📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet
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@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
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@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
@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
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New Essay: The Boring InternetThe internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg Now I feel old because the Internet I grew up on is the old rusty bits.
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg this is so true. love your view.
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@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
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@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
@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
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@ireneista @aeva @tg DID SOMEONE SAY SSO????
(sorry sorry, it's like catnip for me)
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@ireneista @aeva @tg DID SOMEONE SAY SSO????
(sorry sorry, it's like catnip for me)
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg I am really glad, that there is the ascii view. I pretty much hate this animation.
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg you forgot the BBS systems. Some of them are still there and quite active.
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I don't think a colon fits at all. Comma perhaps. My hyphen-as-em dash seems to be the appropriate way to handle it - at least that's what I'll continue doing.
An example (picked at random) of how my style differs (and not saying that you should change anything)
> This is the old machinery. Not pure. Not beautiful. Not easy to use.
This is the old machinery: not pure, beautiful or easy to use.
No idea which is more correct or effective. But yours just reeks of LLM, even if it isn't
@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!)
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg Just sent a note to myself for later use of your text - by e-mail.
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg HELL yes. Been working on a piece about this myself, collecting up articles and such for it, like this one! Great piece -
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@ska I've done some general reading on how they write. you can't do reversals (not this, that!) and you can't use triads (this, other, thing). And we all know you can't use em-dashes even though my natural style is to use all of those because I think they're effective. sigh
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg So nice. Thanks for this.
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
@tg Wonderfully written. Thank you!
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New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
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