checking if this site connection is secure so frustrating to see how they describe what is happening, when it is not true. they claim that they make a check for me, for the user, to see if it is safe to connect to that site, by 'checking the connection', if 'it is secure'. while if it's https, and there is this lock, it's secure. what they are actually checking is do i behave like a bot, and am i secure for the website? and they tell me they check if the website is secure for me. i would...

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🐉 norayr

however i think, the internet i like is a hobbyist network. no ads, collection of many small servers. however i think, it's not possible to 'earn' money on the internet without ads, or without exploiting the current state, that most of the users aren't literate enough to communicate on the network (message, have a web presence, site, page, blog, rss feed) without using big corporate technologies. they don't know about the alternatives even and it is hard to explain the decentralized way of...

💬 2 comments · 2023-07-21 · 1 day ago

🐉 norayr

there was a question about posting same content on different places in geminispace, let's say on personal gemlog or phlog and bubble bbs: [gemini link] i answer here because i cannot leave such a long comment there, but i'll leave a link to this text. and the op (original poster) was concerned if duplicate texts would be considered spam. though i wanted to answer that i personally have no problem with that, and if the op was concerned about my feelings, i am ok with that, but i think there...

💬 1 comment · 2 likes · 2023-07-17 · 6 days ago

🐉 norayr

i posted a text about better colours for digital photos: [gemini link]

💬 View post · 2023-07-15 · 7 days ago

🐉 norayr

i also find myself in a dilemma. i don't like to write in english. but it is the language of communication between different people. today. but that's today. is the end of history here? don't get me wrong, i am not someone who watches russian state channels. (: well, maybe you are, but then probably we are not friends. and i am not someone who wants to write texts that are very abstract and are important without a context, are timeless. i believe in 'medium is the message'. i believe '...

💬 9 comments · 6 likes · 2023-07-14 · 9 days ago

🐉 norayr

so, i wanted to write that i guess today we are living in the age of cyperpunk already. i was reading /s/retrocomputing topics, and i wanted to share that i always have in my pocket motorola droid 4 phone. it doesn't work as phone at all. it has no sim card in it. and i don't like 'phones', since even when using floss lineageos or grapheneos, it's sort of a 'phone os' and not a real operating system. i have a feeling that i use the tv or radio, not a computing device. do you remember the...

💬 2 comments · 5 likes · 2023-07-13 · 9 days ago

🐉 norayr

i'll try to write a post here. i don't like to be inconsistent, i. e. i would like to know that i write in the same place from time to time. and now i don't have a feeling i will write here always. i have this tendency to want to use software i host, and to use decentralized software, and to use simple software. bubble is not decentralized, is not lowtech i guess, it requires a backend at least, and i use hugo for my web blog. so i am afraid i won't write here, and if so, why would i write...

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