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Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]> |
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:45:48 +0200 |
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M opus5/article-bitreich-Bitreich-Co… | 6 +++--- |
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M opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildg… | 2 +- |
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M opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-R… | 9 +++++---- |
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M opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know… | 4 ++-- |
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M opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animate… | 6 +++++- |
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A opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Ne… | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++… |
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D opus5/article-tgtimes-Breathing-Op… | 54 ---------------------------… |
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M opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-For… | 9 +++++---- |
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M opus5/article-tgtimes-Maemo-Leste-… | 4 +++- |
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M opus5/article-tgtimes-Relics-of-Fa… | 10 +++++++++- |
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A opus5/article-tgtimes-Wireless-Wir… | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++… |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-BIG-BROWSER-IS-WATCHING-YOU.mw b/opus5/arti… |
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.SH 20h |
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BIG BROWSER IS WATCHING YOU! |
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+.2C 11v |
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. |
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-Are you feeling watched all the time? Do you feel unsure when doing something … |
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+Are you feeling watched all the time? Do you feel unsure when doing something … |
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+Whenever you use the web, |
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+someone else is masturbating to your web history. |
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. |
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.PP |
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-You want to know how to be able to do nasty things online without someone mast… |
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+You want to know how to be able to do nasty things online without someone mast… |
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+Come to brcon2022 and find out more. |
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gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2022 |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-Bitreich-Con-2022-Come-and-Talk.mw b/opus5/… |
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.SH 20h |
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Bitreich Con 2022, Come and Talk! |
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-.2C 20v |
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+.2C 19v |
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Greetings at 852.770114854 km/h, 34943.004 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. |
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@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> |
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There will be two parts: |
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-.IP July 25th to 28th |
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+.IP "July 25th to 28th" |
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Online presentations, then one day to get to Belgrade |
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-.IP July 30th to 31st |
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+.IP "July 30th to 31st" |
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We will be in presence, having fun in Belgrade, Serbia. |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildgaard:-Only-Turtle-Fans.mw b/opus… |
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.SH 20h |
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Prof. Skildgaard: Only Turtle Fans |
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-.2C 10v |
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+.2C 11v |
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. |
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I am happy to announce, that the scientific head of bitreich, Prof. Skildgaard… |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw b/opus5/article-bitre… |
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.SH Hiltjo |
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sfeed 1.5 Released |
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+.2C 17v |
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sfeed |
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sfeed has the following notable changes compared to 1.4: |
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Changes: |
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-.IP • |
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+.IP \(bu |
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sfeed_curses: interrupt waitpid while interactive child program is running Thi… |
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-.IP • |
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+.IP \(bu |
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sfeed_curses: close stdin before spawning a plumb program in non-interactive m… |
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-.IP • |
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+.IP \(bu |
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Properly escape backslashes in the man pages (thanks adc!). |
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-.IP • |
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+.IP \(bu |
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Documentation improvements to the man pages and a progress indicator example s… |
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I want to thank all people who gave feedback, |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know-Do-Not-Ask-Me.mw b/opus5/articl… |
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.SH josuah |
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I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me |
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-.2C 95v |
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+.2C 78v |
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The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that cannot be ignored anymore: |
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The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even hint about the answer. |
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We are left in the doubt, |
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-letting some ensure "it is just in case of a thief, the police officer is goin… |
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+letting some ensure "it is just in case of a burglary, the police officer is g… |
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or other affirm "they are using these images to study how we think to better c… |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw b/opus5/article-li… |
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.SH linuxconsole |
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Animated ASCII art |
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-.2C 20v |
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+.2C 10v |
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With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, |
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and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised |
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by linuxconsole.net, or with the script below: |
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+.1C |
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+. |
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curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt | |
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while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done |
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+.2C 10 |
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+. |
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You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again |
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after watching. |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Network-IRCNow.mw b/opus5/article-… |
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+.SH tgtimes |
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+A new IRC network: IRCNow! |
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+.2C 25v |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+A new IRC network is in town! |
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+.FS |
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+irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667 |
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+ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697 |
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+.FE |
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+. |
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+Ever wanted to feel what an early community looks like? |
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+The admin jrmu brought the project together, and is currently collecting users… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Whether you looked for a place to host your own community, |
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+or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from fertile ground, |
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+the community is welcoming and active. |
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+. |
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+.QP |
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+IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+A LibrePlanet event |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Something else from this community might catch your attention, |
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+is its orientation toward being administrated by its users themself: |
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+rather than letting the founder handle everything, |
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+the community is oriented toward serious teaching of unix command line and sys… |
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+from beginners to advanced users seeking improvement. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+In-person teaching sessions were covered during the LibrePlanet 2022 event |
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+.FS |
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+https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf |
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+.FE |
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+with recording of a test-run of the event |
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+.FS |
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+https://0x0.st/oTal.webm - 0h20m: audio starts - 1h15m: talking about Gopher |
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+.FE |
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+where future and present hackers met together working our their system adminis… |
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+. |
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+Linux Magazine also ran an interview giving a good impression about the spirit… |
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+.FS |
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+https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow |
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+.FE |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with, |
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+IRCnow offers hosting services for |
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+IRC bouncers, Bots, E-Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+The wiki itself features plenty of technical information on system administrat… |
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+which offers a comfortable step-by-step introduction to a complete server admi… |
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+.FS |
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+https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp |
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+.FE |
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+I have often seen administrators hired with less than this much knowledge! |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Bluetooth-Brain.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-B… |
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-.SH tgtimes |
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-Wireless, wireless everywhere |
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-.2C 60 |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Wires! Cables! Connectors! |
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-Computer and electric systems seems to befriend with plugs and sockets. |
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-Why is the computer industry running away from them for everything exposed to … |
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-. |
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-.IP "Where do I plug the cable?" |
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-Everyone needfully face this question at least once, be it the first time they… |
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-From the various connector shapes to choose from, to the various set of protoc… |
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-cables provoke confusion to cable-haters and computer neophytes. |
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-.IP "Cables are ugly" |
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-It might not be true for everyone, but computer manufacturers seems to say dif… |
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-Starting with the name "wireless", that comes by opposition to wires, supposin… |
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-Cable management is a full time job for datacenter jockeys, and a chore for th… |
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-. |
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-.IP "Cables are immobile" |
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-Unless making use of an uncommon cable management strategy, |
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-objects connected to cables cannot be carried too far away without unplugging … |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-So here comes wireless. |
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-While not frequent in large computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the … |
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-Using radio waves to make device talk to each other, at various frequencies, m… |
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-Ready to sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make itself more seducing… |
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-marketting perpetuates the same illusion of making computer troubles fade away… |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases and compmlexity, |
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-to the security vulnerabilities of Wi-Fi, |
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-to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth, |
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-to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan, |
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-to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to wires, |
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-to the black box of wireless broadband such as UTMS and LTE, |
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-Wireless does not have the same fame among developers valuing simplicity and r… |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless such as Bluetooth, |
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-and disrecommand it for use by militaries: |
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-https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_W… |
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-Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive, store, or process classified in… |
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-Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled with culture. |
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-While marketting pushed engineers from the wireless cliff, |
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-long before computer came, radio waves were put at good use in the most simple… |
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-From the AM and FM radio stations to listen while on the road, |
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-the medium-range boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even satellite… |
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-hobbyists building-up their own antennas for inter-continental communication, |
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-garage door openners and remotely controlled drones... |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a special case of radio commun… |
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-and simple unobfuscated methods of communication are possible, and even freque… |
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-Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver |
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-https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ |
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-to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF |
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-.FS |
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-https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/ |
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-or LimeSDR |
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-https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/ |
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-among others, the gears for letting one experiment with radio transmissions. |
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-Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is publishing a large book … |
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-and its chapter 1 section 1 is \fIDo-It-Yourself Wireless\fR. |
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-This is an invitation for everyone to discover or rediscover the universe of e… |
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-.SH tgtimes |
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-Open-Source Breathing |
