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uh, so used to careless naming that looking at primary didn't even occur to me. Lazy me.

> warm fuzzies from being sure that, however screwed up the web server is, it cannot be confused[1] into revealing the secret keys when it does not have access to them in the first place.

indeed a big one. THE big one.

Usually I do watch out for 'https' in CGIs which requires the webserver to know. Need it e.g. to build absolute URLs https://codeberg.org/mro/geohash/src/branch/master/lib/cgi.m...

what does datatracker stand for or is it just an arbitrary name?

While I share your sentiment, some technologies automatically come with certain features.

It's the (evtl. statically) compiled versus the scripted ones. And among the scripted again is one ubiquitous and can be lean on dependencies (sh).

So IMO there is certain interest in how it's built. And it may attract contributors, inspire or serve as a warning.

http://IndieWeb.org/POSSE to a rescue.

congrats, what a cute name.

yes, that would be it. I thought of stunnel. But that's extra moving parts.

I love such focused, cooperative and mature tools. They do one thing well, play nicely and keep their promises.

however, using lighttpd due to https.

I wonder what they'd have said about tobias.luetke@ourdomain.com

> No, we won't tell you what is good enough.

that's like from a surreal comedy. That's how megacorps look down on humans.

everything only matters in context. In general.

around 2008 a german mass email and hosting provider holding chose every email address being a valid xmpp address, too. It was about 10 millions each for GMX.de and Web.de alone.

They never managed to promote pleasant onboarding and finally shut it down ('nobody wants such') months before WhatsApp rocketed - with ejabberd.

> "a fair bit of work" for them to read the standard robots.txt for "boring technical reasons".

that's embarrassing. What other reasons should there ever be?

Stop taking their money, stop using their shit. Turn your attention to where it's beneficial.

that's what big organisations do, it' their DNA to flood and exhaust smaller ones. They just don't care about anybody not their scale. Ignorant egoists.

meanwhile found the template: https://darknet.mro.name/pub/brief-dina4.txt

I came to write my official paper letters with vi :hardcopy in 70ies RFC typewriter style.

Helps to focus on the content. That's exactly what marketing dreads.

I vaguely remember Daniel Bernstein counting (C) language tokens rather than LOC. Experiences anybody?

I find even leaving them off pleasing. Don't run compputers 24/7, your brain doesn't, too.

The smaller the scale (amount of people affected), the more sense do business hours make. Ot times of non-operation. Who cares if a personal/smallbiz webserver sleeps for some hours at night?

> It's not just incompetence leading to technical bloat.

it's bad decisions after all. How would you call that? Alien invasion?

because humans are herd animals and mere repetition makes acceptance.

If you understand, you don't oppose as fierce as you are obliged to as a good herd member. You may vent the wrong tunes.

I wonder what happened to RDF at BBC.

There must have been an earthquake around 2014?

I was deeply impressed and inspired to my toy-project radio recorder. Check $ rapper -i grddl -o turtle 'http://rec.mro.name/stations/b2/2022/05/23/1005.xml'

apply composting and have things rot to obliviance.

Do timed purges after various timeouts and keep only printouts 'forever'. Just a thought, however.

indeed, once a task includes 'every', it's never simple.

Or 'never' :-)

the basics are incredibly hard. Listen to a physicist explaining time, matter or energy.

> … the largest (about 63.5 kilobytes) …

awesome! Scale to n=1! And development is hosted at codeberg!

whatever there may be, it's drowned in ad- and spyware.

> I tried to write a more thorough comment but also struggled with being coherent.

how fitting.

I guess it's always about neighbourhoods. In your street, in your pew, in your bookshelf, inside your brain, in your zettelkasten.

> Prefer Zoom to most alternatives

I consider this irresponsible in the face of the Zoom CEO saying to moneteize the knowledge they have about you. Very different from face-to-face in my opinion.

Face-to-face is not only about interaction of people present, it's about eavesdropping as well.

Praise for the rest and for caring about the other participants.

I watch out for the scale. Has the organisation/corporation any similarity with mine/me?

So e.g. at a farmers market, I don't care about organic in the first place. I can look the vendor in the eye and build trust. If they say organic, nice. They better not spend too much of an effort on certification. That invites cheating. The trust has to be personal. And that is a harsh limit for scaling.

So if I am an individual or small entity, I prefer business with other small entities. If I am a big one, likewise. The latter we see all over the place. The former we should more, too, and rely far less on the megacorps.

I like the term and idea. Watch out for permacomputing[1]. I found it via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27199225

[1] http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html