2024-11-08 21:25:28 <veltas      > You ever think about how networking standards like protocols all seem to use loads of data and do stuff in plaintext, even though since the beginning there's been advantage to it being smaller either for working off really slow modems or just better throughput
2024-11-08 21:25:56 <veltas      > But local file formats are always over-engineered binary formats with every second field compressed etc
2024-11-08 21:29:07 <thrig       > DNS is pretty binary, but the zone files can be plain text
2024-11-08 21:31:20 <veltas      > Yeah networking standards do actually have a lot of binary stuff, but there's still a lot of plain text e.g. IRC, HTTP, etc.  It is just interesting to me
2024-11-08 21:31:20 <veltas      > It's all compressed/encrypted now anyway so secretely binary