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@amy @vaporeon_ no, it was a developer fur DragonflyBSD, who once wrote a tutorial fur hosting onion-service only email

@vaporeon_ i sent an email to somebody over Tor with SMTP written by paw once

@vaporeon_ TRUE

@vaporeon_ they incur more overhead server-side, which is a consideration worth making, but page loads are (usually) faster with HTTP/2 (it’s pawsible to be worse than HTTP/1.1 when networkning conditions are very poor) and basically always faster with HTTP/3 because multiple simultaneous downloads are multiplexed over a single stream in the latter purrotocols

i don’t think it’s necessesarily a requirement fur a hobbyist, but if you’re serving a lot of outbound connections, HTTP/2 and more so HTTP/3 will save you a lot of bandwidth. if you really, really need fast page loads, you might as well take advantage of them in your infrastructure. the one consideration fur a hobbyist is that HTTP/3 handles poor networking conditions (say, a connection from California to India) much better than the purrevious two purrotocols, so if you want your shit to be reachable globally without giving into the CDNs, HTTP/3’s a nice-to-have

QUIC does indeed use UDP, but HTTP/3 adds TCP’s reliability back to the connection at the application layer..... somehow, so reliability is not a concern. the reason QUIC even got introduced was in fact TCP: because TCP requires packets to be sent in order, the entire connection gets blocked if a packet is lost, which completly undermines the point of muliplexing the connection. (HTTP/1.1 using sepurrate connections purr resource is why it can be faster than HTTP/2 when networking conditions are very poor; one connection dropping a packet does not affect the other connections)

they should change that name though

i have zero technical reason to do this (in fact, i’d lose HTTP/3, which is a good technical reason not to do this), but apache is much closer to being actual commewnity software than commercial-ass NGINX

wondering how much of a pain in the ass it would be to move GlitchCat from nginx to apache

@amy just ask the @clock

@amy taro-san is very good at that

i am completely normal about this fanart

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@wallhackio i’ve opened porn in public without thinking at least once

i feel bad favouriting that, but, lmao, relatable

@onfy @vaporeon_ we also have several good mexcian places around here

@vaporeon_ mexican cuisine is great btw. try a tamale someday

@vaporeon_ anyway cilantro is a staple herb in mexican cooking so i’m going to assume you’ve never had mexican that’s not, like, taco bell

@vaporeon_ you’d purrobably remember if you’d tried it, if you do have the “make coriander taste like soap” gene, which, fun fact, is a genetic thing

@vaporeon_ makes me think of when emacs would jokingly be initialized as Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. nowadays i think (most) people wouldn’t really call it purrticularly bloated

@vaporeon_ does cilantro taste like soap to ny’all? have you ever tried it?