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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by 999900000999 »

palmotea wrote: post #48
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?

> 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? Because the government should provide useful services. It should be funded by tax dollars because I'm tried of libertarians, and it's well-demonstrated that the free market has consumer hostile incentives that I'm sick of.

Alright cool.

Your assuming the local government employed webmaster won't favor his friends restaurants.

Craigslist basically is this, and it's more or less free.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by kraai »

wolfhumble wrote: post #61
elwebmaster wrote: post #43

What techies are missing is that AI doesn't make it possible for mom and pop shops to create and manage a website but it levels the playing field for enterprenuers. We can't expect plumbers and restaurant owners to spend 12+ hours fighting with AI website builders just to get a cookie cutter-website that is nothing more than a brochure. Nor can they fork thousands of dollars for web design agencies and spend months i…

They have already been doing that for 10-15 years via page builders and themes in Wordpress. It is easier now, but small players have had relatively decent tools for quite some time.

Exactly this. It was already very easy. Just choose a local hosting company, most of them have free ssl and one click installs for wordpress etc.

People are overthinking it.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by zjp »

dickiedyce wrote: post #45
replooda wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Millenniales delendi sunt." Now, write it out a hundred times. If it's not done by sunrise...

I daren’t ask “What have Millennials ever done for us?” because I have a suspicion that it would be a surprisingly unfunny answer.

Cheems will be to millennials what the Grateful Dead logo was to Boomers.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by speedgoose »

johnfn wrote: post #79
speedgoose wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was pretty factual.

If you think that everyone who works on a website that is a walled garden is a "pedophile fascist", I don't know what to say to you -- I don't think we live in the same reality.

It’s not what is written?

Re: Have a fucking website

#85

Post by asimovDev »

ptek wrote: post #62
scosman wrote: post #56

Is there a way to view IG pages without logging in? I would love to delete the app and setup privacy redirect.

Try switching to desktop mode

it still forces you to log in when you scroll and you can't view any post iirc. Maybe solvable with ublock filters or some console commands but I haven't bothered

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by DaSHacka »

rkachowski wrote: post #76

Sometimes I get inspired to write something publicly, but then the fact that I'm providing another point of data to ChatGPTs training corpus which helps the american Department of War make shit memes about killing people - stifles that impulse pretty quickly.

The same could be said about posting anything publicly though, including our comments.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by sofixa »

rich_sasha wrote: post #63

A few comments point out, and I agree, that setting up, never mind maintaining a webpage, has become a PITA: - server (AWS? 10 optional services to config etc etc, config, updates etc) - domain - SSL cert Are there solid providers who do it all-in-one? I pay one bill, get a domain, SSL certificate, renewed, and a managed, pre-configured Linux box, or even static hosting? Thinking of setting up a webpage for my consul…

Providers like Netlify, Firebase Hosting, CloudFlare are much better value for money for features for maintenance. Static hosting means you don't need to update the server because there isn't one, and there are even free tiers below a certain usage.

There's still the usability thing, they're not made for non-techies. There's an assumption you'll use Git, etc. But there's no practical reason why Netlify CMS or similar couldn't handle everything.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by lneves »

squirrellous wrote: post #17
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…

Sounds like what we need is Facebook pages, except as a free service from the government or non-profit.

Back in the day, there was this thing called the "Yellow Pages"! :-)

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by Klonoar »

techterrier wrote: post #67

Good idea, I did just such a thing myself, deleting all my socials and only posting my photos to my own website: https://dombarker.co.uk/ Was fun to make 'just a website' for a change too.

I run something similar, ish: https://photos.rymc.io/

I still have an account or two elsewhere, but all photos get posted here then linked there with decent open graph previews.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by sofixa »

scosman wrote: post #56

Is there a way to view IG pages without logging in? I would love to delete the app and setup privacy redirect.

It depends. If there's a share id (?igsh=xxc) in the link usually no, but if you remove it usually yes. Opening more than a few posts/stories will result in a popup to sign in, but at least the core page and introduction should be visible.
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