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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by zhivota »

So how do I do that? I can't host it easily on the machine in the office because NAT and dynamic IPs have trained us that this is not really possible (it is, buty you have to know what you're doing).

Pay a hosting provider, but who? Do I need to buy an SSL certificate, because we decided we need HTTPS everywhere for some reason? What about if my site gets DDOSed? Do I get charged more?

So I can use something free like Github Pages, but now I'm under a different tech overlord, no?

I can see why people just say screw it and go back to IG/FB. The web is too complicated now.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by vasco »

andreygrehov wrote: post #46

+1 I can’t even delete my old stuff on HN. I don’t own my comments here. In contrast, I can go ahead and delete any of my Facebook posts or comments from 10 years ago. In a way, HN is more hostile than Facebook.

I'm sure I've read they support this if you email them. It's a manual action but if you're based in Europe they will have to do it by law.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by cindyllm »

tossandthrow wrote: post #30
dumpsterdiver wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any justification in mind for the “free service” being funded by tax payers? Why should it be free for the people who need it, and why should tax payers fund it?

Such proposal doesn't need justification. You can merely disagree. Anyhow. The justification is that it is an important part of a communications infrastructure. Just like the government finances roads, etc.

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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

Arainach wrote: post #14

Someone wrote and deleted a comment saying > I don't get it. LLMs are supposed to have 100% bridged this gap from "normie" to "DIY website." What's missing? This is an all too common thought process among technologists, so: Where to even start? Well, let's start that every single "AI" company is massively overhyping everything to try to avoid any unfortunate realizations about the emperor's clothes regarding their Ca…

Squarespace made a business simplifying all that. It's expensive but there are templates and it had a WYSIWYG editor.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by Dylan16807 »

ghurtado wrote: post #41
tossandthrow wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such proposal doesn't need justification. You can merely disagree. Anyhow. The justification is that it is an important part of a communications infrastructure. Just like the government finances roads, etc.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but shouldn't free Internet access come before that?

We should be making sure everyone has internet access, but hosting some basic pages is about 1000x cheaper, so no I don't think free internet access should come before that.
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