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That depends on how you define the web
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
The Gopher protocol (/ˈɡoʊfər/ ⓘ) is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.[1]
gopher.floodgap.com is one of the last running Gopher servers, was the one that I usually used as a starting point when firing up a gopher client. It has a Web gateway up:
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
Gopher is a well-known information access protocol that predates the World Wide Web, developed at the University of Minnesota during the early 1990s. What is Gopher? (Gopher-hosted, via the Public Proxy)
This proxy is for Gopher resources only – using it to access websites won’t work and is logged!
I questioned Reddit doing so, and now we’ve got it on the Threadiverse. There are privacy issues unless your home instance is proxying images for you.
How many of you out there are browsing the web using Gofer?
Gopher predated the Web.
I do agree that there have been pretty major changes in the way websites worked, though. I’m not hand-coding pages using a very light, Markdown-like syntax with
<em></em>,<a href=""></a>, and<h1></h1>anymore, for example.
It doesn’t work with private DNS servers or forward DNS over VPN.
Like, you want to have it query some particular DNS server?
From
man 5 resolved.conf:DNS= A space-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to use as system DNS servers. For compatibility reasons, if this setting is not specified, the DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf are used instead, if that file exists and any servers are configured in it.If you specify your private server there, it should work. For VPN, I mean, whatever VPN software you’re using will need to plonk it in there. Maybe yours is not aware of systemd-resolved, is modifying
/etc/resolv.confaftersystemd-resolvedhas already started, and it doesn’t watch it for updates?In my /etc/nsswitch.conf, I have:
hosts: files myhostname mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dnsI’m assuming that the “resolve” entry is for
systemd-resolved.kagis
https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2022/03/wireguard-dns-config-for-systemd/
With systemd-resolved, however, instead of using that DNS setting, add the following PostUp command to the [Interface] section of your WireGuard config file:
PostUp = resolvectl dns %i 9.9.9.9#dns.quad9.net 149.112.112.112#dns.quad9.net; resolvectl domain %i ~.When you start your WireGuard interface up, this command will direct systemd-resolved to use the DNS server at 9.9.9.9 (or at 149.112.112.112, if 9.9.9.9 is not available) to resolve queries for any domain name.
14·1 day agoIt’s been a long time, but IIRC Windows’s file dialog also remembers your recently-used files for quick access in the file dialog, and I assume that Explorer has a thumbnail cache.
It looks like GTK 3 has a toggle for recently-used files:
https://linux.debian.user.narkive.com/m7SeBwTP/recently-used-xbel
While the guy sounds kinda unhinged, I do think that he has a point — he doesn’t want activity dumping breadcrumbs everywhere, unbeknownst to him. That’s a legit ask. Firefox and Chrome added Incognito and Private Browsing mode because they recorded a bunch of state about what you were doing for History, and that’s awkward if it suddenly gets exposed. There should really be a straightforward way to globally disable this sort of thing, even if logged history can provide for convenient functionality.
Emacs has a lot of functionality, but I don’t think anything I use actually retains state. If emacs can manage that so can oyher stuff. Hmm. Oh, etags will store a cached TAGS file for a source tree.
thinks
Historically, bash defaulted to saving ~/.bash_history on disk. Don’t recall if that changed at any point.
There’s ccache, which caches binary objects from gcc compilations persistently.
Firefox can persistently cache data in the disk cache or for LocalStorage or cookies.
System logfiles might record some data baout the system though they generally get rotated out.
Most of the time though, I don’t have a lot of recorded persistent state floating around.
Your home instance says that it’s federated with lemmynsfw.com.
https://lemmynsfw.com/instances
Lemmynsfw.com says that it’s federated with your home instance of feddit.uk.
Are you sure that you don’t just have NSFW communities blocked in your settings? In the vanilla Lemmy Web UI, it’s a checkbox labeled “Show NSFW content”.
