Subj : Re: Bizarrely, Vertrauen might be my best option forsocializingintermittently online
To   : Ash
From : anthk
Date : Mon Nov 13 2023 02:20 am

On 2023-09-06, Ash <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I came to realise recently that modern day online does not work well for
> my use case. I have been getting into sailing and quickly found that a
> lot of software, social systems are utterly terrible if you have
> intermittent connectivity. Plus, when roaming, you have various caps of
> bandwidth or required to pay some rather stupidly high rates against
> data usage.
>
> People have been strongly suggesting to me I should use software like
> Discord, Telegram, Reddit app etc. But, if you've ever tried to use that
> software offline, you quickly discover that they barely cache any data
> for offline usage. If you write messages to people, you better not turn
> off your device or the drafts are gone.
>
> Older Internet was somewhat better for this situation considering there
> was a time you do dial up, then retrieve your e-mails, conference/posts,
> send any queued up items and disconnect immediately after. Then go
> through stuff offline.
>
> Vertrauen supporting stuff like NNTP and having gateways to various
> networks is pretty much letting me do that today, which is pretty
> awesome! I'm tunneling the traffic over a compressed SSH tunnel, which
> both helps reduce my traffic/speeds it up but also helps against MitM on
> the more less secure networks.
>
> Being able to download all these messages, then go offline, so while at
> sea when I have time to spare to be able to go through it, read, reply
> as wanted, and submit when near civilisation is great.

I mostly do the exact same, among RSS', Usenet and BBS threads.
On bandwidth, I remember that when I was data-capped at maybe 2GB speeds,
which was almost as fast as something between ISDN and DSL, (or close),
I just used Mosh (SSH alternative with a hardcore keepalive and bw
shaving feature) against a public Unix server and spawned slrn from that
machine. It ran really fast and with zero lag.

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