Haai,
"Tomasz Rola" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:25:56PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>
> I use lynx a lot, very nice tool. It also helped me to restart my
> browsing of gopher sites. There was plenty of them 20+ years ago, now
> it is just a handful of servers. But still, better than nothing.
Menever quite was into Gopher, but mereally should try and have a look
someday...
>> Occasionally, when really pressed, meruns 'tails', a specialized Lunix
>> distro, from a DVD on a spare craptop; at least that way, mecan get rid
>> of the bloated, buggy shit by simply turning off the machine.
>
> I do not know tails, only read about it.
>
> Using separate computers for different roles might be a way of the
> future. A very convoluted way. But one cannot count too much on
> security offered by modern popular cpus and there is always a chance
> to be struck by something unexpected: I have just read that bmp file
> from game server might make buffer overflow on client side. So, one
> machine for gaming, one for reading, one for shopping and one for
> work. And one for listing the music.
2003 came calling ;)
Seriously: what you fear has already come to pass, for many people, long
ago. It's even in the mainstream now: there, it's considered good
practice to design an "app" so that a luser can seamlessly use it across
the various "devices" in its possession. Or is merunning behind and did
that idea die?
> I will never propose this kind of solution to normal people. :-)
Thankfully, we're not normal here =)
>> --
>> Friggin' Machines!
>
> Oh no, it is not the machines. It is their masters.
And their creators. The phrase is from an old Quake map that me's long
since forgotten the name of.
--zeurkous.
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Friggin' Machines!
