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Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 12:23:01 +0100
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diff --git a/opus4/article-ganssle-fortran-compiler.mw b/opus4/article-ganssle-…
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+.SH ganssle
+Fortran Diahrea
+.
+.PP
+Quoting Ganssle in The Embedded Muse mailing list:
+.
+.QP
+The University of Maryland's Ralph compiler would abort after 50
+compiletime errors and print out a picture of Alfred E. Neuman,
+with the caption "This man never worries, but from the look of your
+code, you should."
+.
+.DS
+http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem439.html
+.DE
diff --git a/opus4/article-gopherml-molasses-client.mw b/opus4/article-gopherml…
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+.SH gopherml
+Molasses Gopher and Gemini Client
+.
+.PP
+Jonathan Simpson is announcing a new Gopher client: Molasses.
+.
+.QP
+A new gopher client, Molasses, is now available for general use. It is a
+multi-platform graphical client that runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
+.
+.PP
+Leveraging functionnal programming with Racket, the binaries come battery
+included, bundling the racket runtime code, famous for building-up robust
+graphical user interfaces straight from the core language libraries.
+.
+.PP
+Inline images, multiple tabs, keyboard navigation, Gopher and Gemini support,
+opening external http:// links on an external browser, Molasses has
+everything one might expect to browse the little Internet.
+.
+.QP
+Feedback is welcome and appreciated.
+.
+.DS
+https://github.com/jjsimpso/molasses/
+.DE
diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving-the-radio.mw b/opus4/article-tg…
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+BBC Reviving the Plain Old Radio
+.
+.PP
+BBC, one of the earliest if not the first radio broadcasting ever,
+comes back to using a WWII era technology, to overcome limitation
+Russia imposes over Ukraine.
+.
+.PP
+In between a rain of missiles and a short moment of temporary peace,
+fetching information on what is happening around is a relief, maybe
+even a requirement for survival.
+.
+.PP
+Internet infrastructure of Ukraine are being impacted, and the
+backbone getting shackled by all kind of limitations, provoked the
+BBC news bulletin to be unreachable.
+.
+.PP
+A more primitive way to broadcast critical headlines than Internet:
+\fBshortwave radio\fR, which can live off a simple emitter for covering
+a large region.
+.
+.QP
+It has launched two new shortwave frequencies in the region for
+four hours of World Service English news a day. These frequencies
+can be received clearly in Kyiv and parts of Russia.
+.
+.DS
+https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-news
+.DE
diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-bistr…
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Beerware: Hardware for Beer
+.
+.PP
+Old hardware power-recycled into a bartender. Such is the project of
+the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now visiting countries abroad.
+.
+.PP
+A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but while still working,
+was removed from production, and collected dust in a warehouse.
+.
+.PP
+Jean-Marie Ollivier took this bored machine that he named "Nestor",
+got it to move again, and rather than servicing the industry, was
+programmed it to serve beers.
+.
+.QP
+It is not rare to see Jean-Marie make Nestor dance on a violin melody.
+.
+.PP
+Moving from town to town, this iron giant, taller than any human, goes on
+display grabbing gobelets, filling them at the tap, and offering them to
+the curious crowd passing by.
+.
+.PP
+And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a treat, it can also
+prepare some \fIcrepes\fR, the Bretons's favorite dessert.
+.
+.DS
+https://bistromatik.com/
+.DE
diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw b/opus4/article-tgtime…
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Carrying the Cross
+.
+.PP
+Walking on the streets, slowly, slowed-down by carrying a huge
+wooden cross, tall as three persons, painted in blue, a recognisable
+cross shaped as an 'f', the 'f' of facebook.
+.
+.PP
+This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting any watching the unrealistic
+scene to question themself on the weight of social media, and beliefs associat…
+with technology.
+.
+.QP
+investigating global interconnection utopia, spiritual magic and contemporary …
+.
+.PP
+Has we seen a clear event where computer-based #technology moved
+from hobby that only a bunch of looneys were adorating on their
+geek basement, and mainstream adoption?
+.
+.PP
+The opening of facebook? The advent of the iPhone? The first day
+you could fired from an office job for not being able to turn on a
+computer?
+.
