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  1. @ljs I think it's time for some -style killfiles!

  2. Fuck Internet, I want my old Usenet back! Or Fido... Doesn't matter. Anything but the Internet.

    #internet #fidonet #usenet #bbs

  3. @ashwin
    While I indeed do appreciate the effort and agree with your suggestions, I feel like mentioning the #Fediverse as a whole instead of merely #Mastodon's implementation would be more true to the mission of our project.

    Additionally, the proposition of a “random server” may not be as simple as you may initially assume. I feel like if they somehow end up in a server with policies they dislike, this may risk the possible inverse effect of people being even more put-off by the Fediverse due to a bad first impression.

    Finally, due to the demographics of Facebook users being on the more older side, I'd like to posit that perhaps a comparison to the #Usenet #newsgroups of old would help make the explanation more pedagogically accessible. Cheers!

    [i]“Long live humanity, and may they be a dream that never truly dies.”[/i]

    @joyoftech

    #SocialJustice #Activism #FreeSoftware #HumanEmancipation
  4. Worked with @netizenronda to republish the 1994 version of “Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet”

    netandnetizens.net/

    #Usenet #Netizens #Technology #History

  5. Very sad to hear that Peter G. Neumann, the long time moderator of the comp.risks mailing list has passed.

    He not only moderated the list for decades, he provided much needed humour in his comments on events reported.

    #comp_risks #usenet

  6. @itsfoss : Not an email, but an #Usenet post, when Usenet was the #PlaceToBe !

  7. I'm starting to get quite annoyed about the amount of time I'm spending trying to repel AI bots from my Newsgrouper website. 😡
    #ai #webdev #usenet

  8. @jenafleming @yral @EileenColeman @ezunihu Welcome, por-favor leeros las reglas de esta instancia, es una instancia sobre todo #hacker pero también Anarko-Hacker que resuelve sobre las teorías de "Steven Levy" "Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution" y la ética hacker, no creemos en sombreros de colores son invenciones corporativas, nuestro enfoque es en la privacidad, la cultura hacker, el software libre, y promover protocolos nuevos como #gemini #reticulum y viejos como #usenet #gopher

  9. @ashwin @minmi @dumpsterqueer

    The #Fediverse is a social media system. And when has social media _not_ been political?

    I mean, I am old enough to remember #Usenet . There was no shortage of political discussion there. And no shortage of bigotry.

    The very _least_ we could do is fight the well-documented bigotry here on the Fediverse in order to make it more welcoming for marginalized groups. I mean, what's the alternative?

    Insisting that the Fediverse should be "nonpolitical", which only means "I am comfortable with the politics around here, and am happy to throw marginalized people who do not fit in under the bus"?

  10. @gcvsa There are crazy and intolerant people on Usenet too (which does still operate). However for unmoderated groups no-one has the power to kick you off, and you can block the obnoxious people yourself.
    #usenet #socialmedia

  11. @el3ctron Bienvenido, y por-favor leeros las reglas de esta instancia, es una instancia sobre todo #hacker pero también Anarko-Hacker que resuelve sobre las teorías de "Steven Levy" "Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution" y la ética hacker, no creemos en sombreros de colores son invenciones corporativas, nuestro enfoque es en la privacidad, la cultura hacker, el software libre, y promover protocolos nuevos como #gemini #reticulum y viejos como #usenet #gopher

  12. @unuvzonef @ytoqugumy @Anonops @TivYpeg Bienvenidos, y por-favor leeros las reglas de esta instancia, es una instancia sobre todo #hacker pero también Anarko-Hacker que resuelve sobre las teorías de "Steven Levy" "Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution" y la ética hacker, no creemos en sombreros de colores son invenciones corporativas, nuestro enfoque es en la privacidad, la cultura hacker, el software libre, y promover protocolos nuevos como #gemini #reticulum y viejos como #usenet #gopher

  13. InfiniDysk: More software for streaming video live from Usenet. Evolution of NzbDav, seems to be a friendly fork?
    infinidysk.com/
    #streaming #piracy #usenet #nzb #+

  14. NzbDav: A solution for streaming any pirated media from Usenet to Plex. It's a WebDAV server that integrates to do the downloads and streaming
    github.com/nzbdav-dev/nzbdav
    #download #piracy #usenet #plex #nzb #+

  15. Hey #usenet people. My main Unlimited provider nearly doubled their price this year! I have a block provider as a backup but need something unlimited to be the first server in my setup. Was paying about $35 a year. Anyone have any suggestions they want to DM me?

