mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779651 << the correct statement would be, "you have experiences in good faith and i have imaginations in good faith, that i don't bother to check nor do i ever sit down to reason as to what THAT implies re faith" ☝︎

mircea_popescu: and considering what happens in response to curl -v -X GET -H "range: bytes=1-8" www.loper-os.org (full page dump) we can add asciilifeform / nfs to the list of "does not support ranges" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779643 << trivial to check, issue a head, see if "accept-ranges" is in there. if not -- no support ☝︎

mircea_popescu: so yes, head support universal, ranged request support present but not that reliable.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779633 << all servers had head because it's antique ; ranged requests went through an ebb and flow of implemented, then disabled because implemented wrongly and buffer overflows, then etc. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779620 << is this a rehash of >> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-16#1583902 ?! ☝︎☝︎

mircea_popescu: if i tell you i wish to see the file x except not any of its content this is logically equivalent, quite directly, to "metadata only plox"

mircea_popescu: as that deed was stepping towards, yes

mircea_popescu: we still need js as much as last time this was discussed, a week ago

mircea_popescu: quite opposite of sense ; and a much more important ablation target than forgotten/disused http words.

mircea_popescu: or at the very least so "page is not usable until our shit is in"

mircea_popescu: if my loading of a web page dies 10kb in, i want that 10kb to have contained the article, not some "template" fugly.

mircea_popescu: not evident that this should be as it is.

mircea_popescu: currently there's no equivalent hierarchy of html documents, so they are always sent in order of importance of parts.

mircea_popescu routinely pulls data from slaves/processes/etcetera with an explicit or implicit size limit and strong conventions as to ordering

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779605 << there is a good argument in favour of overloading meaning into verbs rather than inventing new verbs. an implementation of head as "get with 0 bytes accepted" is actually an improvement over current. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: anyway, this worth moar thinking.

mircea_popescu: and the old handles will 404

mircea_popescu: "immutable" still enforced by server only. tomorrow i can decide to make a whole diff tree and gl to you.

mircea_popescu: tomorrow, linkrot will thereby mean "you might not have the original data ; OR you might not have the original program".

mircea_popescu: not so. consider : linkrot today means, "you might not have the data original server had". like you lost lispmachine FET say.

mircea_popescu: no longer a hodge-podge of "plugins" and "themes" haphazard and therefore entirely flat conceoptually.

mircea_popescu: consider the machinery that blogs become, in this system

mircea_popescu: it is threateningly complex.

mircea_popescu: rather than unmaintainably clog out my blog and risk being deleted any day now.

mircea_popescu: now, this ad hoc hack could have been a proper alt-leaf thing

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-13#1770183 << this ☝︎

mircea_popescu: consider the hack i did recently for hanbot

mircea_popescu: "i want trilema as rss not trilema as main page" or "i want trilema as list of archives not as main page"

mircea_popescu: i dunno, i confess i've not prior considered the v-http server.

mircea_popescu: and it's a wonder if it'd be actually worth it. consider -- what alternative wp-mps would i maintain on trilema ?

mircea_popescu: this is by now SO MUCH HEAVIER than current http...

mircea_popescu: not mere "merkle tree", but actual proper v struct, with seals resources and errything.

mircea_popescu: but you WANT header then ; it is the evident place to report the v-struct

mircea_popescu: yes but this is a much more integrated v-http server than previously even hinted at.

mircea_popescu: "process my data with the press X as identified from your manifest, i don';t trust X'"

mircea_popescu: seems to me it's a thing unto itself.

mircea_popescu: can you actually say the above snippet is "really kludge to display bouquets of statics properly" ?

mircea_popescu: "find a thing such as x" vs "follow steps x give whatever comes out" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in that one is imperative and the other descriptive so to speak.

mircea_popescu: (for convenience, in pesudocode : select from an array of possible headers the one which corresponds to the remainder of dividing by 42 the number you obtain by converting from hexadecimal format the string you obtain by taking 6 characters from the 7th of the md5 hash of the current date)

mircea_popescu: that's the major challenge : can the argument be constructed to see what is actually wrong with that piece of gnarl ?

mircea_popescu: well, the baked in assumption here is that the tits, great as they are, benefit from impredictable dress prison each day.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is discussing the header production only.

mircea_popescu: so technically thjere is way

mircea_popescu: well, same thing for all users on same day.

mircea_popescu: now, what is the problem with non-static page ?

mircea_popescu: actually, let's meditate together upon the following item, perhaps it resolves some subtle issues :

mircea_popescu: i think ferocranium of many knocks learns some intuitive avoidance.

mircea_popescu: phf he was headed straight into "no such thing as static content, you can discover this whenever you re-read the same words in a trilema article", but he sidestepped.

mircea_popescu: this said, the implementation is in fact kludgy, but this is no reason to alter the design.