Mastodawn

Ca marche toujours #usenet ?
C tjrs les serveur payant les mieux ?

StudiVZ, MeinVZ, SchülerVZ, ICQ und selbst das Usenet sind nicht gestorben, weil die Technik versagt hat. Sie wurden verlassen. Menschen ziehen weiter. Immer. Digitale Orte sind wie Lagerfeuer. Sie leben nicht vom Holz, sondern von denen, die darum sitzen. Heute bleiben nur Erinnerungen an Nächte voller Gespräche, Freundschaften und großer Gedanken. Vielleicht vermissen wir aber gar nicht die Netzwerke. Vielleicht vermissen wir die Menschen, die wir damals waren.

#Internet #ICQ #StudiVZ #Usenet #DigitaleKultur #Nostalgie #Fediverse

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen 21h ago

When I encountered "fisking" it wasn't called that. It referred to a style of mock-discourse that was very apt to #email conversations and #Usenet fights in those days, because most folks were still using console applications and UNIX-based shell accounts to get online. The console applications, oriented around displaying text on a fixed grid of characters rather than a big roomy monitor, would usually quote text (e.g. in a reply to an email or Usenet post) with a lot of little > marks to signify the text being quoted.

I've just copied a block of text from one of my previous toots and I'm going to make it look console-Usenetty:

> #Apple works on this principle,
> which TSLA and >=everyone else
> in technology now copies.
> You can squeeze the absolute
> maximum profit-markup out
> of the rubes by targeting only
> those with lots of money and
> teaching that small limited
> market to feel specially treated.

(cont'd)

lamp 2d ago

NightBulb Usenet Article Archive

Lambasting trolls and zealots and zealot trolls.

https://nightbulb.net/news_archive/nightbulb/parsed_subjects/

#Bible #NightBulb #Usenet #NNTP #Christ #Jesus #Christianity #Christian #Theology

Index of /news_archive/nightbulb/parsed_subjects

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast 2d ago

Game 6 of our 100th episode extravaganza in July will cover the legendary game Hack!

Originally developed by high school students, it would become the basis of the still popular and even more legendary Nethack.

It’s also one of the few video games listed in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game)

#GROGPOD100 #Nethack #retrogaming #retrocomputing #roguelike #opensource #usenet #gaming #indiegame #ascii #indiedev #hacking #moma #dnd #fantasy

Hack (video game) - Wikipedia

retro 4d ago

A boodle of cypherpunk and encryption applications

Apps for encryption, comms, Usenet, remailers ...

Ch1ffr3punk: https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk

The owner is a denizen of the OG #Usenet scene.

#cypherpunk #cryptography #crypto #encryption #privacy #github #freesoftware

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Ch1ffr3punk - Overview

Once a punk, always a punk at heart. Ch1ffr3punk has 168 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴4d ago

@jyrgenn @SpaceLifeForm GNUS, a name I didn't hear in a long time...

It became my access to the really important stuff for 20 years or so...

😍

#usenet

peculiarengineer Jun 13

Spent a while getting my home Plex setup just right, so I figured I'd write it up for anyone who wants to copy it.
It's one Docker Compose file — Plex + SABnzbd, Intel QuickSync transcoding on the iGPU, shared media volume. Nothing fancy....
Steal it, tweak it, hope it helps someone:

https://peculiarengineer.com/blog/plex-sabnzbd-docker-compose-hardware-transcoding

#Docker #Plex #SABnzbd #Homelab #SelfHosted #Usenet #Linux

Plex + SABnzbd on Docker with hardware transcoding

A single Docker Compose file that runs Plex Media Server and SABnzbd with host networking, Intel QuickSync hardware transcoding via /dev/dri, and a shared media volume — plus the claim-token, UID, and networking gotchas that trip everyone up on first run.

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Colin Macleod Jun 11

@yodabytz WTF - Usenet exists, is still active, and multiple web interfaces to it already operate! The fact that this unconnected system uses the same group names as the real Usenet is likely to cause real confusion. E.g. https://rootbadger.com/g/comp.lang.python *does not* have the same content as https://newsgrouper.org/comp.lang.python and all the other interfaces to the real Usenet. I would advise a serious rethink. 😬
#usenet #socialmedia