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inline-images patch for gopherproxy-c |
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Prologue |
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If the world would be a better place, a small and simple gopherhole would be all |
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you need. |
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The world is not there yet. |
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Only a few of us have understood the value of simplicity over feature-richness. |
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But more and more people start to understand these values. |
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One problem is that people start to realize the value of simplicity very late. |
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By then they already have learned and internalized a lot of paradigms that nebu… |
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their view. |
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At this stage it is hard for them to imagine that all the fun things that we do… |
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love can be achieved without a overcomplex browser program like Google Chrome or |
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Firefox or other harmful software. |
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A wise man once tought me: |
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Don't force them, live a funny happy life and show |
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them through this example how things should be done. |
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- __20h__, 2016 |
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Following these wise words I try to live a happy and simple life and - if the c… |
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occurs - I do show my way of doing things. |
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And I noticed that this works pretty well. I was able to make people curious and |
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have them start to think outside the box. |
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Coming from a life full of complexity and driven by consumerism, making the imm… |
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shift towards a life of simplicity and real freedom can be discouraging. Like j… |
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down a cliff. |
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Therefore, metaphorically spoken, I decided to build a staircase for them to cl… |
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down to the idyllic valley of freedom and simplicty. |
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Another wise man once wrote a fine piece of software that can function as exact… |
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that staircase. |
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Evil_Bob wrote: |
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gopherproxy-c |
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I use the gopherproxy to make my gopherhole accessable to people that are at the |
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beginning of their journey. |
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The Patch |
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In order to metaphorically lower the height of each stair tread, I made a patch |
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that changes gopherproxy-c to render pictures *inline*. |
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This patch itself can act as an example that simple software can be hacked to w… |
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you want it to do. |
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And the appearance of pictures inside a gopher-based site proves that pictures … |
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still play a role in the world of gopher. |
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Check out the patch: |
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goperproxyc-inline-images.diff |
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staircase.png |