+.PP
+Technology did not really appear all at once in our lives, and does
+not even reach every citizen of every country. Looking at ourself
+with a fresh, candide look, and think whether how we live make sense,
+is becoming increasingly difficult. Day after day, without us noticing,
+the tiny steps.
+.
+.PP
+Like Filipe Vilas-Boas, artists offers us a tiny window onto our own
+life, a porthole toward ourself, for allowing us to watching ourself
+from the outside.
+.
+.BD
+https://filipevilasboas.com/Carrying-The-Cross
+.ED
diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-national-library-medecine.mw b/opus4/article…
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Gopher for Medical Research
+.
+.PP
+The National Institute of Health is well used to the Gopher protocol,
+for it used it as a way to publish medical documentation. You named
+it: \fIPubMed\fR itself have been delivering documents through Gopher:
+.
+.IP "Phone books"
+with name, phone number and e-mail addresses of those willing to submit it,
+.
+.IP "Images"
+like weathermaps,
+.
+.IP "Audio"
+such as 1992 presidential debates,
+.
+.IP "Books"
+and all kind of publcations, also proposed to users as a way to publish their …
+.
+.IP "Videos"
+short ones, but also on-demand movies!
+.
+.IP "Telnet"
+interfaces with login and password,
+.
+.IP "Search engines"
+For browsing this entire content.
+.
+.PP
+The technical bulletin of March-April 1994 reveals as much.
+While 1994 does not sounds like a world gifted with nowadays unlimited technol…
+.
+.IP "Spotify"
+were files through Gopher.
+.
+.IP "Netflix"
+were files through Gopher.
+.
+.IP "PubMed, ResearchGate"
+were files through Gopher.
+.
+.IP "Instagram"
+were files through Gopher.
+.
+.IP "Facebook"
+were publication as files through Gopher.
+.
+.IP "Amazon Kindle"
+were text files through Gopher.
+.
+.IP "Office365"
+were telnet interactive session, or WordStar, PostScript, and ASCII
+files through Gopher.
+.
+.IP "Google"
+was either gopher search, or interactive telnet sessions, with
+sometimes powerful query languages, permitting to filter the result
+held in the databases: \fISearching for references about Italians
+with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH)\fR
+.
+.PP
+This showcases that a lot of thing declared as \fIpossible today
+thank to the advances of technology\fR were available since as early
+as 1994. With much less bells and much less whistles. With much less
+bandwidth for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as
+well.
+.
+.PP
+Interactive database querying languages would look a bit uninviting,
+and TurboGopher (showcased in the document) has not all the font,
+layout, media integration features of modern day web browsers.
+.
+.PP
+Under that perspective, the race to technology looks like not a quest
+for new use-cases, but taking what was possible in the early days to
+in a crude format and only to some initiated, to the masses, in an
+inviting layout, packed onto small, shiny objects that fit on a mere
+pocket.
+.
+.DS
+https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_apr…
+.DE
+.
+.PP
+One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine project still is
+blown at full steam, as the National Library of Medecine publishes
+a bibliography for setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on
+specific medical topics.
+.
+.QP
+Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the National Library of Medicine
+.
+.DS
+https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/
+.DE
diff --git a/opus4/article-tmpout-2.mw b/opus4/article-tmpout-2.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+.SH tmpout
+TMP.0UT Volume 2 is Out
+.
+.PP
+In the sytle of the Phrack online resource, tmp.0ut publishes its
+second volume.
+.
+.QP
+TMP.0UT stands on the shoulders of giants, and we lend a hand for
+the next generation of giants to stand on ours.
+.
+.PP
+Focused on the ELF format reverse engineering, the online zine
+culminates a rich set of resources and articles by experts for
+everyone interested in the world of ELF hacking.
+.
+.IP -
+Bare Metal Jacket
+.
+.IP -
+How to write a virtual machine in order to hide your viruses
+.
+.IP -
+Every Boring Problem Found in eBPF
+.
+.PP
+And much, much more... News straight out of the compiler:
+.
+.DS
+https://tmpout.sh/2/
+.DE
diff --git a/opus4/footer.mw b/opus4/footer.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+.SH you
+Publishing in The Gopher Times
+.PP
+Want your article published?
+Want to announce something to the Gopher world?
