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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:33:37 +0000
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diff --git a/opus2/article-gopherml-twtxt-and-gopher.mw b/opus2/article-gopherm…
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+.SH "gopher ml"
+Twtxt Over Gopher
+.
+.PP
+The \fCtwtxt\fR format is a plain text microbloggin format that
+lives as a text file hosted on any server, in the same style as
+RSS feeds.
+.
+.PP
+The support gopher://example.com/0/twtxt.txt is already there!
+As \fIprologic\fR points out on the Gopher Mailing list,
+it is possible to use gopher:// links for twtxt, as showcased
+by the yarn.social search engine.
+.
+.PP
+This might as well be the case for many other twtxt clients,
+given that libcurl supports gopher:// and gophers://.
+.
+.PP
+It will soon be difficult to find a single software that does
+\fBnot\fR support Gopher...
+.
+.DS
+https://twtxt.net/
+https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/
+https://yarn.social/
+.DE
diff --git a/opus2/article-jwz-they-live-obey.mw b/opus2/article-jwz-they-live-…
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.SH jwz
-Mozilla's Logo, The "OBEY" Clothing Brand, A 1988 movie
+Mozilla, "OBEY" and 1988 movie
.
.PP
Surprisingly diverse themes. Just as diverse as Jamie Zawinski's
diff --git a/opus2/article-nitot-a-message.mw b/opus2/article-nitot-a-message.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+.SH nitot
+A message to developers
+.
+.PP
+While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going while a former
+founder moved elsewhere offering to try a different take on
+technology.
+.
+.PP
+Tristan Nitot is the of Mozilla Europe, who also worked at Netscape
+before its decline. After he left Mozilla, he published
+"surveillance://" defending privacy, and went as far as offering
+alternative to Google by joining the Qwant team (web serach engine).
+Yes, this is a Google-funded conference.
+.
+.PP
+During this web, mobile and cloud conference, under OVH, Google,
+and Microsoft sponsorship, what message would he have to spread
+to developers getting started? Mind the Global Warming!
+.
+.PP
+How unexpected but welcome. He simply shew the numbers, and shew
+big newspaper headlines: explaining that the poor performance of
+software have been largely compensated by the Moore's law for
+the last 50 years, letting software fat to accumulate without
+dire consequence on usability.
+.
+.PP
+A call to developers to consider supporting the existing hardware
+through providing reasonable performance, considering removing
+features, would have the greatest impact; most CO² emission of IT
+originating from producing new end-user devices. He blamed Windows
+11 badly for that, refusing to support older chips.
+Yes, this is a Microsoft-funded conference.
+.
+.QP
+Between the early web pages of a few kilobytes to the web pages of
+today, the size was went up by a factor of 150. Are web pages 150
+times better than they used to be?
+.
+.PP
+At the beginning of its talk, Tristan Nitot quoted Upton Sinclair:
+.
+.QP
+It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
+depends upon his not understanding it.
+.
+.DS
+https://devfest.gdglille.org/
+https://climatefresk.org/
+https://standblog.org/blog/
+.DE
diff --git a/opus2/article-nixers-conference-recordings.mw b/opus2/article-nixe…
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+.SH nixers
+Nixers.net Con 2021
+.
+.PP
+On November the 7th, the second edition of the nixers.net
+*NIX users community took place:
+.
+.IP *
+Creating your own troff macros — seninha
+.
+.IP *
+Keeping track of your things — venam
+.
+.IP *
+Truly Federated Identity for the web — push-f
+.
+.PP
+The video recording are already available:
+.
+.DS
+https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-net-Conf-2021
+.DE
diff --git a/opus2/article-tgtimes-hosting-providers.mw b/opus2/article-tgtimes…
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Hosting Providers Projects
+.
+.PP
+While hosting a server at home has its benefits (and its charms),
+some interesting hosting providers do a good job at sharing all
+the fun that hosting servers can have while still handling the
+long-winged work of keeping the hypervisors up and running.
+.
+.PP
+Efforts also coming from the community that sometimes take part
+into the project, or in reverse, hosting providers contributing
+to help community projects, either through funds or bug-fixing.
