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It's very sad that a forum of self-styled hackers can not see the value in a personal website. Our image of what the web is and should be has been poisoned by 9

It's very sad that a forum of self-styled hackers can not see the value in a personal website. Our image of what the web is and should be has been poisoned by 99.999% uptime cloud-hosted tat.

ehutch79 3y ago
Uh, it’s not personal websites we’re talking about. It’s hosting them on public facing servers on your phone specifically
- pessimizer 3y ago
  "Personal website" doesn't mean and has never meant that you're the only person who can see it.
  - ehutch79 3y ago
    Generally no, and i don't think anyone was thinking we were talking about sites that only the writer sees? Otherwise what's the point of running a server?
goodbyesf 3y ago
> It's very sad that a forum of self-styled hackers can not see the value in a personal website. I think the name has you confused. The vast majority of people here are not self-styled hackers. Actually most are against hackers and the hacker ethos. Just because north korea calls itself the democratic people's republic of korea doesn't mean it is democratic or a republic. The same applies here. > Our image of what the web is and should be has been poisoned by 99.999% uptime cloud-hosted tat. No. It's been poisoned by greed and power.
cortesoft 3y ago
The problem isn't the self hosting a website bit, it is the "oh your phone" bit. Our phone network doesn't have a ton of excess capacity, and building it out is expensive. A personal website has zero reason to run on your phone with you. It would be way more efficient for the phone companies to simply give a free small VPS to phone customers who want one rather than allow them to host it on their phone.
- devnullbrain 3y ago
  The phone network has no problem with me uploading 25MB videos to social media. 'Personal website' doesn't have to mean running Google in your pocket.

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It's very sad that a forum of self-styled hackers can not see the value in a personal website. Our image of what the web is and should be has been poisoned by 9

by devnullbrain 3y ago

It's very sad that a forum of self-styled hackers can not see the value in a personal website. Our image of what the web is and should be has been poisoned by 99.999% uptime cloud-hosted tat.

ehutch79 3y ago
Uh, it’s not personal websites we’re talking about. It’s hosting them on public facing servers on your phone specifically
- pessimizer 3y ago
  "Personal website" doesn't mean and has never meant that you're the only person who can see it.
  - ehutch79 3y ago
    Generally no, and i don't think anyone was thinking we were talking about sites that only the writer sees? Otherwise what's the point of running a server?
goodbyesf 3y ago
> It's very sad that a forum of self-styled hackers can not see the value in a personal website. I think the name has you confused. The vast majority of people here are not self-styled hackers. Actually most are against hackers and the hacker ethos. Just because north korea calls itself the democratic people's republic of korea doesn't mean it is democratic or a republic. The same applies here. > Our image of what the web is and should be has been poisoned by 99.999% uptime cloud-hosted tat. No. It's been poisoned by greed and power.
cortesoft 3y ago
The problem isn't the self hosting a website bit, it is the "oh your phone" bit. Our phone network doesn't have a ton of excess capacity, and building it out is expensive. A personal website has zero reason to run on your phone with you. It would be way more efficient for the phone companies to simply give a free small VPS to phone customers who want one rather than allow them to host it on their phone.
- devnullbrain 3y ago
  The phone network has no problem with me uploading 25MB videos to social media. 'Personal website' doesn't have to mean running Google in your pocket.