Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-11 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
> On Jul 11, 2025, at 9:19 PM, Felix Miata via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Jerome Shidel composed on 2025-07-02 11:02 (UTC-0400): > >> There is sprat subdomain that points to the same repositories on that >> server. It allows >> both HTTP and HTTPS. It works great in DOS using the Lynx text o

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-11 Thread Felix Miata via Freedos-user
Jerome Shidel composed on 2025-07-02 11:02 (UTC-0400): > There is sprat subdomain that points to the same repositories on that server. > It allows > both HTTP and HTTPS. It works great in DOS using the Lynx text only web > browser and > can be visited by going to http://dos.lod.bz/repos > This

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
That was a rather large wall of text. Personally, I try to refrain from pasting large amounts of tool generated output into an email being sent on a mailing list. Consider using a tool like pastebin and provide a link to the full version. Cut and paste only the relevant parts into the email for

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! Liam is right; AI-generated answers are not welcome on this email list. Generative AI is often *mostly* correct ... This AI is wrong in an INTERESTING way. It basically sounds like somebody *thinking aloud* while browsing normal search results related to the problem at hand, but failing

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, You copy pasted the response verbatim as it appeared to you, without adding your own understanding or verifying the content. If you're hoping for better reception of information sourced from AI, please treat AI as a starting point - not as a final answer. That means reading it all, applyi

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
With typos corrected Thank you for chastising me but did you read the "slop" or was this a knee-jerk response to the word gemini? This issue seemed to be vexing several folks. Ask asked some pointed questions that I thought might get me some useful information. I thought it did so I offered it

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Thank you for chastising me but did you read the "slop" or was this a knee-kerk response to the word gemini? This issue seemed to be vexing several folks. Ask asked some pointed questions that I thought might get me some useful information. I thought it did so I offered it to the community thin

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, Huh, you're right. I just got to https://freedos.org/ and the page source begins with a HTML5 declaration of rather than the much more verbose declaration from previous language versions. I would have not suspected that. Anyways, I can imagine this could be an issue if and only if, ther

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Daniel Essin wrote: > > I have no idea what kind of hardware you have access to so I asked gemini. > [..] Liam Proven wrote: > > Please do not post bot slop to the list. > If you didn't write it yourself, don't post it. Liam is right; AI-generated answers are not welcome on this email list. Ge

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 23:35, Daniel Essin via Freedos-user wrote: > > I have no idea what kind of hardware you have access to so I asked gemini. Please do not post bot slop to the list. If you didn't write it yourself, don't post it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven ~ Lin

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-02 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
I have no idea what kind of hardware you have access to so I asked gemini. What about a proxy server? The good news is that for the purpose of acting as a "middle-man" for a simple download, most of these solutions are very lightweight and can run on minimal hardware. You're not trying to serv

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-02 Thread sunbeamcar--- via Freedos-user
Two bad things about new web sites. one they use HTML 5 which is like Chinese to old browsers 2nd certificates expire and new ones are not available for old browsers. The web is rigged and I don't use it as much. For good searches duckduck is a lot better than Google. cheers DS _

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-02 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM sunbeamcar--- wrote: > > > > Why did you make FREEDOS.org a secure site. > > That greatly limits what you can use on the site. > > All OLD computers are locked out. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM Jim Hall wrote: > Hmm.. something must have changed on the host

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-02 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
On Jul 2, 2025, at 10:19 AM, sunbeamcar--- via Freedos-user wrote: > > Why did you make FREEDOS.org a secure site. > That greatly limits what you can use on the site. > All OLD computers are locked out. While I cannot speak to why FreeDOS.org specifically is forcing a secure connection, I ca

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-02 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM sunbeamcar--- via Freedos-user wrote: > > Why did you make FREEDOS.org a secure site. > That greatly limits what you can use on the site. > All OLD computers are locked out. > Hmm.. something must have changed on the hosting side; I'll look into it. It should have

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-02 Thread sunbeamcar--- via Freedos-user
Why did you make FREEDOS.org a secure site. That greatly limits what you can use on the site. All OLD computers are locked out. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user