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-. |
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-The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could |
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-be to get open hardware medical devices. |
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-The Freespireco |
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-https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/ |
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-The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is |
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-reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be |
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-accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications |
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-needed before being allowed to the medical device market. |
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-There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial |
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-respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project |
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-have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long |
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-road to go. |
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-It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical |
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-devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification: |
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-designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing |
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-port directly from the device). |
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-The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust. |
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-Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that |
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-are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing |
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-repair or even inspection. |
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-In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing the Outter Space. |
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-And it is, as crazy as it looks, far from impossible to contribute to |
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-space research even without a diploma: The RTEMS |
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-https://rtems.org/ |
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-project is open to contribution. |
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-Not in a blind trust for the medical industry, |
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-With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is done", |
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-and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time. |
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Embedded Forth Programming |
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Big computers can run large and complex programming languages, |
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+. |
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A forth implemented in C, Python, C#, Nim, JavaScript and Pascal! |
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+.2C 5v |
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-.SH tgtimes |
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-Search podcasts via Gopher |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer? |
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-Maybe you considered to have something to listen to on the road or while cooki… |
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-Combining many different sources, you may encounter some heirlooms |
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-by searching through this gopher front-end for podcast search. |
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-gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod |
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-The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS link aggregators with a fo… |
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-For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I tried searching for it: |
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-"Amp Hour" in the search field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour E… |
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-that was quickly added to my list of RSS feeds in a blast. |
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-Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to automate a script searc… |
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-downloading the entries and uploading them to an MP3 player of any kind |
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-(dedicated, or as part of a phone or other portable computer). |
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-.PP |
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-Want to know more about it? |
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-One place to discuss about it is the Bitreich IRC server |
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-ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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-.SH tgtimes |
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-A new IRC network: IRCNow! |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-A new IRC network is in town! |
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-.FS |
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-irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667 |
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-ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697 |
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-.FE |
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-. |
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-Ever wanted to feel what an early community looks like? |
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-The admin jrmu brought the project together, and is currently collecting users… |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Whether you looked for a place to host your own community, |
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-or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from fertile ground, |
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-the community is welcoming and active. |
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-. |
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-.QP |
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-IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-A LibrePlanet event |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Something else from this community might catch your attention, |
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-is its orientation toward being administrated by its users themself: |
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-rather than letting the founder handle everything, |
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-the community is oriented toward serious teaching of unix command line and sys… |
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-from beginners to advanced users seeking improvement. |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-In-person teaching sessions were covered during the LibrePlanet 2022 event |
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-https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf |
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-with recording of a test-run of the event |
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-the voice only starts from 0h20m |
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-talking about Gopher at 1h15m |
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-https://0x0.st/oTal.webm |
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-.FE |
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-where future and present hackers met together working our their system adminis… |
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-. |
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-Linux Magazine also ran an interview giving a good impression about the spirit… |
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-.FS |
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-https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow |
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-.FE |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with, |
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-IRCnow offers hosting services for |
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-IRC bouncers, Bots, E-Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts. |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-The wiki itself features plenty of technical information on system administrat… |
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-which offers a comfortable step-by-step introduction to a complete server admi… |
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-.FS |
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-https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp |
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-.FE |
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-I have often seen administrators hired with less than this much knowledge! |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Maemo-Leste-Update.mw b/opus5/article-tgtime… |
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.SH tgtimes |
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Maemo Leste keeps kicking in! |
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+.2C 31v |
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. |
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The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource powered hand-held computer. |
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-https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-decemb… |
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+https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and- |
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+december-2021-january-april-2022.html |
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+.SH darkfi |
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+Mallumo Encrypted IRC |
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+.2C 18v |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the advent of the Web. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+It still has users, it still has new network and communities initiatives sprin… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+One single little touch it lacks is end-to-end encryption. |
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+Without it it is perfect for public communities such as software projects disc… |
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+but private 1-to-1 communication could suddenly become a good candidate for en… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Part of the DarkFi project, this is what Mallumo |
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+.FS |
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+https://github.com/darkrenaissance/mallumo |
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+.FE |
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+brings in a simple piece of code using libNaClk, |
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+the crypto library from Dan Bernstein, |
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+author of ED25519 (in its repackaged libsodium form). |
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+This is state-of-the-art, well-proven and fast cryptography for end-to-end com… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+With this plug-in dropped in the plugin folder, |
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+all private communication start by a simple key exchange over normal IRC, |
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+and the conversation upgrades to nacl-encrypted messages over regular IRC. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+There might not be any simpler way to encrypt peer-to-peer communication onlin… |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo.mw |
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-.SH darkfi |
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-The Mallumo Weechat Plugin |
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-.2C 10v |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the advent of the Web. |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-It still has users, it still has new network and communities initiatives sprin… |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-One single little touch it lacks is end-to-end encryption. |
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-Without it it is perfect for public communities such as software projects disc… |
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-but private 1-to-1 communication could suddenly become a good candidate for en… |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-Part of the DarkFi project, this is what Mallumo |
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-.FS |
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-https://github.com/darkrenaissance/mallumo |
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-.FE |
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-brings in a simple piece of code using libNaClk, |
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-the crypto library from Dan Bernstein, |
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-author of ED25519 (in its repackaged libsodium form). |
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-This is state-of-the-art, well-proven and fast cryptography for end-to-end com… |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-With this plug-in dropped in the plugin folder, |
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-all private communication start by a simple key exchange over normal IRC, |
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-and the conversation upgrades to nacl-encrypted messages over regular IRC. |
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-. |
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-.PP |
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-There might not be any simpler way to encrypt peer-to-peer communication onlin… |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Open-Source-Breathing.mw b/opus5/article-tgt… |
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+.SH tgtimes |
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+Open-Source Breathing |
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+.2C 30v |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could |
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+be to get open hardware medical devices. |
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+. |
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+The Freespireco |
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+.FS |
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+https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/ |
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+.FE |
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+project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely |
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+Open Hardware project. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is |
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+reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be |
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+accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications |
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+needed before being allowed to the medical device market. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial |
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+respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project |
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+have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long |
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+road to go. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical |
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+devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification: |
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+designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing |
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+standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial |
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+port directly from the device). |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust. |
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+Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that |
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+are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing |
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+repair or even inspection. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing the Outter Space. |
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+And it is, as crazy as it looks, far from impossible to contribute to |
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+space research even without a diploma: The RTEMS |
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+.FS |
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+https://rtems.org/ |
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+.FE |
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+project is open to contribution. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+But that does not discourage the authors of the respirator project to keep goi… |
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+Not in a blind trust for the medical industry, |
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+but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given to a hobbyis… |
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+With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is done", |
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+and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time. |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Relics-of-Fast-Fourrier-Transform.mw b/opus5… |
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.SH tgtimes |
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Relics of Fast Fourrier Transform |
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-.1C |
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+.2C 3v |
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. |
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.PP |
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In 1967, the Kooley-Tukey FFT algorythm (the one we all use now) was written i… |
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What the hell were they running it on, and what damned data were they feeding … |
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. |
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+.1C |
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+. |
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.DS |
