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#hackers IS OUT usenet_reborn is at 1.0.0 !!! 🎉
It now has all the features needed to run as a lite TUI Usenet client. Today I added X-post — forward an article you're reading straight to other newsgroups — which is what it needed to be fully usable for everyday use.
https://crates.io/crates/usenet_reborn
https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn#usenet #rustlang #tui #foss #rust #hackerculture #nntp
note: remember also #reticulum as another mesh decentralized network we run now a RRC reticulum relay chat hub
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#hackers IS OUT usenet_reborn is at 1.0.0 !!! 🎉
It now has all the features needed to run as a lite TUI Usenet client. Today I added X-post — forward an article you're reading straight to other newsgroups — which is what it needed to be fully usable for everyday use.
https://crates.io/crates/usenet_reborn
https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn#usenet #rustlang #tui #foss #rust #hackerculture #nntp
note: remember also #reticulum as another mesh decentralized network we run now a RRC reticulum relay chat hub
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@LaQuadrature : En tant que dinosaure du réseau, je me demande si ce bon vieil #Usenet (que l'on aurait jamais du quitter) sera aussi concerné par cette mesure de "login gouvernemental" ? Après tout, le protocole du #fediverse c'est un peu le même principe que #nntp, et si on veut pousser le bouchon un peu plus loinprofond, qu'en est-il du gazillion de #mailingList où l'inscription est quasiment libre ?
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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
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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
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#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
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#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
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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/ -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP
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Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP
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new tomo dev .plan update
tomo is dead: long live tomo
a month away from tomo gave me time to think about why the project stalled out for such a long time, and where it could go now.
tldr: tomo is getting a reboot as shard-based federated discussion forum. think of each shard like running your own BBS, except that it's linked with every other BBS on the network if you want it to be, with full privacy controls for each forum/topic.
and no more NNTP. it was causing more heartache than it was worth, while adding almost nothing.
read more here (RSS friendly):
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new tomo dev .plan update
tomo is dead: long live tomo
a month away from tomo gave me time to think about why the project stalled out for such a long time, and where it could go now.
tldr: tomo is getting a reboot as shard-based federated discussion forum. think of each shard like running your own BBS, except that it's linked with every other BBS on the network if you want it to be, with full privacy controls for each forum/topic.
and no more NNTP. it was causing more heartache than it was worth, while adding almost nothing.
read more here (RSS friendly):
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@StrawberryWarr Yes! Replace all group #chats with #NNTP.
Proven technology that comes with lots of advantages: freedom of interface choice, many clients available, offline features, community-driven moderation processes, decentralization, speed, includes people with special needs, ...
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@StrawberryWarr Yes! Replace all group #chats with #NNTP.
Proven technology that comes with lots of advantages: freedom of interface choice, many clients available, offline features, community-driven moderation processes, decentralization, speed, includes people with special needs, ...
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fuck it. i'm declaring project bankruptcy with rslight-tomo.
😆 😭
after futzing around with tomo's (rslight-based) code for the afternoon, i realized that it's such an ensnarled mess that it's not worth trying to untangle the old rslight code from the tomo code i wrote over the last couple of years
it reminds me a little of the source code for adventure game studio - a game building IDE that is over 20 years old.
at some point open source projects have changed hands so many times that it's like trying to renovate a 300 year old house. the foundation was built in the 16th century by louise, the bedrooms in the 17th by raoul, and the bathrooms in the 18th by edward. you need to run new electrical wiring throughout the house, but none of it was ever built to accommodate conduits in the stone walls.
you don't know why louise, raoul or edward designed things the way they did, and you can't ask them now. but you assume there was some kind of rationale to their decisions, so you work around their messes. it seems ok at first. the wiring runs on top of the stonework, but you've found a way to hide it in the crown moulding. you've got it running dangerously close to the water pipes, and god forbid you ever have to fix a broken wire, because you couldn't use conduit anywhere.
after years of blood, sweat and tears, you've got howl's moving castle. your friends who visit call it quaint, but no one really wants to live there.
that's what happened with RSLight. it was originally written by Florian Amrhein in 1999 until the mid-2000s. then over a decade later, Retro Guy picked it up and began extending those php scripts with his own particular code.
and then i picked it up in 2023, and began trying to rewrite *both* retro guy's and florian's code.
the truth is: louise and raoul and edward never knew what they were doing in the first place. they were all renovators just like me, using their meagre knowledge to solve problems particular to their time and place. the house was never built to accommodate the 21st century.
it's not pretty. and worse, it's not maintainable. other people love howl's castle precisely because they don't have to live there; howl does.
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fuck it. i'm declaring project bankruptcy with rslight-tomo.
