You know what rarely if ever has a security vulnerability? Gopher. My gopher hole
gopher://cyberhole.online
is almost certainly safe.

Think I'm gonna move more of my stuff onto the gopher hole. Put a web proxy up if I have to. Generate gopher rss.xml.

In the future, the web will be remembered as a failed expansion of Gopher, the one true network infosystem.
#gopher

I have a few things moved over to
gopher://cyberhole.online/

I had problems with permissions, as usual.

Then my about.txt works in Lynx, not in Lagrange. I AM SURE THIS FILE IS FINE!
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Turns out Lagrange doesn't like tabs in "text" files. Fucking what. Is this some Gemini shit? I hate Gemini, buncha Gopher wannabes.

Also I'm having some annoying problems with my host, but I'll either figure that out this week, or move off & reupload elsewhere.
#gopher

@mdhughes I wonder if I previously knew that when you press q in lynx, it says

Are you sure you want to quit? (y)

. Then if you press n,

Excellent!!!

but just for a moment. #gopher

@neil

• notched the corners of floppy disks to double their capacity

• used WAIS & #gopher, and searched Gopherspace with Archie & Veronica

• sparred with mismatched terminal settings that caused arrow/6-pack/function/alt keys to fail

• knew the pain of a buffer underrun causing your CD burning to fail and render the CD-R unusable

• cut my teeth writing code (and gaming) on an 8-bit Apple ][+ with 48KB of RAM and dual 360KB floppy drives

• ordered shareware demos on floppy via the mail

• my first Linux install involved a stack of Slackware floppies and a 486DX/100

• I have tuned the interleave of my hard-drive for optimal and had to park the heads of the hard-drive before powering off

@kelson

I condsider #smallweb/#smolweb to largely be document-only based and deferring to the user's visualization preferences and not requiring persistent data (i.e. cookies, localdata, etc). So pure HTML qualifies if it works 100% without CSS or JS enabled. Or #gopher & #gemini qualify.

Regardless, it doesn't necessarily *exclude* corporate websites or gopher-spaces or gemini-capsules, but very few corporations are interested in participating in a space where they can't control the experience/branding/tracking. So they *could* be part of the smolweb, but choose not to.

At least that's my thoughts on the matter 😆

@mboelen

I've struggled a bit with various ideas and haven't come up with anything 100% satisfactory. So at the moment:

• some stuff I don't care about the ingestion, just the load it puts on my server, so static sites with small files helps ameliorate that

• some stuff is really mostly for me, in which case I tend to hand-share it with folks who are interested

• it feels like the web is the major hub of scraping activity, so I've considered a non-web distribution method like setting up an NNTP server or mailing-list or source-code repo accessible via #gopher or #gemini

• finally, putting in explicit license terms at least gives you some teeth if you *do* find that your code was incorporated into a training dataset against your explicit licensing, but that might also prevent such a license from being OSI-approved¹.

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¹ https://opensource.org/osd prohibits discrimination based on "field of endeavor" which might include AI training