+Directly related to Gopher or not,
+reach us on IRC with an article in any format,
+we will handle the rest.
+.DS
+ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
+gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/
+git://bitreich.org/tgtimes/
+.DE
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@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+.TL
+The Gopher Times
+.AB
+Opus 4 - Gopher news and more - Mar. 2022
+.AE
+.
+.so opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw
+.so opus4/article-ganssle-fortran-compiler.mw
+.so opus4/article-gopherml-molasses-client.mw
+.so opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving-the-radio.mw
+.so opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw
+.so opus4/article-tgtimes-national-library-medecine.mw
+.so opus4/article-tmpout-2.mw
+.so opus4/footer.mw
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+
+
+
+ The Gopher Times
+
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Opus 4 - Gopher news and more - Mar. 2022
+____________________________________________________________
+
+
+
+
+ Carrying the Cross tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Walking on the streets, slowly, slowed-down by
+ carrying a huge wooden cross, tall as three persons,
+ painted in blue, a recognisable cross shaped as an
+ 'f', the 'f' of facebook.
+
+ This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting any
+ watching the unrealistic scene to question themself on
+ the weight of social media, and beliefs associated
+ with technology.
+
+ >> investigating global interconnection utopia,
+ spiritual magic and contemporary algorithmic slavery
+ dystopia
+
+ Has we seen a clear event where computer-based
+ #technology moved from hobby that only a bunch of
+ looneys were adorating on their geek basement, and
+ mainstream adoption?
+
+ The opening of facebook? The advent of the iPhone? The
+ first day you could fired from an office job for not
+ being able to turn on a computer?
+
+ Technology did not really appear all at once in our
+ lives, and does not even reach every citizen of every
+ country. Looking at ourself with a fresh, candide
+ look, and think whether how we live make sense, is
+ becoming increasingly difficult. Day after day,
+ without us noticing, the tiny steps.
+
+ Like Filipe Vilas-Boas, artists offers us a tiny
+ window onto our own life, a porthole toward ourself,
+ for allowing us to watching ourself from the outside.
+ https://filipevilasboas.com/Carrying-The-Cross
+
+
+
+ Fortran Diahrea ganssle
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Quoting Ganssle in The Embedded Muse mailing list:
+
+ >> The University of Maryland's Ralph compiler would
+ abort after 50 compiletime errors and print out a
+ picture of Alfred E. Neuman, with the caption "This
+ man never worries, but from the look of your code,
+ you should."
+
+ http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem439.html
+
+
+
+
+ Molasses Gopher and Gemini Client gopherml
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Jonathan Simpson is announcing a new Gopher client:
+ Molasses.
+
+ >> A new gopher client, Molasses, is now available for
+ general use. It is a multi-platform graphical client
+ that runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
+
+ Leveraging functionnal programming with Racket, the
+ binaries come battery included, bundling the racket
+ runtime code, famous for building-up robust graphical
+ user interfaces straight from the core language
+ libraries.
+
+ Inline images, multiple tabs, keyboard navigation,
+ Gopher and Gemini support, opening external http://
+ links on an external browser, Molasses has everything
+ one might expect to browse the little Internet.
+
+ >> Feedback is welcome and appreciated.
+
+ https://github.com/jjsimpso/molasses/
+
+
+
+ BBC Reviving the Plain Old Radio tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ BBC, one of the earliest if not the first radio
+ broadcasting ever, comes back to using a WWII era
+ technology, to overcome limitation Russia imposes over
+ Ukraine.
+
+ In between a rain of missiles and a short moment of
+ temporary peace, fetching information on what is
+ happening around is a relief, maybe even a requirement
+ for survival.
+
+ Internet infrastructure of Ukraine are being impacted,
+ and the backbone getting shackled by all kind of
+ limitations, provoked the BBC news bulletin to be
+ unreachable.
+
+ A more primitive way to broadcast critical headlines
+ than Internet: shortwave radio, which can live off a
+ simple emitter for covering a large region.
+
+ >> It has launched two new shortwave frequencies in
+ the region for four hours of World Service English
+ news a day. These frequencies can be received clearly
+ in Kyiv and parts of Russia.
+
+ https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-news
+
+
+
+
+ Beerware: Hardware for Beer tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Old hardware power-recycled into a bartender. Such is
+ the project of the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now
+ visiting countries abroad.
+
+ A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but
+ while still working, was removed from production, and
+ collected dust in a warehouse.
+
+ Jean-Marie Ollivier took this bored machine that he
+ named "Nestor", got it to move again, and rather than
+ servicing the industry, was programmed it to serve
+ beers.
+
+ >> It is not rare to see Jean-Marie make Nestor dance
+ on a violin melody.
+
+ Moving from town to town, this iron giant, taller than
+ any human, goes on display grabbing gobelets, filling
+ them at the tap, and offering them to the curious
+ crowd passing by.
+
+ And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a
+ treat, it can also prepare some crepes, the Bretons's
+ favorite dessert.
+
+ https://bistromatik.com/
+
+
+
+ Gopher for Medical Research tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The National Institute of Health is well used to the
+ Gopher protocol, for it used it as a way to publish
+ medical documentation. You named it: PubMed itself
+ have been delivering documents through Gopher:
+
+ Phone bookswith name, phone number and e-mail
+ addresses of those willing to submit it,
+
+ Imageslike weathermaps,
+
+ Audiosuch as 1992 presidential debates,
+
+ Booksand all kind of publcations, also proposed to
+ users as a way to publish their own content,
+
+ Videosshort ones, but also on-demand movies!
+
+ Telnetinterfaces with login and password,
+
+ Search enginesFor browsing this entire content.
+
+ The technical bulletin of March-April 1994 reveals as
+ much. While 1994 does not sounds like a world gifted
+ with nowadays unlimited technology, equivalents to
+ modern tools, with less bells and less whistles, were
+ already widespread among providers, but much less used
+ as they are today:
+
+ Spotifywere files through Gopher.
+
+ Netflixwere files through Gopher.
+
+ PubMed, ResearchGatewere files through Gopher.
+
+ Instagramwere files through Gopher.
+
+ Facebookwere publication as files through Gopher.
+
+ Amazon Kindlewere text files through Gopher.
+
+ Office365were telnet interactive session, or WordStar,
+ PostScript, and ASCII files through Gopher.
+
+ Googlewas either gopher search, or interactive telnet
+ sessions, with sometimes powerful query languages,
+ permitting to filter the result held in the
+ databases: Searching for references about Italians
+ with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH)
+
+ This showcases that a lot of thing declared as
+ possible today thank to the advances of technology
+ were available since as early as 1994. With much less
+ bells and much less whistles. With much less bandwidth
+ for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as
+ well.
+
+ Interactive database querying languages would look a
+ bit uninviting, and TurboGopher (showcased in the
+ document) has not all the font, layout, media
+ integration features of modern day web browsers.
+
+ Under that perspective, the race to technology looks
+ like not a quest for new use-cases, but taking what
+ was possible in the early days to in a crude format
+ and only to some initiated, to the masses, in an
+ inviting layout, packed onto small, shiny objects that
+ fit on a mere pocket.
+
+ https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_…
+
+ One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine
+ project still is blown at full steam, as the National
+ Library of Medecine publishes a bibliography for
+ setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on
+ specific medical topics.
+
+ >> Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the
+ National Library of Medicine
+
+ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/
+
+
+
+
+ TMP.0UT Volume 2 is Out tmpout
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ In the sytle of the Phrack online resource, tmp.0ut
+ publishes its second volume.
+
+ >> TMP.0UT stands on the shoulders of giants, and we
+ lend a hand for the next generation of giants to
+ stand on ours.
+
+ Focused on the ELF format reverse engineering, the
+ online zine culminates a rich set of resources and
+ articles by experts for everyone interested in the
+ world of ELF hacking.
+
+ - Bare Metal Jacket
+
+ - How to write a virtual machine in order to hide your
+ viruses
+
+ - Every Boring Problem Found in eBPF
+
+ And much, much more... News straight out of the
+ compiler:
+
+ https://tmpout.sh/2/
+
+
+
+ Publishing in The Gopher Times you
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Want your article published? Want to announce
+ something to the Gopher world? Directly related to
+ Gopher or not, reach us on IRC with an article in any
+ format, we will handle the rest.
+
+ ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
+ gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/
+ git://bitreich.org/tgtimes/
+
+
+
+
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