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4 The Gopher Times
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8 Opus 2 - Gopher news and more - Nov. 2021
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13 Amiga-style demos on microcontrollers ltf
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16 The demoscene is an UNESCO-recognised art where
17 computer are programmmed to display graphics and
18 soundtrack in real-time. Competitions challenges
19 everyone to build the most impressive demo out of the
20 same limited resources as everyone, such as venerable
21 computers like Comodore64 or Amiga computers.
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23 While faster computers are being built everyday,
24 computers with even less resources than the early days
25 are still in massive production and used:
26 microcontrollers.
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28 Linus Akesson, a demoer known for his "A Mind Is Born"
29 winning entry [1] is pushing the kind of CPU that
30 controls your elevator to its limits to produce waves
31 of colors and rivers of melodies.
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34 https://www.linusakesson.net/pages/scene.php
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36 [1]
37 1st place on Revision 2017 competition
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41 The aNONradio station sdf
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44 A non-radio is an independent radio blasting live
45 broadcasting from the sdf.org infrastructure: a group
46 of various UNIX-like system servers providing free
47 shell accounts among other services.
48
49 The presenter is well aware of the various UNIX-like
50 systems culture and operation, so do not be surprised
51 if you hear him talk about IRC channels or server
52 updates straight from the waves.
53
54 There are music from community DJ and artists
55 broadcast, weekly radio shows, handpicked tunes,
56 announce about upcoming shows, and even world news.
57
58 There are also Open MiC sessions where anyone may join
59 and discuss or broadcast, so drop them a word if you
60 want something played to that station.
61
62 Much like Bitreich conferences, live comments can be
63 sent to the presenter over IRC.
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65 https://anonradio.net/
66 ircs://irc.sdf.org/#anonradio
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70 Phrack Magazine fnord
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73 On the world of hacker, warez, and computer security
74 has a long-standing magazine respected by the
75 pioneers: Phrack.
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77 May its crude plaintext aspect not mislead you in
78 thinking it is one of these retro computing group, as
79 cutting edge pentest strategies, defence strategy, or
80 reverse engineering material might likely be disclosed
81 in here:
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84 • Android Kernel Rootkit
85
86 • Revisiting Mac OS X Kernel Rootkits
87
88 • Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve
89
90 • .NET Instrumentation via bytecode injection
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92 Recent versions of the planet's most used operating
93 systems, terrific topics such as VM escape. Phrack is
94 not script kidding around!
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96 Thanks to fnord.one gopher hole, each opus is also
97 available directly over gopher:
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99 gopher://gopher.fnord.one/1/Mirrors/
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103 FreeChess chess server telnet
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106 Chess has likely been there since forever, it might
107 have as well been there since longer than life on
108 earth [citation needed]. As such, software for
109 playing chess might have been around for a similarly
110 long amount of time.
111
112 Possibly one of the longest-running chess system
113 online for playing chess is FreeChess, the free online
114 chess server, and it is accessible over telnet:
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117 $ telnet freechess.org 5000
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119 A prompt offers to logon, and "guest" can be entered
120 for using it without an account, then <Enter> (then
121 once again later):
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123 login: guest
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125 By just staying here waiting, battle offers from other
126 players start to spawn:
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128 GuestJZMS (++++) seeking 5 0 unrated blitz f \
129 ("play 50" to respond)
130 GuestJZMS (++++) seeking 5 0 unrated wild/fr f \
131 ("play 72" to respond)
132 GuestJZMS (++++) seeking 1 0 unrated lightning f \
133 ("play 73" to respond)
134 fics%
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136 Playing one of these games leads you to an ASCII
137 chessboard ready for white to play:
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139 fics% play 72
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141 ---------------------------------
142 8 | *R| *N| *B| *Q| *K| *B| *N| *R|
143 |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
144 7 | *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P|
145 |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
146 6 | | | | | | | | |
147 |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
148 5 | | | | | | | | |
149 |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
150 4 | | | | | | | | |
151 |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
152 3 | | | | | | | | |
153 |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
154 2 | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
155 |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
156 1 | R | N | B | Q | K | B | N | R |
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158 a b c d e f g h
159 fics%
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161 In complement to the raw telnet interface, a graphical
162 client may be used to join a game with the board shown
163 on-screen.
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167 The Embedded Muse Newsletter ganssle
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170 Ever felt curious about the embedded world? These tiny
171 machines that are low-power enough to last all winter
172 powered by a potato battery? Then take a peek at the
173 Embedded Muse Newsletter.
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175 This mail-based monthly publication is run by Jack
176 Ganssle since 1997. A well-known pioneer, but each
177 issue is turned toward the community, where everyone
178 submits its story that Jack publishes back.
