Yeah, yeah, yeah Merry Christmas; now where’s my present?
I hate unneccicarilly long URIs. Almost every site I visit has some sort of extra paths or uses filename extensions. I even hate having the date in my permalinks, but I need them in order to get archive browsing to work with WordPress.
I’m starting to regret switching to a PHP & SQL CMS. I yearn for the good ol’ days – with CGI scripts and plain text data files. Things were just so much more hackable back then. Or maybe it’s just that I hate both C and SQL and would prefer living in a Ruby or even Smalltalk world. Now all my entries are locked up in some nasty SQL database that’s almost impossible to backup properly or restore if needed.
Merry Christmas!
I like how Tor’s SOCKS 5 proxy can be set in Mac OS X’s proxy preferences. Safari even works with Tor’s anonymous host system, letting me access URLs like http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/. However, Firefox and other Mozilla browsers do not seem to fare so well…
Firfox 1.0 and the nightlies of Firefox, Camino, and App Suite don’t support Tor’s hostname system. There is a pref, though:
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true
That setting does nothing in Firefox 1.0 and causes the nightlies of all three to treat most URLs as application/octet-stream, attempting to download them or dispaying the headers in the body.
Why does Safary support SOCKS 5 proxy hostnames? Are there any other SOCKS 5 compatible applications that also support proxy hostnames?
Tor is not like Freenet. Tor is a multi-hop anonymous SOCKS proxy system. Freenet is a multi-hop anonymous hash based distributed data storage and retrieval system. I guess both are multi-hop anonymous systems, but that doesn’t make them competing projects per se.
