mtr VS obsidian-releases

As a reminder, Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues. You can think of it as a modern, cross platform, Rust based version of tools such as mtr, with a bunch of advanced features and a fancy TUI.

Cool project! Two suggestions, one serious, one frivolous:

- I wonder if you could get more accurate results by using TCP or UDP instead of ICMP. I think traditional traceroute has an option to use UDP, mtr [1] can use TCP or UDP, and tcptraceroute [2] can use TCP.

- This would be a perfect fit for some Talking Heads references. "And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?" [3]

[1] https://github.com/traviscross/mtr

[2] https://linux.die.net/man/1/tcptraceroute

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(Talking_He...

Run mtr, or whatever the Windows equivalent might be, and leave it running shortly before 4:15pm, and see where the traffic stops when the Internet shuts off.

Lot of great stuff here, haven’t seen MTR yet: https://github.com/traviscross/mtr

Consider using MTR (software) towards the actual end-point of the SIP connection to get a combination of traceroute and ping which will be much more revealing. This will also allow you to quickly identify if the problem is local to your equipment or somewhere along the path. Consider allowing her to join a Google Conference from Teams to determine if it is provider related. Yes, port mirroring and wire shark is the gold standard and will display the "answer" on your screen quickly but it requires skills to know what to analyze, look at and how to interpret the data.

Have you tried something like mtr to check for connection issues? I would recommand the view you get when hitting d twice after starting it (with the colored graph for latencies).

Continuing to build trippy; a network diagnostic tool inspired by mtr. There is still a long way to go but it is getting closer to feature parity with mtr.

The closest editor that follows our first principle is Obsidian editor:

The solution was already installed on both my computer and my phone: Obsidian.

> why does open source need to "win"

Open source does not need to win.

But your ability to be in control of your computer needs to be preserved. A proprietary fridge cannot control your diet, while a proprietary App Store can control what software you install on YOUR phone (unless you live in EU, hello DMA!). The tail wags the dog, so to speak. Proprietary software has also been shown to break user workflows or remove functions in an update while leaving users with no choice whatsoever.

One alternative to having open source win is to ensure software must come with a robust warranty and other assurances you expect from the things you buy. EU's CRA will make software vulnerabilities in WiFi routers covered by warranty, for example.

You can also ensure robust and interoperable data storage options. For example, https://obsidian.md/ stores all notes in Markdown, not holding the data hostage in case users will not like how future versions will work. GDPR actually has a provision for data portability (Art. 20), but it does not seem to have a requisite effect on the industry yet.

And until the above issues are solved, open source remains the best way to ensure that a software tail cannot wag your computer dog.

[2] https://obsidian.md/

So I've had my fair share of personal websites and blogs. I have built them on stacks ranging from the most basic HTML and CSS, to hosted frameworks like Wordpress and Laravel, to the more modern single page applications built in Vue and React. For a simple content blog I think you can't go wrong with a Static Site Generator though. These days I am almost exclusively writing everything in Obsidian. Which is great because its all in standard markdown format. This allows for a really neat and easy content publishing workflow.

Consider making an Obsidian[^1] plugin, or writing to Obsidian-compatible Markdown files :)

[^1]: https://obsidian.md/

Obsidian is a writing application created to allow for offline / private note taking in markdown format, in an interface that looks a lot like our regular programming IDE. It is very flexible, with a good collection of community plugins that you can use to customize Obsidian to your heart contents.

Obsidian support via our Obsidian Plugin