Kevin Karhan Oct 18

  Q: Should I do some smol #website on @torproject / #Tor network that'll be a good starting page?

  • Nothing fancy, just a basic HTML page that forwards people to sites both on the surface web and Tor, with an #AOL-style, curated catalog in it.

OFC I'd also consider putting the same site on the #SurfaceWeb as well, making shure it's brutally simple and will just work with #CLI / #TUI #browsers like #Lynx / #LynxBrowser...

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Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 18

Nothing fancy, just a basic site - like #FrogFind (made by @ActionRetro):

▶️ http://frogfind.com

Espechally since FrogFind gets hammered by "#AI" #bots who abuse it to circumvent blockages and because some folks may just want to have a proper, curated catalog instead, because #Enshittification is so rampant that #SearchResults these days are useless unless you know the topic well enough to go !trustworthysite.example "example search term" instead of just "example search term"...

FrogFind!

Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 18
Think #smolweb¹ as proposed by @adele, because #HTTP & #HTML is good and #Gemini is #cringe!
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I'd consider this project if the costs of running it get ROI'd by donations.

  • No offense, but I'd be on the hook for double digit monthly hosting costs even with the cheapest VPS + domain.

Also I'm not shure how fast this would escalate. Maybe @ActionRetro has numbers re: the costs of running #FrogFind from which I can extrapolate a worst-case scenario (granted I don't intend to host a copy of FrogFind!)

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:boost_ok: Q: Should I do some smol #website on @torproject@mastodon.social / #Tor network that'll be a good starting page? - Nothing fancy, just a basic HTML page that forwards people to sites both on the surface web and Tor, with an #AOL-style, curated catalog in it. OFC I'd also consider putting the same site on the #SurfaceWeb as well, making shure it's *brutally simple* and will just work with #CLI / #TUI #browsers like #Lynx / #LynxBrowser... - Think of it less of a #FrogFind [clone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_v2_vTogS8) [video via @ActionRetro@bitbang.social] and more of a #Narrowband- and #mobile-[positive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D62ZsVZCjAA) website that is even [useable over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWkjuDI9RSo) #Iridium ...

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Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 18

As for supporting #WAP, [like
@ActionRetro did] that's still easy given #Germany basically keeps #2G up as vestigal / emergency service in limited #SpectrumAllocation basically indefinitely because #CellBroadcast was made mandatory and #EmergencyCalling in case of disaster can only work long reliably when the cell networks downgrade to #GSM.

  • #NewZealand does this all the time, including restricting #calls to #EmergencyServices in cases of big earthquakes so people in need of help get prioritized whilst everyone else can send out "I'm okay!" messages via #SMS and not tie up bandwith...

#WorstCase I could test said #Narrowband capabilities with #w3m on am artificially throttled to 2400 bit/s connection...

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Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 18

As for FrogFind WAP Edition that @ActionRetro wants to to continue that development, I can get like a German 2G SIM & potentially devices that do WAP for him setup somewhere, but to make some "remote testing" feasible, it'll likely need like some "ghettohacked" #WAP phone to allow screen capture/streaming and input recieval, and I'm not confident enough in reverse-engineering that.

  • Maybe #dosdude1 can do that and if #ActionRetro needs like a place to shove a #Pi0W and a frankenstein'd phone somewhere then I can make that work.
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