#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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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
