Tuesday, January 9th, 2018

	On phlog archives and how WWW really is a plague
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I never really  thought about making phlog archives by year - I always
just did it. When the year was over,  I took all the  content of phlog
folder and moved it  to archive. When I started  phlogging seven years
ago, gopherspace was a very  different kind of place.  Just few people
had a phlog and almost never somebody  linked/mentioned anybody else.

That changed in last year, now  phlogosphere is more like  a community
and even my few posts were already  mentioned by someone else. So 2017
will be the first year on this phlog, that won't be moved  to archive.
I have to change  the script  generating  phlog gophermap,  because at
the moment it can't sort files  by year as they're  named  MM-YYYY.txt
and renaming  them to more convenient  YYYY-MM.txt would  break  links
anyway. But that should be just minor problem and I'll gladly do it.

And now for the second part of the title:  WWW is really  a plague. It
started as a good idea, but what happened just today is for me the end
of any hope that anybody can make web great again.

There  is a very good Czech  board about  mechanical  watches. It  has
hundreds  of users and discussion  threads,  there are watch  reviews,
beautiful photos of watch details and  a good,  helpful community. And
out of sudden, the owner of the forum decided to put a coinhive script
in the code to mine  cryptocurrencies on  member's computer. You  just
visit the page  and boom - all your CPU cores are  loaded  to the max,
making profit for someone else on your expense. 

Now I have to start  using  WWW browser, that  has anti-mining plugins
available, which sadly is not my current browser - Pale Moon. 

Technology that permits this kind of behavior is dead for me. Death to
the World-Wide-Web, long live the Gopher!

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