Journal KGIII's Journal: The Greatest Privacy Policy Ever... 9
In Mainah-speak, I'd say that this privacy policy is, "A riaght pissah." (That spelling looks about right. For those not in the 'know' I'm kind of fond of the various American dialects and the various colorful olloquialisms. I'm also missing home.)
Anyhow, I want to quote it but I don't want to steal the guy's thunder. So, you seriously need to see this:
http://www.donationbasedhosting.org/privacy-policy/
As in, seriously... It's amusing, informative, interesting, and insightful - all at the same time. I kind of want to host with the guy but I don't think I've anything that's server-appropriate. He's just got one server and probably has quite a few people on it.
Actually, my spying button says they've only got 14 domains hosted on the one server and he's got a single Debian box at Linode.
At any rate, that page needs more attention. It's quite funny. It's the best privacy policy that I've seen lately.
Speaking of which, I have to/want to do some custom error pages. I know the mechanism but I lack the creativity to do something enjoyable with them. I gotta find something creative to do with 'em. Maybe random redirects, just to screw with people.
If anyone's interested in checking out my project, lemme know. There's a bunch of goals but the idea of the site is generally fostering a place for intelligent discourse/civil discussion. The idea being that it's possible to remain civil while debating or discussing any topic and the site tries to make that possible while offering a number of ways to participate as a registered or anonymous user. The entire thing is also an attempt to demonstrate something (in the manner of a wager that is still ongoing) where it must be entirely self-funding - it's a bit of a competition against "traditional" social media which I think is unnecessary but not overly evil, in and of itself. This was the best idea I could come up with to demonstrate my belief and, if nothing else, it has been rather fun and it has been great to relearn a lot of stuff.
It's oddly timed but the site is moving to a new server shortly but that actually has nothing to do with the site that I linked to. I found that site by clicking around the Chrome extension site and it looked like an interesting name for a hosting company, so I clicked. Then it didn't appear to be much of a hosting site. So, I clicked around and the privacy policy was what I clicked on. And then I giggled like a little schoolgirl.
Oh, it's http://kgiii.gq if you're curious about the project. I'll just link it here, instead of in the comments or by email. Feel free to stop by, sign up, whatever. Basically, anyone that participates gets turned into an author eventually. Ideally, the site will self-fund and be handed off to a committee of site participants who can then decide how it is run in perpetuity. I've actually had a couple of similar projects in the past. However, it has been a long time since I've done any coding, tweaking, editing, and whatnot. So, I've (re)learned a lot and it's great 'cause it's keeping me busy while I wait a while longer as I'm still trying to get permission to go to Cuba before I return to Maine.
I don't think I'm going to get to go.
They forgot something (Score:2)
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The NSA should publish an API so that I can stop keeping backups. They've probably got a nice journaling file system, something proprietary that's based on differences so it uses less space. They probably have a special media codec that also just stores difs. It's not like they can't afford the computational overhead for the sake of saving space - I'm sure they've got drive space provisioning issues with all that data.
Hmm...
I mentioned the other day how one of the first things I thought of, when I saw a pre
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I'm missing work too. Unfortunately,until I can stay awake a normal 16 hour day, that's kind of out, plus my good eye is now burning as I type this. I'd kind of have to be depression-free for at least 6 months (it's impossible to focus when the world is a black hole), and that hasn't happened in a while. Still, I'm optimistic (mostly because I have no other logical choice, but also because I can STILL visualize the code I was working on when my eyes went, and I really want to play with it).
In the meantime
moof (Score:1)
I'll just link it here
Link didn't work. May have something to do with missing HTML wrapping tags.
That was a good commentary on privacy policies, and leaves me to wonder what's the point of them anyways.
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It was absolutely insightful and spot-on. It was also funnier than hell. It was completely unexpected. I was searching for interesting extensions over at the Chrome site 'cause I can use them with Opera. I saw one about web spy, it just "spies" on your http header traffic or something. Anyhow, it said something about donation based hosting and I thought that was odd so I clicked. I saw a blank page, it really didn't say much of anything. (See their homepage if you're curious or didn't see it already.) So, I
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.gq
How's the weather there in Equatorial Guinea?
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Roasty toasty, presumably. ;-) It's actually a free ccTLD handed out along with .GA, .TK, .ML and .CF. They are readily available from a site called Freenom though they have some rules that must be followed. Nothing significant but I think they don't let you do porn and gambling and things like that. The only thing I have spent on the site is time. I actually have better hosting to move it to but I've been pretty lazy and it's compute intensive while I'm building it so I'd rather do it on these guys servers
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Moof is the sound a dogcow [wikipedia.org] makes.
1) Slashdot demands a subject be created for a comment. /. journalspace.
2) Sometimes you can't (be bothered to) think of one, especially for just a quickie comment going only into
3) Someone in JE comments, from a while ago, used to occasionally just put "moo" for the subject, I assumed for just such a circumstance.
4) Being a "dog" (well actually "dawg" with this account) hybrid myself, as well as a Mac-head way back in college during the black-and-white UI's that included th
404s (Score:2)
I don't really have an error page. It flashes "oops, that page doesn't exist" with a link to the main index, and two seconds after it loads you're taken to the index whether you click the link or not.
Hillary Clinton's 404 has a loop of her trying to get on the subway. Quite entertaining.