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diff --git a/about/whereami.html b/about/whereami.html index 35f7a39..4fcab70 100644 --- a/about/whereami.html +++ b/about/whereami.html @@ -8,18 +8,10 @@ <style> code{white-space: pre-wrap;} span.smallcaps{font-variant: small-caps;} - div.columns{display: flex; gap: min(4vw, 1.5em);} - div.column{flex: auto; overflow-x: auto;} + span.underline{text-decoration: underline;} + div.column{display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 50%;} div.hanging-indent{margin-left: 1.5em; text-indent: -1.5em;} - /* The extra [class] is a hack that increases specificity enough to - override a similar rule in reveal.js */ - ul.task-list[class]{list-style: none;} - ul.task-list li input[type="checkbox"] { - font-size: inherit; - width: 0.8em; - margin: 0 0.8em 0.2em -1.6em; - vertical-align: middle; - } + ul.task-list{list-style: none;} .display.math{display: block; text-align: center; margin: 0.5rem auto;} </style> <link href="../../static/main.css" rel="stylesheet"/> @@ -39,11 +31,11 @@ credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.</p> <em>ok</em>. I don't really get all this stuff either. Let's start with some easy stuff.</p> <p><em>You're on the Internet</em>. Known to some as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes">series of -tubes</a>, but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. In -basic sense, your computer called mine, and mine answered with directory -full of pages.</p> +tubes</a>, 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.</p> <p>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 +router, 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.</p> @@ -68,9 +60,9 @@ bulk connection and rent them out for people to run fake media companies, blogs about cats, and porn sites.</p> <p>I'm getting lost on your question though, so where are we exactly?</p> -<p>Precisely speaking, you are in a chrooted 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.</p> +<p>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.</p> <p>Less precisely, all that means is you're looking at some files I left in a directory at this address, and paid some people to host for me since local ISPs tend to be ridiculously expensive if you want to do @@ -78,14 +70,14 @@ anything besides host some private servers for you and your friends and family.</p> <p>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. All these +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.</p> <p>The Internet I grew up with, though I didn't really appreciate it at the time, used to be filled with places like this. "Homepages" were a thing, or were just starting to be at least.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>And speaking of fake, it's not even unreasonable to believe you're |