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SUBROUTINE FOUR1(DATA,NN,ISIGN) |
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C THE COOLEY-TUKEY FAST ROURIER TRANSFORM IN USASI BASIC FORTRAN |
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@@ -62,15 +64,21 @@ C SEE-- IEEE AUDIO TRANSACTIONS (JUNE 1967), SPECIAL IS… |
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END |
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.DE |
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. |
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+.1C |
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+. |
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.PP |
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And no, you \fBcannot\fR get the IEEE document because IEEE broke it up into p… |
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. |
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+.1C |
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+. |
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.DS |
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"PROGRAMS FOUR2 AND FOURT ARE AVAILABLE THAT RUN |
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C TWICE AS FAST AND OPERATE ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS WHOSE |
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C DIMENSIONS ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO POWERS OR TWO." |
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.DE |
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. |
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+.2C 15v |
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+. |
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.PP |
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But, this code was easy to port because it was small, so, to this day, we use … |
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It was ported from Fortran to BASIC, then to C, then to C++ and everything els… |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Search-Podcasts-With-Gopher.mw b/opus5/artic… |
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+.SH tgtimes |
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+Search podcasts via Gopher |
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+.2C 20v |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer? |
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+Maybe you considered to have something to listen to on the road or while cooki… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Combining many different sources, you may encounter some heirlooms |
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+by searching through this gopher front-end for podcast search. |
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+.FS |
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+gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod |
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+.FE |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS link aggregators with a fo… |
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+and extracts the RSS links for you, |
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+so you do not have to search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS b… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I tried searching for it: |
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+"Amp Hour" in the search field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour E… |
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+that was quickly added to my list of RSS feeds in a blast. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to automate a script searc… |
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+downloading the entries and uploading them to an MP3 player of any kind |
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+(dedicated, or as part of a phone or other portable computer). |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Want to know more about it? |
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+One place to discuss about it is the Bitreich IRC server |
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+.FS |
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+ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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+.FE |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Wireless-Wireless-Everywhere.mw b/opus5/arti… |
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@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ |
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+.SH tgtimes |
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+Wireless, wireless everywhere |
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+.2C 60v |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Wires! Cables! Connectors! |
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+Computer and electric systems seems to befriend with plugs and sockets. |
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+Why is the computer industry running away from them for everything exposed to … |
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+. |
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+.IP "Where do I plug the cable?" |
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+Everyone needfully face this question at least once, be it the first time they… |
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+From the various connector shapes to choose from, to the various set of protoc… |
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+cables provoke confusion to cable-haters and computer neophytes. |
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+. |
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+.IP "Cables are ugly" |
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+It might not be true for everyone, but computer manufacturers seems to say dif… |
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+Starting with the name "wireless", that comes by opposition to wires, supposin… |
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+Cable management is a full time job for datacenter jockeys, and a chore for th… |
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+. |
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+.IP "Cables are immobile" |
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+Unless making use of an uncommon cable management strategy, |
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+objects connected to cables cannot be carried too far away without unplugging … |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+So here comes wireless. |
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+While not frequent in large computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the … |
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+Using radio waves to make device talk to each other, at various frequencies, m… |
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+Ready to sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make itself more seducing… |
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+marketting perpetuates the same illusion of making computer troubles fade away… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases and compmlexity, |
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+to the security vulnerabilities of Wi-Fi, |
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+to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth, |
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+to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan, |
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+to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to wires, |
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+to the black box of wireless broadband such as UTMS and LTE, |
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+Wireless does not have the same fame among developers valuing simplicity and r… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless such as Bluetooth, |
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+and disrecommand it for use by militaries: |
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+.FS |
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+https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ |
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+ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_Web.pdf |
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+.FE |
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+. |
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+.QP |
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+Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive, store, or process classified in… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled with culture. |
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+While marketting pushed engineers from the wireless cliff, |
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+long before computer came, radio waves were put at good use in the most simple… |
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+From the AM and FM radio stations to listen while on the road, |
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+the medium-range boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even satellite… |
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+hobbyists building-up their own antennas for inter-continental communication, |
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+garage door openners and remotely controlled drones... |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a special case of radio commun… |
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+and simple unobfuscated methods of communication are possible, and even freque… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver |
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+.FS |
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+https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ |
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+.FE |
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+to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF |
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+.FS |
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+https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/ |
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+.FE |
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+or LimeSDR |
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+.FS |
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+https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/ |
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+.FE |
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+among others, the gears for letting one experiment with radio transmissions. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is publishing a large book … |
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+and its chapter 1 section 1 is \fIDo-It-Yourself Wireless\fR. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+This is an invitation for everyone to discover or rediscover the universe of e… |
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diff --git a/opus5/footer.mw b/opus5/footer.mw |
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ |
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.SH you |
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Publishing in The Gopher Times |
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-.2C 7v |
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+.2C 12v |
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. |
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.PP |
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Want your article published? |
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@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ Directly related to Gopher or not, |
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reach us on IRC with an article in any format, |
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we will handle the rest. |
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. |
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+.PP |
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+Did you notice the new layout? |
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+We now can jump between single and double column as it is more fit. |
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+Some content like large code chunks will simply not fit in the two-columns |
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+and the text is more pleasant to read on two columns. |
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+A block is too small and would look silly on two columns for a single sentence? |
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+It is kept on a single column. |
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+Note that websites do not usually support this feature! |
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+. |
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.DS |
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ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/ |
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diff --git a/opus5/tgtimes5.mw b/opus5/tgtimes5.mw |
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@@ -4,20 +4,22 @@ The Gopher Times |
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Opus 5 - Gopher news and more - May. 2022 |
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.AE |
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. |
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-.so opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw |
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-.so opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildgaard:-Only-Turtle-Fans.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-bitreich-Bitreich-Con-2022-Come-and-Talk.mw |
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.so opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildgaard:-Only-Turtle-Fans.mw |
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.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Synthetic-Ascii-Art.mw |
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-.so opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-bitreich-BIG-BROWSER-IS-WATCHING-YOU.mw |
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.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Sailing-With-Grace.mw |
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-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Bluetooth-Brain.mw |
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-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Breathing-Open-Source.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Wireless-Wireless-Everywhere.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Open-Source-Breathing.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw |
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.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-Forth-Programming.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Network-IRCNow.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Search-Podcasts-With-Gopher.mw |
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.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Relics-of-Fast-Fourrier-Transform.mw |
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-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Gopher-Podcast-Search.mw |
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-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-IRCNow.mw |
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.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Maemo-Leste-Update.mw |
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.so opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know-Do-Not-Ask-Me.mw |
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-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo.mw |
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+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encrypted-IRC.mw |
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. |
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.so opus5/footer.mw |
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- 20h Presents: Geomyidae 20h |
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-____________________________________________________________ |
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- |
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- This project existed since a while, and kept improv- |
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- ing. In this interview with 20h, he shows us what |
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- Geomyidae's got under the hood. |
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- |
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- >> What is Geomyidae? |
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- |
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- Geomyidae is a Unix/Linux daemon/service serving the |
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- gopher protocol. |
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- |
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- >> So what is gopher? |
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- |
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- Gopher here is an internet protocol, which was first |
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- developed at the University of Minnesota. After its |
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- short success, it declined, but is now striving again |
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- to be used for its simplicity and hierarchy. For bet- |
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- ter visual display of your gopher experience, use |
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- something like links, lynx or sacc. Those are gopher |
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- clients. |
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- |
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- >> How does Geomyidae help with getting started with |
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- gopher? |
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- |
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- The installation of Geomyidae is very simple. You can |
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- setup your Geomyidae right away: |
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-____________________________________________________________ |
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- |
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- git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae |
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- cd geomyidae |
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- make |
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- curl -s gopher://localhost:7070 |
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+ Bitreich Con 2022, Come and Talk! 20h |
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____________________________________________________________ |
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|
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- Yes, curl supports gopher! And it supports gopher and |
