Erlang on iPad

[Yao Bao]

> 在 2020年6月7日，19:37，Dan Sommers <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@REDACTED> 写道：
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> On Saturday, June  6, 2020, at 22:34 -0500, Yao Bao wrote:
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>> Our personal device should take full control of our personal data and communication.
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> In many cases, yes, but not all of them.
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>> Take email as an example, can we store our email in our personal device? I mean, there is no need of a mail server, for receiving email, an address is a must have option, nothing else.
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> I travel.  A lot.  My personal device(s) are often disconnected from the internet, even when I reach certain destinations, for hours or days at a time.  If someone wants to send me email, then my email provider's server holds the message until I (and my device(s)) are reconnected.  Without that server, the sender and I would have to be connected to the internet at the same time, which IMO defeats a major feature of email.  Even most SMS (Short Message Service, aka "text message") servers will store messages when recipients are not connected and forward them when they reconnect; that is an invaluable piece of the communications and personal data puzzles.

That’s why post office exists.
A post office holds mail send to us until it delivers successfully. It is very similar to how Erlang mailbox works.

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>> I have a static website and a dynamic blog hosted by a host provider. Can I do this in my computer or mobile phone? If someone wants to read my shared/published content, a program moves to my personal device and watch it.
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> Again, that's great, if your computer and your mobile phone are connected to the internet all the time.  Also, in the case of a blog, is there enough bandwidth, and do you want to pay for it, for every reader of your blog to connect to your mobile phone to read or watch it?  Do you want the responsibility of keeping your mobile phone connected to the internet whenever anyone wants to read your blog?  And what happens when you get a new phone?
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> Actual personal data is different.  Yes, there should be a way, for example, to use my credit card or my bank account to pay for an item without having to send the vendor my account information.

Yes, always online can not be accepted. And message sending should be asynchronous in most cases.
A cache might be helpful in this case, I write my data, share/publish it to a service provider, and my personal device has the root control of how it being used.
Data can move to my new phone.

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> judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked
> by the laughter of the gods.” – Albert Einstein
> Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan
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