I first thought it was a 1st April joke. But the date is wrong.

Didn't run it (yet) but it looks nice. Great that some people are still able to optimize code! I'm wondering if this would run on actual hardware (VGA + a sound card supporting MPU401 emulation)

I ran a patched version of it on WinXP (DOS NTVDM), the sound works there! But it requires a few extra bytes to enable MIDI UART Mode first. On DosBox-X, this can simply be set in the config ;)

We're gonna find that Claude Mythos can do something like this in 255 bytes

Optimizing away one byte of this, given the source code? Yeah, could happen. Making a good 256 byte demo from scratch? No way.

I mean, give it a try?

the source is right there ;)

I mean now that the (human written) source for this is out in the wild, of course it can ;)

I'm using an ancient Canon Selphy photo printer... on Windows 11 without any issues. Using the Windows 7 64-bit driver, worked basically out-of-the-box. It's definitely not officially supported, but to date it works totally fine.

Huh, interesting. Is the driver built in to Windows, downloaded from Canon, or acquired some other way?

TBH the web app story on Windows isn’t ideal anyway because you have to install Zadig before it will work.

I think I downloaded it from Canon 5-6 years ago. It should still be around I guess, but I can share it if needed.

EDIT: you can find it here for example: https://asia.canon/en/support/0100304802

This was sarcasm, right?

Why would you assume it needs to be? You don’t think that websites on the Internet might not want to allow random bots and scrapers to waste their resources, and require people to have an account in order to access non-static resources on the website? You do realize that API keys exist, right?

Just put a Google Voice line behind a FreePBX or Asterisk and you get all the call filtering you want. You can even make your internal numbers or whatever.

I first found the Tin Can cool, but now seeing their privacy policy, it's definitely nothing for me. I'd just use a normal VoIP cordless phone (e.g. Gigaset makes various models), or even a normal corded phone with a VoIP ATA. Some of them might even have integrated whitelisting, but I didn't check.

Is there such a thing? Given it's radio waves in regulated radio spectrum, I'm not sure such a device would even be allowed to operate without a license. This said, there are 3G Nokia dumbphones (e.g. C2-01). I just had to stop using one because my operator tore down the 3G network here, like in most of Europe. (2G was already down since some time).

Edit: there are even 4G-VoLTE dumbphones by the way.

Internet traffic today is estimated to be a few tens of exabytes per day. Even if you assume 100000 Starlink satellites (we're far from that), each satellite would have to handle hundreds of terabytes per day. That's tens of gigabits per second per satellite, assuming traffic is split evenly among them (will never happen in real situations).

Starlink V3 can pump out some seriously impressive speeds and handle thousands of clients. Starlink is both a great leap forward in rocketry and radio technology. I do still think funny how we are going back to the pre war technology tree for a re-visit

That's not even sufficient to handle the needs of a single large city. The limitation is that even with the much larger constellation they hope to deploy there won't be enough satellites visible at once from any given large metro area.

(1988)

Apart from actual support on real networks, isn't this the problem IP multicast was supposed to solve ages ago?

Yep, it's similar to multicast but L7.

But a huge difference is that there's a plan for congestion. We heavily rely on QUIC to drain network queues and prioritize/queue media based on importance. It's doable with multicast+unicast, but complicated.

That one seems to be an RPC framework, whereas the other one is for PHP applications... maybe an unfortunate name clash, but they don't do the same thing nor anything I'd call similar.