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- TLS too! |
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- |
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- >> Are there many alternatives among gopher daemons? |
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- |
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- Yes, there are many. Some are there due to historical |
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- reasons, others have gone out of shape over time. One |
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- of the most popular alternatives is pygopherd. |
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- |
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- >> How does Geomyidae compares to other implementa- |
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- tions? |
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- |
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- Geomyidae offers a unique simple way of expressing go- |
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- pher content. See the manpage or the examples in the |
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- source for how .gph files are formatted. And it does |
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- just what you want it to do. No strange abstraction |
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- files like in the original gopher daemons are the de- |
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- fault way. In the newest release of Geomyidae compat- |
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- ibility scripts were added. But those are to preserve |
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- the unique history of gopher. |
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- |
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- >> Did Geomyidae have significant evolutions since the |
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- beginning? |
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- |
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- Yes. Originally Geomyidae was named gopherd for Plan |
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- 9. It then was ported over to Linux. On Linux it was |
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- renamed to Geomyidae. During that development much |
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- has happened: There were significant speedups (due to |
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- the patches and work of other people!), features were |
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- added especially in new dynamic content handling. You |
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- can easily see all features in the documentation and |
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- especially the simple manpage. |
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- |
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- >> Does Geomyidae work with all gopher clients? |
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- |
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- Yes. Geomyidae supports the original protocol from |
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- the beginning, up to modern gopher with TLS. For the |
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- intermediary gopher+ protocol there is a compatibility |
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- layer. |
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- |
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- >> Has NSA inserted a backdoor onto Geomyidae? |
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- |
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- I am not allowed to tell you. |
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- |
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- >> How does gopher help with privacy? |
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- |
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- The gopher protocol has the unique property that all |
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- data you send over the line can be easily controlled |
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- and seen. This is different to HTTP, where headers, |
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- HTML and Javascript got so complex, it is uncontrol- |
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- lable. See the gopher onion project [1] for how to |
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- combine this with tor for total privacy and anonymity. |
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- |
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- >> Are there TLS support on some gopher clients al- |
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- ready? |
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- |
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- There is support in curl, mpv/ffmpeg, sacc and more. |
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- It is very easy to add TLS support to any client. You |
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- simply connect via TLS and if it works, keep that con- |
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- nection open. s,via TLS,& on the gopher TCP port (de- |
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- fault: 70), |
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- |
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- >> Are there been any evolution of the gopher protocol |
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- itself since the beginning of Geomyidae? |
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+ Greetings at 852.770114854 km/h, 34943.004 miles over |
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+ the Atlantic Ocean. |
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|
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- The technology used is simple. Gopher does not allow |
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- requests, which begin with the first bytes of a TLS |
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- request. So any proper and old gopher daemon will |
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- simply refuse the connection. Then the client is free |
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- to reconnect without TLS based on its security config- |
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- uration. Any ISDN line will handle such probing re- |
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- quests for TLS easily. |
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+ This is a happy reminder, that in 60 days, brcon2022 |
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+ will happen. When you have anything interesting to |
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+ share, please send in your proposals for talks to |
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+ Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> |
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|
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- >> Did Geomyidae have to adapt itself to the gopher |
|
- protocol? Did it make gopher change? |
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+ There will be two parts: |
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|
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- Geomyidae changed the part of gophespace it was able |
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- to reach. Many servers run on Geomyidae. There is |
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- software written just for Geomyidae and its gph for- |
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- mat. The TLS extension of the protocol came from Bi- |
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- treich / Geomyidae. We also set the standard to sim- |
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- ply use UTF-8 as default representation in gopher |
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- menus and so bring it into the 21st century. I can |
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- conclude: Yes, Geomyidae changed and will change go- |
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- pher. s,changed,&, |
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+ July 25th to 28th Online presentations, then one day |
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+ to get to Belgrade |
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|
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- >> Have you seen Geomyidae ever used outside a hobby |
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- project? |
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+ July 30th to 31st We will be in presence, having fun |
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+ in Belgrade, Serbia. |
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|
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- Well, Bitreich is serious in changing the software |
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- world. Most of gopherspace is »hobby projects«. But |
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- then, most of gopherspace is made from heart blood and |
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- love, which makes it part of the life of the authors. |
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+ If you want to hold a presention of your interest, |
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+ please see the Call for Papers: [1] and send your pro- |
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+ posal to Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> |
|
|
|
- >> Is Geomyidae ready for non-hobby uses? |
|
+ There is already a wide variety of topics registered, |
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+ from medicine to simple software over geology and |
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+ hopefully a special greeting from our science supervi- |
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+ sor Prof. Skildgaard who wants to give advices to all |
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+ of us humans. |
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- Geomyidae is ready for any use. It is stable and op- |
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- timized to scale better than the cloud. |
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+ See you online and in presence! |
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- >> Geomyidae uses ".gph" files. |
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+ Sincerely yours, |
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- Does it replace the gophermap standard? Yes, in Ge- |
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- omyidae it does. Gph is simpler and easier to adapt |
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- to, especially when you come from some markup world. |
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+ 20h Chief Conference Officer (CCO) |
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+ 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2022 |
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- >> Does Geomyidae support dynamic pages? |
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- Geomyidae supports two forms of dynamic pages: One |
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- which uses the gph markup and one, where the |
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- script/application outputs raw gopher output. Addi- |
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- tionally it supports in the latest release a form of |
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- REST, where paths are transformed into arguments to |
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- scripts. There is also support for |
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- index.dcgi/index.cgi scripts to have better looking |
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- paths and URIs. |
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- >> Is Geomyidae already packaged in some Linux/BSD |
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- distributions? |
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- As far as I know it is packaged in gentoo, Archlinux |
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- (and more), all BSDs. Since it is so simple to pack- |
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- age: Just extract the tarball, run make and make in- |
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- stall, the packages are easily made for any package |
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- manager. |
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+ Animated ASCII art linuxconsole |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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- >> What is planned for the next releases of Geomyidae? |
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+ With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, it |
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+ would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the |
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+ two in animated ASCII art. Courtesy of textfiles.com, |
|
+ we can browse through a collection of 93 animated |
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+ ASCII pieces of arts. [1] |
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- As of now I have worked through my whole long-standing |
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- TODO list for Geomyidae. New ideas will evolve from |
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- people sending in patches or through practical need. |
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- Geomyidae follows the Bitreich manifesto [2] where a |
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- software can be done. |
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+ The animation speed will likely be too high for a ter- |
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+ minal, and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) |
|
+ program as advised by linuxconsole.net, or with the |
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+ script below: |
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+ 1 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/ |
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+ http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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|
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- >> How to get involved? Getting help, discussing, bug |
|
- hunting, code contribution, documentation... |
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+ curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt | |
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+ while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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- If anyone wants to get involved, first download Ge- |
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- omyidae, run it, have fun using it, creating gopher |
|
- content. If you run into problems, have patches or |
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- suggestions, come on IRC [3] and discuss with us your |
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- problem. For e-mail, send such requests to 20h@r- |
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- 36.net. All contact is in the manpage too. |
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+ You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal |
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+ normal again after watching. |
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|
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- >> Can I have an ice cream? |
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+ Some are a pun, a few frames to only give impression |
|
+ of movement, while other might be closer to a short |
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+ animated movie. Talking of which, long movies were |
|
+ also done: |
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|
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- Yes, you will get one, once we meet again. |
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- 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion |
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+ https://www.asciimation.co.nz/ |
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+ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl |
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- 2 gopher://bitreich.org/0/documents/bitreich-manifesto.md |
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- 3 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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+ These characters transmitted through one protocol or |
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+ another, whispers to us, through our terminal screen, |
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+ fruit of the imagination of plain text artists. |
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@@ -223,209 +112,48 @@ ________________________________________________________… |
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- I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me josuah |
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+ Synthetic ASCII Art tgtimes |
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____________________________________________________________ |
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|
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- The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that can- |
|
- not be ignored anymore: NSA (among others) is watching |
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- you (among others). |
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- |
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- Does that change anything to my everyday life? Proba- |
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- bly not, they already were before you knew about it. |
|
- Should I do anything about it? No answer. The eter- |
|
- nal doubt that modern society is famous for: |
|
+ Sometimes, an entirely new way to approach problems is |
|
+ found. The media is often fond of covering these top- |
|
+ ics, be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine |
|
+ learning... With these big toys come people experi- |
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+ menting with it. |
|
|
|
- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
|
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
|
+ This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learn- |
|
+ ing and ASCII art. |
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|
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- That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a su- |
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- permarket and see the mess of wires, tubes, cables and |
|
- neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in |
|
- white... The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as |
|
- if taken straight out of the Brazil [1] movie. |
|
+ I was expecting to present cute attempts at drawing |