NoStupdQuestions doesn’t allow NSFW topics
!AskLemmyNSFW@lemmynsfw.com was created explicitly for NSFW questions.
Specifically for hexbear, lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad.ml, you might also take a look at !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works.
EDIT: Well, okay, it’s not really specific to those instances, but YePowerTrippingMods is about behavior by mods in general and whether it’s appropriate, and MeanwhileOnGrad is specific to criticism of objectionable tankie things, which often involves mod/admin stuff.
DNS
There’s
systemd-resolved. I don’t know if you mean that it has some kind of limitation.
You can use VoIP if you have a cell data connection.
twitter doesn’t work for me rn)
https://nitter.space/moschino_bunny/status/1457773412957376530
Frankly, this should be implemented with something like a combination of:
https://github.com/QazCetelic/lemmy-know
Lemmy Know (let me know) is a lightweight CLI application / Docker service that monitors Lemmy for reports on posts and comments and sends notification. These can be sent to a Discord channel with a webhook or as MQTT messages (schema), which is useful for more complex setups with e.g., Node-RED.
https://www.home-assistant.io/
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/
MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.
https://github.com/DevelopmentalOctopus/ha-buttplug
Buttplug.io Integration for Home Assistant
Intiface® Central is an open-source, cross-platform application that acts as a hub for intimate haptics/sensor hardware access
Some collection of hardware devices from:
That’d permit for, say, having message events drive a state machine to control devices or something like that.
http://lemmyverse.net/communities provides a searchable list of communities on all instances. Searching for “scalp” there doesn’t turn up anything relevant. If something like that exists, it probably uses a different term.
6·2 days agoI would guess that it’s probably not much by way of change — theoretically, maybe just a single line patch — to cause this check not to take place.
That’s actually a really interesting question.
I understand that Apple takes issue with packages that can themselves “take packages”. But historically, I don’t believe that Google has. Of course, Google also hasn’t done the registration thing historically, either.
I don’t see why it would need to be affected.
The constraint to require a valid signing isn’t something imposed by the license on the Android code. If you want to distribute a version of Android that doesn’t check for a registered signature, that should work fine.
I mean, the Graphene guys could impose that constraint. But they don’t have to do so.
I think that there’s a larger issue of practicality, though. Stuff like F-Droid works in part because you don’t need to install an alternative firmware on your phone — it’s not hard to install an alternate app store with the stock firmware. If suddenly using a package from a developer that isn’t registered with Google requires installing an alternate firmware, that’s going to severely limit the potential userbase for that package.
Even if you can handle installing the alternate firmware, a lot of developers probably just aren’t going to bother trying to develop software without being registered.
I wouldn’t put it entirely outside the realm of possibility, but I think that that’s probably unlikely.
The entire US only has about 161 million people working at the moment. In order for a 97 million shift to happen, you’d have to manage to transition most human-done work in the US to machines, using one particular technology, in 10 years.
Is that technically possible? I mean, theoretically.
I’m pretty sure that to do something like that, you’d need AGI. Then you’d need to build systems that leveraged it. Then you’d need to get it deployed.
What we have today is most-certainly not AGI. And I suspect that we’re still some ways from developing AGI. So we aren’t even at Step 1 on that three-part process, and I would not at all be surprised if AGI is a gradual development process, rather than a “Eureka” moment.
If you want a more-politically-censored environment, I guess you could try beehaw.org. They tend to enforce positivity and restrict some political stuff and are into creating a “safe space”.
It’s not really what I’m looking for in a home instance, and there’s a limited amount of activity there, but I’ll give that they seem to have a userbase that seems less suicidally-depressed than some other home instances on the Threadiverse. Note that they have defederated from lemmy.world, as they don’t feel that it fits with their policies, so you’ll have more-limited access to content than on most home instances. Also, I remember seeing that they were considering moving to some non-Lemmy platform (Pleroma? Can’t remember), so if you specifically want Lemmy, that might not work for you if they do such a move.