Jonathan LamotheIn the year of our Lord, two thousand twenty-six, why are people still getting text encodings wrong?
I love #usenet.
OCTADEI plan on posting some musings in the retro-aged newsgroups alt.flashback and alt.crossover. The idea is to format my rants for Usenet then copypasta them here. Whatever is too short or too mundane for Usenet (like snarky replies) will likely be posted here instead.
NEWS : news://alt.flashback | news://alt.crossover
#Usenet #NetNews #NNTP
NEWS : news://alt.flashback | news://alt.crossover
#Usenet #NetNews #NNTP
Frost, ᛁᛊᛟᛚᚠᚱ 🐺❄️
Okay we've signed up on eternal-september.org and I think that lets us send/receive stuff
but eternal-september.org doesn't seem to really keep any history...
where do we find The Archives, in such a way that we can peer with them and read stuff? Without having to pay some sketchy company?
(so some free usenet provider with infinite retention would do, even if they don't allow binaries and don't allow posting)
Okay I'm going the selfhosting route (for some reason) and we have our own usenet server now
now we need at least one server to peer with, right? so we can upload/download articles from the wider network?
Usenet's still a thing, right?
How do we go and use it? How does it even, like, work? Like, we'd need a client of some sort right?
Finally got aroind to signing up for an eternal-september account.
God, I'd forgotten how toxic the #StarTrek fan base can be.
That said, #usenet as a whole seems to be a magnet for toxicity in general.
Russ SharekA while back, I learned that this incantation will delete all the blank lines in a vi buffer:
:%g/^$/d
Today I had my brain handed to me when a helpful person from 1991 pointed out that this easier to type version works:
:%v/./d
Relatedly, the #usenet archives (and in this case comp.editors) are a lovely place to take a break from the world.
deBaer@alios Das #Usenet. Da habe ich jahrelang täglich Stunden verbracht, und es war immer spannend. de.rec.mampf hatte die besten Rezepte. Wegen de.org.ccc war ich 1995 auf dem #12c3. Auf rec.arts.comics.elfquest bin ich mit Leuten von überall auf der Welt in Kontakt gekommen, um über meine Nerdinteressen auszugeeken. Und de.soc.drogen war auch erkenntnisreich. ;-)
tth@lienrag @louisderrac @bortzmeyer @cquest : Et pour #Usenet, des batches de news sur une #sdCard attachée à un pigeon voyageur. Et avec 6 carte+pigeon, tu peux même faire du #RAID :)
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