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+ images with computer-made text, but this is nothing of |
|
+ the sort. Be prepared to see Science at the service |
|
+ of Art. |
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|
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- A landscape that is in such opposition with the images |
|
- of every product being sold, picturing what more or |
|
- less fits the collective imagery of "house of my |
|
- grandparents in back-country", promising a natural en- |
|
- vironment... Where did they even find all these land- |
|
- scapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere, |
|
- tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses or wind tur- |
|
- bines to put on these product label background images? |
|
+ Generated Typewriter Art This research paper (no |
|
+ less!) shows that it is possible to write software |
|
+ for placing characters, later typed during 6 hours |
|
+ by a human operator (for this example). It is un- |
|
+ settling to see details much smaller than the char- |
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+ acters themself be drawn on paper, along with shades |
|
+ of grey of various intensities. [1] |
|
|
|
- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
|
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
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- |
|
- How did such a landscape, neon distopia pictures that |
|
- seems straight out of /r/cyberpunk post or the latest |
|
- Blade Runner, got invited into the cozzy bubble of the |
|
- average citizen? [2] Who made these places so ugly? |
|
- Why do I feel like human is being considered like cat- |
|
- tle in these kind of places? |
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- |
|
- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
|
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
|
- |
|
- What weird things am I even saying! Am I trying to |
|
- tell that an NSA agent is sitting on the metal beams |
|
- of these places disfigure passersby with their empty |
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- gaze. There are cameras though. What do they film? |
|
- Thieves? Who is checking? Software? Peoples? Are mar- |
|
- ketting people looking at these pictures? Of me too? |
|
- What do they think of me? Did they look at my hand |
|
- hesitating between these two products? |
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- |
|
- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
|
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
|
- |
|
- Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on a |
|
- backpack barely full, with a small cup filled with |
|
- coins, looking a bit panicked, looking a bit dirty, |
|
- looking a bit lost, sometimes even a bit drunk. Occa- |
|
- sionally they will ask you for another coin to add to |
|
- their small collection. Passerbys offer them a lie |
|
- such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no, |
|
- sorry", keep walking faster without looking, and even- |
|
- tually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going be- |
|
- fore they got asked for more. What did happen to |
|
- them? Did they choose to live here? How can I know it |
|
- will never happen to me? Why do I feel bad if I do |
|
- not give them what they ask? Why do I feel bad if I |
|
- give them what they ask? |
|
- |
|
- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
|
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
|
- |
|
- Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here: Writ- |
|
- ing this, I am not asking these questions to you, nei- |
|
- ther you are asking these questions to yourself. The |
|
- places are asking these questions to you themself. |
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- |
|
- By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but dis- |
|
- playing eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not |
|
- even exist, it is obvious that people will notice the |
|
- disbalance between the two. |
|
- |
|
- By placing cameras filming every square meter of such |
|
- a place, or even a whole city, it is obvious that peo- |
|
- ple will wonder at some point, who is behind the |
|
- screen reviewing these images. |
|
- |
|
- The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even |
|
- hint about the answer. We are left in the doubt, let- |
|
- ting some ensure "it is just in case of a thief, the |
|
- police officer is going to watch" or other affirm |
|
- "they are using these images to study how we think to |
|
- better control us!". |
|
- |
|
- Such divergent claims based on convictions, the tech- |
|
- nician installing these cameras up there has no hint |
|
- either, its manager followed the recommandations of |
|
- the mothership company, itself getting directions from |
|
- the parent investor group who lately purchased the |
|
- brand, who themself are only trying to keep-up with |
|
- the most up to date business practices, read on an on- |
|
- line newspaper article recommanded by a colleague. |
|
- |
|
- I stopped to care about these silly things since long. |
|
- I came back to the real world for the better. I live |
|
- my life and it works plenty well, so why would I care? |
|
- |
|
- >> So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my |
|
- gut, there is a voice whispering to me, that's |
|
- something's wrong. [3] |
|
- |
|
- The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is: |
|
- you do not get too many answers about how the whole |
|
- thing works. |
|
- |
|
- 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ |
|
- 2 https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg |
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- |
|
- 3 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q |
|
- |
|
- |
|
- |
|
- Animated ASCII art linuxconsole |
|
-____________________________________________________________ |
|
- |
|
- With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, it |
|
- would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the |
|
- two in animated ASCII art. Courtesy of textfiles.com, |
|
- we can browse through a collection of 93 animated |
|
- ASCII pieces of arts. [1] |
|
- |
|
- The animation speed will likely be too high for a ter- |
|
- minal, and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) |
|
- program as advised by linuxconsole.net, or with the |
|
- script below: |
|
- |
|
- curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt | |
|
- while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done |
|
- |
|
- You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal |
|
- normal again after watching. |
|
- |
|
- Some are a pun, a few frames to only give impression |
|
- of movement, while other might be closer to a short |
|
- animated movie. Talking of which, long movies were |
|
- also done: |
|
- |
|
- https://www.asciimation.co.nz/ |
|
- telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl |
|
- |
|
- These characters transmitted through one protocol or |
|
- another, whispers to us, through our terminal screen, |
|
- fruit of the imagination of plain text artists. |
|
- |
|
- |
|
- 1 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/ |
|
- http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html |
|
- |
|
- |
|
- |
|
- Synthetic ASCII Art tgtimes |
|
-____________________________________________________________ |
|
- |
|
- Sometimes, an entirely new way to approach problems is |
|
- found. The media is often fond of covering these top- |
|
- ics, be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine |
|
- learning... With these big toys come people experi- |
|
- menting with it. |
|
- |
|
- This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learn- |
|
- ing and ASCII art. |
|
- |
|
- I was expecting to present cute attempts at drawing |
|
- images with computer-made text, but this is nothing of |
|
- the sort. Be prepared to see Science at the service |
|
- of Art. |
|
- |
|
- Generated Typewriter Art This research paper (no |
|
- less!) shows that it is possible to write software |
|
- for placing characters, later typed during 6 hours |
|
- by a human operator (for this example). It is un- |
|
- settling to see details much smaller than the char- |
|
- acters themself be drawn on paper, along with shades |
|
- of grey of various intensities. [1] |
|
- |
|
- Generated ASCII Art in 2010 This is possibly the state |
|
- of the art of 2010 technology. It was announced in |
|
- the yearly conference SIGGRAPH hence presented to an |
|
- audience full of computer graphics engineers. The |
|
- work of three researchers from Hong Kong, Xuemiao |
|
- Xu, Linling Zhang and Tien-Tsin Wong, shows results |
|
- of surprising accuracy. The story does not tell |
|
- whether there ever was a job offer "looking for |
|
- ASCII artists for a scientific experiment" posted on |
|
- the job board of the Chinese University of Hong |
|
- Kong. While the paper contains the complete math |
|
- used, it also illustrates and explains methods to |
|
- acheive this level of accuracy. And no, it is not |
|
- exactly machine learning, but hand-crafted strate- |
|
- gies, combined statistics and other data massaging. |
|
- After all, it was published five years before things |
|
- like Tensor Flow were introduced... [2] |
|
+ Generated ASCII Art in 2010 This is possibly the state |
|
+ of the art of 2010 technology. It was announced in |
|
+ the yearly conference SIGGRAPH hence presented to an |
|
+ audience full of computer graphics engineers. The |
|
+ work of three researchers from Hong Kong, Xuemiao |
|
+ Xu, Linling Zhang and Tien-Tsin Wong, shows results |
|
+ of surprising accuracy. The story does not tell |
|
+ whether there ever was a job offer "looking for |
|
+ ASCII artists for a scientific experiment" posted on |
|
+ the job board of the Chinese University of Hong |
|
+ Kong. While the paper contains the complete math |
|
+ used, it also illustrates and explains methods to |
|
+ acheive this level of accuracy. And no, it is not |
|
+ exactly machine learning, but hand-crafted strate- |
|
+ gies, combined statistics and other data massaging. |
|
+ After all, it was published five years before things |
|
+ like Tensor Flow were introduced... [2] |
|
|
|
Generated ASCII Art in 2017 Is seven years enough time |
|
to improve upon that previous acheivement? Quoting |
|
@@ -472,6 +200,103 @@ _________________________________________________________… |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
+ BIG BROWSER IS WATCHING YOU! 20h |
|
+____________________________________________________________ |
|
+ |
|
+ Are you feeling watched all the time? Do you feel un- |
|
+ sure when doing something nasty? It is true, you are |
|
+ watched: By BIG BROWSER. Whenever you use the web, |
|
+ someone else is masturbating to your web history. |
|
+ |
|
+ You want to know how to be able to do nasty things on- |
|
+ line without someone masturbating to it? Come to br- |
|
+ con2022 and find out more. [1] |
|
+ |
|
+ This time online and in presence! |
|
+ |
|
+ See you there! |
|
+ |
|
+ Sincerely yours, |
|
+ |
|
+ 20h Chief Espionage Officer (CEO) |
|
+ |
|
+ 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2022 |
|
+ |
|
+ |
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+ |
|
+ Sailing With Grace tgtimes |
|
+____________________________________________________________ |
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+ |
|
+ The sea! Water all around, not a single piece of |
|
+ ground around to stand in, only a single boat that be- |
|
+ comes one with you, its capitain. Infinite waves un- |
|
+ der the blue or cloudly sky is all you see for a long |
|
+ trip of many days. Feeling both lost, but at the same |
|
+ time united with surrounding nature. After all, the |
|
+ largest part of Earth is covered by the sea. |
|
+ |
|
+ This is the world of Sailing that awaits each of us, |
|
+ for a single trip hosted by a well proven crew, or as |
|
+ a lone sailor braving tempests after tempests. |
|
+ |
|
+ Sailing blogs are definitely a good opportunity to |
|
+ dream, the instant of an article. |
|
+ |
|
+ This blog, Sailing With Grace, has taken the decision |
|
+ of offering all its content through HTTP, but also |
|
+ proxied over Gopher. [1] This recalls an interesting |
|
+ point: it proves that Gopher is not only good for |
|
+ talking about Gopher and computer things, but is also |
|
+ oriented toward the outside, is it ready to be used by |
|
+ people who are not gopher geeks? |
|
+ |
|
+ It always was to begin with, so why would it not? Are |
|
+ people less able to use computers now than they was |
|
+ before the web came? The discussion is open. |
|
+ |
|
+ 1 gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com |
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
+ sfeed 1.5 Released Hiltjo |
|
+____________________________________________________________ |
|
+ |
|
+ sfeed [1] is a tool to convert RSS or Atom feeds from |
|
+ XML to a TAB-separated file. |
|
+ |
|
+ sfeed has the following notable changes compared to |
|
+ 1.4: |
|
+ |
|
+ Changes: |
|
+ |
|
+ o sfeed_curses: interrupt waitpid while interactive |
|
+ child program is running This now handles SIGTERM on |
|
+ sfeed_curses while an interactive child program is |
|
+ running. |
|
+ |
|
+ o sfeed_curses: close stdin before spawning a plumb |
|
+ program in non-interactive mode, which is more intu- |
|
+ itive: the program doesn't seem to hang when it ex- |
|
+ pects input in this case since there is no way to |
|
+ send input anyway. |
|
+ |
|
+ o Properly escape backslashes in the man pages (thanks |
|
+ adc!). |
|
+ |
|
+ o Documentation improvements to the man pages and a |
|
+ progress indicator example script for sfeed_update. |
|
+ |
|
+ I want to thank all people who gave feedback, |
|
+ |
|
+ Thanks, Hiltjo |
|
+ |
|
+ 1 git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed |
|
+ gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed |
|
+ https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/ |
|
+ gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed/ |
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
Wireless, wireless everywhere tgtimes |
|
____________________________________________________________ |
|
|
|
@@ -496,130 +321,322 @@ _______________________________________________________… |
|
acenter jockeys, and a chore for the cable-hating |
|
computer user. |
|
|
|
- Cables are immobile Unless making use of an uncommon |
|
- cable management strategy, objects connected to ca- |
|
- bles cannot be carried too far away without unplug- |
|
- ging everything devices are connected to. |
|
+ Cables are immobile Unless making use of an uncommon |
|
+ cable management strategy, objects connected to ca- |
|
+ bles cannot be carried too far away without unplug- |
|
+ ging everything devices are connected to. |
|
+ |
|
+ So here comes wireless. While not frequent in large |
|
+ computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the mar- |
|
+ ket along with battery devices. Using radio waves to |
|
+ make device talk to each other, at various frequen- |
|
+ cies, modulation, datarate and distance. Ready to |
|
+ sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make it- |
|
+ self more seducing to the market, marketting perpetu- |
|
+ ates the same illusion of making computer troubles |
|
+ fade away with wireless. |
|
+ |
|
+ From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases |
|
+ and compmlexity, to the security vulnerabilities of |
|
+ Wi-Fi, to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth, |
|
+ to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan, |
|
+ to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to |
|
+ wires, to the black box of wireless broadband such as |
|
+ UTMS and LTE, Wireless does not have the same fame |
|
+ among developers valuing simplicity and reliability. |
|
+ |
|
+ Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless |
|
+ such as Bluetooth, and disrecommand it for use by mil- |
|
+ itaries: [1] |
|
+ |
|
+ >> Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive, |
|
+ store, or process classified information. |
|
+ |
|
+ Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled |
|
+ with culture. While marketting pushed engineers from |
|
+ the wireless cliff, long before computer came, radio |
|
+ waves were put at good use in the most simple forms: |
|
+ radio communication. From the AM and FM radio sta- |
|
+ tions to listen while on the road, the medium-range |
|
+ boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even |
|
+ satellite communications, hobbyists building-up their |
|
+ own antennas for inter-continental communication, |
|
+ garage door openners and remotely controlled drones... |
|
+ |
|
+ Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a spe- |
|
+ cial case of radio communication, and simple unobfus- |
|
+ cated methods of communication are possible, and even |
|
+ frequent. |
|
+ |
|
+ Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver |
|
+ [2] to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF [3] |
|
+ or LimeSDR [4] among others, the gears for letting one |
|
+ experiment with radio transmissions. |
|
+ |
|
+ Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is |
|
+ publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication, |
|
+ and its chapter 1 section 1 is Do-It-Yourself Wire- |
|
+ less. |
|
+ |
|
+ This is an invitation for everyone to discover or re- |
|
+ discover the universe of electromagnetic fields commu- |
|
+ nication. |
|
+ |
|
+ 1 https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ |
|
+ ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_Web.pdf |
|
+ 2 https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ |
|
+ |
|
+ 3 https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/ |
|
+ 4 https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/ |
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
+ Open-Source Breathing tgtimes |
|
+____________________________________________________________ |
|
+ |
|
+ The previous opus had a word or two about how diffi- |
|
+ cult it could be to get open hardware medical devices. |
|
+ The Freespireco [1] project aims to bring a respirator |
|
+ device to life as a completely Open Hardware project. |
|
+ |
|
+ The challenge is not coming-up with something that |
|
+ works and is reliable, but instead to provide a struc- |
|
+ ture robust enough to be accepted (and funded) for |
|
+ performing all the necessary certifications needed be- |
|
+ fore being allowed to the medical device market. |
|
+ |
|
+ There are usually categories of criticalities, and an |
|
+ artificial respirator is not escaping to the rule. The |
|
+ organiser of the project have pursued this goal since |
|
+ long, and might likely have a very long road to go. |
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+ |
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+ It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for crit- |
|
+ ical medical devices, step-by-step paving up the road |
|
+ toward certification: designing and building devices |
|
+ to test these equipment, issuing standards for data |
|
+ (like a JSON schema received over a serial port di- |
|
+ rectly from the device). |
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+ |
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+ The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor |
|
+ for trust. Precious argument for facing big pharma |
|
+ equipment vendors that are having an interest in lock- |
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+ ing their device down, preventing repair or even in- |
