From 5ef42bb78dadab75ad91416e0372554c777a1c8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leonardo Taccari <iamleot@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:49:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos --- english.txt | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/english.txt b/english.txt index b5ae25c..59a44ac 100644 --- a/english.txt +++ b/english.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ and similar to the web, such as: Gopher server provide text and provide links. What they do not provide are pictures, additional features, JavaScript or other complicated things. -This restriction providing test and links does also mean, that you can +This restriction providing text and links does also mean, that you can work very fast with it, pages do load super fast. And there are people saying that the web is too bloated, there's too much advertising, to much nick-nack. It is getting more and more difficult to get to the real @@ -168,11 +168,11 @@ for the end user. For developers it's about having nice command line tools that are fun to use. That's our goal. And that's achievable through simplicity only. -M: Are modern tools too complicated with their graphical interfaces? I +M: Are modern tools too complicated with their graphical interfaces? Is that really taking out the fun? C: Well, in the old days you'd have opened a text editor, which used up -200 kilobyte of RAM. Today when you open up an editor it will load a +200 kilobytes of RAM. Today when you open up an editor it will load a browser in the background, this web browser will load JavaScript and this all uses up to several gigabytes of your RAM. And then this all has to display your source file. That's the current state of affairs! @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Then there's the Tor protocol… M: Tor has also been around for a while. There have been spectacular events surrounding the Tor protocol. It's about anonymity right? -C: Yes it is about anonymity. Today we now about the spy agencies +C: Yes it is about anonymity. Today we know about the spy agencies through Snowden and them surveilling all the routers in Frankfurt and elsewhere. Which means they know where a data packet originates and ends. Tor packages data in a way that one cannot see the way the a packet @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ like Facebook. M: We have talked about software and how to install it. You need to have some background knowledge for using a command line as it is just a window with text, you enter text commands etc. What do you think about people -getting into this: Does this have the potential to being used by a lot +getting into this? Does this have the potential to being used by a lot of people or even becoming mainstream? Can this work? Or is this too unwieldy and slow and complex for them? @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ C: I cannot convert the whole world. That's impossible. It's about showing a different way. Someday someone will come along and use all this because it fits his needs. If I only have a generation of smartphone users that never have touched a personal computer, then they need to know that -there's a cleaner and simpler way. You hand does not have to get warm +there's a cleaner and simpler way. Your hand does not have to get warm when surfing the web. M: If I may exaggerate a little: We have had steam engines and horse @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ people in the industrial nations? C: Americans, as these are the old Gents that have been tinkering with gopher in the old days, but there is also a wide reach in Europe. I have seen a world map yesterday containing all the gopher servers. There -have been 3 in Africa, japan has had a couple, Asia… there are +have been 3 in Africa, Japan has had a couple, Asia… there are interested people everywhere. I know 2 enthusiasts from Argentina through bitreich. We are international, English is our language as we are small. -- 2.18.0