+.
+.IP "sdf.org "
+Around since as early as 1987, the Super Dimension Fortress
+describes itself as a public access supercomputing center.
+An invitation to jump both foot into the UNIX culture featuring
+games, email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace,
+programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and more.
+A different sense of community than the one offered by social
+networks.
+.
+.IP "sdfeu.org "
+Joint effort with the north Amercian sdf.org, the European
+counterpart will have a better network lattency for European,
+Middle east, and African users.
+.
+.IP "grex.org "
+Grex brings democracy to hosting, a concept little explored by
+commercial hosting providers: open access, but also owned by
+its members who can vote on what to plan next for Grex.
+Also a good pretext to get around a good meal during the Grex
+conferences.
+.
+.IP "openbsd.amsterdam "
+A hosting provider running OpenBSD for its entire stack,
+including the hypervisor itself: \fCvmm(4)\fR. It permits
+its user to connect directly onto the hypervisor through
+SSH and run commands such as \fCvmctl vm02 restart\fR.
+.
+.IP "blinkenshell.org "
+Younger by a few years, this open shell project lets you
+give Linux a try. Occasion to make someone discover the
+world of command-line and programming through the editor
+and compilers installed up there.
+.
+.IP "prgmr.com "
+While keeping a commercial model, this Xen-based hosting
+provider offers a command-line approach to hosting, and
+consider the user as a respectable admin rather than a
+supermarket custommer.
diff --git a/opus2/tgtimes2.mw b/opus2/tgtimes2.mw
@@ -10,4 +10,8 @@ Opus 2 - Gopher news and more - ..-..-2021
.so opus2/article-telnet-freechess-server.mw
.so opus2/article-ganssle-embedded-muse.mw
.so opus2/article-jwz-they-live-obey.mw
+.so opus2/article-gopherml-twtxt-and-gopher.mw
+.so opus2/article-tgtimes-hosting-providers.mw
+.so opus2/article-nixers-conference-recordings.mw
+.so opus2/article-nitot-a-message.mw
.so opus2/footer.mw
diff --git a/opus2/tgtimes2.pdf b/opus2/tgtimes2.pdf
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diff --git a/opus2/tgtimes2.txt b/opus2/tgtimes2.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,34 @@ ____________________________________________________________
+ Amiga-style demos on microcontrollers ltf
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The demoscene is an UNESCO-recognised art where
+ computer are programmmed to display graphics and
+ soundtrack in real-time. Competitions challenges
+ everyone to build the most impressive demo out of the
+ same limited resources as everyone, such as venerable
+ computers like Comodore64 or Amiga computers.
+
+ While faster computers are being built everyday,
+ computer with even less resources than the early days
+ are still in massive production and used:
+ microcontrollers.
+
+ Linus Akesson, a demoer known for its "A Mind Is Born"
+ winning entry [1] is pushing the kind of CPU that
+ controll your elevator to its limits to produce waves
+ of colors and rivers of melodies.
+
+
+ https://www.linusakesson.net/pages/scene.php
+ ____________________
+ [1]
+ 1st place on Revision 2017 competition
+
+
+
The aNONradio station sdf
____________________________________________________________
@@ -39,34 +67,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________
- Amiga-style demos on microcontrollers ltf
-____________________________________________________________
-
- The demoscene is an universe where computer-generated
- graphics and soundtrack are being rendered real-time,
- striving to build the most impressive demo out of the
- same limited resources, such as Old-School competition
- category using original C64 and Amigas
- Comodore or Amiga computers.
-
- While faster computers are being built everyday,
- computer with even less resources than the early days
- are still in massive production and used:
- microcontrollers.
-
- Linus Akesson, a demoer known for its "A Mind Is Born"
- winning entry [1] is pushing the kind of CPU that
- controll your elevator to its limits to produce waves
- of colors and rivers of melodies.
