how often developers and power users completely misjudge what makes a good computing experience for everyone else.
JA Westenberg