#synchronet — Public Fediverse posts
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Simple patch has landed #risc_v support into #synchronet; Glad that was a painless PR process.
https://git.synchro.net/gitpushlog.ssjs#f18a317c07594c2c6bf3166c27df9d6ad52f8ef0
https://git.synchro.net/gitpushlog.ssjs#2872607c56d759514f6b2ec07c04424a20315fac
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@deadbeef these days, systems like #MBSEBBS, #Synchronet, #Mystic, #EnigmaBBS etc support both: telnet and ssh so that can be considered a de-facto standard.
Keep in mind that people might be connecting with old hardware, and I mean 1970s/1980s type of "old". These systems often use modern #Wifi modems to connect via TCP/IP but use their classic terminal programs from back in the day which work through telnet translation (done by the WiFi modem). So if you don't want to lock those people out, it might be wise to also offer telnet.
Also take into account that some of these sytems have even less than 40 colums per line (e.g. the VIC-20 or the ZX Spectrum). So the system should be dynamic in terms of input and output of text width (this is something I want to implement in DX-BBS).
A simple chat system (when multi-user) and a simple filebase should also be part of that sytem.
Last but no least: could you imagine adopting an abandoned BBS codebase which already has all the core features but still has a lot of potential or do you prefer to completely "roll your own" ?!
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tinkering around with the latest release of #Synchronet #BBS on #Linux and I must say, things have improved for the better over the past two decades - nice!
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Synchronet BBS as an #onion node makes #telnet over #Tor a secure protocol because your exit node is the #BBS itself...
Brilliant!
- Synchronet over Tor on an rPi - Marvelous!
But what about those #MS_Windows users out there? How about a gzipped tarball, all nicely packaged up so you can distribute around, of a custom built #PuTTY client that will securely connect people to your #Synchronet_BBS over telnet?
Brilliant!
- Create a custom PuTTY package to distribute for your BBS over Tor - Magnificent!
What was that again? Oh yeah, ... Brilliant!
Enjoy!
#tallship #FOSS #Synchronet #rPi h/t to @dheadshot
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Looks like live scores and results are feeding in to the ANSI bracket on my BBS, Guardian of Forever. SWEET!
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/03/17/the-college-basketball-bracket-in-ansi/
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #bbsing #bbs #synchronet #javascript #basketball #ncaatournament #ncaa #sports
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set up a #Synchronet #BBS on my spare #raspberrypi, and it works!
Mostly. I am still trying to get it to work with #usenet, and I still need to get email working.
I'm not sure why I should have a BBS in the first place, but there you go.
It mostly is actually intended as a #nntp server for #ttrpg groups. And it largely works. I can USE it as a server. I just can't pull any new articles from other servers right now, which makes this somewhat less than ideal.
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so, idea I have been working on the last few days: #synchronet #bbs on my old #raspberrypi, small #usenet server including web gateway, all geared towards #ttrpg stuff.
lets see what else a pi can run at the same time.kind of a fool's errand, but it should keep me busy for the next two weeks.
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Well I'll be damned, Synchronet works locally. This weekend, installation of games will commence in earnest, then customize the shell for blind users. Should be a fun time. #BBS #Synchronet #nerbbs
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There are some semi standards for #bbs avatars as well. Both #synchronet and #mysticbbs (I believe with the proper mod) can do this. Perhaps this can be something to add later as well, for when in #textmode only
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CW: re: Fediverse meme
@ecliptik @w4v3 #UUCP is still included in Linux distributions, and you can still run email and Usenet over it. #FidoNet still survives as well, mainly on some modern BBS implementations like #SynchroNet. Neither are very popular these days though. I recommend #NNCP for new projects, but UUCP is also still fun to play with, and great if you have noisy serial links or radios to deal with! https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10042-long-range-radios-a-perfect-match-for-unix-protocols-from-the-70s /end
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@blongden yeah, #Synchronet is a "modern" #BBS project, it's open source and cross-platform.
It's got a pretty thicc stack, including dialup, telnet, SSH, HTTP, FTP, IRC, finger, SMTP, gopher and moar.
I've run SBBS for... gosh, I guess ~15+ years now, and have coded thousands upon thousands of lines of custom code for it.
Deffo my fave BBS software!
I can highly recommend you give into your temptation! :modem: :ablobcatattention:
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Welp, tonight I've compiled the latest #Synchronet #BBS code from repo onto a #Linux VPS.
I guess I should probably spend some time to security harden and customize it, before opening it up to the world...
I've written quite a bit of custom code for Synchronet in my days, and I love to run it as customised as possible.
So it's one of those things that could lead me down the rabbit hole for months on end... Ooft.
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@vga256 ah no way! I also ran INiQ (the tetris was just... amazing. Still remember it today). :tetris: :ablobcatattention:
Also Renegade (my first stint as a #sysop), First Class, System/X, Pancake, and... well, a ton of other ones. These days I am a big #Synchronet fan.
Look forward to checking it out!
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@ajroach42 I wanted to have the user use their BBS login (as with #Synchronet #FTP) to access the specific files Synchronet gives them, by essentially decoding the commands and forwarding them on, though I might have used an intermediate temporary folder for storing the files between the streams. Since this doesn't seem to be possible (and neither does X/Y/ZModem over the Telnet connection for Synchronet's other File interface), I may as well spin out the filesystem from the BBS system and just use #OnionShare or something... -
I have done further research and decided it is not viable to build a bridging server. I was thinking of basing on this: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/sftpserver/ (subservient to this: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable ) and getting it to connect to the #Synchronet #FTP after that. But I don't think it's possible. Certainly not plausible, anyway. ( @ajroach42 )
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Trying to figure out if it's possible to bridge an #SFTP incoming connection to an #FTP server (specifically #Synchronet's) in order to allow SFTP conncetions to a #BBS, but it doesn't look like it can be done? ( @ajroach42 ) At least, not without writing my own server like this guy suggests: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5978636/4122994 .
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@stevelord tried #synchronet ? I managed to get it running some time ago without big problems
