From 3e87511c9ded4663150d6c4c4a1d829b53a16ed4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mjfernez Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:31:25 -0500 Subject: More formatting errors Would squashing be lying at this point? --- about/faq.html | 2 ++ about/whoami.html | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'about') diff --git a/about/faq.html b/about/faq.html index 29b8a37..1bab7e9 100644 --- a/about/faq.html +++ b/about/faq.html @@ -20,3 +20,5 @@

A lot of people might prefer a BSD or GNU style license for their code and I agree that there are many cases where that is the preferred option. But it doesn't make sense for me; at least not for a homepage like this. I'm not sure about other people, but most of my ideas are not my own; they come from reading a history book or doing a textbook exercise or an off-color joke. So without getting on a soapbox, I guess you can say the idea of "intellectual property" never made too much sense to me in general.

I get that people have to get paid. I get that people are afraid of someone else taking credit for their work. But for this site at least, I guess I just don't really care. If someone really finds some way to profit of some random guy's Linux tutorials and unqualified thoughts on the world I honestly think they deserve the credit not me. I have no idea how I'd do that; I'm not sure I'd even want to waste my time with all the marketing nonsense of the modern web. And on the second point, if someone "steals" my work it's not exactly hard to figure out it was published here first--a Google search will prove that. But even if that weren't the case, I still wouldn't mind. I'd be glad that this stuff is useful at all. That would be a nice surprise.

Not everything that is linked to on this site falls under the same guidelines, so be sure to respect that author's copyright; I tend to link stuff that is generally pretty free to use, though.

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Why don't you highlight URLs you dinosaur?

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Because I think it's kinda deceiving. It's one thing to highlight a word that leads to a place, since the user doesn't have expectation of where it's going to lead, they'll tend to hover to see where it's going. A full URL looks like it's going exactly where it's going. A user won't think twice about clicking on https://facebook.com/. They will if they see totally not a virus. If you're giving out the full URL anyway why bother linking it? Every browser in the world has double-click (or long-press) to highlight the URL automatically, then right-click, and open in new tab.

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TL;DR Above everything, I'm a lurker. And I mean that in the traditional forum/mailing list sense. You could put it a few ways and still be right: a reader, a people watcher, a listener, maybe a coward if you're 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 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.

Now, I'm not so sure I've earned the right yet.

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I'd rather just let my work (and my play) stand for itself, for whatever it's worth. You'll get it as you go I'm sure. That said, there are some things that probably help for context's sake: - I'm born, raised, and hosted on the US East Coast. By most countries' standards, that means I have no sense of the world outside of my own country, which despite my best efforts, is probably true - I'm raised and hosted (not born) on free software (unless you count whatever my VPS is running). This server is running OpenBSD with nginx and httpd working together to host a small git repo and this flask app I threw together - I'm born and raised (not hosted) by Luddites, for the most part. And I don't mean that in entirely bad way. What I mean is I grew up around mostly people who didn't know and didn't care to know about advances in technology or the merging of that technology with culture. In fact, that might be the appropriate view to have in light of recent circumstances. - By trade, I'm best at data recovery and writing good documentation. I'm self-taught at programming software design so by most metrics, I'm probably not great at that, but I'm getting there. I love a good math problem, and though I only got a B in my college circuits class, 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 has it's own value, but it's separate.

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I'd rather just let my work (and my play) stand for itself, for whatever it's worth. You'll get it as you go I'm sure. That said, there are some things that probably help for context's sake:

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Here is as close to home as I'll get for now.

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