Related from yesterday:<p><i>Mosh: The Mobile Shell</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287</a> - Aug 2021 (132 comments)<p>lots of other threads at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150719" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150719</a>
> I managed to get logged in to the SDF MetaArray, open mutt and send an email. Within minutes, the fire brigade had been called and were on their way to rescue me.<p>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.<p>Edit: Here is the clip for those who haven't seen it: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ</a> (Here is it queued up to the most relevant bit: <a href="https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ?t=110" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ?t=110</a>)
This is a good endorsement!<p>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.
Everything you ever not wanted to know about elevators.<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...</a>
> I managed to get logged in to the SDF MetaArray,
open mutt and send an email<p>Is there an easier way to set something up to contact 911 via command line in a pinch?
yea that could have gone worse<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/06/asia/china-elevator-death/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/06/asia/china-elevator-death...</a>
How does mosh do this? Would TCP with faster retransmit timers be similar?<p>I've read the explanation on the website, the github readme, the faq, but it's never mentioned how it copes with packet loss.