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Re: textfiles.com

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Post by CPLX »

HugoDaniel wrote: post #2

Love the anarchy section: http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/

This contains the one of my all time favorite discoveries from the BBS days: http://cd.textfiles.com/group42/ANARCHY/COOKBOOK/BLOTBOX.HTM

Stuffing a pile of dot matrix printouts of this and similar stuff into a backpack and reading it on the school bus was pretty exciting stuff for 12 year old me and a few friends.

The fact that is was mostly ludicrous or tongue-in-cheek for the writers was, of course, mostly lost on us at that age. Although the pay phone paperclip trick was real and sure was helpful for calling home after a day of skateboarding around empty parking garages.

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Post by jaas »

bityard wrote: post #63
lowwave wrote: post #39

Hmmm, why doesn't the site have https?

Because there are still plenty of valid use cases for HTTP.

No there aren't. All HTTP traffic can be modified, which means it can deliver any malicious payload to the server or client. It's dangerous not to use HTTPS, period.

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

CalRobert wrote: post #8

An important piece of the early internet. I remember when my brief submission made it to the last issue of HOE (Hogs of Ecstasy) and felt like a small celebrity.

This wasn’t even internet. Dial-up. Hardly anyone used TCP/IP or FTP or telnet ( only universities ). At home we all used software with protocols like XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM for file transfer.

Everything else was plain ASCII over serial connections with modems between two devices.

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Post by setr »

th0ma5 wrote: post #79
artimaeis wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Full quote: > Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important, as compared to 1-3 and 5. I’d wager that it doesn’t matter how nice your beans are, if they were roasted a long time ago, ground a long time ago, and brewed with unclean equipment and poor quality water the bean quality matters not at all. Even then, the file explains: > Fact: The prepackaged stuff you buy in supermarkets…

What does that even mean "debris" in this context? I tried to google "major debris" and it only returned this text. Why would I deliberately buy stuff with a bunch of junk in it?

The bad coffee beans are the bunch of junk

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Post by kalleboo »

jjice wrote: post #77
artimaeis wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Full quote: > Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important, as compared to 1-3 and 5. I’d wager that it doesn’t matter how nice your beans are, if they were roasted a long time ago, ground a long time ago, and brewed with unclean equipment and poor quality water the bean quality matters not at all. Even then, the file explains: > Fact: The prepackaged stuff you buy in supermarkets…

Water is a huge factor that I neglected for a while. It finally hit me once someone told me that coffee is mostly water, and your coffee is only as good as your water. Makes complete sense, but I had never thought about it. A simple Britta filter goes a long way.

I have very low standards for coffee, use Starbucks bulk beans off of Amazon, and brew it in an automatic mill+drip machine. But a Brita filter for the water makes a world of difference.

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Post by zozbot234 »

jaas wrote: post #82
bityard wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there are still plenty of valid use cases for HTTP.

No there aren't. All HTTP traffic can be modified, which means it can deliver any malicious payload to the server or client. It's dangerous not to use HTTPS, period.

This is silly, as the endpoint you're connecting to could also be malicious. If you're worried about trusting your intermediary, you can just VPN to a trusted host and use it as a proxy.

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Post by csixty4 »

oneplane wrote: post #59
lowwave wrote: post #39

Hmmm, why doesn't the site have https?

I think the author had a spat on twitter a while back because of the same question. There really isn't any excuse to not have TLS on your site, even if purely to thwart MITM injection. Most arguments are BS but still keep popping up: - heavy on the CPU (not with anything after 2006) - hard to setup (not with LE + ACME) - I don't process information (that doesn't matter/is not the reason, DPI, MITM come to mind) - bro…

> unless you're using a browser from To be fair, a lot of Jason Scott's audience is people who might choose to use ancient browsers on obsolete platforms.

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Post by lostgame »

jjice wrote: post #77
artimaeis wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Full quote: > Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important, as compared to 1-3 and 5. I’d wager that it doesn’t matter how nice your beans are, if they were roasted a long time ago, ground a long time ago, and brewed with unclean equipment and poor quality water the bean quality matters not at all. Even then, the file explains: > Fact: The prepackaged stuff you buy in supermarkets…

Water is a huge factor that I neglected for a while. It finally hit me once someone told me that coffee is mostly water, and your coffee is only as good as your water. Makes complete sense, but I had never thought about it. A simple Britta filter goes a long way.

This is a simple tip that will change my life forever.

So obvious, yet so important.

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