Re:Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex
by DonHopkins on Saturday February 01, 2025 @12:06PM
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Jesus, you sound like the X11 fanatics I used to debate with about NeWS, long before anyone had envisioned Google Maps or coined the term AJAX for what we'd been doing with PostScript since the 1980's.
The NeWS window system was like AJAX, but with: 1) PostScript code instead of JavaScript code 2) PostScript graphics instead of DHTML graphics, and 3) PostScript data instead of XML data.
PizzaTool was a NeWS front-end for ordering pizzas that had a price optimizer which would immediately figure out the least expensive combination of pizza style + extra toppings for the pizza you wanted. (i.e. ordering an "Tony's Gourmet + Clams" was less expensive than ordering a plain pizza plus all the individual toppings.)
Of course the untrusted client side user input was sent via FAX to the "server side" humans at Tony & Alba's Pizza, who validated the input before making the pizza, because performing input validation and price calculation and optimization in the front end via FAX would have been terribly inefficient. (This was in 1990, long before every pizzaria was on the internet, and you could order pizzas online, kids!)
The NeWS window system was like AJAX, but with: 1) PostScript code instead of JavaScript code 2) PostScript graphics instead of DHTML graphics, and 3) PostScript data instead of XML data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
NeWS – Network Extensible Window System (wikipedia.org) 86 points by stevewilhelm on April 12, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 76 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477565
ScriptX and the World Wide Web: “Link Globally, Interact Locally” (1995)
https://donhopkins.medium.com/scriptx-and-the-world-wide-web...
PizzaTool was a NeWS front-end for ordering pizzas that had a price optimizer which would immediately figure out the least expensive combination of pizza style + extra toppings for the pizza you wanted. (i.e. ordering an "Tony's Gourmet + Clams" was less expensive than ordering a plain pizza plus all the individual toppings.)
Of course the untrusted client side user input was sent via FAX to the "server side" humans at Tony & Alba's Pizza, who validated the input before making the pizza, because performing input validation and price calculation and optimization in the front end via FAX would have been terribly inefficient. (This was in 1990, long before every pizzaria was on the internet, and you could order pizzas online, kids!)
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...