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1 .Dd November 22, 2025
2 .Dt CRACK 7
3 .Os "Jay Scott"
4 .
5 .Sh NAME
6 .Nm what's the crack?
7 .Nd 2025
8 .
9 .Sh DESCRIPTION
10 It's been a while since I posted anything here. Usually, I posted
11 after tinkering with something cool, but a few things happened and left
12 me with very little enthusiasm and drive to write anything. Anyway,
13 here's some general things that's happened over the year; it's just
14 going to be a bit of a mind dump on tech related things.
15 .
16 .Pp
17 I never stopped using gopher; in fact, my browsing habits have changed
18 dramatically in the last year that I use gopher more. My main browser
19 is now lynx, used in conjunction with rdrview to make the html more
20 readable. With bongusta, lobste.rs and metafilter being daily visits
21 on gopher, along with quarry/floodgap for searching and gopherpedia for
22 everything in between. The only reason I open up a
23 .Dq normal browser
24 like qutebrowser or librewolf is when either cloudflare blocks the site
25 or that new AI bot blocker anubis does. Anubis is the worst as you
26 *need* javascript enabled for it to work, and so many sites are using
27 it now. Some sites seem to allow you to bypass anubis if your
28 user-agent is set to lynx, so with rdrview, set the following
29 environment variables.
30 .
31 .Bd -literal -offset indent
32 export RDRVIEW_BROWSER='lynx'
33 export RDRVIEW_USER_AGENT='Lynx/2.9.2'
34 .Ed
35 .
36 .Pp
37 Man, the www is truly dead.
38 .
39 .Pp
40 I am still using my nokia 105 phone daily, I have my old smart phone
41 which sits next to my work laptop, it is purely used for the
42 authenticator app to login for work. I wish they allowed the use of a
43 yubikey or similar. I also have a SIP desk phone, a snom 370, which is
44 hooked up to a local asterisk box I am running, outbound / inbound
45 calls to this are via localphone.com. I used to work in an ISP where
46 asterisk and voip was the main product for them, I loved playing around …
47 it. Being of the generation brought up with redboxing, and blueboxing if
48 you could find (or told) a number for a foreign operator as it wasn't
49 possible to bluebox directly on BTs network. I even contributed quite
50 heavily to rapid7 warvox wardialer many moons ago, when it was still a
51 thing. Oh to be young again! The snom only cost £5 on ebay, and I pay
52 £1.20 a month for my sim with lebara. It gives me unlimited text/calls
53 and 10gb data, I don't use any data though with the dumbphone. No
54 contract. So works out quite a cheap tech toy for the amount of time I
55 spend messing around with it. I always wince a bit when people say they
56 are paying £30+ a month, while also hooked into a 24 month
57 contract - expensive!
58 .
59 .Pp
60 OpenBSD is the go to for all my servers still, gopher and public git
61 repos are hosted over on openbsd amsterdam. I had a replacement beelink
62 u59 sent to me which I use for my own self-hosting, it has around 4TB,
63 and setup as a nas, along with hosting git, asterisk and jellyfin. My
64 daily driver is still alpine linux, if something happens to it, I will
65 switch the desktop back over to openbsd, but it's been rock solid for
66 well over a year now.
67 .
68 .Pp
69 The only replacement I really want to do is a fire stick I use on my
70 TV, it runs the jellyfin app. The problem, outwith the fact it's an
71 amazon device, is it fails to work if there is no internet connection.
72 So while I do have everything selfhosted, I still can't watch stuff on
73 jellyfin if the internet is done - madness!
74 .Pp
75 Looking a head at tech projects, and more specifically, these are some
76 of the gopher related projects I want to take a crack at this coming
77 year, mostly focus on things I still use the www for. So getting them
78 under gopher would be pretty handy!
79 .Pp
80 .D1 - brutalist report clone
81 .D1 - search for films now in the public domain
82 .D1 - www page dump / archive using rdrview
83 .D1 - pastebin type service
84 .Sh SEE ALSO
85 .Bl -item -compact
86 .It
87 .Lk gopher://gopher.metafilter.com/1/MetaFilter "Metafilter"
88 .It
89 .Lk gopher://gopherpedia.com/ "Gopherpedia"
90 .It
91 .Lk gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta/ "Bongusta"
92 .It
93 .Lk gopher://typed-hole.org/1/lobsters "Lobste.rs"
94 .It
95 .Lk gopher://gopher.icu/1/quarry "Quarry"
96 .It
97 .Lk gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/7/v2/vs "FloodGap"
98 .It
99 .Lk https://github.com/eafer/rdrview "rdrview"
100 .It
101 .Lk https://brutalist.report "Brutalist Report rdrview"
102 .El
103 .Sh AUTHORS
104 .Nm jay Aq Mt [email protected]
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