😆 😭
after futzing around with tomo's (rslight-based) code for the afternoon, i realized that it's such an ensnarled mess that it's not worth trying to untangle the old rslight code from the tomo code i wrote over the last couple of years
it reminds me a little of the source code for adventure game studio - a game building IDE that is over 20 years old.
at some point open source projects have changed hands so many times that it's like trying to renovate a 300 year old house. the foundation was built in the 16th century by louise, the bedrooms in the 17th by raoul, and the bathrooms in the 18th by edward. you need to run new electrical wiring throughout the house, but none of it was ever built to accommodate conduits in the stone walls.
you don't know why louise, raoul or edward designed things the way they did, and you can't ask them now. but you assume there was some kind of rationale to their decisions, so you work around their messes. it seems ok at first. the wiring runs on top of the stonework, but you've found a way to hide it in the crown moulding. you've got it running dangerously close to the water pipes, and god forbid you ever have to fix a broken wire, because you couldn't use conduit anywhere.
after years of blood, sweat and tears, you've got howl's moving castle. your friends who visit call it quaint, but no one really wants to live there.
that's what happened with RSLight. it was originally written by Florian Amrhein in 1999 until the mid-2000s. then over a decade later, Retro Guy picked it up and began extending those php scripts with his own particular code.
and then i picked it up in 2023, and began trying to rewrite *both* retro guy's and florian's code.
the truth is: louise and raoul and edward never knew what they were doing in the first place. they were all renovators just like me, using their meagre knowledge to solve problems particular to their time and place. the house was never built to accommodate the 21st century.
it's not pretty. and worse, it's not maintainable. other people love howl's castle precisely because they don't have to live there; howl does.
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blog post: death's inheritance and the future of tomo
today, tomo appears to be the only fork of the RSLight nntp server that is still alive. so what now?
i'll be honest: once Thom/Retro Guy died, i was very tempted to trash the project and move on. I have a half dozen other neglected development projects and books and a podcast to devote my research time to.
and then I thought about Thom and the thousands of hours of his life that he put into his final project before he passed away. his dedication was infectious. and in 2026, we need decentralized forum software more than ever.
that being said, I sure as hell don't want to be responsible for taking over someone else's open source project. that's almost as bad as adopting their kid. hard pass.
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rest of the post here:
https://tomodori.netrss here:
https://tomodori.net/rss.xmlscreenshot: the tomo interface for the user's private mailbox
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blog post: death's inheritance and the future of tomo
today, tomo appears to be the only fork of the RSLight nntp server that is still alive. so what now?
i'll be honest: once Thom/Retro Guy died, i was very tempted to trash the project and move on. I have a half dozen other neglected development projects and books and a podcast to devote my research time to.
and then I thought about Thom and the thousands of hours of his life that he put into his final project before he passed away. his dedication was infectious. and in 2026, we need decentralized forum software more than ever.
that being said, I sure as hell don't want to be responsible for taking over someone else's open source project. that's almost as bad as adopting their kid. hard pass.
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rest of the post here:
https://tomodori.netrss here:
https://tomodori.net/rss.xmlscreenshot: the tomo interface for the user's private mailbox
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This looks cool, have any mutuals tried it?
#Illuminant: An #ActivityPub server with an #NNTP interface
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This looks cool, have any mutuals tried it?
#Illuminant: An #ActivityPub server with an #NNTP interface
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Anybody know of any accessible #nntp clients for #windows? #accessibility #blind #usenet
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Anybody know of any accessible #nntp clients for #windows? #accessibility #blind #usenet
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If you could access your #PieFed
instance using your Usenet client of choice (e.g. Thunderbird), would you? -
If you could access your #PieFed
instance using your Usenet client of choice (e.g. Thunderbird), would you? -
@fastfinge https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/about/ There is Illuminant, which is not exactly a bridge, but an #ActivityPub server that also talks #nntp
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@fastfinge https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/about/ There is Illuminant, which is not exactly a bridge, but an #ActivityPub server that also talks #nntp
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It would be more accurate to mention NNTP and Usenet, but many these days have never heard of those.
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It would be more accurate to mention NNTP and Usenet, but many these days have never heard of those.
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Hispagatos 2025: Usenet_Reborn, Cyberpunk Book y más actualizaciones
#hispagatos #usenet #nntp #cyberpunk #hacking #hackers #rust #CTF #2600 #anarchism #anarquismo #decentralization
Hispagatos 2025: El renacimiento de Usenet y más allá
Compañeros, este 2025 ha sido un año intenso para Hispagatos. Ya casi terminando el año, queremos compartir todo lo que hemos logrado con nuestra comunidad de hackers anarquistas. Desde el renacimiento de Usenet 2.0...