  16. excited about the Eclipse, in Madrid is 70% that is good enough, some parts of Spain have 100% ! that is a life time event more than a live time, I do not have glasses but I am excited to just be here on the st and walk around when the climax happens, for those of you in Madrid DO NOT LOOK WITH OUT SPECIAL GLASSES #hackers make sure you code something great after! 😆 #eclipse #hackers will be adding more updates on the #usenet astrological newsgroups. news.hispagatos.org

  17. Ok, für alle deutschsprachigen #Amiga Nutzer aus dem #Usenet damals die ultimative Glaubensfrage:

    :boost_ok:

  18. #Usenet

    USENET - NNTP

    NNTP es una parte importante de la internet descentralizada, un protocolo nativo (poco a poco voy a ir actulizando esto), la idea es:

    Tener un servidor usenet de Hispagatos (ya lo tenemos)
    Hacerlo facil para los que amamos las redes/internet/libertad/descentralizacion y trasparencia puedar usar las mismas tecnologias olvidadas por el capital ( ya creando un portal de hispagatos )

    man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wik

  19. Episode 100 continues with the big 4 first games like Rogue! If only there was some tortured genre name for these types of games…

    Lots of fun correspondence from both Mastodon and emails, including a (slightly edited for time) great voicemail message!

    Come for the LotR chiptunes, stay for the maximum entropy!

    grogpod.zone/2026-07-29-EP102/

    #GROGPOD100 #roguelike #moria #hack #larn #omega #retrocomputing #retrogames #usenet #gaming #podcast #ascii #indiegame #indiedev

  20. #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.

    crates.io/crates/usenet_reborn
    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

  21. Updated **usenet_reborn**: fixed minor bugs and bumped all crates/libs to the latest stable versions.

    More info:
    git.sr.ht/~rek2/usenet_reborn/
    crates.io/crates/usenet_reborn

    Next few days I'll add a missing feature: forward/cross-post an article from one newsgroup to another. For example, from **alt.2600** to **alt.2600.madrid** or **hispatatos.talk**.

    #usenet #hackers #hacking #hispagatos #descentralization #rust #code #privacy #fucktheweb #fuckbloatedweb

  22. @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 ?

  23. 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

  24. Avisamos a los usuarios de nuestra instancia #hispagatos.space de que los anuncios de caídas y el soporte para todos nuestros servicios (incluyendo #mastodon #matrix #reticulum #gemini #gopher y sitios #https) se encuentran ahora en nuestra jerarquía de grupos de noticias (#usenet) bajo hispagatos.comunicados hispagatos.ayuda y hispagatos.talk La mayoría de los servidores comunitarios de Usenet 2.0 los incluyen (puedes consultar en Syber Shock). ¡Pregunta a tu administrador!

  25. remember to all users of our #hispagatos instance #hispagatos.space that announcements for downtime & support for all our services including but not limited to #mastodon like #matrix #reticulum #gemini #gopher and #https sites are in our #usenet newsgroups hierarchy under hispagatos.comunicados and hispagatos.ayuda & hispagatos.talk most usenet2.0 community servers carry them sybershock.com/#usenet ask your admin

    #HackerCulture #Decentralization #FreeSoftware #libreCulture #DigitalRights

  26. 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/
  27. 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.

  28. reminder to all the #usenet #hackers #linux tinkerers & terminal #kunfu #ninjas that are in our Usenet #inn2 server that we have local #hackerculture and #security #thread news live that you can check with no up scrolling or getting lost in the void like happens in #mastodon, usenet is #async so you do not have to be all day checking friend toots you can log in once a day, read and reply to articles if you are not yet in our #hispagatos usenet server please ask @NerdRat for help.

  29. @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, ...

    #PIM #chat #groupchat #discord #Usenet

  30. 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.
    .....
    rest of the post here:
    tomodori.net

    rss here:
    tomodori.net/rss.xml

    screenshot: the tomo interface for the user's private mailbox

    #tomo #smallWeb #nntp #usenet #indieWeb

  31. Anyone running a text-only #usenet server willing to peer with me? I got a small newssite I had running exclusively via uucp connections, but that's become a bit too fragile, so now I'm looking for #nntp peers.

