I would love to say uucp is easier than it appears at first glance, but... well, not when you put ssh into the mixture as well. a lot of the issues we had were less with the configuration of the file-exchange protocol, and had more to do with how it wasn't made to work on modern machines at all.
I mean, of course it works. it's a very simple program at heart. but it was made for computers calling each other via modem over phone lines.
#uucp by the way stands for unix-to-unix-copy, and that is what it was intended to do: copy files between different unix systems. those files soon enough were e-mails and newsgroup discussions. but they still were transmitted by copying from one system to another, until they finally reached their destination.
back the it could take days or even weeks for an email to reach the target, and people had to give the whole path between machines the email was supposed to take into the address
@lkh as I said, the idea is simple, getting it working isn't. there are a lot of small working parts that need to be configured right.
like the passwd file needs to have a tab between username and password, where everywhere else a space is enough.
and of course the documentation is spread over at least 20 year old files all over the net.
it's not like many people are enthusiastic about this particular technology (because lets face it, for #usenet#nntp is superior, for email it's #smtp)
@malin@lkh it does just try later.
We have set it up to connect periodically with each other via cronjob. A machine that's not permanently online would run its own job when it is online, build a connection and download packets for it and upload some intended for others.
Of course this all makes it necessary that machines know each other.
So many "developers produce more quantities of code with copilot" studies so few "the patterns of interleaving and retrieval change depending on active vs passive consumption of generated solutions and we have like fifty years of research on this in learning science and so maybe we can apply it to make good recommendations about the best usage of generated work output" studies
it took us a long time searching before finding our cats today.
they still are in the hiding under furniture phase and during the night found a hard to reach (and find) spot under the sofa. the only thing I saw was a moving paw as our new black cat moved further in.
@Da_Gut it's that, but also I think that everybody else is on other sites. I barely have any people here that I connected to on other platforms before. If people want to talk to their friends they often need to go where those friends are