-
-
- https://www.linusakesson.net/pages/scene.php
- ____________________
- [1]
- 1st place on Revision 2017 competition
-
-
-
Phrack Magazine fnord
____________________________________________________________
@@ -164,6 +164,199 @@ _________________________________________________________…
+ The Embedded Muse Newsletter ganssle
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Ever felt curious about the embedded world? These tiny
+ machines that are low-power enough to last all winter
+ powered by a potato battery? Then take a peek at the
+ Embedded Muse Newsletter.
+
+ This mail-based monthly publication is run by Jack
+ Ganssle since 1997. A well-known pioneer, but each
+ issue is turned toward the community, where everyone
+ submits its story that Jack publishes back.
+
+ You might find spicy UNIX and engineering humour.
+
+ http://www.ganssle.com/tem-back.htm
+
+
+
+ Mozilla, "OBEY" and 1988 movie jwz
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Surprisingly diverse themes. Just as diverse as Jamie
+ Zawinski's creations: Netscape, Mozilla, the DNA-
+ Lounge night club.
+
+ The 1988 movie offers a revelation about advertizing.
+ The "OBEY" Clothing Brand refers to that movie. The
+ Mozilla logo shares the same author as the "OBEY"
+ logo. Out of tihs, jwz narrates us a piece of our own
+ history.
+
+ Sometimes, ubiquitous, vastly popular, and highly
+ profitable projects have the most unexpected history,
+ in contradiction with what they became.
+
+ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the
+ -secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/
+
+
+
+ Twtxt Over Gopher gopher ml
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The twtxt format is a plain text microbloggin format
+ that lives as a text file hosted on any server, in the
+ same style as RSS feeds.
+
+ The support gopher://example.com/0/twtxt.txt is
+ already there! As prologic points out on the Gopher
+ Mailing list, it is possible to use gopher:// links
+ for twtxt, as showcased by the yarn.social search
+ engine.
+
+ This might as well be the case for many other twtxt
+ clients, given that libcurl supports gopher:// and
+ gophers://.
+
+ It will soon be difficult to find a single software
+ that does not support Gopher...
+
+ https://twtxt.net/
+ https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/
+ https://yarn.social/
+
+
+
+ Hosting Providers Projects tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ While hosting a server at home has its benefits (and
+ its charms), some interesting hosting providers do a
+ good job at sharing all the fun that hosting servers
+ can have while still handling the long-winged work of
+ keeping the hypervisors up and running.
+
+ Efforts also coming from the community that sometimes
+ take part into the project, or in reverse, hosting
+ providers contributing to help community projects,
+ either through funds or bug-fixing.
+
+ sdf.org Around since as early as 1987, the Super
+ Dimension Fortress describes itself as a public
+ access supercomputing center. An invitation to jump
+ both foot into the UNIX culture featuring games,
+ email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace,
+ programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and
+ more. A different sense of community than the one
+ offered by social networks.
+
+ sdfeu.org Joint effort with the north Amercian
+ sdf.org, the European counterpart will have a better
+ network lattency for European, Middle east, and
+ African users.
+
+ grex.org Grex brings democracy to hosting, a concept
+ little explored by commercial hosting providers:
+ open access, but also owned by its members who can
+ vote on what to plan next for Grex. Also a good
+ pretext to get around a good meal during the Grex
+ conferences.
+
+ openbsd.amsterdam A hosting provider running OpenBSD
+ for its entire stack, including the hypervisor
+ itself: vmm(4). It permits its user to connect
+ directly onto the hypervisor through SSH and run
+ commands such as vmctl vm02 restart.
+
+ blinkenshell.org Younger by a few years, this open
+ shell project lets you give Linux a try. Occasion to
+ make someone discover the world of command-line and
+ programming through the editor and compilers
+ installed up there.
+
+ prgmr.com While keeping a commercial model, this Xen-
+ based hosting provider offers a command-line
+ approach to hosting, and consider the user as a
+ respectable admin rather than a supermarket
+ custommer.
+
+
+
+ Nixers.net Con 2021 nixers
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ On November the 7th, the second edition of the
+ nixers.net *NIX users community took place:
+
+ * Creating your own troff macros — seninha
+
+ * Keeping track of your things — venam
+
+ * Truly Federated Identity for the web — push-f
+
+ The video recording are already available:
+
+ https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-net-Conf-2021
+
+
+
+ A message to developers nitot
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going
+ while a former founder moved elsewhere offering to try
+ a different take on technology.
+
+ Tristan Nitot is the of Mozilla Europe, who also
+ worked at Netscape before its decline. After he left
+ Mozilla, he published "surveillance://" defending
+ privacy, and went as far as offering alternative to
+ Google by joining the Qwant team (web serach engine).
+ Yes, this is a Google-funded conference.
+
+ During this web, mobile and cloud conference, under
+ OVH, Google, and Microsoft sponsorship, what message
+ would he have to spread to developers getting started?
+ Mind the Global Warming!
+
+ How unexpected but welcome. He simply shew the
+ numbers, and shew big newspaper headlines: explaining
+ that the poor performance of software have been
+ largely compensated by the Moore's law for the last 50
+ years, letting software fat to accumulate without dire
+ consequence on usability.
+
+ A call to developers to consider supporting the
+ existing hardware through providing reasonable
+ performance, considering removing features, would have
+ the greatest impact; most CO² emission of IT
+ originating from producing new end-user devices. He
+ blamed Windows 11 badly for that, refusing to support
+ older chips. Yes, this is a Microsoft-funded
+ conference.
+
+ >> Between the early web pages of a few kilobytes to
+ the web pages of today, the size was went up by a
+ factor of 150. Are web pages 150 times better than
+ they used to be?
+
+ At the beginning of its talk, Tristan Nitot quoted
+ Upton Sinclair:
+
+ >> It is difficult to get a man to understand
+ something when his salary depends upon his not
+ understanding it.
+
+ https://devfest.gdglille.org/
+ https://climatefresk.org/
+ https://standblog.org/blog/
+
+
+
Publishing in The Gopher Times you
____________________________________________________________
diff --git a/opus3/article-chemla-confessions-thief.mw b/opus3/article-chemla-c…
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+.SH chemla
+Confessions of a thief
+.
+SHOULD NOT BE PUBLISHED BEFORE DENOEL EDITIONS AGREEMENT!
+.
+.QP
+Below is the beginning of "Confessions of a Thief" from Laurent
+Chemla, founded a major French DNS registrar, but before that, was
+the first to commit online piracy in France (from a Minitel), and
+worked on development tools Atari. The book is published online in
+French and translated below.
+.
+.PP
+A thief. How else to name one of the first individual in France to
+procure itself an Internet access? In 1994, borrowing the clothes of
+a telecommunication expert, that I was not yet, I obtained from an IT
+staff employee of a parisian University that he let me an access to
+Internet. In exchange, I brought him help - relatively - to the
+building of a network devoted to let student work from home.
+.
+.PP
+I then stole, I confess, this first access to a network that remained
+to me a mostly unexplored land since my last visits in 1992, mediated
+by obscure manoeuvres of a friend or through piracy.
+.
+.PP
+This theft benefited to me, I could learn to use a tool long before
+the majority of the IT crowd, gaining an advance that still persist
+today.
+.
+.PP
+I stole, but I plead good faith. At this epoch nobody around me did
+understand what it was about. Would it bit a thief to steal something
+nobody had interest in? This access was to the reach of only a few
+testing university students, this access that a small IT company could
+not afford, I stole it, and I am not ashamed.
+.
+.PP
+For my relatives, I am nontheless an "IT janitor". Programmer to a
+tiny IT company, I always have been passionated by telematic networks.
+A passion that costed me, in 1986, to be the first to be guilty of
+piracy in France, pirated from a Minitel, yes, but to each his glory.
+As there was not yet any law against IT piracy, I have been
+incriminated for stealing electrical power. All that ended up in an
+acquittal, but still, here is a decent start for a thief career!
+.
+.PP
+Indeed, how to name differently someone who constituted its
+professional network by taking part to associations? We have the
+impression to contribute unpaid for the many, but we mostly get known
+and, time after time, the clients get attracted by this visibility.
+Of course anyone whose professional occupation deals with voluntary
+sector end-up face to its own consciousness. Not unlike, I suppose, a
+lawyer who gain clients from the excluded folk that he help graciously
+and daily. I ignore what its consciousness would tell him, but I know
+mine is not at rest.
+.
+.PP
+Nowadays again, my activities continue to be lucrative out of
+Internet, at the time of Nasdaq's fall. How can one earn while
+everyone loose, if not by cheating?
+.
+.PP
+A thief is on that use to its profit else's good. To me, Internet is
+a public good and, if serve as commercial gallery for some, it must
+not limit itself to such a deviation. Internet must first and
+foremost be the tool that, for the first time in mankind, permitted
+the freedom of speech, defined as a fundamental human right.
+.
+.PP
+This right, in all its guarantee from our constitutional state, has
+stayed hypothetical since its proclamation. In France law protects
+freedom of Speech of syndicates and journalists but no text that
+permit to the simple citizen to undertake justice, to reach its
+freedom. What else since, before Internet, this freedom was to the
+reach of some privilegied? The lawyer protected them because only
+them needed that protection. Ten years ago, noone would have been
+able to benefit an as simple, fast and affordable way to expose works,
+arts or ideas but by vociferating in the street or by climbing the
+social scale rung by rung to the point of having media's attention.
+One had to be represented by others with the expression right for
+themself. Only ersatz. The only freedom that matters is the one
+available to all and I dont give a damn about those reserved to the
+mighty or their representatives.
+.
+.PP
+Internet thereby permit to a growing number of citizen to apply their
+fundamental right to take the parole on the public place. From this
+point of view, it must be protected such as any other necessary yet
+fragile resource, such as water we drink everyday. It cannot be
+reserved to anyone, neither be limited in its usages if not by the
+common right. No exception legislation must forbide the exercise of
+freedom of speech and, as soon as possible, states must preserve the
+common tool that became a public benefit. And as I use a public good
+to lead my own fights, yet again, I behave as a thief.
+.
+.PP
+I thereby knew the Internet some time before everybody else, still at
+the age of the Far West, Eldorado, Utopia. At this era, the network
+was backed by public money (mostly from United States), the life was
+happier and the electronic sky bluer. We worked all along, among
+passionated, inventing new computer objects that even Microsoft did
+ignore, like Linux or the World Wide Web (you know, the three
+fastidious *w* we have to type in the address of your favorite porn
+website...) that did not yet exist and that today everybody mistake
+for the network itself.
+.
+.PP
+We were far from thinking that some day, we would need a plethora of
+lawyers to organize the network. That some day, we would need
+interdepartmental comittees to address of the question. That some
+day, we would have to put black on white the manners not yet named
+"netiquette" that seemd all so natural to us. Our only desire, share
+that formidable invention with the most people, make its apology,
+attract the most numerous of passionated who shared with us their
+competency, their knowledge and intelligence.
+.
+.PP
+I remember that at this epoch, when I was saying "Internet", my
+friends looked at me as if coming from another planet. When I
+transfered a file from a computer from one end of of the world to my
+own machine - by cabalistic commands typed by hand under an interface
+working without a mouse pointer - the seasoned IT engineers was
+assisting to the demonstration as to a bad movie: finding a file was
+taking hours, reading speeds was worth a sick snail and the file often
+revealed to be unusable... But while a pal entered in my office, I
+would show him how by typing a single command line I could share, for
+a ridiculous price, my work, my knowledge, my files or my data with
+pure strangers and that could live at the other side of the street as
+the other side of the world.
+.
+.PP
+Besides from other passionated people, everybody was laughing at me.
+I could tell them that this thingy would be a revolution for human
+knowledge, they looked at me in pity and went back to their work.
+.
+.PP
+In the best case, I was told with lucidity "It is a pirate thing.".
+Some was asking who would that fit, beyond telematic specialists.
+Other claimed that volontary and free sharing of resources would not
+have, by definition, any economical future. I was also asked
+sometimes who would dare to provide such a terrible service. And when
+I explained them that everything was entirely decentralised, with for
+only coordination volunteership and good will of all, the same ones
+was telling me that it could never work at a large scale.
+.
+.DS
+https://www.confessions-voleur.net/
+.DE
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