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+ spection. |
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+ |
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+ In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing |
|
+ the Outter Space. And it is, as crazy as it looks, |
|
+ far from impossible to contribute to space research |
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+ even without a diploma: The RTEMS [2] project is open |
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+ to contribution. |
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+ |
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+ But that does not discourage the authors of the respi- |
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+ rator project to keep going. Not in a blind trust for |
|
+ the medical industry, but in full foresight that no- |
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+ body would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy |
|
+ made in a garage. With this reality in mind, "what- |
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+ ever it takes" turns into "whatever is done", and the |
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+ road to certification progresses, one breath at a |
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+ time. |
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+ 1 https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/ |
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+ |
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+ 2 https://rtems.org/ |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ 20h Presents: Geomyidae 20h |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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+ |
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+ This project existed since a while, and kept improv- |
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+ ing. In this interview with 20h, he shows us what |
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+ Geomyidae's got under the hood. |
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+ |
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+ >> What is Geomyidae? |
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+ |
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+ Geomyidae is a Unix/Linux daemon/service serving the |
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+ gopher protocol. |
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+ |
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+ >> So what is gopher? |
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+ |
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+ Gopher here is an internet protocol, which was first |
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+ developed at the University of Minnesota. After its |
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+ short success, it declined, but is now striving again |
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+ to be used for its simplicity and hierarchy. For bet- |
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+ ter visual display of your gopher experience, use |
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+ something like links, lynx or sacc. Those are gopher |
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+ clients. |
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+ |
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+ >> How does Geomyidae help with getting started with |
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+ gopher? |
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+ |
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+ The installation of Geomyidae is very simple. You can |
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+ setup your Geomyidae right away: |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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+ |
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+ git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae |
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+ cd geomyidae |
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+ make |
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+ curl -s gopher://localhost:7070 |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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+ |
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+ Yes, curl supports gopher! And it supports gopher and |
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+ TLS too! |
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+ |
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+ >> Are there many alternatives among gopher daemons? |
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+ |
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+ Yes, there are many. Some are there due to historical |
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+ reasons, others have gone out of shape over time. One |
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+ of the most popular alternatives is pygopherd. |
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+ |
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+ >> How does Geomyidae compares to other implementa- |
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+ tions? |
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+ |
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+ Geomyidae offers a unique simple way of expressing go- |
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+ pher content. See the manpage or the examples in the |
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+ source for how .gph files are formatted. And it does |
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+ just what you want it to do. No strange abstraction |
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+ files like in the original gopher daemons are the de- |
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+ fault way. In the newest release of Geomyidae compat- |
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+ ibility scripts were added. But those are to preserve |
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+ the unique history of gopher. |
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+ |
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+ >> Did Geomyidae have significant evolutions since the |
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+ beginning? |
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+ |
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+ Yes. Originally Geomyidae was named gopherd for Plan |
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+ 9. It then was ported over to Linux. On Linux it was |
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+ renamed to Geomyidae. During that development much |
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+ has happened: There were significant speedups (due to |
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+ the patches and work of other people!), features were |
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+ added especially in new dynamic content handling. You |
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+ can easily see all features in the documentation and |
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+ especially the simple manpage. |
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+ |
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+ >> Does Geomyidae work with all gopher clients? |
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+ |
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+ Yes. Geomyidae supports the original protocol from |
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+ the beginning, up to modern gopher with TLS. For the |
|
+ intermediary gopher+ protocol there is a compatibility |
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+ layer. |
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+ |
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+ >> Has NSA inserted a backdoor onto Geomyidae? |
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+ |
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+ I am not allowed to tell you. |
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+ |
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+ >> How does gopher help with privacy? |
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+ |
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+ The gopher protocol has the unique property that all |
|
+ data you send over the line can be easily controlled |
|
+ and seen. This is different to HTTP, where headers, |
|
+ HTML and Javascript got so complex, it is uncontrol- |
|
+ lable. See the gopher onion project [1] for how to |
|
+ combine this with tor for total privacy and anonymity. |
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+ |
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+ >> Are there TLS support on some gopher clients al- |
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+ ready? |
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|
|
- So here comes wireless. While not frequent in large |
|
- computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the mar- |
|
- ket along with battery devices. Using radio waves to |
|
- make device talk to each other, at various frequen- |
|
- cies, modulation, datarate and distance. Ready to |
|
- sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make it- |
|
- self more seducing to the market, marketting perpetu- |
|
- ates the same illusion of making computer troubles |
|
- fade away with wireless. |
|
+ There is support in curl, mpv/ffmpeg, sacc and more. |
|
+ It is very easy to add TLS support to any client. You |
|
+ simply connect via TLS and if it works, keep that con- |
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+ nection open. s,via TLS,& on the gopher TCP port (de- |
|
+ fault: 70), |
|
|
|
- From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases |
|
- and compmlexity, to the security vulnerabilities of |
|
- Wi-Fi, to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth, |
|
- to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan, |
|
- to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to |
|
- wires, to the black box of wireless broadband such as |
|
- UTMS and LTE, Wireless does not have the same fame |
|
- among developers valuing simplicity and reliability. |
|
+ >> Are there been any evolution of the gopher protocol |
|
+ itself since the beginning of Geomyidae? |
|
|
|
- Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless |
|
- such as Bluetooth, and disrecommand it for use by mil- |
|
- itaries: [1] |
|
+ The technology used is simple. Gopher does not allow |
|
+ requests, which begin with the first bytes of a TLS |
|
+ request. So any proper and old gopher daemon will |
|
+ simply refuse the connection. Then the client is free |
|
+ to reconnect without TLS based on its security config- |
|
+ uration. Any ISDN line will handle such probing re- |
|
+ quests for TLS easily. |
|
|
|
- >> Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive, |
|
- store, or process classified information. |
|
+ >> Did Geomyidae have to adapt itself to the gopher |
|
+ protocol? Did it make gopher change? |
|
|
|
- Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled |
|
- with culture. While marketting pushed engineers from |
|
- the wireless cliff, long before computer came, radio |
|
- waves were put at good use in the most simple forms: |
|
- radio communication. From the AM and FM radio sta- |
|
- tions to listen while on the road, the medium-range |
|
- boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even |
|
- satellite communications, hobbyists building-up their |
|
- own antennas for inter-continental communication, |
|
- garage door openners and remotely controlled drones... |
|
+ Geomyidae changed the part of gophespace it was able |
|
+ to reach. Many servers run on Geomyidae. There is |
|
+ software written just for Geomyidae and its gph for- |
|
+ mat. The TLS extension of the protocol came from Bi- |
|
+ treich / Geomyidae. We also set the standard to sim- |
|
+ ply use UTF-8 as default representation in gopher |
|
+ menus and so bring it into the 21st century. I can |
|
+ conclude: Yes, Geomyidae changed and will change go- |
|
+ pher. s,changed,&, |
|
|
|
- Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a spe- |
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- cial case of radio communication, and simple unobfus- |
|
- cated methods of communication are possible, and even |
|
- frequent. |
|
+ >> Have you seen Geomyidae ever used outside a hobby |
|
+ project? |
|
|
|
- Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver |
|
- [2] to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF [3] |
|
- or LimeSDR [4] among others, the gears for letting one |
|
- experiment with radio transmissions. |
|
+ Well, Bitreich is serious in changing the software |
|
+ world. Most of gopherspace is »hobby projects«. But |
|
+ then, most of gopherspace is made from heart blood and |
|
+ love, which makes it part of the life of the authors. |
|
|
|
- Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is |
|
- publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication, |
|
- and its chapter 1 section 1 is Do-It-Yourself Wire- |
|
- less. |
|
+ >> Is Geomyidae ready for non-hobby uses? |
|
|
|
- This is an invitation for everyone to discover or re- |
|
- discover the universe of electromagnetic fields commu- |
|
- nication. |
|
+ Geomyidae is ready for any use. It is stable and op- |
|
+ timized to scale better than the cloud. |
|
|
|
- 1 https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Fi… |
|
- 2 https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ |
|
+ >> Geomyidae uses ".gph" files. |
|
|
|
- 3 https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/ |
|
- 4 https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/ |
|
+ Does it replace the gophermap standard? Yes, in Ge- |
|
+ omyidae it does. Gph is simpler and easier to adapt |
|
+ to, especially when you come from some markup world. |
|
|
|
+ >> Does Geomyidae support dynamic pages? |
|
|
|
+ Geomyidae supports two forms of dynamic pages: One |
|
+ which uses the gph markup and one, where the |
|
+ script/application outputs raw gopher output. Addi- |
|
+ tionally it supports in the latest release a form of |
|
+ REST, where paths are transformed into arguments to |
|
+ scripts. There is also support for |
|
+ index.dcgi/index.cgi scripts to have better looking |
|
+ paths and URIs. |
|
|
|
+ >> Is Geomyidae already packaged in some Linux/BSD |
|
+ distributions? |
|
|
|
- Open-Source Breathing tgtimes |
|
+ As far as I know it is packaged in gentoo, Archlinux |
|
+ (and more), all BSDs. Since it is so simple to pack- |
|
+ age: Just extract the tarball, run make and make in- |
|
+ stall, the packages are easily made for any package |
|
+ manager. |
|
|
|
- The previous opus had a word or two about how diffi- |
|
- cult it could be to get open hardware medical devices. |
|
- The Freespireco [1] project aims to bring a respirator |
|
- device to life as a completely Open Hardware project. |
|
+ >> What is planned for the next releases of Geomyidae? |
|
|
|
- The challenge is not coming-up with something that |
|
- works and is reliable, but instead to provide a struc- |
|
- ture robust enough to be accepted (and funded) for |
|
- performing all the necessary certifications needed be- |
|
- fore being allowed to the medical device market. |
|
+ As of now I have worked through my whole long-standing |
|
+ TODO list for Geomyidae. New ideas will evolve from |
|
+ people sending in patches or through practical need. |
|
+ Geomyidae follows the Bitreich manifesto [2] where a |
|
+ software can be done. |
|
|
|
- There are usually categories of criticalities, and an |
|
- artificial respirator is not escaping to the rule. The |
|
- organiser of the project have pursued this goal since |
|
- long, and might likely have a very long road to go. |
|
+ >> How to get involved? Getting help, discussing, bug |
|
+ hunting, code contribution, documentation... |
|
|
|
- It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for crit- |
|
- ical medical devices, step-by-step paving up the road |
|
- toward certification: designing and building devices |
|
- to test these equipment, issuing standards for data |
|
- (like a JSON schema received over a serial port di- |
|
- rectly from the device). |
|
+ If anyone wants to get involved, first download Ge- |
|
+ omyidae, run it, have fun using it, creating gopher |
|
+ content. If you run into problems, have patches or |
|
+ suggestions, come on IRC [3] and discuss with us your |
|
+ problem. For e-mail, send such requests to 20h@r- |
|
+ 36.net. All contact is in the manpage too. |
|
|
|
- The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor |
|
- for trust. Precious argument for facing big pharma |
|
- equipment vendors that are having an interest in lock- |
|
- ing their device down, preventing repair or even in- |
|
- spection. |
|
+ >> Can I have an ice cream? |
|
|
|
- In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing |
|
- the Outter Space. And it is, as crazy as it looks, |
|
- far from impossible to contribute to space research |
|
- even without a diploma: The RTEMS [2] project is open |
|
- to contribution. |
|
+ Yes, you will get one, once we meet again. |
|
|
|
- But that does not discourage the authors of the respi- |
|
- rator project to keep going. Not in a blind trust for |
|
- the medical industry, but in full foresight that no- |
|
- body would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy |
|
- made in a garage. With this reality in mind, "what- |
|
- ever it takes" turns into "whatever is done", and the |
|
- road to certification progresses, one breath at a |
|
- time. |
|
- 1 https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/ |
|
+ 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion |
|
+ 2 gopher://bitreich.org/0/documents/bitreich-manifesto.md |
|
|
|
- 2 https://rtems.org/ |
|
+ 3 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Embedded Forth Programming tgtimes |
|
+____________________________________________________________ |
|
|
|
- Big computers can run large and complex programming |
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+ Big computers can run large and complex programming |
|
languages, so what can small computer run? |
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|
|
Compiled languages, in particular those with a small |
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@@ -634,9 +651,10 @@ __________________________________________________________… |
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But small "language in a nutshell" are fitting right |
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the small resources of microcontrollers. This is the |
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case of Forth and its stack-machine approach. |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
|
|
|
Mecrisp This implementation immediately targets micro- |
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- controllers. See for instance the work of |
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+ controllers. See for instance the work of |
|
librehacker.com author Christopher Howard. [1] |
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|
|
chipFORTH Another implementation of Forth, which were |
