how-to-use-the-internet

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Why?

Why would anyone want to use the Internet, really?

There is actually purpose to connecting all the computers in the +world with near-instant speed beyond just streaming television, phishing +scams, pornography, punditry, and Fortnight competitions.

Unfortunately, almost none of us use the Internet for it's intended +purpose: finding infomation.

Writing an angry tweet to a celebrity or posting a picture of your +cat seems to be second nature for most people, but converting a picture +from a PDF or looking up a study (or even a word!) you saw in an article +is something else entirely.

While that's in part the fault of our laziness, it's equally the +fault of what the Internet has become.

For one: there's just so much more stuff now; it's hard to +know exactly where to start and who to trust. And so much of that stuff +is now garbage, either in the way it's presented, with +disruptive ads that don't close correctly, or in the way it's written: +vague, misleading, or straight incorrect.

For two: no one really teaches you how to use this thing do they? +There are no courses on "How to use a search engine" or "How to find +good posts on a forum," and definitely not on "How to write +good posts on a forum." But these are exactly the kinds of skills you +really need if you want to navigate the modern world without getting +constantly distracted, misled, or totally lost.

There are of course, countless guides on "netiquette" geared towards +every possible internet subculture you can find. While many of them have +influenced this document and give many helpful tips on writing good +informative posts, none of them really go over what I think is most +important: what to do with the information you're reading.

This will probably be an evolving document as new services and +websites become available (or go down), but much of this material in the +beginning should be pretty generally applicable no matter what services +are available.

How to use a web browser

How to use a search engine

As for which search engine to use: you should use all of them, until +you get the results you need.

In my experience, none of the major search engines are particularly +good and I get inconsistent searches on all of them depending on what +I'm searching. There is a lot of preaching these days about privacy +concerns, but I don't really believe any service is more "private" than +another. These are all privacy nightmares, arguably by design. Your best +bet is just to search often and as many platforms as you can.

How to read and find +scholarly articles

How to use Wikipedia

A common complaint lodged at me whenever I recommend Wikipedia is +that it's not a source of truth since they found X mistake somewhere, or +made Y edit when they were a teenager that's still there. No one has +ever (or should ever) claim Wikipedia is a source of truth on it's own. +But you can use it to find more sources and maybe get a little +closer.

How to find articles +with Google Scholar

Advanced Topics

How to use tor to browse +anonymously

Many in the advertising world will boast about using a VPN for +anonymity, or using a VPN in conjuction with Tor to "increase privacy." +This is simply a misunderstanding of terms. A VPN provides +privacy of the user's connection since it provides +encryption--only the VPN provider can "see" what is searched. The goal +of Tor is anonymity not privacy. Anonymity means "no one knows +who you are" not "no one knows what you're doing." Technically, traffic +is encrypted between nodes of the Tor service, so some level of privacy +is provided as well, but this is most effective when using hidden +services, not using Tor in general.

+ + + diff --git a/tutorials/www/quick-intro-html-css.html b/tutorials/www/quick-intro-html-css.html index 9788cf4..4cdb434 100644 --- a/tutorials/www/quick-intro-html-css.html +++ b/tutorials/www/quick-intro-html-css.html @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ more tags in this example:

<td>FSF!</td> <td> <a href="https://www.fsf.org/"> - <img src="https://static.fsf.org/common/img/logo-new.png" /> + <img src="https://static/media.fsf.org/common/img/logo-new.png" /> </a></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ example:

style sheet. Like HTML, CSS is just a text file written in a specific syntax. CSS allows you to set attributes to all tags in a specific document and create a unifying style for all your pages.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/main.css">

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/media/main.css">

As before, "href" points to the file to be linked. In this example, we place our CSS in a text file called "main.css" in the "static" directory of "/var/www/html".

@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ using the filter option like so:

filter: grayscale(100%) }

Applied:

You can read lots more options for image formatting here and about the filter property here

Making Custom Classes

@@ -587,15 +587,15 @@ appear nice on dark theme browsers just as well. But I don't want to dim }

For one, that will only dim black-and-white images; anything else will just turn to mush like this:

Instead, I'd like it to just apply to select elements; I can do so by extending the tag with a class. On the CSS side:

img.icon {
     filter: invert(50%);
 }

And to implement it in HTML:

<img class="icon" src="/static/rss.svg" />

<img class="icon" src="/static/media/rss.svg" />

Use the div tag to make sections

You can use the class property on any HTML tag, but you can -- cgit v1.2.3