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| author | mjfernez <mjf@mjfer.net> | 2026-06-28 14:44:00 -0400 |
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| committer | mjfernez <mjf@mjfer.net> | 2026-06-28 14:44:00 -0400 |
| commit | 62e8467e59d7d30d7cbda080f6b5f1d37a17d905 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d7c7797862bfdd0efe19d991ba5180eed689f7d /.md/about/whereami.md | |
| parent | 15a267bf0a5d47ec0189261d1ce0cfd5e4268c66 (diff) | |
2026 Touch up, mostly FAQ
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diff --git a/.md/about/whereami.md b/.md/about/whereami.md index 01d0809..3aed3c3 100644 --- a/.md/about/whereami.md +++ b/.md/about/whereami.md @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ stuff. *You're on the Internet*. Known to some as a [series of tubes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes), -but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. In basic sense, your +but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. Like a phone call, your computer called mine, and mine answered with directory full of pages. The way you get here is through a device you have at home called a router, -which literally does what the name implies--it routes signals to where they +which literally does what the name implies: it routes signals to where they need to go to make things go beep. In the 60s and 70s, routers tended to be people-based and would require workers spend their time plugging cables into and out of ports so calls could connect. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ and porn sites. I'm getting lost on your question though, so where are we exactly? -Precisely speaking, you are in a chrooted web server running on rented virtual +Precisely speaking, you are in a web server running on rented virtual machine in a server farm located roughly in New Jersey browsing the "about" directory on the "whereami.html" page. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ besides host some private servers for you and your friends and family. But maybe most importantly, you've reached a webpage owned by another human being. Well mostly... I don't own the hardware. But the place is -mine; not a corporation's, or a bot's, or a government's. +mine. Not a corporation's, or a bot's, or a government's. All these files were loving crafted by yours truly in markdown, using vim, and converted with pandoc to HTML because of laziness. @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ time, used to be filled with places like this. "Homepages" were a thing, or were just starting to be at least. But as soon as it started it all got sucked up and commodified into -social media; we somehow got coerced into profiles, templates, and +social media. We somehow got coerced into profiles, templates, and standards to make us easier for ad companies to study. And even I really liked it for a while, but over time, it got fake. I got fake. |