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@@ -646,15 +664,15 @@ _________________________________________________________… |
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|
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https://github.com/corecode/forth Among notable Forth |
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projects is Simon "corecode" Schubert's nimble forth |
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- implementation [3] as well as hardware code describ- |
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- ing the working of a CPU that executes Forth na- |
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- tively [4] |
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+ implementation as well as hardware code describing |
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+ the working of a CPU that executes Forth natively |
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+ [3] |
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|
|
https://forth.chat/ If feeling like having a taste of |
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Forth and Forth community, there are several chan- |
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nels featuring forth that you could enjoy, some of |
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which are oriented toward hardware projects directly |
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- [5] |
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+ [4] |
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|
https://github.com/chmykh/apl-life This is Conway Game |
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of Life in APL in Forth What a long chain! It is APL |
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@@ -663,7 +681,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ |
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|
|
https://github.com/remko/waforth Feeling like pushing |
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the irony of "Web" assembly even further? Why not |
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- blasting a Forth implementation at it? [6] This |
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+ blasting a Forth implementation at it? [5] This |
|
proves Forth as the new programming language en |
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vogue |
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@@ -682,7 +700,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ |
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gopher://retroforth.org/ https://retroforth.org/ A |
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forth implemented in C, Python, C#, Nim, JavaScript |
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- and Pascal! [7] The C version permits to embed the |
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+ and Pascal! The C version permits to embed the |
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script into a binary along with the interpreter, for |
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a single-binary deployment process. The more clas- |
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sic way to use it is to use shebangs scripts to have |
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@@ -699,7 +717,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ |
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http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua.retro.html A go- |
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pher server, already listed on the Gopher index of |
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- links, the Gopher Lawn [8] |
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+ links, the Gopher Lawn [6] |
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|
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http://retroforth.org/examples/7080.retro.html A s |
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@@ -752,10 +770,11 @@ _________________________________________________________… |
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Forth as a scripting language. When a whole script- |
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ing language fits on a thumb, putting it everywhere |
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costs nothing! |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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|
|
- Such a large tool chest for such a small language. |
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- With the Covid, Wars under disguise, and other supply |
|
- chain troubles, the era of "more features" is coming |
|
+ Such a large tool chest for such a small language. |
|
+ With the Covid, Wars under disguise, and other supply |
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+ chain troubles, the era of "more features" is coming |
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to an end, and the era of reliability rises. In these |
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trying times, anyone is welcome to go Forth. |
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@@ -763,16 +782,104 @@ ________________________________________________________… |
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gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220305-0.gmi |
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2 https://www.forth.com/space-shuttle-instrumentation-interface/ |
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|
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- 3 |
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- 4 https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu |
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+ 3 https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu |
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+ 4 ircs://irc.hackint.org/#forth-hardware-projects |
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|
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- 5 ircs://irc.hackint.org/#forth-hardware-projects |
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- 6 https://el-tramo.be/waforth/ |
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+ 5 https://el-tramo.be/waforth/ |
|
https://el-tramo.be/thurtle/ |
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+ 6 bitreich.org/1/lawn/c/gopher.gph |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ A new IRC network: IRCNow! tgtimes |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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+ |
|
+ A new IRC network is in town! [1] Ever wanted to feel |
|
+ what an early community looks like? The admin jrmu |
|
+ brought the project together, and is currently col- |
|
+ lecting users along the way. |
|
+ |
|
+ Whether you looked for a place to host your own commu- |
|
+ nity, or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from |
|
+ fertile ground, the community is welcoming and active. |
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+ |
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+ >> IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users |
|
+ |
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+ A LibrePlanet event |
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+ |
|
+ Something else from this community might catch your |
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+ attention, is its orientation toward being adminis- |
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+ trated by its users themself: rather than letting the |
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+ founder handle everything, the community is oriented |
|
+ toward serious teaching of unix command line and sys- |
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+ tem administration to anyone, from beginners to ad- |
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+ vanced users seeking improvement. |
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+ |
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+ In-person teaching sessions were covered during the |
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+ LibrePlanet 2022 event [2] with recording of a test- |
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+ run of the event [3] where future and present hackers |
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+ met together working our their system administration |
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+ and community building skills. Linux Magazine also |
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+ ran an interview giving a good impression about the |
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+ spirit of the project: [4] |
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+ |
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+ Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with, IRCnow |
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+ offers hosting services for IRC bouncers, Bots, E- |
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+ Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts. |
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+ |
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+ The wiki itself features plenty of technical informa- |
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+ tion on system administration as a support for its |
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+ bootcamps, which offers a comfortable step-by-step in- |
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+ troduction to a complete server administration. [5] I |
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+ have often seen administrators hired with less than |
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+ this much knowledge! |
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+ 1 irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667 |
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+ ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697 |
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+ |
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+ 2 https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf |
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+ 3 https://0x0.st/oTal.webm - 0h20m: audio starts - 1h15m: talking about Gop… |
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+ |
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+ 4 https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow |
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+ 5 https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ |
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+ Search podcasts via Gopher tgtimes |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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+ |
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+ Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer? Maybe you con- |
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+ sidered to have something to listen to on the road or |
|
+ while cooking. |
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+ |
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+ Combining many different sources, you may encounter |
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+ some heirlooms by searching through this gopher |
|
+ front-end for podcast search. [1] |
|
+ |
|
+ The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS |
|
+ link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts, and |
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+ extracts the RSS links for you, so you do not have to |
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+ search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS |
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+ button. |
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+ |
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+ For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I |
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+ tried searching for it: "Amp Hour" in the search |
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+ field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour |
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+ Electronics Podcast", that was quickly added to my |
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+ list of RSS feeds in a blast. |
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+ |
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+ Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to |
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+ automate a script searching for podcasts, then down- |
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+ loading the entries and uploading them to an MP3 |
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+ player of any kind (dedicated, or as part of a phone |
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+ or other portable computer). |
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|
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- 7 |
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- 8 bitreich.org/1/lawn/c/gopher.gph |
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+ Want to know more about it? One place to discuss |
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+ about it is the Bitreich IRC server [2] |
|
+ 1 gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod |
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|
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+ 2 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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@@ -783,6 +890,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ |
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all use now) was written in Fortran. What the hell |
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were they running it on, and what damned data were |
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they feeding into it?! |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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SUBROUTINE FOUR1(DATA,NN,ISIGN) |
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C THE COOLEY-TUKEY FAST ROURIER TRANSFORM IN USASI BASIC FORTRAN |
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@@ -837,18 +945,21 @@ _________________________________________________________… |
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GO TO 6 |
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9 RETURN |
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END |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
|
|
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- And no, you cannot get the IEEE document because IEEE |
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- broke it up into pages and sells each page individu- |
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+ And no, you cannot get the IEEE document because IEEE |
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"PROGRAMS FOUR2 AND FOURT ARE AVAILABLE THAT RUN |
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C TWICE AS FAST AND OPERATE ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS WHOSE |
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C DIMENSIONS ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO POWERS OR TWO." |
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+ But, this code was easy to port because it was small, |
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+ so, to this day, we use it. It was ported from For- |
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+ tran to BASIC, then to C, then to C++ and everything |
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- Search podcasts via Gopher tgtimes |
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- Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer? Maybe you con- |
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- while cooking. |
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- Combining many different sources, you may encounter |
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- some heirlooms by searching through this gopher |
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- front-end for podcast search. [1] |
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- The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS |
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- link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts, and |
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- extracts the RSS links for you, so you do not have to |
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- For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I |
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- field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour |
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- Electronics Podcast", that was quickly added to my |
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- list of RSS feeds in a blast. |
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- Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to |
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- automate a script searching for podcasts, then down- |
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- loading the entries and uploading them to an MP3 |
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- player of any kind (dedicated, or as part of a phone |
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- 1 gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod |
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- 2 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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- A new IRC network: IRCNow! tgtimes |
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- what an early community looks like? The admin jrmu |
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- brought the project together, and is currently col- |
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- lecting users along the way. |
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- Whether you looked for a place to host your own commu- |
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- nity, or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from |
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- fertile ground, the community is welcoming and active. |
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- >> IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users |
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- A LibrePlanet event |
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- |
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- Something else from this community might catch your |
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- attention, is its orientation toward being adminis- |
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- trated by its users themself: rather than letting the |
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- founder handle everything, the community is oriented |
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- toward serious teaching of unix command line and sys- |
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- tem administration to anyone, from beginners to ad- |
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- vanced users seeking improvement. |
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- |
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- In-person teaching sessions were covered during the |
