Mike m
Random Geek in limboSearch engines are useless. Windows is bundling Internet features few asked for. The major public sites are sealed tight to deny third party tools.
Web 1.0 is back, baby!
time to bring back cgi-bin
mcgrew@randomgeek it never left.
Mark Gardner@mjgardner @randomgeek honestly flask & fastapi are basically a slightly fancier cgi-bin. It's why I like them.
Hein Ragas@randomgeek I have good memories of trying to debug endless code 500 errors in my C programs that were run as CGI! Can't wait for that all to be back.
1.3.6.1.4.1.61513@randomgeek AWS lambda functions are just cgi-bin change my mind
CMDR Yojimbosan π
β@xssfox @randomgeek You are correct. And S3 buckets are just directories.
Dusty 
@ChlorideCull @xssfox @randomgeek That's true, but have you tried navigating into a directory with both ACLs set, and SELinux trying to restrict your parent process? Fun times :-)
Richard Barrell@xssfox no
because you're correct
ashley@randomgeek digging up mattβs script archive rn
Andrew Hewus Fresh
feistel 
@randomgeek cgi-bin but it's checkpointed containers somehow compiled to webassembly
apparently i struck a nerve with the fediverse
@randomgeek β#Fediverse viralβ == triple-digit reposts
@mjgardner you can tell on server load that's for sure
@randomgeek #ActivityPubβs chattiness is a boon to #CDN businesses. Thereβs a reason @cloudflare made #Wildebeest: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-wildebeest-the-fediverse-on-cloudflare/
MichaΕ "rysiek" WoΕΊniak Β· πΊπ¦@randomgeek and everything is hosted on some huge provider's mainfram^Wcloud.
ArneBab@rysiek And I read this on federated E-Mail^WActivityPub βΊ. @randomgeek
@ArneBab @randomgeek while we have to deal with looming regulation that bans or backdoors encryption. 
*cries in ouroboros*
Gorgeous na Shock!@randomgeek @rysiek @ArneBab Somehow, I misread this as "Blackberry Beowulf cluster." I thought we were doing a mashup of the classics but it's the wrong fruit.
@rysiek yes β¦ we won something last time (but now we have the intel management engine in most computers). Weβll have to fight again β¦
https://www.draketo.de/dateien/ciao-chatcontrol.pdf
https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/110533297017232904
rose (escaped not sanitized)I've been experimenting lately with Nextcloud, a browser version of LibreOffice that lets you self-host but also collaborate in real time.
I'm not ready to give it a review/recommendation yet, but so far it does what it says on the tin.
@Rose_On_Mars @randomgeek over the last decade I had set up 5 or 6 different instances of Nextcloud, all are still running, and I still admin 3 of them myself.
Nextcloud is great. Welcome to the Nextcloud club. 
I like it so far. I do have the concern that my security isn't as solid as stuff maintained by specialists.
The thing I actually like best so far isn't the self-hosted part I originally came for, but rather the solid support for Markdown, since a bunch of my workflow is built on exporting from Obsidian.
> I do have the concern that my security isn't as solid as stuff maintained by specialists.
That's a valid concern, but also, you are a much smaller and less interesting target. And "specialists" screw up all the time:
https://www.bu.edu/tech/2023/03/09/144012/
And yes, Markdown support is something I love in Nextcloud! I need to try Obsidian, heard great things about it.
Manifest Irony@randomgeek
A chicken in every pot, a web server on every PC.
A chicken in every pot, a web server on every PC.
Chris [list of emoji]Note to self: be less judgemental toward amateur-hour G^HNeocities websites this time around.
Neil E. Hodges@randomgeek Let's shut down Reddit and go back to phpBB!
Matthew Miller 
@tk @randomgeek Unironically in favor of this
prokyonid@tk @randomgeek have you heard of lemmybb?
toxtethogrady@randomgeek So, am I correct in understanding that Web 1.0 is bad, Web 2.0 (IoT) is worse, and Web 3.0 will rob us all blind?
@toxtethogrady that's the gist of it yep!
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis@siderea @randomgeek When my coffeemaker started coming on to me, I knew it was social...
@siderea @toxtethogrady Fair point. IoT was its own thing. I just filed Web 2.0 and IoT in the same "Internet of Shit" folder without differentiating notes. Oops!
@randomgeek @siderea "Internet of Shit". We've got a new name for Twitter!
Matthias Rex π¦£@randomgeek Can we also bring back AOL chat rooms? Those were fun.
Fahri Reza π@randomgeek web1 before web3
JanosSitar@randomgeek lol built for chrome
Ariaflame@randomgeek Hmmm are Veronica and Jughead still out there?
Albert Cardona@randomgeek My website has been plain static HTML with a splash of CSS since 2008. It's even "built" (a bunch of sed regex substitutions) with a shell script. Looks like I may be back in fashion.
@albertcardona I'm thinking about adding some PHP bits to my site. I hear that's good.
ο½ο½βο½ο½βο½@randomgeek Furthering the search engine is the curent Reddit blackout. The only relevant search results anymore seem to be anecdotes on this site since itβs slightly less likely to be a bot or spam.
Chon Torres@randomgeek I must have made a dozen websites using vi. Why not return to the dial-up age?
Pelayo@randomgeek we are also back in an one browser only environment.
@PelayoNastaviek @randomgeek I mean there are two, but adherents to each believe it's the only one left and one of them just has a thousand skinned clones that embed its rendering engine.
I guess that's just pedantically saying the same thing tho because the conclusion is the same! We're back!
@randomgeek and there's almost a complete monopoly on browsers too!
I'm just glad it's not a web3 crypto hellscape.
DSCH πΌ@randomgeek #Linux ~free your mind π§
Afzal Najam@randomgeek Federated forums would be great. Find your own communities, but be able to maintain your persona between them, and they're controlled, funded, and owned by the community itself with no greed.
Kay Ohtie π FWA@randomgeek Wait, I missed what happened with Windows I guess?
Badscrew@randomgeek Yahoo is missing on a comeback of the manually (human) curated front pages
Naomi P@randomgeek weβre lacking a human-curated web index organized by subject, though.
Elena ``of Valhalla''@gannet @randomgeek not really what you're looking for, but there is ooh.directory/
(and I think I had seen something else in that general direction)
msgbi
Alexander ShendiWhat's this UDP/TCP stuff? Are modems no longer available??
Advanced Persistent Teapot@randomgeek (and W constantly tries to make you use its own browser)