From 62e8467e59d7d30d7cbda080f6b5f1d37a17d905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mjfernez Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:44:00 -0400 Subject: 2026 Touch up, mostly FAQ --- .md/about/faq.md | 16 ---------------- .md/about/whereami.md | 10 +++++----- .md/about/whoami.md | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) (limited to '.md/about') diff --git a/.md/about/faq.md b/.md/about/faq.md index c99a722..4bd201b 100644 --- a/.md/about/faq.md +++ b/.md/about/faq.md @@ -34,22 +34,6 @@ vim for editing. Mostly because it's easy to edit consistently across servers and because I just spend so much of my time in the terminal lately that I'm used to it. -### *Why OpenBSD?* - -Honestly, I though the fish was cool. - -![](/static/media/puffy.gif) - -I don't know the artist of that one unfortunately, I just found it on a -forum. - -Besides I've installed Debian lots of times so I figured, why not try -something different? It's pretty cool as a server OS. Just a lot of -homework. I'm sure it's good as a desktop/laptop one too, but it's not -different enough for me to move all my data. - -For what it's worth, I use Debian sid for a daily driver. - ### *Why bother making your site from scratch? It looks like crap* Eh. I feel like if what I say isn't interesting, prettying it up won't 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. diff --git a/.md/about/whoami.md b/.md/about/whoami.md index 55c9cc2..b60a717 100644 --- a/.md/about/whoami.md +++ b/.md/about/whoami.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ cynical. But all in all, not anyone in particular really.* When I first came up with a writing a page with this title, it devolved into a kind of personal essay. The kind of unwelcome nonsense you no doubt encounter (and I no doubt supplied) in comment sections on the -Internet or the paginated newsfeeds written by faceless names or in +Internet or in the paginated newsfeeds written by faceless names or in the rambling profiles that start with birth and forget where they're going around college. It seems to come easy to a lot of us. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ things that probably help for context's sake: I still find time to make some lights blink. - I spend a lot of time on the Internet lost. And in the process, - sometimes find useful things; though I largely find nonsense, which + sometimes find useful things: though I largely find nonsense, which has it's own value, but it's separate. Here is as close to home as I'll get for now. -- cgit v1.2.3