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Ha, I remember the days where Apache was one of the poster childs of open source along with Mozilla. Meanwhile nginx was the authors own homepage, complete wit
by nailer 3y ago
Ha, I remember the days where Apache was one of the poster childs of open source along with Mozilla.
Meanwhile nginx was the authors own homepage, complete with hammers and sickles, with a personal anecdote about how he read the c10k paper (describing how you should have 10,000 connections on a Pentium III ) and decided to use nonblocking io make a fast Web server.
Nowadays nginx is the safe choice and Apache is seen as a little bit old hat.
- mnot 3y agoSafe choice - why? My experience is that it has lots of non-conformant, weird little behaviors.
- ilyt 3y agoYou could say same about both of them. Like how example in Apache ordering of vhosts doesn't matter, except for choosing the default vhosts
- rascul 3y agoThe order matters in Nginx also in certain cases.
- Kamq 3y ago> non-conformant Non-conformant to what? Is it following a spec somewhere?
- nailer 3y agoI mean, yes, there is an HTTP1, 1.1 and 2 spec, gzip spec, brotli spec, mime types, tls 1, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, quic spec, sni spec, but I did not bother replying as the grandparent comment hasn’t given any detail.
- Kamq 3y agoOh derp. Yeah I could see that being an issue. My brain's shot and I thought they were talking about some sort of server spec (not sure for what? conig? request handling?)
- cies 3y agoMozilla also had it's fair share of commie symbolism, who remembers this: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/2002/flyer.html https://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/2002/flyer.html I actually liked the commie vibes in the free software movement. In some ways the movement was attacking big-capitals, and was attacked by big-capital. Too bad Red Flag Linux[1] (from China) and Red Star Linux[2] (from North Korea) are not actively maintained. Nova Linux[3] (from Cuba) seems to be the only distro still somewhat maintained. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(operating_system)
- eesmith 3y ago> And then when people complained about that, I explained in detail that Futurism was a popular style of propaganda art on all sides of the early 20th century conflicts; it was not used only by the Soviets and the Chinese, but also by US in their own propaganda, particularly in recruitment posters and just about everything the WPA did, and even by the Red Cross. So if you looked at our branding and it made you think of Communism, well, I'm sorry, but that's just a deep misunderstanding of Modern Art history: this is merely what poster art looked like in the 1930s, regardless of ideology! > That was complete bullshit, of course. Yes, I absolutely branded Mozilla.org that way for the subtext of "these free software people are all a bunch of commies." I was trolling. > I trolled them so hard. No direct link to source because jwz.
- nailer 3y agoWhat’s wrong with JWZ?
- grzm 3y agoHe redirects links from HN.
- npteljes 3y agoYou could use a dereferer redirecter, like so: https://dereferer.link/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/ https://dereferer.link/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/the...