The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s*

Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by askvictor on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:09AM (#35885268)

Yeah, I wish they hadn't clobbered the name of an existing, well-known protocol. It's still used in drivers for cellular modems (I'm working with it right now), which are getting more and more numerous for IoT applications.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by quaintdev on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:46AM (#35885442)

Makes it really hard to search stuff. This has happened with Matrix, Go. Although using golang resolves issue with Go.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by magicalhippo on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:52AM (#35885462)

Indeed. As much as the k-based KDE app names might look or sound silly, they're mostly quite searchable due to being a tad different.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by jackvalentine on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:37AM (#35900737)

They might be searchable on the wider internet if you’re looking for info on them, but I can never remember them when I need them on the actual system.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by account42 on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:46AM (#35917087)

Your launcher doesn't find them by description or substring?

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by jackvalentine on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:34AM (#35926899)

Not reliably enough.

On my windows PC, I type ‘note’ and slam enter to open notepad a thousand times a day without a problem. On my KDE desktop ‘text’ seems to 50/50 bring up… whatever the text editor is called and 50/50 something else. Apparently “Kate” is what I’m after.

There is real value in naming things after what they do and it’s my sole gripe with KDE that they have stupid names.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by sgtnoodle on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:31AM (#35935327)

On my cinnamon setup, typing "note" pulls up the settings panel for my installed basic text editor. :-|

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by Gordonjcp on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:11AM (#35886214)

nodejs has not solved this problem with "node" which is an admittedly shitty name for a very old amateur radio networking package.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by lsaferite on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:58AM (#35887462)

I agree that 'go' has to be the worst naming from an SEO perspective. Only ones worse a single letter names. And TBH, they might be _better_ simply because they aren't a common English language word.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by sterlind on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:09PM (#35889409)

better than .net, admittedly.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by manojlds on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:58AM (#35885489)

It's a cheeky way to say @ protocol.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by detourdog on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:05AM (#35885818)

Maybe they could call it the Strudel protocol?

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by sgtnoodle on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:08AM (#35886188)

"The protocol formerly known as Strudel"?

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by contingencies on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:24AM (#35900637)

Fetus

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by detourdog on Friday May 12, 2023 @07:38AM (#35914732)

I think to use the fetus the @ should represent a kernel, object, but in a generic form such / representing the top of the tree.

I can also see the term becoming controversial such male and female vs. plug and socket. Some see the former as blatantly sexual and the latter requiring dirty mind to be sexual.

Maybe it's best to hold off on that reference until we get more voices to chime in.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by airstrike on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:17AM (#35886258)

"Rocambole" would be even easier to search for

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by detourdog on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:34AM (#35886430)

Ok, If I make a protocol I will call it "rocambole" but I will be thinking of the sand leek rather than the victorian fictional adventurer.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by airstrike on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:36PM (#35894421)

LOL I was mostly thinking of the swiss roll but I know it's only called rocambole in Brazil. It's got all sorts of names all over the world according to Wikipedia

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by detourdog on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:29AM (#35901730)

I had no idea what it was. Those of what I found one seemed plausible and the other worth mentioning.

Glad it was something else entirely. The localization for Brazil can be rocambole.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by pelagicAustral on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:31AM (#35886406)

Man! I like that name already

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by mort96 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:03AM (#35887530)

Wait it's called the "@ protocol"? I had no idea.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by cozzyd on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:41PM (#35891570)

Speaking of which, does anybody know a good freestanding C library that doesn't use dynamic allocation for the Hayes AT protocol?

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by sgtnoodle on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:32PM (#35897028)

I've certainly had to implement AT commands in C, but within a proprietary codebase.

It's tough to do in a freestanding way given that it's a command-response protocol. It's very convenient to depend on the specific uart API that's available.

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