04.25.21
Posted in Site News at 3:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: The World Wide Web is becoming unmaintainable or hard to maintain; moreover, it’s vulnerable to more and more threats, which is why many sites have outsourced to CDNs such as ClownFlare (centralisation), and there is only one Web browser left (or, to put it another way, over 90% of browsers in active use nowadays have more or less the same codebase; some include DRM)
THE GEMINI capsule of Techrights has served over 85,000 requests so far this month. One page, one request. There are no CSS files, images, JavaScript programs etc. This is exciting for many reasons; for starters, owing to the simplicity of the Gemini protocol it’s possible to do all sorts of things very quickly, like writing to a file from a program without worrying about all sorts of things like <head> <body> etc.
“The FSF recently became more vocal about this.”I’ve been doing World Wide Web stuff for a very long time (started at age 16; not surfing but creating a site or Web pages (Geocities)), so the bloat of the Web is worrying to me. It’s not easy to maintain sites anymore; certificates, CDNs, JavaScript, very advanced CSS functionality and so on have made it harder to understand sites and they contribute to monopolies. How many people can develop their own Web browser from scratch anymore? Actual Web browsers that can access ‘real world’ Web sites are very few and almost all of them are using the same rendering engine, i.e. the same code. The FSF recently became more vocal about this.
So we’re attempting to ‘offload’, where possible, readers onto gemini://gemini.techrights.org and though it may seem like an uphill battle any single step in that direction is a step in the right direction.
Our WWW presence has been under DDOS attacks for well over a decade. It caused angst and anxiety. It’s hard to do the same over gemini:// because it is static and light. We’ve developed Gemini DDOS protection tools (shown here in practice) and the video above shows that from afar along with an explanation of how we monitor attacks over WWW. For IPFS (direct access or gateway) we already have an index in Gemini (gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ipfs/) and the process is largely automated (just double-checked every morning by a human operator). Over time we develop more tools and more software/scripts to make the task of running this site easier. Gemini protocol is simpler and better in a lot of ways. █
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Posted in IBM at 3:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: The comment above, posted 7 hours ago in thelayoff.com (where the IBM forum is most active, lots of insiders there), hits the nail on the head
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Posted in Search at 2:36 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: It’s a lot better for the mind (reduced clutter) when RSS feeds are relied upon; it’s also a good way to combat censorship and tackle centralisation/monopolisation
THE Web is generally not a good source of information. Social control media is even worse as it doesn’t reward for accuracy, it lacks context, and it is designed to distract (it’s the business model). RSS feeds are the ‘vaccine’ in this situation; they help put people back in control and they weaken points of centralisation. That’s why large companies and especially Internet monopolies do not like RSS feeds and barely advertise the existence of such a thing anymore. They want everyone to just use their portals and “web apps” instead.
“The advantage of the ‘RSS approach’ is that it obliterates distraction, lowers the signal/noise ratio, and gives quick access to a plethora of different sources, not curated by a third party but determined by the list of sites chosen as trustworthy and worth subscribing to.”In the video above I spontaneously show or make a case for RSS readers (no scripting or preparation, but it worked out OK). I give the example of Ubuntu’s release and the University of Minnesota blunder. The advantage of the ‘RSS approach’ is that it obliterates distraction, lowers the signal/noise ratio, and gives quick access to a plethora of different sources, not curated by a third party but determined by the list of sites chosen as trustworthy and worth subscribing to. Yesterday we shared our list of about 460 RSS feeds that cover GNU/Linux and Free software (exclusively or some of the time). █
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Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat at 12:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Attacking the founder of the operating system without which Red Hat would not even exist!
Summary: Using libel and malicious lies (spread largely by IBM front groups), IBM and its Red Hat ‘offshoot’ look to leverage a mere perception of morality, insulting the intelligence of people who can see the hypocrisy and double standards whilst also fact-checking the allegations
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