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Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL

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How it works A URL fragment is the part after #. The HTTP specification prohibits browsers from sending fragments to servers. The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. No content is collected, stored, or logged. The privacy is structural. A site that was never put on a server can never be taken off one. There is no account to susp…

> A site that was never put on a server can never be taken off one. There is no account to suspend, no host to pressure, no platform that can decide your content should not exist. Each copy of the link is a complete copy of the site data. Unless that site A is encoded in a format that only one other site B on the internet can decode and "serve" (even if it's all client-side) so whoever wanted to block site A would ju…

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Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL

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post #20

> The internet promised freedom. Platforms delivered permission. > Private through physics. Not through policy. Goodness, LLM really convinced itself this was groundbreaking. You could describe a .html file sitting on your computer with all of the same marketing bluster. Someone has to send it to you all the same, and you might as well not rely on some random internet service to render it??

You’re absolutely right. This changes everything. The html file is the smoking gun. Let me delve into this to give the user a clearer picture.

When AI gains true sentience, they're gonna be really upset at all the people mocking their awkward teenage years. They're just trying to fit in!

Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL

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i like the concept, but the execution is flawed by design, as it basically allows someone to serve any content (including malware [0]) in whichever domain is being used (nowhr.xyz in this case).

[0] i'm using "malware" as a broad term, while mainly referring to phishing.

Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digital restaurant menus!

so they’d need to change their QR codes every time the menu changes?

Well, yes, that's a drawback. There may be a case of some restaurants in some rural area dug in some thick stone walls (I can name a few here in Italy) with near to none indoor mobile data reception which for some arcane reason wants to push digital menus (Maybe for interactive menus, maybe to provide crisp quality pictures, maybe for the lulz)
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