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phlog listing updates | |
April 11th, 2019 | |
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It looks like tilde.town recently updated gophernicus, which is | |
awesome. Many of the servers out there running gophernicus leave | |
the bottom footer active for their users, which shows the current | |
gophernicus version that's running. | |
In my /etc/default/gophernicus I like to disable headers, footers | |
and the status page hidden at /server-status with the -nt -nh -nf | |
flags, like so: | |
OPTIONS="-o UTF-8 -nt -nh -nf -T 7070" | |
Part of my reasoning is aesthetic. I don't need to show extra crud | |
on gopher. Part of my reason is security. Not knowing which server | |
I'm running may make attacks on it more difficult. Not seeing IP | |
addresses of users engaged with my system helps them stay | |
anonymous (server-status related). And part of my reasoning is so | |
I don't accidentally trip up aggregators. | |
When you upgrade gophernicus and that version in the footer | |
changes, every aggregator out there suddenly thinks you made an | |
update to your phlog. This happens routinely on SDF and suddenly | |
every SDF member tracked on my moku-pona [0] sorts to the top of | |
the list. Today that happened for our tilde.town users. | |
Is it a big deal? Oh definitely not. Am I recommending others | |
running gophernicus use those switches? It's totally up to them | |
and I won't harp on the issue. I just want people to be aware that | |
it's a thing. I suspect many would choose to add the flags if they | |
knew about the situation, but I won't hold it against you if you | |
disagree, or simply don't care. Gopher is whatever the hell you | |
want to make it. | |
Phlog Roll | |
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Speaking of gopher being whatever the hell you want to make it, | |
I was surprised to see Ze Libertine Gamer post recently that he | |
may be deleting his phlog [1]. That's a real shock, to be honest. | |
He's got some great content that goes back years. I wonder what | |
sort of things might lead someone to deleting a phlog but not the | |
entire gopher hole and I'm at a loss. I won't speculate here, but | |
I will say to ZLG, I really hope you keep it around, even if you | |
don't update very often. You've got some useful information you've | |
shared and have been a big part of the community. I'd certainly | |
miss your contributions. | |
ZLG - 2019-04-10 | |
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To zcrayfish: | |
I agree. WebP does indeed suck. [2] Stop trying to make "fetch" | |
a thing, Google. Their sleasy method of inserting "switch to | |
modern image formats" into website performance checkers is dirty | |
and unwelcome. I don't like blackhat UI and I don't appreciate | |
their "disruptions". | |
zcrayfish - WebP Sucks | |
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Thanks to all of you who answered my silly three questions. I got | |
a lot of great movies to add to the playlist and I've been jamming | |
to your songs all week. | |
Keep gopherin' everyone! |