#usenet — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #usenet, aggregated by home.social.
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Fuck Internet, I want my old Usenet back! Or Fido... Doesn't matter. Anything but the Internet.
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@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
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Worked with @netizenronda to republish the 1994 version of “Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet”
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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.
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@itsfoss : Not an email, but an #Usenet post, when Usenet was the #PlaceToBe !
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@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
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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"?
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@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.
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@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
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@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
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InfiniDysk: More software for streaming video live from Usenet. Evolution of NzbDav, seems to be a friendly fork?
https://www.infinidysk.com/
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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?
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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
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Eigentlich fehlt noch der Hashtag
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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 )
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This is quite old, but still good advice to improve your #shell scripts https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award
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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
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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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#Business #Overviews
Bring back crappy forums · What if we had stuck with them? https://ilo.im/16e8df_____
#SocialMedia #Community #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Forums #Usenet #History -
@[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. -
Are U a are a #linux #gamer #hacker that likes #MMORPGS specially #sanboxes? are you tired of discord looking to join a community focused on #Open #Libre #Software #hacking #hackerculture #freesoftware #ctf join us on #stoat.chat We started to use this and an building a bridge to a matrix space(soon) join your new family to play games & practice/learn/play hacking CTF's with out having to use proprietary software and closed & privacy evil platforms https://stt.gg/wz8hVY7A soon link to #usenet
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You a are a #linux #gamer that likes #MMORPGS specially #sanboxes? are you tired of discord looking to join a community focused on #Open #Libre #Software #hacking #hackerculture #freesoftware #ctf join us on #stoat.chat We started to use this and an building a bridge to a matrix space(soon) join your new family to play games & practice/learn/play hacking CTF's with out having to use proprietary software and closed & privacy evil platforms https://stt.gg/wz8hVY7A also will link to #usenet
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‘Destroyed’ Usenet Provider NSE and BREIN End 16-Year Battle With Secret Settlement
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The situation with #Guppe wouldn't happen if it was really decentralized aka #p2p fault tolerant tech. Like #Namecoin , .ens IPNS #IPFS, or #nostr #pubky #ZeroNet
@dandylover1
ipns://seedit.eth plebbit.com hashchan.org are interesting.Meanwhile #Friendica & #Hubzilla have some groups too.
also shout out to @newsmast , they host few communities, check them out.
I've tried fedigroups.social & it's hard to use, unintutive & obscure. I see just a mastodon server there. It is not clear & obvsious from main home page how to list groups, posts inside groups, group members.
With such trend no wonder why people look back to #Usenet. However I think #XMPP is more usable (it does have groups and proto social network inside too)
{re-toot & boost my post if you find it helpful}
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Today in BoneQuest History for November 6th 2003 "THE THINGS WE FIND ON USENET PART 3" https://bonequest.com/1860 #bonequest :deuce: :pants: #deuce_pants #piss #piss_tarp #series #title_mismatch #usenet
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CW: Long thread/3
When I got on #Usenet shortly thereafter, the Unix Greybeard set never passed up an opportunity to tell us newcomers that the #Fidonet-Usenet bridge allowed the barbarian hordes to overwhelm their Athenian marketplace of ideas:
https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/
When I joined #TheWELL in the late 1980s, I was repeatedly assured that the good times were over, and that we would never see their like again:
3/
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CW: Musing about the future…
Soon internet is going to be way more regulated and restricted. The global supply chain may collapse. Energy, water, food, clothing, housing will only get more expensive.
Pseudonymity (like I rely on) will mostly be a thing of the past for individuals.
Hopefully we can keep #usenet alive and community run.
Consider getting your #AmateurRadio licenses.
Find like minded people in your local community and establish mutual aid groups?
Maybe together set up a community wide mesh network to keep everyone informed and have communication available should something happen to the non-community run ones?
#Reduce, #Reuse, #Repair, #Repurpose, #Regenerate, #Reimagine, #Redesign, #Recover, #Recycle
Learn to mend clothes. Learn to make clothes.
