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<generator uri="https://www.getzola.org/">Zola</generator>
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<title>Anubis is a joke</title>
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<published>2025-04-16T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<updated>2025-04-16T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<name>
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wanderlost
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blog/2025-04-16-anubis-is-a-joke/"/>
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<content type="html" xml:base="/blog/2025-04-16-anubis-is-a-joke/"><p>Over the past few months, a lot of people have turned to Anubis by Xe Iaso for trying to protect
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their sites, primarily Git forges and alternative frontends, against AI scraping.</p>
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<p>Anubis is a new PoW captcha "solution" that (allegedly) holds out scrapers by slowing down your
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browsing and forcing you to enable JavaScript to pass a challenge to view the site. Once it's wasted
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a few seconds of your time and made you reevaluate the worth of whatever you were visiting, the
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stupid anime girl (previously AI generated) it shows you give a smile and you're on your way. This
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challenge only will work on Chromium and its Google-funded controlled opposition, Firefox. Basilisk
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does seem to work, though with broken CSS. It doesn't even work on Safari (allegedly, I don't own an
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iToy to test this with) and no other browser (until you read the next section) works on this.</p>
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<p>There's one small problem to Anubis though. By default (which no installation I've checked changes),
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Anubis will only present a challenge to User-Agents with "Mozilla" and some obvious scraper agents,
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at the time of me writing this. You can check this in /data/botPolicies.json.</p>
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<p>This means all one of those evil scrapers Anubis is supposed to protect against have to do to bypass
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Anubis is not use one of these User-Agents. It also means that you too can completely bypass this as
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I know it's been annoying a lot of people lately. You can curl a site using the default config (most
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of them), and it won't give an Anubis challenge, it'll just show you the site in its original
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form. No special options, no custom User-Agent, just curl http://domain.name and it'll let you
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through. This is applicable to your normal browser as well, just give it a user agent that doesn't
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contain "Mozilla" or any of the other terms in the file and you won't have any problems.</p>
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<p>I was expecting a much more involved workaround to dealing with this piece of shit but no, all you
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have to do is give it a UA not containing some keywords.</p>
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<entry xml:lang="en">
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<title>XHTML is good, actually</title>
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<published>2025-04-13T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<updated>2025-04-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<author>
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<name>
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wanderlost
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</name>
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</author>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blog/2025-04-13-xhtml-is-good-actually/"/>
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<content type="html" xml:base="/blog/2025-04-13-xhtml-is-good-actually/"><p>About a month or two ago, I finally converted everything I run and currently maintain to XHTML 1.1.
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I had been considering it for months and finally decided it was the right decision, and came to the
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conclusion that XHTML is far better than HTML.</p>
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<h1 id="an-open-web-needs-real-standards">An open web needs real standards</h1>
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<p>Unlike the SGML-based HTML, documents in XHTML must be valid. Browsers will let you get away with
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some mild errors, but it's far less lenient than normal HTML. While this is one of the most common
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things people criticize XHTML for, it's a good thing. Had everyone used XHTML and followed its
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standards when it first came out, maybe we wouldn't have the browser monopoly we have today, or at
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least not to such a severe extent. The web needs well-formed XML documents, not the sloppily thrown
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together garbage HTML allows and borderline encourages. At the start, XHTML was designed with the
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intention of fixing this, but many people kept clinging onto their shitty documents. Now so many
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pages are still so annoying to parse that only a couple companies actually do it. XHTML could've
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helped fix this.</p>
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<p>XHTML tags must be properly closed, so it will not let you use <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> instead of <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code>. XHTML
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will not let you uppercase your elements and attributes, so you can't <code>&lt;IMG SRC=</code>. XHTML will not
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let you mess up nesting (even though some browsers will), so you can't (or at least shouldn't) do
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the following:</p>
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<pre data-lang="xhtml" style="background-color:#2b303b;color:#6c7079;" class="language-xhtml "><code class="language-xhtml" data-lang="xhtml"><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&lt;</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">p</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;
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</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;"> Here&#39;s a list of some things
