📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tg one thing that's a little different between 2006 and 2026 is if you try to host something yourself a lot more people and god knows what else are constantly attempting to break in and knock your site over. i tried running a phpbb forum a while back and eventually it got hacked and overrun with spam and it was so bad my hosting provider called me on the telephone to work out what to do about it. i've been afraid to host anything more complicated than a static serve site ever since

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@aeva @tg yeah there's a reason the first thing we figured out for our own infra was the SSO...

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tg i've been wanting to host my own icecast server or peer tube, but idk how to be sure that won't just happen again

[spinni81@mastodon.social]

@tg Now I feel old because the Internet I grew up on is the old rusty bits.

[virkon42@det.social]

@tg this is so true. love your view.

[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!