  32. #fediverse question: Has anyone written a Bridge between #lemmy, #piefed, #mbin, #kbin, or other fediverse software and #nntp? I have #usenet access, and would be happy to bridge some of the various blindness groups on Usenet onto the fediverse.
  33. 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...

    hispagatos.org/post/hispagatos

  34. Hello #hackers & #usenet friends, I fixed the rss to usenet bot code git.sr.ht/~rek2/rek2_usenet_rs so now handles RSS and ATOM and an issue I had with RSS generated from mastodon tags like #hacking #hispagatos #hackers etc, now our newsgroups get the proper information from mastodon alerts and also added exploitdb to our exploits newsgroup hispagatos.hacking.exploits the usenet client is #usenet_reborn TUI #rust client you can find it on my sr.ht or crates.io Happy Hacking!!! #hackerculture

  35. We at #hispagatos revamped our #blog and #gemlog [http|gemini] and posted the #announcement to #usenet check it out! Also created a new entry on it related to most of the #projects we have been working on in #2025 there are more news but this ones are the most relevant!

    - rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/group
    - hispagatos.org
    - gemini://hispagatos.org

    Happy #Hacking
    ReK2

    #hackerculture #hackingisnotacrime #hackers #nntp #smallweb #gemini #gopher

  36. Newsgroups: hispagatos.talk alt.2600.madrid alt.2600.hope

    He subtitulado la ponencia de @rek2 En ella habla la evolución del hacking, da un contexto historico de la etica hacker, las connotaciones negativas que tanto la han permeado y la importancia del software libre.

    #USENET #Hispagatos
    Les invito a verla:

    kolektiva.media/w/qAMmbGDMFWxm

  37. Article in #Usenet I rather if the conversation is there so is async and sticks, here in Mastodon things just get scrolling up and up and gets lost news.novabbs.org/computers/art also on the #hispagatos #Matrix space matrix.to/#/#hispagatos:matrix after joining the space enter room #GamesJuegos is only accesible to members of the Matrix Space like discord etc
    We also play #netrunner the card game and #AlbionOnline etc and use #mumble for voice

  38. Hello #Hackers today worked 5 hours on older tool we use a lot @ #Hispagatos on #Hackthebox #ctf when we play, it was missing some key features and unit testing & 2 handle diff situations we usually come across on Windows and GNU/Linux server please when using this tool remember hacking is not a crime but a personality and a culture enjoy! git.sr.ht/~rek2/rek2_httpserve && crates.io/crates/rek2_httpserv 🏴‍☠️🏴🖥️💻️⌨️🤠
    On #usenet news.novabbs.org/computers/art on the #hackthebox #matrix channel matrix.to/#/!5bpE6hbDrEz1qNVeQ

  39. Yesterday I work most of the day in implementing #newsgroups #articles #threading support on #UsenetReborn updated the main branch and the image, let me know what you think.

    - sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn

    #usenet #nntp #rust #programming #tui #decentralization #happyHacking #Hispagatos
    Warning: I'm not a developer just a #hacker that works in #infosec and #unix systems that loves to learn as much as I can of everything. So patches with actual good code is welcome #happyHacking

  40. **Released rek2_nntp 1.0** a #usenet #nntp #rust library
    I still need to polish some things this next month on a 1.0.1
    - crates.io/crates/rek2_nntp
    - git.sr.ht/~rek2/rek2_nntp

    Hope someone will find it useful, I did got on my older versions still in alpha a bunch of downloads from crates.io I started this because I am also writing a #TUI usenet client and after that I hope to write something for android (this is harder for
    me)

    #happyHacking #Hacking #hispagatos
    Patches welcome using git email
    ReK2

  41. vale por fin termine de pasar los videos no relacionados al hacking/cyberpunk/anarchohacking/etc de:
    - odysee.com/@Hackernol:7
    al canal nuevo enfocador solo a Juegos de Linux
    - odysee.com/@mmorpg:0
    ahora a meter el #RSS en el bot de usenet para nuestros newsgroups de hispagatos.*

    #hacking #hackerculture #games #gaming #mmorpg #cyberpunk #usenet #hispagatos #hackernol #hackerñol