miniblog.

In LSP, a position is represented as a line number and a column offset (in Unicode code units): https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#position This is pretty elegant. You'll get the correct line regardless of encoding bugs, and the editor already knows the line number so it's cheap to compute.

Neither Spotify nor Skype use peer to peer functionality any more. Are there any consumer apps that still leverage P2P designs? Has bandwidth just become so cheap that it's unnecessary?

Blackbird: a desktop PC with zero proprietary blobs! Running the Power ISA (like PowerPC), although it's not cheap. https://www.osnews.com/story/133093/review-blackbird-secure-desktop-a-fully-open-source-modern-power9-workstation-without-any-proprietary-code/