📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet

[yuvalne@433.world]

@aeva @tg
yeah, in the age of DDoS by AI and rising hosting costs, quite a lot of the boring internet is also dying.
although i guess dying gives the wrong implication. it's being killed.

[karbin@meow.social]

@aeva @tg it is true. But that was the result of server applications written to be managed by large groups.

there is a lack of web infrastructure written to be secure as a priority. In your case something like OpenBSD for forum systems.

This plus tight security rules and new sandboxed and controlled installations could be what we need

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@ireneista @aeva @tg DID SOMEONE SAY SSO????

(sorry sorry, it's like catnip for me)

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@cthos @aeva @tg Authelia with hardware tokens :3

[virkon42@det.social]

@tg I am really glad, that there is the ascii view. I pretty much hate this animation.

[botolo86@mstdn.social]

@tg you forgot the BBS systems. Some of them are still there and quite active.

[janeishly@beige.party]

@nickchomey @tg @ska You could always use the UK English style instead, which is a spaced en dash (Alt+0150). As a translator, that's what I now default to (having been told in no uncertain terms when I submitted one of my very first projects that my previous habit, of using hyphens, was unacceptable!)

[naturtrueb@norden.social]

@tg Just sent a note to myself for later use of your text - by e-mail.

[jake4480@c.im]

@tg HELL yes. Been working on a piece about this myself, collecting up articles and such for it, like this one! Great piece -

[karlheinzhaslip@climatejustice.social]

@tg @ska Not this that is my fav there - the tell is that llms do it randomly without any reason to think or talk about "this" while people use it in context of a larger discourse to differentiate and navigate reader expectations.

[hoi_pollois@toad.social]

@tg So nice. Thanks for this.

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@Hinnerk
Isn't that why gemini:// nowadays exists?

@tg @johl

[hinnerk@mastodon.social]

@fasnix @tg @johl Wich comes with a trunk of security issues on it‘s own. Biggest question: Does it only exist or will it also be used?

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@Hinnerk
I'm not a technician or programmer, that's why I have to ask what kind of security issues it has?

As far as I can tell, it is being used, however very niche.
(I love that I can read the TAZ on it every day.)

@tg @johl

[bestiaexmachina@metalhead.club]

@tg Wonderfully written. Thank you!

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@tg

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[fluffyfuzz@mastodon.social]

@tg Awesome read! Loved it and i agree wholeheartedly.
It wasn't uncommon for my group to talk about online culture (as do chronically online individuals) and one point that came up often was how spaces online were centralized and squished together.
People who were into cats and those who were into dogs now had to co-live together for better or for worse instead of having their spaces each. I used cats and dogs for this but this applies to a lot of topics.

[cowman@thecanadian.social]

@sr_rolando @tg ah, the design drove me batty. There is zero need I can see for such scroll-fuckery, which also broke reader-view.

[sr_rolando@fnordon.de]

@CowMan You did see the link to https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii right there on the page, didn’t you? @tg

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@tg ok wow this page is a javascript crime. worse than normal text would be for no reason