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blog/2022/december/web3-2.html

@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ docker run --rm -v ~/Solid:/data -p 3344:3000 -it solidproject/community-server:
 				<p>After that, I went to try some apps again. I was able to log in with the <a href="https://otto-aa.github.io/solid-filemanager/">Solid file manager</a>, but because I had been using the localhost IP when I created my user in the web interface, the file manager kept throwing errors. I had to delete all my data and start over from the beginning. And by delete all my data, I mean running <code>sudo rm -rf ~/Solid/*</code>, deleting the Docker images, and then re-downloading the Docker images. Turns out this is a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123022111/https://github.com/CommunitySolidServer/CommunitySolidServer/issues/1394">known problem</a> that the developers don't feel like solving at the moment:</p>
 				<blockquote>The account system is still quite rudimentary and does not include account deletion yet. To delete the accounts on your server you would have to delete the <code>.internal/accounts/</code> folder on your disk.</blockquote>
 				<p>After the full reset, the file manager then worked as intended, and I was able to create folders and upload files.</p>
-				<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/asuka_on_web3.png" alt="screenshot of a browser showing an image of Asuka eating a Happy Meal" /></p>
+				<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/asuka_on_web3.png" alt="screenshot of a browser showing an image of Asuka eating a Happy Meal" /></p>
 				<p>I thought about self-hosting the file manager, but I looked at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123020213/https://github.com/Otto-AA/solid-filemanager">Git repo</a>, and apparently it's unmaintained:</p>
 				<blockquote>NOTE: This project has no active maintainer. It may or may not be working, and from time to time stuff will probably get fixed.</blockquote>
 				<p>As for alternatives, <a href="https://archive.ph/s82eL">Penny</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123023441/https://github.com/jeff-zucker/solid-content-manager">Solid IDE</a> are actively maintained, and the UI for Penny is nicer. But Penny constantly sends HTTP requests every time you do <em>anything</em> in the window, which could easily overwhelm a server if you have more than a few Pods hosted on it, and the hosted instance of Solid IDE linked in the Solid app listing 404s, so I couldn't test it.</p>
-				<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/jett_via_penny.png" alt="screenshot of Penny showing an image" /></p>
+				<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/jett_via_penny.png" alt="screenshot of Penny showing an image" /></p>
 				<p>I thought about <a href="https://archive.ph/UEf0r">deploying Plume</a> on my Pod since my whole reason for exploring web3 is to find new and creative ways to host my website, but the guide links to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123020854/https://github.com/happybeing/solid-plume/releases">an empty Releases page</a> on a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123020600/https://github.com/happybeing/solid-plume">Github repo that's been abandoned since early last year</a>. Not exactly reassuring.</p>
 				<p>Next on my list of apps to try was <a href="https://archive.ph/oJb3P">Notepod</a>, a notepad application (also with an abandoned Git repo, this time from 2020). But after I entered the URL of my Solid provider (solid.letsdecentralize.org) and clicked "go"... nothing happened. Docker showed a few HTTP requests were being made every time I clicked "go":</p>
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@@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ docker run --rm -v ~/Solid:/data -p 3344:3000 -it solidproject/community-server:
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 				<p>And here I was, saying that I wouldn't do free labor for cryptobros... Payment for the editing is welcome, PokedStudio. Fiat only. <a href="../../../identity/index.html">You know where to contact me.</a></p>
 				<p>If you want to do something other than buy expensive images, there are nine projects in the "Social" category. As my patience was starting to wear thin, I decided to try the first one listed: a Reddit clone named <a href="https://dscvr.one/">DSCVR</a>. But I wanted to be prepared before I dove in, so I went to the "Wallet" category and installed the first one listed, <a href="https://archive.ph/nztaK">Plug</a>. I mean, if web3 is all about cryptocurrency, then it makes sense that you'd need a wallet, right? I clicked on the extension icon once it popped up by the address bar, and I was immediately met with this sleep paralysis demon:</p>
-				<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/plug1.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot with the text 'create password for Plug' underneath" /></p>
+				<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/plug1.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot with the text 'create password for Plug' underneath" /></p>
 				<p>(For those not familiar with zoomerspeak, "frfr" is short for "for real, for real".)</p>
 				<p>It prompted me to create a password, so I gave it a fourteen-word-long passphrase made in KeePassXC. Then it gave me a recovery phrase to backup... and whatever the hell this is:</p>
-				<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/plug2.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot saying 'keep this sh*t safe, forreal'" /></p>
+				<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/plug2.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot saying 'keep this sh*t safe, forreal'" /></p>
 				<p>I get the feeling that the people at Fleek (the company that made Plug) don't take professionalism very seriously. Which is all good and fine when you're a Broke Dumbass like me who just wants to snark at everything, but when you're a company dealing with financial assets... well, a mascot with a creepy face who swears at you during the onboarding process doesn't exactly reassure the user that the company won't lose all the customer's assets.</p>
 				<p>Once I'd suffered all the way through the Plug setup, I went back to DSCVR, now ready to sign in. The homepage immediately blasted me with a post where... <a href="https://archive.ph/orEH0">Christians were arguing over whether Christ had a vagina</a>. (DSCVR also seems quite hostile to being archived by both the Wayback Machine and archive.md.) I was expecting the usual NFT hype to clog every post, but this time I had to actually scroll for it. I'm still not sure if I'd prefer the NFTs or not.</p>
 				<p>On your first visit, a welcome popup appears offering a site tour. Page one of the tour (there are six in total) is about receiving NFT airdrops... and so is page three. Page five says you can make <del>subreddits</del> "portals", and then paywall them by requiring certain NFTs to visit. I don't have any NFTs, and I don't have any interest in <a href="../../2021/december/copywrong.html">paywalling my content</a>, but I forged ahead to the login page anyway.</p>