Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

textfiles.com

textfiles.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

181–190 of 196 posts

Re: textfiles.com

#181

Post by lowwave »

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…

>I think the author had a spat on twitter a while back because of the same question.

Ok, I guess that explains downvote to my post. I was just wondering. Cause now we can get free SSL with let's encrypt. And since traffic and be hijacked and modified, it just seems to make sense to have a site that serves text files to have ssl.

Re: textfiles.com

#182

Post by jstarfish »

fingerlocks wrote: post #175
jstarfish wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not voodoo; the concept of "supertasters" and other supersensory traits in humans is well-documented. Most legitimate sommeliers are likely supertasters. I'm a supertaster myself-- certain pungent/sour tastes will literally make me gag; I don't like foods with a million different components since I can taste all of them quite clearly. My wife on the other hand will smell things on the wind (like smoke) that I'll…

You’re supposed to fill the new oil filter with oil prior to installation to prevent this. Irrelevant to larger point though.

That isn't always possible though. I've had at least two cars that mounted them either sideways or near-upside down.

Re: textfiles.com

#183

Post by loco5niner »

teambayleaf wrote: post #172
mark_l_watson wrote: post #40

Wow, I love this. Clicked on “Where are to files?” and discovered a treasure trove. I just dived into food files. Although it is not the type of artificial intelligence work people usually pay me to do, my passion is knowledge representation and automatically extracting meaning from text. textfiles.com looks like a great resource. Thanks for posting this.

http://www.textfiles.com/food/recipe.002 This french soup recipe is a gem. I didn't know that I could use "3/4 cup of COCA COLA" to make onion soup.

Shockingly, here is the source of this recipe:

"International Cooking with Coca-Cola", a give-away pamphlet from The Coca-Cola Company, 1981

Re: textfiles.com

#185

Post by perl4ever »

codazoda wrote: post #32
corobo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Green on black is a colour scheme from old terminals..

This. The monitors of the time were called monochrome. Most of them came in green or amber.

But there was also paper white, which was more of a bluish purple in reality.

Re: textfiles.com

#186

Post by perl4ever »

teddyh wrote: post #153
mhb wrote: post #5

Shouldn't have stolen the color scheme from jwz. Now we have two problems.

JWZ took the colors on his web site from the Ann Arbor Ambassador 60 terminal: https://web.archive.org/web/20200214203348/https://www.jwz.o... “Sometimes people ask me why my web sites use those colors. This is a thing that people sometimes ask.”

Reading that takes me back to the mid-80s, when I encountered a port of emacs for the Amiga and I was just bewildered by it - in the age of GUIs, something developed before microcomputers and mice seemed like an pointless atavism.

Re: textfiles.com

#187

Post by Jaruzel »

eddieh wrote: post #99
Jaruzel wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Floodgap is the de-facto home of Gopher: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ If you are on Windows, I have written a nice modern gopher client: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...

Very cool, but the screenshots are really small.

Yeah - I did have larger, but they um, got lost. I keep meaning to do new ones.

Re: textfiles.com

#188

Post by Jaruzel »

anthk wrote: post #105
Jaruzel wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Floodgap is the de-facto home of Gopher: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ If you are on Windows, I have written a nice modern gopher client: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...

I prefer gopher://magical.fish

Ooh nice site - it's not been around that long either.

That said, Cameron Kaiser has done so much to promote gopher, I don't feel it's fair to redirect people away from his site though.

Re: textfiles.com

#189

Post by myth_drannon »

tripzilch wrote: post #178
myth_drannon wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The one's from 80's and 90's just grew up and dot-com era really gave more opportunities for the creative programmers. Younger people will never write on many of the topics in these files because it will land you in jail FAST. It used to be more anonymity back then. Phreaking, warez scenes were alive and well. Heck, even demoscence is not the same anymore. Anyways if you are into coding/hacking, working for a startup…

> Heck, even demoscence is not the same anymore. Can you expand on this? I used to be active in the demoscene 2 decades ago, but haven't really kept up lately, how have they changed?

80's and 90's it was mainly about pushing the limits of hardware (and some art). Now the demos don't look as innovative comparing to games, VFX. I think only C64 and some other artificially limited platforms still are doing very interesting stuff but it's very little of it.
Post reply on HN