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- LibrePlanet 2022 event [2] with recording of a test- |
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- run of the event [3] where future and present hackers |
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- met together working our their system administration |
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- and community building skills. Linux Magazine also |
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- ran an interview giving a good impression about the |
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- spirit of the project: [4] |
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- |
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- Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with, IRCnow |
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- offers hosting services for IRC bouncers, Bots, E- |
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- Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts. |
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- The wiki itself features plenty of technical informa- |
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- tion on system administration as a support for its |
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- bootcamps, which offers a comfortable step-by-step in- |
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- troduction to a complete server administration. [5] I |
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- have often seen administrators hired with less than |
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- this much knowledge! |
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- 1 irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667 |
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- ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697 |
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- 2 https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf |
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- 3 the voice only starts from 0h20m |
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- talking about Gopher at 1h15m |
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- https://0x0.st/oTal.webm |
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- 5 https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp |
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Maemo Leste keeps kicking in! tgtimes |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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- The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource pow- |
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+ The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource pow- |
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Grab it while it is hot, the lack of bloated prebuilt |
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application forced into it by the vendor means it will |
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not catch fire! [1] |
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- 1 https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-d… |
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+ 1 https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and- |
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+ december-2021-january-april-2022.html |
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+ I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me josuah |
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+____________________________________________________________ |
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+ |
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+ The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that can- |
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+ not be ignored anymore: NSA (among others) is watching |
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+ you (among others). |
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+ |
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+ Does that change anything to my everyday life? Proba- |
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+ bly not, they already were before you knew about it. |
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+ Should I do anything about it? No answer. The eter- |
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+ nal doubt that modern society is famous for: |
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+ |
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+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
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+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
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+ |
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+ That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a su- |
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+ permarket and see the mess of wires, tubes, cables and |
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+ neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in |
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+ white... The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as |
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+ if taken straight out of the Brazil [1] movie. |
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+ |
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+ A landscape that is in such opposition with the images |
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+ of every product being sold, picturing what more or |
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+ less fits the collective imagery of "house of my |
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+ grandparents in back-country", promising a natural en- |
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+ vironment... Where did they even find all these land- |
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+ scapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere, |
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+ tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses or wind tur- |
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+ bines to put on these product label background images? |
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+ |
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+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
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+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
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+ |
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+ How did such a landscape, neon distopia pictures that |
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+ seems straight out of /r/cyberpunk post or the latest |
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+ Blade Runner, got invited into the cozzy bubble of the |
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+ average citizen? [2] Who made these places so ugly? |
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+ Why do I feel like human is being considered like cat- |
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+ tle in these kind of places? |
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+ |
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+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
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+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
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+ |
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+ What weird things am I even saying! Am I trying to |
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+ tell that an NSA agent is sitting on the metal beams |
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+ of these places disfigure passersby with their empty |
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+ gaze. There are cameras though. What do they film? |
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+ Thieves? Who is checking? Software? Peoples? Are mar- |
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+ ketting people looking at these pictures? Of me too? |
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+ What do they think of me? Did they look at my hand |
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+ hesitating between these two products? |
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+ |
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+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
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+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
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+ |
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+ Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on a |
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+ backpack barely full, with a small cup filled with |
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+ coins, looking a bit panicked, looking a bit dirty, |
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+ looking a bit lost, sometimes even a bit drunk. Occa- |
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+ sionally they will ask you for another coin to add to |
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+ their small collection. Passerbys offer them a lie |
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+ such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no, |
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+ sorry", keep walking faster without looking, and even- |
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+ tually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going be- |
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+ fore they got asked for more. What did happen to |
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+ them? Did they choose to live here? How can I know it |
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+ will never happen to me? Why do I feel bad if I do |
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+ not give them what they ask? Why do I feel bad if I |
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+ give them what they ask? |
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+ |
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+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is |
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+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life. |
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+ |
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+ Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here: Writ- |
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+ ing this, I am not asking these questions to you, nei- |
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+ ther you are asking these questions to yourself. The |
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+ places are asking these questions to you themself. |
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+ |
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+ By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but dis- |
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+ playing eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not |
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+ even exist, it is obvious that people will notice the |
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+ disbalance between the two. |
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+ |
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+ By placing cameras filming every square meter of such |
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+ a place, or even a whole city, it is obvious that peo- |
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+ ple will wonder at some point, who is behind the |
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+ screen reviewing these images. |
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+ |
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+ The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even |
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+ hint about the answer. We are left in the doubt, let- |
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+ ting some ensure "it is just in case of a burglary, |
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+ the police officer is going to watch" or other affirm |
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+ "they are using these images to study how we think to |
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+ better control us!". |
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+ |
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+ Such divergent claims based on convictions, the tech- |
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+ nician installing these cameras up there has no hint |
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+ either, its manager followed the recommandations of |
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+ the mothership company, itself getting directions from |
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+ the parent investor group who lately purchased the |
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+ brand, who themself are only trying to keep-up with |
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+ the most up to date business practices, read on an on- |
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+ line newspaper article recommanded by a colleague. |
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+ |
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+ I stopped to care about these silly things since long. |
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+ I came back to the real world for the better. I live |
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+ my life and it works plenty well, so why would I care? |
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+ |
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+ >> So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my |
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+ gut, there is a voice whispering to me, that's |
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+ something's wrong. [3] |
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+ |
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+ The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is: |
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+ you do not get too many answers about how the whole |
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+ thing works. |
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+ 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ |
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+ 2 https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg |
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+ 3 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q |
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- The Mallumo Weechat Plugin darkfi |
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+ Mallumo Encrypted IRC darkfi |
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- Sailing With Grace tgtimes |
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-____________________________________________________________ |
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- |
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- The sea! Water all around, not a single piece of |
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- ground around to stand in, only a single boat that be- |
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- comes one with you, its capitain. Infinite waves un- |
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- der the blue or cloudly sky is all you see for a long |
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- trip of many days. Feeling both lost, but at the same |
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- time united with surrounding nature. After all, the |
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- largest part of Earth is covered by the sea. |
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- This is the world of Sailing that awaits each of us, |
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- for a single trip hosted by a well proven crew, or as |
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- a lone sailor braving tempests after tempests. |
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- |
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- Sailing blogs are definitely a good opportunity to |
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- dream, the instant of an article. |
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- |
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- This blog, Sailing With Grace, has taken the decision |
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- of offering all its content through HTTP, but also |
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- proxied over Gopher. [1] This recalls an interesting |
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- point: it proves that Gopher is not only good for |
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- talking about Gopher and computer things, but is also |
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- oriented toward the outside, is it ready to be used by |
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- people who are not gopher geeks? |
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- |
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- It always was to begin with, so why would it not? Are |
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- people less able to use computers now than they was |
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- before the web came? The discussion is open. |
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- 1 gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com |
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Publishing in The Gopher Times you |
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@@ -1093,6 +1204,15 @@ ________________________________________________________… |
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with an article in any format, we will handle the |
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rest. |
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+ Did you notice the new layout? We now can jump be- |
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+ tween single and double column as it is more fit. |
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+ Some content like large code chunks will simply not |
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+ fit in the two-columns and the text is more pleasant |
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+ to read on two columns. A block is too small and |
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+ would look silly on two columns for a single sentence? |
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+ It is kept on a single column. Note that websites do |
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+ not usually support this feature! |
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+ |
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ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/ |
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git://bitreich.org/tgtimes/ |
