This is what IPFS is for. Instead of linking to a location that would be way far away off planet, it links to the content which could very well be cached on planet or on a relay station closer. Sure, one person has to pull it down from the incredibly far away place, but once it’s pulled down at least one time, everybody else pulls it from the more local version that that person has. However, though, timeouts will need to be increased. Maybe not to some insanely stupid amount, but they will need to be increased somewhat.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 days ago
Ive had this thought for a while.
If humans ever go to other planets, its going to be VERY hard to keep software up to date without some serous thought and relay stations. The speed of light is a hard restriction.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
This is one of the reasons why I preach against Electron apps and the “storage is cheap” argument. Additionally, it may also be really expensive for people in 3rd world countries to buy storage.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Maybe Microsoft will let us have local accounts again?
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Microsoft will absolutely not be making it on the interplanetary scene.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
2880 is the year of the Linux desktop?
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Instead of sneaker-net it will be rocket-net… and at a certain point you need an
on-premon-planet support team to just figure things out.
frongt@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Local mirrors and caching proxies.
I’ve worked in an environment like this. We had a local server for Windows and Mac updates. Direct updates were blocked. It’s a solved problem, you just need developers to participate.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 days ago
Interesting. The article seems to claim otherwise? How would Paul have fixed the issues he was coming across? If you had to, say, do Windows/Mac updates in the current architecture, how would that work? I thought those were hard set by MS/Apple?
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
They’re not required if you disable or block them. In an enterprise environment, you deploy a local update server, like I said.
As far as your personal devices are concerned, though, you’re on your own. If your iPhone refuses to do something because it wants an update, you’ll just have to wait to do that thing until you get home. We don’t have the bandwidth to spare.