#nntp — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nntp, aggregated by home.social.
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Peering request from an experimental server
https://csiph.com/group/news.admin.peering/a/1191s9i%2429558%[email protected]
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Open Usenet Server : NNTP server with web-based admin interface.
"A modern easy-to-setup NNTP server based on INN."
https://github.com/tgeek77/OpenUsenetServer
#usenet #nntp #netnews #networknews #decentralized #peering #retro #networks #networking #plaintext
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NEWSCARD: Decentralized, Encrypted Paste Bin via Usenet Newsgroups
- NEWSCARD * Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News
Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.
[git repo] https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard (use most recent version only)
With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.
With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.
With another short command, snarf a file from the network.
Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.
If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.
This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:
$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]
$~: card put [passphrase]It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:
$~: card get [passphrase]
$~: card show [passphrase]If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.
Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.
Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.
It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.
#NewsCard #Pastebin #Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #Encryption #Cryptography #Messaging #Anonymity #Protocols #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #BlackHackJack #Censorship #Retro #InfoSec #Ciphers #Codes #FOSS #CyberSecurity #Privacy #ComSec #OpSec #OpenSSL #ChaCha20
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Playing card of the Jack of Clubs. The Jack is a moustached man in a black top hat and suit in a oval center cameo. The colors are inverted so that everything on the face is black except the lines which are white, like a charcoal cutout picture., giving it a retro digital appearance mixed with retro handicraft vibes.
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Usenet Almanac: A list of the major Usenet backbone providers and what they charge. Usenet is used almost exclusively for pirating media now.
https://usenetalmanac.com/
#subscription #piracy #usenet #nntp #nzb #+ -
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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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#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.
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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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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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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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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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If you could access your #PieFed
instance using your Usenet client of choice (e.g. Thunderbird), would you?
