I think these people are actually making some good points in this article ... https://medium.com/s/story/its-time-to-embrace-digital-nutrition-5371bd736cb
@LWFlouisa I myself, I know what they mean, though I don't think it's necessarily the term I would have chosen had the article been written by me.
I get the basic idea what they mean, I just wish Medium let me read the whole article.
@LWFlouisa I'm a paid member, unfortunately. And here's why I wish the IndieWeb was more prominent; imagine the amount of responses he'd get had the article been written on his own blog, instead of using a third party service as a courier for it?
Granted I still need to work on making the blog posts "look pretty." I only really know HTML and CSS, as far as web development.
@LWFlouisa Cheaper, in the long run when you don't have to pay a hosting company. I don't care that much for my ISP's terms of service. I'll break them in order to host at home until they physically shut me down.
@LWFlouisa debateable. I say that because most ISPs flip-flop regarding what they will allow. My friend wants to open port 80, but is afraid it will be blocked on any day.
@LWFlouisa You could also opt for a port redirect, which is often cheaper than hosting.
@LWFlouisa port redirect is when you forward out a nonstandard port, but somehow a third-party service does something to redirect it to 80, but the public hasn't the dangdest that you're using a nonstandard port. If you want to use something other than 80 for HTTP but want the search engines to find you, then you cannot use a nonstandard port without redirection.
Does port 80 tend to be blocked?
One thing I haven't figured out is how to host a Roguelike game on a website: I program games in Ruby, and short of IDEs, I haven't seen a way to really execute ruby terminal programs in the browser.
@LWFlouisa Whether port 80/443 are blocked, hard to tell; Comcast, at least, has this weird thing sometimes where they will keep it opened for a little while, and then block it for three months, then open it again. No one can make up their minds. drives admins like us nuts.
@LWFlouisa Server issues are fun to fix when they're your issues. Makes you think hard. It's when you have others breathing down your neck to fix it and fix it now that gets to me.
@LWFlouisa Got that right.
But they omit the most important cause of all, that the USA is run by predatory DA's building their careers by taking advantage of people too poor to afford private attorneys. The same lawyers then become our so-called leaders in Congress, continuing to impose repression, sexual and otherwise, on us.
