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Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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post #10

Couldn’t this actually be useful in countries that block Wikipedia?

Those countries would just block adtac.in recursively when they noticed.

And if you decide to work around that by setting up more domains to do this, then you could just as well use those domains to front regular proxy servers.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

#22
Great start, but plain text in 2020?

I propose we design a markup language so this can be parsed. How about DTML? And maybe some styling rules as well, we can call it DSS. And we can't forget a basic scripting language called DJS.

I'll start working on the parser, we can call it a drowser.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

#23
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't say it's the opposite. It sounds the opposite from the title, but this actually returns Wikipedia content. The other one fetches a link to a site.

I just meant opposite in the most trivial sense: (reverse '("Wikipedia" "over" "DNS")) => ("DNS" "over" "Wikipedia")

finally my lisp class has aided me in a real-life scenario

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

#24
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just meant opposite in the most trivial sense: (reverse '("Wikipedia" "over" "DNS")) => ("DNS" "over" "Wikipedia")

finally my lisp class has aided me in a real-life scenario

I never had a lisp class, so I'm sitting here wondering why there is one single quote.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

finally my lisp class has aided me in a real-life scenario

I never had a lisp class, so I'm sitting here wondering why there is one single quote.

Otherwise the single-unquoted ( would be treated as a function call.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

#27
post #22

Great start, but plain text in 2020? I propose we design a markup language so this can be parsed. How about DTML? And maybe some styling rules as well, we can call it DSS. And we can't forget a basic scripting language called DJS. I'll start working on the parser, we can call it a drowser.

Whoa hold your horses! DGML first.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

finally my lisp class has aided me in a real-life scenario

I never had a lisp class, so I'm sitting here wondering why there is one single quote.

That's a reader macro to make it quoted.

What that means is 'don't try to evaluate this as a function call'.

Basically it's a data list.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

finally my lisp class has aided me in a real-life scenario

I never had a lisp class, so I'm sitting here wondering why there is one single quote.

Out of curiosity, did the sibling replies to your comment (all of which are accurate!) answer your question, in the sense that you now understand?
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