I guess instead of trying to find and built a permissively licensed version of #uucp (which in the age of #tarballs, #TFTP, #SFTP, #FTPS, and espechally genuine 1 TB #microSD cards seems as outdated as doing #Telex and 300 baud #telnet instead of using #eMail over #Freifunk) I'd be better off developing a reference implementation of the #"#AirgappedTransferProtocol" and including that in @OS1337's packages
GitHub - KBtechnologies/ATP: Airgapped Transfer Protocol

Airgapped Transfer Protocol. Contribute to KBtechnologies/ATP development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

@philpem the good part about the #kernel #git is that they do proper branching by version numbers, so you can directly jump to a version without having to download a tarball again.

  • More projects should do it that way!

I only use #tarballs for #OS1337 out of convenience and to make it easier to reproduce. Plus not every build system / target machine is allowed to have network access so importing fewer files is easier...

  • cloning said git takes ages and a ton of storage!
What’s really behind the sticky blobs on our beaches? The chemistry of tar balls explained

A team of scientists from UNSW analysed the mysterious unknown debris that washed up on Sydney beaches this week.

UNSW Sites

I'm off to Coogee today, where tar balls have been washing up on the beach.

My oceanography colleague Matt England was interviewed and explains where they might have come from:

Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/coogee-beach-tar-balls-everything-you-need-to-know/104482828

#science #oceans #TarBalls #Sydney #academia #scicomms

Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they?

A number of Sydney beaches have been closed after hundreds of tar balls washed ashore. But what are tar balls? Where have they come from? And are they dangerous?

ABC News
The random shit washing up on Sydney beaches meme was cool when it was bricks of cocaine. Not such a fan of the tar balls TBH. #tarballs #cocaine #GloriousSydney
@isotopp @eliasp @Zugschlus personally, I'm not warm with #Memenetes and I think that #BSDjails, #bhyve and jist usibg a friggin #git to version #config files and #tarballs to distribute binaries works well enough when everythin else fails.

@zenbrowser Nice! Would you pls publish a regular page on your site with all the #hashsums / #checksums for the #tarballs? Alternatively provide these in your #github pages? Eg, github.com/zen-browser/desktop… really should include these sums, but afaict does not. This request is for both Stable & Twilight.

#ZenBrowser

Release Alpha build - 1.0.1-a.7 (2024-09-30) · zen-browser/desktop

🌀 Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you! - Release Alpha build - 1.0.1-a.7 (2024-09-30) · zen-browser/desktop

GitHub

I know how to bootstrap.

And I have backups and I know how to use them.

#GitHub #Tarballs

In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax" https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240417053301 #openbsd #tar #archiving #tarballs #backup
In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax"