Mosh: The Mobile Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287 - Aug 2021 (132 comments)
lots of other threads at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150719
All I can think of when I read this is Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade) from the IT Crowd sending an email about a fire in the office.
Edit: Here is the clip for those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ (Here is it queued up to the most relevant bit: https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ?t=110)
Should've called 0118999 88199 9119 725 ... 3
It's kind of crazy how hard it was for him to get out of there though; I would have expected his flatmate to take care of it straight away.
There are a million reasons for them not to be available.
The more worrying thing is the alarms button seemingly does nothing
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...
Is there an easier way to set something up to contact 911 via command line in a pinch?
One could, say, connect the emergency phone that most elevators used to have, that worked, or wire the alarm to something, or... lots of options that work for "normal people" too.
Theoretically, too, the fact it was lifted at all should have triggered something that led to them calling me back; they never did. I got out by calling the fire department, since I thankfully had just enough signal
Also, special points to the 2 a*holes that ignored someone needing assistance.
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/06/asia/china-elevator-death...
I've read the explanation on the website, the github readme, the faq, but it's never mentioned how it copes with packet loss.
I would've guessed a longer timeout or UDP wrapping a custom protocol maybe.