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</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;"> &lt;</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">ul</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;
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</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;"> &lt;</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">li</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;Item&lt;/</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">li</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;
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</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;"> &lt;</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">li</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;Item&lt;/</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">li</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;
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</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;"> &lt;/</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">ul</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;
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</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&lt;/</span><span style="color:#eb6772;">p</span><span style="color:#abb2bf;">&gt;
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</span></code></pre>
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<p>As much as people like to make fun of this, it's a positive to have well formed documents be
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enforced.</p>
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<h1 id="your-own-sanity">Your own sanity</h1>
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<p>XHTML forcing documents to be well formed isn't only good for maintaining a true standard, it also
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helps you, the author. By requiring everything be valid, it strongly discourages poor formatting,
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leaving it easier for you to maintain your site and edit in the future. Using XHTML puts you in
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better habits for writing sites and it's yet another reason why its strictness is a good thing.</p>
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<h1 id="negatives">Negatives</h1>
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<p>As XHTML is an older standard (the oldest full release being the second edition of XHTML 1.1
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in late 2010), it misses out on some newer features HTML5 and others brought in. It doesn't have
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<code>&lt;summary&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;details&gt;</code>, it doesn't have semantic elements like <code>&lt;main&gt;</code> (though I don't
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really think this matters as much), and it doesn't have inline SVG. I don't think any of these
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are really an absolute necessity, but the <code>&lt;summary&gt;</code>/<code>&lt;details</code>&gt; tags would be pretty nice.</p>
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<h1 id="further-reading">Further reading</h1>
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<p>This will be expanded if/when I find more relevant articles.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250405011146/https://www.nuegia.net/articles/open%20letter%20to%20webmasters.xhtml">https://web.archive.org/web/20250405011146/https://www.nuegia.net/articles/open%20letter%20to%20webmasters.xhtml</a></li>
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<title>The Internet Sucks</title>
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<published>2025-03-24T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<updated>2025-03-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<author>
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<name>
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wanderlost
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</author>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blog/2025-03-24-the-internet-sucks/"/>
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<content type="html" xml:base="/blog/2025-03-24-the-internet-sucks/"><p>Over the past few years, I have noticed that the internet is in a state of decay. If you've found my
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site, there's a fair chance you think the same too, or have at least heard people say this. The
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amount of fun one can really have online is rapidly decreasing. Everything has pretty much been
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ruined.</p>
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<h2 id="the-problems">The problems</h2>
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<h3 id="bloat">Bloat</h3>
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<p>The web is bloated. Every time I go to look up something I get dozens of articles containing popups
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where I have to agree to getting tracked by every site's 800+ "partners", slowing everything
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down. Then there's the JavaShit dependency so many sites have. It's even spread to "small" personal
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sites that I have to wait for megabytes worth of JS to load in before I can read anything. My own
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site is constantly getting edited in an attempt to make it as easy to use as possible on even the
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most barebones browsers.</p>
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<h3 id="social-networks">"Social" networks.</h3>
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<p>I hate concept of social media. Microblogging is shit. Short form video content is shit. Instagram
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is shit. Reddit is shit. Yes, this very much includes your free and open source "ethical"
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alternative. The Fediverse, Bluesky, Nostr, whatever else don't fix this. The idea itself is heavily
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flawed no matter who develops it. I have too much to say about this for putting it in here, but to
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keep it short, I strongly believe being on those places just slowly makes you more and more
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retarded. Everything is optimized to get as many internet points as possible and well thought out
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posts that actually express the author's point are discouraged with tiny character limits and
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replies from children complaining about how long the text is.</p>
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<h3 id="surveillance">Surveillance</h3>
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<p>Shouldn't have to explain this one much, there's surveillance problems on nearly every mainstream
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platform that's been treated as normal for as long as it's been around. If you're here, you probably
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already have strong feelings about this one.</p>
