[HN Gopher] Coming home from the South Pole
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       Coming home from the South Pole
        
       Author : sklargh
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-01-10 13:20 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | kylehotchkiss wrote:
       | I'm gonna miss these blog posts, they've been so fun. Dear author
       | if you're reading, please write some more blogs in the future.
       | Maybe you'll take a cargo ship across the ocean as a passenger or
       | something else unique and mysterious.
        
       | jedberg wrote:
       | I hate the cold, I don't like being in snow for more than a few
       | days at a time.
       | 
       | But if I were single I would seriously consider applying for a
       | winter-over at the pole based on these blog posts. It just seems
       | so interesting and different.
        
       | joshuaheard wrote:
       | "going through 14 months of accumulated postal mail"
       | 
       | As an extended traveller myself, I've found mail forwarding
       | services to be indispensable. They scan your postal mail and
       | email you the image. You can forward original documents to your
       | current location, and have them cash your checks (although I do
       | everything electronic now). If you move around a lot, like for
       | work, one benefit is that you get to keep the same mailing
       | address. I have used VirtualPostMail and PostScanMail, but there
       | are many out there.
        
         | jcranmer wrote:
         | To be fair, forwarding mail to yourself at the South Pole,
         | which doesn't receive deliveries of any kind for half the year,
         | isn't necessarily an improvement. See also the blog author's
         | previous post on the topic (https://brr.fyi/posts/mcmurdo-
         | postal-mail).
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | Back in the day there was an open officialish IRC channel from
       | the Antartica researchers.
       | 
       | Sadly I missed that.
       | 
       | Also, on the limited connection they have, mosh and IRC among
       | mail/nntp could be life savers for comms as they can be slow and
       | unrealiable. If they work under mosh against a public Unix server
       | they could discuss nearly anything.
       | 
       | On images, Imagemagick can do dithering magick and save lots of
       | bytes under a JPG/PNG format with 256 colours.
       | 
       | Also, if the goal is to send data even with connection cuts, nncp
       | can resume data packets on the fly until it finishes.
        
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