Mastodawn

BREAKING: Bueno, tenemos el agrado de anunciar oficialmente la inauguración de la comunidad Tilde Undernet, para poner en alto los servicios de texto plano, para los amantes del minimalismo y la línea de comandos. Estamos en etapa de pruebas, los registros son solo por recomendación de un usuario existente y son aprobados manualmente y la vía de contacto figura en la capsula gemini de la comunidad. Disponemos de capsulas gemini para usuarios, servidor de noticias NNTP/Usenet, IRC, Telnet BBS, clientes XMPP, lectores de noticias RSS y mucho más. Tenemos una landing page en gemini://undernet.uy #gemini #textoplano #tilde #comunidad #commandline #cli #consola #terminal #ssh #telnet #pubnix #undernet #uruguay #nntp #usenet #capsule

PuercoPop Jun 4

#TIL that https://public-inbox.org/ is not just a mailing-list archiving site. Using git it lets you incrementally download mailing list archives and then serve them over #IMAP or #NNTP. So its a straightfoward way to subscribe (and search) mailing lists in GNUS faster than using gmane as the NNTP server can be on localhost

https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox-overview.html

h/t @gnomon via https://mastodon.social/@sacha@social.sachachua.com/116691370575963585

Index of /

Anders_S May 4

I begynnelsen fanns Arpanet men det växte och 1981 bestod nätverket av 213 anslutna datorer. Snart skulle nätet av datorer bli internationellt och kallas internet. Det centrala protokollet var Network Control Protocol (NCP) som lanserades 1970. NCP bestod av Arpanet Host-to-Host Protocol (AHHP) och Initial Connection Protocol (ICP). Dessutom fanns File Transfer Protocol (FTP) för filhantering och Telnet för fjärrinloggning för att användas via NCP. FTP lanserades 1973 och Telnet redan 1969.

https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/05/04/internet-skapas/

Adam Sjøgren's blog Apr 18

Gnus tips for Lantern

In case you are trying out my NNTP-based blog engine [Lantern](https://koldfront.dk/git/lantern/about/) with Gnus, here are some useful parameters to set on your Lantern topic/groups:

((message-syntax-checks
  '((long-lines . disabled) (quoting-style . disabled)))
 (posting-style (eval (auto-fill-mode -1)))
 (message-shoot-gnksa-feet '(cancel-messages canlock-verify)))

I also have a hook to change the Content-Type: to text/markdown in the Lantern groups when writing:

(defun asjo-lantern-markdown-hook ()
  "Insert default Content-Type in lantern groups"
  (let ((group (or gnus-newsgroup-name "")))
    (when (string-match "nntp.inav:lantern" group) ; Adjust this!
      (message-add-header "Content-Type: text/markdown"))))

(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'asjo-lantern-markdown-hook)

Another thing that makes it work a little smoother is switching to markdown-mode when the Content-Type of an article is text/markdown, so adding this to your ~/.gnus:

; Display text/markdown:
(require 'markdown-mode)
(defun mm-display-markdown (handle)
  (mm-display-inline-fontify handle 'markdown-mode))
(add-to-list 'mm-inline-media-tests '("text/markdown" mm-display-markdown identity))

Have fun!

OCTADE Apr 13

I 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

Rimu Apr 4

Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

A few months ago I threw this question out into the void - “what if you could access the fediverse through your Usenet reader??” and got almost no response. Still, the idea had lodged in my brain and wouldn’t go away so this weekend I caved in and built the thing. Hat tip to the author of the excellent nntpserver package that did all the hard stuff.

I look forward to seeing someone’s screenshots of fediverse posts on a Commodore 64, some day.

This will be released as a part of PieFed 1.7, coming soon.

OCTADE Apr 4

USENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE!

Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.

Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.

Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.

Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.

Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.

Usenet is the original free speech network.

Usenet is the original 'social network'.

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://eternal-september.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember #usenet #nntp #decentralized #censorship #retro #freespeech