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<h3 id="clearnet">Clearnet</h3>
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<p>I think the clearnet is beyond saving at this point and that we should not make an attempt to rescue
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it. The damage has been done and will continue unless you do something about it. Everything is
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centralized, and the system is a mess. CAs are centralized and you have to give them full trust to
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not do anything bad to your site, which they can do. ICANN is how everybody gets their domains, and
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they care more about making money than stopping things like parking for reselling or making the
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process more private. It also is harder to work with clearnet hosting than it is to work with an
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overlay network, which I see as something that gets in the way of people hosting their own things.</p>
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<h2 id="how-do-we-fix-it">How do we fix it?</h2>
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<p>Unfortunately, there isn't a perfect solution to fully escaping the bullshit, but there are things
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you and I can do to help.</p>
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<h3 id="overlay-networks">Overlay networks</h3>
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<p>Explore overlay networks like I2P, Tor, and Yggdrasil. There's others out there too. I'll go over
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this more in a later post, but to keep it short, Yggdrasil serves as internet done right (and about
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how one would expect) while I2P and Tor focus specifically on being anonymous.</p>
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<h3 id="write-your-own-site">Write your own site</h3>
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<p>Write a site for yourself and/or your projects! Instead of a Facebook page or a Twitter profile, get
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out a text editor and write some CSS and HTML, or even better, XHTML! It really isn't that hard to
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do, and you get full control over your own content and design. You can use static site generators
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like Hugo, Jekyll, Zola and many more to help if you need to mass produce templated pages. This site
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uses Zola, which does have its quirks but I find it to be the best to work with out of the ones I've
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tried. If you're running a blog or have other regularly updated content like news or updates, make
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Atom (and RSS if you want) feeds too to so your visitors can subscribe to your sites and get those
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updates instantly. A lot of static site generators have this built in. I'll tell you to self host so
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you're fully independent in the next section, but if you really can't, I can help with getting your
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site online over on Midgard.</p>
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<h3 id="alternative-protocols">Alternative protocols?</h3>
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<p>HTTP, or the Web, is not the only way of creating a "site" for yourself. There are other protocols,
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though all of them (or at least all I know about) are far more minimal than what you can create on a
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website even with just XHTML and a stylesheet. I don't have a full list of these protocols, but some
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are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)">Gopher</a>,
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<a href="https://geminiprotocol.net/">Gemini</a>, and <a href="https://nightfall.city/nex/info/specification.txt">Nex</a>.
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I don't hear much about Gopher nor have I got around to setting up a server for it yet but Gemini
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has been gaining a lot of popularity from what I've seen lately. Nex is much more obscure but I like
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it for how extremely simple it is, literally just plaintext served over TCP on port 1900.</p>
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<h3 id="self-host">Self Host</h3>
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<p>The best way to get full control over your sites and services is to self host them. Not on some
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managed hosting service, not on a VPS, not anywhere in the cloud, <em>actually</em> self hosted on a
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machine in a location you can physically access. This way, you have 100% control over your own
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things and will truly own your services. Many ISPs do not want people self hosting and will put
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people behind CGNATs, but if you use overlay networks and don't host on clearnet, then that won't
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really matter. With Tor, hosting your own XMPP server using Prosody is pretty easy and you can throw
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an IRCd onto pretty much any network. Running your own media server on Yggdrasil is entirely doable
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and I use my Jellyfin running over it daily. Almost any service that doesn't involve S2S can be set
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up on Yggdrasil, given that the client software is able to use IPv6.</p>
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<h3 id="contribute">Contribute!</h3>
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<p>If you're able to, start running nodes/peers for I2P, Tor, and Yggdrasil or any combo of
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those. Those networks always could use more peers available to help make things faster and more
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reliable for everybody.</p>
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<h3 id="do-it-now">Do it NOW</h3>
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<p>Stop waiting for the current internet to get worse. If you already host a personal site, start
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mirroring it on the darknets! For all of them it's as easy as installing the daemons, editing a few
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configs for them, and adding the names to your <code>server_name</code> on nginx or the equivalent for your
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webserver of choice.</p>
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<hr />
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<p>In the future I'll write a more full guide to the overlay networks, but I feel like this has been
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long enough of a rant by now.</p>
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</content>
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</entry>
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<entry xml:lang="en">
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<title>Server up</title>
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<published>2025-02-04T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<updated>2025-02-04T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<author>
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<name>
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wanderlost
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</name>
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</author>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blog/2025-02-04-servers-up/"/>
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<id>/blog/2025-02-04-servers-up/</id>
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<content type="html" xml:base="/blog/2025-02-04-servers-up/"><p>After waiting way too long, I finally have a server online. Nothing big, just a RPi 5 running
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Alpine to provide some services for myself and other. I'm trying to focus on hosting sites
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built to be minimal, without the bloat much of the modern web has. It also exclusively serves
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on dark/altnets (Yggdrasil and Tor currently, I'll hopefully have I2P stuff running within a
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week or so) to promote using that over the clearnet. The service's name is "Midgard", I felt like
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that fits the theme of creating a more human web and goes with "Yggdrasil" nicely.</p>
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<p>Current services are forums (running Simple Machines Forum) and sites (using Caddy). The forums
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still have some work that needs to get done (selfhosting jQuery, fixing resource fetching outside
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of Tor) but it should fully work on Tor. You can access it
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<a href="http://forum.zyae5rxcjcezkozdbjb6oabzegiu6erx5e3o6mcl73qzzphhu2adu5yd.onion/index.php">here</a>, but I
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have it set so accounts require approval as I'm currently a frequent target of spam commonly
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including things I very much do not want to be hosting.</p>
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<p>I also host personal sites for me and some others.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Me <a href="http://wl.zyae5rxcjcezkozdbjb6oabzegiu6erx5e3o6mcl73qzzphhu2adu5yd.onion/">Tor</a>, <a href="http://%5B300:5506:25eb:d0d9:1000:1000:1000:1000%5D/">Yggdrasil</a></li>
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<li>Array in a Matrix <a href="http://array.zyae5rxcjcezkozdbjb6oabzegiu6erx5e3o6mcl73qzzphhu2adu5yd.onion/">Tor</a>, <a href="http://%5B300:5506:25eb:d0d9:1000:1000:1000:1001%5D/">Yggdrasil</a></li>
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<li>Purplebored <a href="http://purplebored.zyae5rxcjcezkozdbjb6oabzegiu6erx5e3o6mcl73qzzphhu2adu5yd.onion/">Tor</a>, <a href="http://%5B300:5506:25eb:d0d9:1000:1000:1000:1002%5D/">Yggdrasil</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>The home page for Midgard isn't done yet, but it's going to be done soon.
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<a href="http://zyae5rxcjcezkozdbjb6oabzegiu6erx5e3o6mcl73qzzphhu2adu5yd.onion/">Tor link</a>,
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<a href="http://%5B200:5506:25eb:d0d9:4c64:92a6:42a6:f4b0%5D">Yggdrasil Link</a></p>
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<p>Planned services include Vaultwarden (a password manager) and Forgejo (a Git forge). Not sure
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if/when they'll come.</p>
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<p>If you want a site hosted on Midgard, feel free to reach out to me on <a href="xmpp:zayd@telepath.im">XMPP</a>
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with a Git repo link, a brief description, and I might set it up for you if the site isn't too big
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and bloated and it isn't something I wouldn't want on my machines (please no pedo/zoo shit, no hate
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speech or anything like that, no malware obviously). Also don't rely on me too hard for maintaining
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uptime. Things have been going fairly smoothly so far but I'm still pretty new to self hosting so
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I can't guarantee much in the way of stability.</p>
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</content>
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</entry>
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<entry xml:lang="en">
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<title>Zaydsite now</title>
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<published>2025-01-24T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<updated>2025-01-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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wanderlost
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</name>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blog/2025-01-24-new-blog/"/>
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<content type="html" xml:base="/blog/2025-01-24-new-blog/"><p>Recently got everything working on the new site, hopefully it doesn't look too boring. I plan to
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actually use this thing and not leave it to rot, so subscribe to the Atom feed if you want to get
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updates on the shit I say.</p>
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<p>Everything other than the blog is managed manually, the blog uses Zola. It's pretty cool and makes
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it fairly easy to make custom themes compared to other static site generators. There's no JavaScript
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on this site and it's kept fairly light in general. Everything <em>should</em> work in browsers like EWW,
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w3m, links, etc. All the fonts here are WOFF2 though, so some browsers like Dillo won't fetch those
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properly.</p>
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<p>There is a Tor version of this site available <a href="http://dhrglakamniet5jtehkb7rp7zdqhzw6trkum3dieoeenszttgcjle6yd.onion/">here</a>
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if you're not already reading this there. I2P and Yggdrasil might also come soon, not sure about those.</p>
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<p>There seems to be a bug with importing my Atom feed to RSS Guard making the entries really tall for
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some reason, no idea what's causing it, but I'll try to fix that soon.</p>
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