Added note about Codeberg

005/codex-005.tex

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ But all of that is hypothetical. It's all what might have been. It's an interest
 
 So let's talk about what's not hypothetical, but about what's actually possible. But wait, that's not a yesterday thought—that's a tomorrow thought.
 
-I emerged from college with an English degree and a newly refreshed teaching certificate. My grades were good enough that I managed to earn a place in Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.\footnote{\kref{https://www.english.org/}{https://www.english.org/}} I had a website, and had recently installed a Wordpress blog to talk about books.\footnote{\kref{https://bookblog.kjodle.net/}{https://bookblog.kjodle.net/}} ``Web 2.0'' was a buzzword and we still thought that social media could transform the world for the better.
+At any rate, I emerged from college with an English degree and a newly refreshed teaching certificate. My grades were good enough that I managed to earn a place in Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.\footnote{\kref{https://www.english.org/}{https://www.english.org/}} I had a website, and had recently installed a Wordpress blog to talk about books.\footnote{\kref{https://bookblog.kjodle.net/}{https://bookblog.kjodle.net/}} ``Web 2.0'' was a buzzword and we still thought that social media could transform the world for the better.
 
 We were wrong. Social media is a great way to make the world better. It's also a great way for nut jobs and conspiracy theorists and racists and fascists to connect with each other and increase their levels of hate and ignorance exponentially. What have we done?
 
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 At the height of the Great Depression, most people couldn't afford a magazine subscription, much less an automobile or a telephone, and these people tended to vote for Democratic candidates. The inaccuracy of the poll ruined the magazine's reputation, and it ceased publication two years later. (In point of fact, they not only failed to find a random sample, they relied solely on people who responded to their poll, and such people responded because they were vehemently opposed to Roosevelt. This is an example of ``non-response bias'' or ``participation bias'' but the point is the still the same—they failed to select a random group of people to poll.)
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+I have previously mentioned the educational-industrial complex and its very aggressive embrace of what was then called ``Web 2.0'' and how just devolved into little more than social media. 
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+Because I wanted to be seen as someone who could ride this wave into the future, I decided to embrace it wholeheartedly. I decided to get a website first, so I looked around, found a webhost (who was also a domain registrar—convenient), plunked down \$30, and I was in business.
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+This was my first real experience with a server and FTP. I had made websites before, usually as something free (that is, along the line of GeoCities) or something similar through my ISP (AOL used to give you a free website) but these were all web-based uploads. You had no control over anything, basically. They would put ads and the top and bottom of your web pages and hoped that your page would interesting enough and would attract enough eyeballs that it would not just cover the server costs but also feed the shareholders—oink, oink. (In point of fact, these usually covered the server costs and then some, but the shareholders are always hungry, no matter how much they are fed. So these things are doomed to failure by their very business model, as they are always based on ``growth''. In reality, creativity and genius ar unlimited, but the amount of time and energy we have to look at those things are. Capitalism is a snake that eats its own tail.)
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+I had to learn FTP, which meant that I needed an FTP \textit{client}. I had no idea what a client was, so I had to learn some new vocabularly. It was like being in elementary schools again, where new words were printed in boldface and then defined in the margin. But I eventually figured out (through learning JavaScript) the difference between client-side (your computer) and server-side (their computer).
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 \section{Today}
 
 I am in a very different place now than I ever thought I would be. I'm not on Plan A or Plan B. In fact, I've pretty much run out of alphabet to describe exactly where I am now.
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 Still, I applaud the work that went into this. If nothing else, it shows that you can pretty much do anything with Linux if you have the time and the energy and also the curiosity.
 
+\subsection{A Git hosting Alternative}
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+When speaking about public Git repos earlier, I mentioned the only two that I knew of: GitHub and Gitlab. But I just recently found about about Codeberg\footnote{\kref{https://codeberg.org/}{https://codeberg.org/}}, which run by a non-profit in Germany. I'm going to sign up for an account and test it out. I'll get back to you on how it works out.
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 \newpage % Use only to keep the afterword together if we end up with orphans
 \section{Afterword}