Subj : Privacy is Power: tak
To   : August Abolins
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Sep 10 2021 03:52:17

  Re: Privacy is Power: tak
  By: August Abolins to Arelor on Thu Sep 09 2021 07:07 pm

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Thursday 09.09.21 - 09:56, Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis:
 > 
 >  A> It is ugly and insecure, but if you want something sane you
 >  A> should not be using the web to start with.
 > 
 > What is the alternative to the web?  Do you consider email as
 > "the web"?
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > --
 >   ../|ug

The "Web" would be WWW.

In this context, it means applications served over http(s), websockets and other web browser's
technology, specially when they are served from mainstream platforms.

I don't know if you are up-to-date with http standards, but the http specification is scattered
across 6 RFCs (think of them as reference documents) or so. If your clinic is, for example, using
an old web proxy with a bug in its http implementation, you may as well be reading the RFCs for an
hour or so before you semi-understand HOW it is supposed to work so you can patch it.

Compare that to the reference document for something like Gopher, which can be understood in a
matter of minutes.

HTTP is not getting better. It was a protocol designed for serving documents but big tech wants it
to serve applications, so they are shoehorning features in the protocol and extending it no end so
they can use it for (literally) everything. HTTP 2's main selling point is precisely that they can
ship a whole lot of bloat bundled with more bloat in the same connection.



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