Learn gardening. Collect rainwater. Compost. Grow food. Keep chickens. Keep bees. Learn to cook and preserve. Stock up.
Learn to repair and salvage.
Learn to make tools. Learn to design and write programs. Learn electronics.Establish in law and in code
the #RightToRepair
the #RightToAmend
the #RightToDIY
the #RightToSalvage
the right to own the means
the right to inform and teach others.“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”
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CW: 2023 (Personal)
Goal:
Untangle my computer use from any commercial/capitalist presets...https://xkcd.com/743/
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/109683380376727036For 2023 a #LibreComputer AML-S905X-CC (#LePotato) (2GB) is my personal base level hardware platform
Anything I develop/make has to be usable on the current base level hardware platform
https://toadwater.net/Permacomputing.html
"A useful frame of mind is thinking about your computer as offline first. You work with your computer and occasionally have network access. This usually means having data locally and occasionally synchronizing it with others."
#LocalFirst #OfflineFirst
#FrugalComputing #SustanableComputing #NetZeroComputingExpect to run zsh, X11, openbox(?), Emacs, terminal, neomutt, newsboat, mastodon?, tor, i2p?
Test if Gnome is usable... ? xfce? CDE? is GnuStep still active? no desktop?
Get used to do #Email, #UseNet, #Gopher, #IRC, #RSS in #terminal or #Emacs
Use #Emacs and #TeΧ to write (dead tree) letters and missives (PDF?)
Maybe do more in #RawText?
Do callender things again on paper/pencil, #43folders, Whiteboard, etc.. physical things
Expand use of Gopher, Gemini, IndieWeb?
IM.. #XMPP via Dino? +OMEMO
Find a sustainable open source alternative for keybase? Or develop a distributed alternative using tor or i2p? Trust via FOAF?
Develop in #Pascal, #Lisp, #Ruby, #Haskell, #Scheme, #Forth :D
Keep repositories in #mercurial,
maybe source hut?Find an #anonymous #pseudonymous hosting solution... shell account?... like rawtext.club, tildeverse.org, sdf.org .. ...my own?
Get a low power #amd64 box? bc too many FOSS projects are still not platform independent & x86 only v.v
Optimize to run many VMs?
Maybe can run #android in VM and run banking, insurance, and other apps there? Otherwise maybe get an used M1 mac and run the #iOS apps? perhaps some <100 euro android phones will do as well? otherwise get an iPad mini and use that for the next 5-6 yrs
Maybe set up a #FileServer (#NAS?) maybe even network boot? and perhaps even a #Postgresql database? Is having SQL DB available on the local network going to be useful? What about other databases?
#DigitalCampfires (#Tumblr? Blogs?)
https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/10/10/of-gardens-and-wikis/
https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiGardener
https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
Bring #DigitalGardens to the "#TheDarkNet" and set up basecamp there, #tor onion services, a p2p chat/IM app, etc.. also explore #i2p and see how to simplify using it.
#DigitalHome?
(Tilde?)Get back into #AI (but forget Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Innocence?) I want Augmented Intelligencekm
Explore as many other fun projects as well ... Who knows, I might like them and use them more often...
eg: #Guix #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Minix #RiscV #Plan9 (#9Front) #RedoxOS #SmallTalk (#Pharo) #GoLang #RetroComputing #System7 #RiscOS #HaikuOS #Forth #Microcontrollers #68K #MIPS #PowerPC #HomeBrewComputer——
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Hashtag-trolling (in the clear mountain lake & river sense of the word) for #Appalachian #journalists, especially #newspaper and #LocalTVnews reporters west of the #BlueRidge in Va.'s #NewRiverValley #newsdesert
So far most regional terms below get NO hits (except my posts)...
Got any better ideas?#nrvNews #nrvJournalism #VirginiaMedia #VirginiaNews #VirginiaJournalism
#VirginiaPress
#BlueRidgeMedia
#BlueRidgeNews