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@ljs I think it's time for some #Usenet-style killfiles!

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

#internet #fidonet #usenet #bbs

Worked with @netizenronda to republish the 1994 version of “Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet”

https://netandnetizens.net/

#Usenet #Netizens #Technology #History

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

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

@itsfoss That's not an email, it's a #usenet post! 🙄

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

@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

@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"?

@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

@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

@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

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

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
https://github.com/nzbdav-dev/nzbdav
#download #piracy #usenet #plex #nzb #+

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?

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. https://news.hispagatos.org

Eigentlich fehlt noch der Hashtag
#SummoningDPK

#Amiga #Usenet

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

:boost_ok:

#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 )

https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/usenet.md

This is quite old, but still good advice to improve your #shell scripts https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award

#unix #usenet

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!

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

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

#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

I'm running for local office in September. I'm way way down the ticket and won't get elected. But I just got email advising me on how to clean up my social media to avoid attacks from political opponents.

The main instruction is "Check through your posts starting with the first one".

That's many many posts a day.

Starting 31 years ago if #UseNet groups count.

Or 38 years ago if #FidoNet bulletin board systems count.

Nope. 😄

Ein Klassiker aus Usenet-Diskussionen mit Holocaustleugnern: Sie zitieren, was sie nicht gelesen haben.

Auf miscelle.de veröffentliche ich aktuellere (oder ganz alte) Texte, die auf h-ref.de nicht gut passen. Manche dieser alten Geschichten sind (erschreckend) zeitlos.

https://www.miscelle.de/1996-2025/drei-buecher/

#Usenet #Rhetorik #Geschichtswissenschaft #Histodons #HolocaustLeugnung #Antisemitismus

@[email protected]

Been using Linux since the 0.98a kernel. Before that, I was using #SunOS, #NeXT and (probably) #AOS (university had a lab full of IBM RT PCs) UNIX derivatives. So, learning Linux was translating my existing knowledge and running the deltas through man pages and, especially #Usenet.

I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.

#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland

Ich kenne es noch aus den Zeiten des Protokolls nntp://, aus den Zeiten des UseNet.

YMMV – Your Mileage May Vary (Deine Erfahrungen können/mögen andere sein).

Ich weiß nicht wann, aber genau dieses Wissen ging irgendwann kurz vor 2000 verloren …

#Vergessen #Wissen #YMMV #UseNet

@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

Geheimwaffe Freundlichkeit: Welche "Netiquetten" gelten heute noch?
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000262445/geheimwaffe-freundlichkeit-welche-netiquetten-gelten-heute-noch?ref=rss

Ich fand den Umgangston im #Internet zu Zeiten von #Netiquette + Leuten, die sie kannten und respektierten deutlich besser.

Und das hatte aus meiner Sicht kaum bis gar nichts mit dem Thema Sietzen zu tun, wie die Kommentare im Artikel suggerieren.

#Benehmen #Umgang #SozialeNetzwerke #Newsnet #Usenet #Umgangsformen

2/ This is why I have never been a fan of Linux, people should be writing their own OSs 😜

As an aside, I found this #USENET thread with some familiar names from 1987 about porting Minix to the Atari - I assume that would have been the ST then.

https://www.linux.co.cr/unix-source-code/review/1987/0108.html

#DEC #Digital #PDP11 #LSI11 #Minix #Linux #OperatingSystems #Decent #Capacitors #USENET #Atari #AtariST #RetroComputing

1/ Just because, here's my LSI-11 desktop - It works, they used much better capacitors in those days.

Way back when, the LSI-11 was often used to teach people Operating Systems and Compiler Design, and in my CS degree in 1986 we'd fiddle with MINIX on these things, and deal with re-writing different low-level UNIX things. Life was much easier with only 50 instructions to work with.

#DEC #Digital #PDP11 #LSI11 #Minix #Linux #OperatingSystems #Capacitors #USENET #Atari #AtariST #RetroComputing