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180 You might find spicy UNIX and engineering humour.
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182 http://www.ganssle.com/tem-back.htm
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186 Mozilla, "OBEY" and 1988 movie jwz
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189 Surprisingly diverse themes. Just as diverse as Jamie
190 Zawinski's creations: Netscape, Mozilla, the DNA-
191 Lounge night club.
192
193 The 1988 movie offers a revelation about advertizing.
194 The "OBEY" Clothing Brand refers to that movie. The
195 Mozilla logo shares the same author as the "OBEY"
196 logo. Out of this, jwz narrates us a piece of our own
197 history.
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199 Sometimes, ubiquitous, vastly popular, and highly
200 profitable projects have the most unexpected history,
201 in contradiction with what they became.
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203 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the
204 -secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/
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208 Twtxt Over Gopher gopher ml
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211 The twtxt format is a plain text microblogging format
212 that lives as a text file hosted on any server, in the
213 same style as RSS feeds.
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215 The support gopher://example.com/0/twtxt.txt is
216 already there! As prologic points out on the Gopher
217 Mailing list, it is possible to use gopher:// links
218 for twtxt, as showcased by the yarn.social search
219 engine.
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221 This might as well be the case for many other twtxt
222 clients, given that libcurl supports gopher:// and
223 gophers://.
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225 It will soon be difficult to find a single software
226 that does not support Gopher...
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228 https://twtxt.net/
229 https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/
230 https://yarn.social/
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234 Hosting Providers Projects tgtimes
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237 While hosting a server at home has its benefits (and
238 its charms), some interesting hosting providers do a
239 good job at sharing all the fun that hosting servers
240 can have while still handling the long-winged work of
241 keeping the hypervisors up and running.
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243 Efforts also coming from the community that sometimes
244 take part into the project, or in reverse, hosting
245 providers contributing to help community projects,
246 either through funds or bug-fixing.
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248 sdf.org Around since as early as 1987, the Super
249 Dimension Fortress describes itself as a public
250 access supercomputing center. An invitation to jump
251 both feet into the UNIX culture featuring games,
252 email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace,
253 programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and
254 more. A different sense of community than the one
255 offered by social networks.
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257 sdfeu.org Joint effort with the north Amercian
258 sdf.org, the European counterpart will have a better
259 network latency for European, Middle east, and
260 African users.
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262 grex.org Grex brings democracy to hosting, a concept
263 little explored by commercial hosting providers:
264 open access, but also owned by its members who can
265 vote on what to plan next for Grex. Also a good
266 pretext to get around a good meal during the Grex
267 conferences.
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269 openbsd.amsterdam A hosting provider running OpenBSD
270 for its entire stack, including the hypervisor
271 itself: vmm(4). It permits its user to connect
272 directly onto the hypervisor through SSH and run
273 commands such as vmctl vm02 restart.
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275 blinkenshell.org Younger by a few years, this open
276 shell project lets you give Linux a try. Occasion to
277 make someone discover the world of command-line and
278 programming through the editor and compilers
279 installed up there.
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281 prgmr.com While keeping a commercial model, this Xen-
282 based hosting provider offers a command-line
283 approach to hosting, and consider the user as a
284 respectable admin rather than a supermarket
285 customer.
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289 Nixers.net Con 2021 nixers
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292 On November the 7th, the second edition of the
293 nixers.net *NIX users community took place:
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295 • Creating your own troff macros — seninha
296
297 • Keeping track of your things — venam
298
299 • Truly Federated Identity for the web — push-f
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301 The video recordings are already available:
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303 https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-net-Conf-2021
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307 A message to developers nitot
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310 While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going,
311 a former founder moved elsewhere offering to try a
312 different take on technology.
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314 Tristan Nitot founded Mozilla Europe, and also worked
315 at Netscape before its decline. After he left
316 Mozilla, he published "surveillance://" defending
317 privacy, and went as far as offering alternative to
318 Google by joining the Qwant team (web search engine).
319 Yes, this is a Google-funded conference.
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321 During this web, mobile and cloud conference, under
322 OVH, Google, and Microsoft sponsorship, what message
323 would he have to spread to developers getting started?
324 Mind the Global Warming!
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326 How unexpected but welcome. He simply showed the
327 numbers and big newspaper headlines: explaining that
328 the poor performance of software has been largely
329 compensated by the Moore's law for the last 50 years,
330 letting software fat to accumulate without dire
331 consequence on usability.
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333 A call to developers to consider supporting the
334 existing hardware through providing reasonable
335 performance, considering removing features, would have
336 the greatest impact; most CO² emission of IT
337 originating from producing new end-user devices. He
338 blamed Windows 11 badly for that, refusing to support
339 older chips. Yes, this is a Microsoft-funded
340 conference.
