John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Feb 26 14:12:35 GMT 2021
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 3:56 PM Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com> wrote:
"confidentiality" maybe was the wrong word. The idea is that I don't
want to let everyone in the same network see (and possibly hijack) the
pages I visit.
Well, TLS doesn't block traffic analysis (who's talking to whom at whattime). For that you need Tor (a U.S. government-funded effort, by the way).
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. If my server fails to execute
a CGI script, it should return a 20 reply with "Error while executing
the script" instead of 42?
That's the idea. There is a language problem, of course, if the serverexplains it in a language you don't know. Again, this isn't something Iwant seriously considered.
FYI, Emacs handled that wall of text surprisingly well :)
Well, sure. Plain-text console-style rendering can handle most of thatfine.
Workers at the Tower of Babel:
"Bitte geben Sie mir einen kleineren Schraubenschlüssel.'
German: "Please give me a small screwdriver."
'Non ho idea di quello che stai chiedendo.’
That was supposed to be "I have no idea what you're asking for." I hope itwas.
‘Давайте чашку чая и домой.’
Russian: "Let's have a cup of tea and go home."
‘Kei te korero koe i tito noa, ko ahau ngenge o te whare pourewa.'
Maori (the native language of New Zealand): "You're talkingnonsense/fiction; I'm tired of the tower."
I don't like the idea of instant-download software for various ethical
and practical concerns, but I have a soft-spot for programming language
design and compilers, so, if you don't mind, I'd be curious to read more
about it :)
I have a lot of scribbles on paper right now, so I'll get back to you whenthey are online and a little more organized.
P.S.: I find your way of quoting text strange. Why the first line of
every cited block isn't prefixed by
when all the others are? Is that
some sort of arcane custom that youngster like me don't understand?
/me chuckles
No, just carelessness/laziness on my part. The text I want to comment onoften starts in the middle of a line, so I delete everything I *don't* wantto quote, and I often forget to put back the initial
(or several of them).
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.orgLong-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter,Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme):One sentence (two stanzas) / HexasyllabicallyChallenges poets who / Don't have the time. --robison who's at texasdot net-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210226/7edb56aa/attachment.htm>