8/2/2026 at 3:26:47 PM
by gavide
8/4/2026 at 3:15:21 PM
I once had internet only through the wifi of a cafe that was a little ways away. As I recall the average speed was 2.5 kB/s.The web didn't work at all, but I was able to use mosh, so I used w3m (terminal based web browser) on my VPS and was able to have a reasonably pleasant time on the web.
by andai
8/4/2026 at 1:28:06 PM
Sending an email for an emergency! I thought it would only happen on IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQby opinologo
8/4/2026 at 5:30:30 PM
FWIW they did eventually implement an emergency number [1] including a jingle to help remember it.by Bender
8/4/2026 at 4:07:33 PM
And sometimes, the email bounces, and the sender dies. (Juan was a coworker of mine - this happened in 1998.)https://xana.scru.org/posts/etiamdisco/nototolaryngology.htm...
by dmd
8/4/2026 at 2:02:40 PM
What are you supposed to do if you get stuck in a lift and you don't have your laptop (or zero cell signal for example)?by sarreph
8/4/2026 at 3:07:22 PM
In the US at least, the button actually has to connect you to monitoring staff. It can be the building staff if they have 24/7 support but it usually goes to an outside monitoring company. It also has to be in a highly accessible location which is why it’s at the bottom of the panel generally. The US is kind of a stickler for accessibility and safety in building codes, despite the country’s reputation.This is an older post from the UK so I don’t know if the button was required to be connected and something was wrong or if they really can leave it as a simple alarm like that.
by Aurornis
8/4/2026 at 2:50:25 PM
I, personally, would take the opportunity to have an undisturbed nap. The thought of having no notifications and a great excuse for why I wasn’t answering sounds lovely today.by tonyarkles
8/4/2026 at 4:50:38 PM
When I was homeless and living on the streets, if it was rainy or cold I would take shelter in an elevator.This elevator was accessible from outside and nearly nobody used it, especially not at night when the shops were all closed. I did not use the Emergency Stop button.
It was not comfortable, but I could nap. I would put it on the 2nd floor, and when the housekeeping team arrived, the elevator would begin moving to the first floor and I had enough time to wake up, stand, and stroll out as the doors opened.
by ButlerianJihad
8/4/2026 at 2:52:57 PM
I can't see the lift obviously but in the movies they punch out the ceiling and climb outby pizzathyme
8/4/2026 at 4:06:06 PM
In real life, there is no maintenance hatch to punch out , because the elevator manufacturer doesn’t want to be liable for people falling down an elevator shaft or being crushed.by Jolter
8/4/2026 at 3:52:18 PM
In real life, the elevator starts working again and kills you.by DANmode
8/4/2026 at 4:35:24 PM
If you somehow manage to get on top of the elevator cab (indeed as the sibling comment points out, there is no escape hatch at the top), you will generally see a small control panel with a switch to put it in inspection mode. That turns off autonomous control and from there the cab will stay where it is unless you manually action the up/down switches (assuming the "safety chain" isn't broken - which if the elevator suddenly stops, it may be - so even those won't do anything then).by Nextgrid
8/4/2026 at 3:09:29 PM
I got stuck in a lift once. I mashed button combinations to get eventually get out. I found out after the fact you need to hold down the buttons.User interfaces are apparently hard...
by benj111
8/4/2026 at 2:49:50 PM
The predictive echo mechanism in Mosh is still the gold standard for high-latency or intermittent connections. This elevator test case perfectly demonstrates why handling packet loss at the application layer beats standard TCP-based SSH when the physical link is failing. I wonder if modern QUIC-based terminal emulators have managed to replicate this level of responsiveness without the stateful synchronization overhead.by reindeer2
8/4/2026 at 4:06:18 PM
what are those modern quic-based terminal emulators? i never heard about the concept before.by pratyahava