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342 >> Between the early web pages of a few kilobytes to
343 the web pages of today, the size was went up by a
344 factor of 150. Are web pages 150 times better than
345 they used to be?
346
347 At the beginning of its talk, Tristan Nitot quoted
348 Upton Sinclair:
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350 >> It is difficult to get a man to understand
351 something when his salary depends upon his not
352 understanding it.
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354 https://devfest.gdglille.org/
355 https://climatefresk.org/
356 https://standblog.org/blog/
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360 cirosantilli, a rabbit hole on its own tgtimes
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363 Is this name familiar to you? Maybe you encountered
364 cirosantilli on a StackOverflow or remember one of the
365 iconic profile pictures he chose? Did you encounter
366 the name on GitHub? If so you may have immediately
367 recall how he weaponized this popular code hosting
368 platform into a freedom of speech silver bullet
369 against China's censorship.
370
371 The entire user profile was turned into a long
372 document that can resist to the most ferocious
373 censorship. A vast amount of images and keywords
374 censored by China is published straight on the front
375 page, making it outstanding to the visitors.
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377 Would China dare to try to take down the biggest code
378 hosting platform, harming most of IT companies in the
379 world? And even if it tries, would it succeed? And so
380 without provoking too much tension with the U.S.?
381
382 While China's government censorship violence is world
383 famous, so is GitHub's DDoS mitigation services
384 (provided by a dedicated company, not performed by
385 GitHub themself), after undertaking 1.3 Terabit per
386 second during a famous DDoS attack.
387
388 This Brazilian Italian turned Goliath against Goliath.
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390 Are you curious about cirosantilli's practical plan to
391 take down China's great firewall? Or maybe you are
392 interested in one of the many computer-related topics
393 he teaches on his website?
394
395 This activist doubles as student and teacher might
396 take you down the rabbit hole of both computer science
397 and fight for freedom.
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399 https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/
400 https://cirosantilli.com/
401 https://github.com/cirosantilli
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405 Digitalisation Evangelists Hymn 20h
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408 Original Text: Dieter Birr / Wolfgang Tilgner
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410 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbQuauLn52c
411
412 >> Einem war sein Heim, war sein Haus zu eng
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414 One was his home, his home was too narrow
415
416 >> Sehnte sich in die Welt
417
418 Strived for the world
419
420 >> Sah den Himmel an, sah wie dort ein Schwan hinzog
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422 Saw the sky, saw how a swan directed there
423
424 >> Er hieß Ikarus und er war sehr jung
425
426 He was named Ikarus and he was young
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428 >> War voller Ungeduld
429
430 He was full of impatience
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432 >> Baute Flügel sich, sprang vom Boden ab und flog
433
434 Built wings for him, jumped off the ground and flew
435
436 >> Und flog
437
438 And flew
439
440 >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
441
442 Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
443
444 >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
445
446 Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
447
448 >> Als sein Vater sprach: "Fliege nicht zu hoch!
449
450 As his father said: "Do not fly too high!
451
452 >> Sonne wird dich zerstör'n"
453
454 sun will destroy you"
455
456 >> Hat er nur gelacht, hat er laut gelacht und schrie
457
458 He only laughed, he laughed loud and screamed
459
460 >> Er hat's nicht geschafft und er ist zerschellt
461
462 He didn't make it and he shattered
463
464 >> Doch der erste war er
465
466 But the first one he was
467
468 >> Viele folgten ihm, darum ist sein Tod ein Sieg
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470 Many followed him, that is why his dead is a victory
471
472 >> Ein Sieg!
473
474 A victory!
475
476 >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
477
478 Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
479
480 >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
481
482 Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
483
484 >> Einem war sein Heim, war sein Haus zu eng
485
486 One was his home, his home was too narrow
487
488 >> Sehnte sich in die Welt
489
490 Strived for the world
491
492 >> Sieht den Himmel an, sieht wie dort ein Schwan
493
494 Sees the sky, sees how a swan
495
496 >> Sich wiegt
497
498 himself enjoys
499
500 >> Er heißt Ikarus und ist immer jung
501
502 He is called Ikarus and he is always young
503
504 >> Ist voller Ungeduld
505
506 Is full of impatience
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508 >> Baut die Flügel sich, springt vom Boden ab und
509 fliegt
510
511 Builds himself wings, jumps off the ground and flies
512
513 >> Und fliegt
514
515 And flies
516
517 >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
518
519 Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
520
521 >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
522
523 Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
524
525 >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
526
527 Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
528
529 >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
530
531 Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
532
533 >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
534
535 Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
536
537 >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
538
539 Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
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