#usenet — Public Fediverse posts

@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

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

More info:
https://git.sr.ht/~rek2/usenet_reborn/refs/0.2.4
https://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

Okay, signing up for Usenet again like it's 1999.

Going with Eternal-September just 'cuz I like the concept. :)

#eternalSeptember #usenet

Yesterday #AOL finally shut down #dialup. No more bee-bzz-brr-chrrr.

In 2019, 265,000 people in the US were still using a dial-up connection¹ (at 56 kbps!). Before the shutdown, this number was in the low 1000s².

What were they doing? An average website probably takes 10 minutes to load with a modem. Still eternal-septembering the #usenet? ;)

I'd be interested in numbers from other parts of the world.

#eternalseptember #modem #isp

⒈) https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2019.B28011?q=ACSDT1Y2019.B28011

⒉) https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-still-pay-for-service-but-not-for-dial-up-internet.html

📬 Usenet-Foren 2025
#Usenet #WarezListen #NZBSuchmaschinen #UsenetBoards #UsenetCommunities2025 #UsenetForen2025 #UsenetForenRegistrierung https://sc.tarnkappe.info/7ba7c7

📬 newzbay.cc – neuer deutschsprachiger Usenet-Indexer online
#Szene #Usenet #Warez #fxpterminal #newzbay #newzbaycc #NZBIndexer #SkyofUsenet https://sc.tarnkappe.info/5b871a

📬 NZBCORE – neuer NZB-Indexer öffnet die Tore
#Usenet #NZBIndexer #NZBCORE #nzbcoreinfo #SaugiSaugbär https://sc.tarnkappe.info/83c65a

#GoogleGroups is ending support for #Usenet to combat #spam
The upcoming changes will take effect from February 22, 2024, after which users can no longer post, subscribe, or view new Usenet content through #Google Groups.
However, historical Usenet content posted before this cutoff date will remain accessible for viewing and searching on the platform.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-groups-is-ending-support-for-usenet-to-combat-spam/

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.ms-windows.misc/c/ZXDVOqDIsk0

The first reply is so funny. "It has been FIVE years since the release of Windows 95, and that must have been long enough to find replacement apps for the ones you are using now."

Like buddy. OP said it was a standalone system. :blobfoxlaughsweat:​

I wonder how Maarten might reply if that same question were made today, in an era where people continue to use definitely ancient hardware and OSes for pleasure and sport. :blobfoxcomfycomputer:​

#retrocomputing #usenet #googlegroups

"Effective February 22, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of historical data will still be supported as it is done today."

Google once again showing they cannot be trusted to maintain things long term lmao
#usenet #google #googleGroups #googlegraveyard

The last more-or-less full work week of the year is about to start, and I know I’ll be working the week after that to meet the last deadlines I have in 2023.

12/11/2023: Teens Are Online ‘Almost Constantly,’ Usually on These Apps, PCMag

I got an advance look at this Pew Research Center study on teenage social-media use and found it enlightening–including the part where the teenagers in the study group said they were spending slightly less time on almost every social-media app compared to last year.

12/12/2023: Google Maps Location Data to Be Stored on Your Device, Not the Cloud, PCMag

Google surprised me with this announcement, in a good way. I needed other people–for example, Electronic Frontier Foundation general counsel Jennifer Lynch–to point out how this move could spell the end of “geofence warrants” asking for Google Maps records of everybody in a particular place at a particular time.

12/13/2023: 8th Grade Career Day, Thomas Jefferson Middle School

My last speaking gig of the year had me explaining the business I have chosen to three classes’ worth of eighth graders, with compensation in the form of free coffee and breakfast pastries.

(Patreon readers got a detailed recap of this event, including some of the smarter questions the students asked.)

12/15/2023: AT&T: Spam Texts Are Down By a Third, PCMag

After talking to one of AT&T’s executives about the drop in spam-text reports they’d seen, I wanted to see if the other two nationwide carriers or its regulators at the Federal Communications Commission had seen similar trends. Sadly, they had not.

12/16/2023: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support, PCMag

The second bit of unexpected Google news this week took me all the way back to almost 30 years ago, when my online experience began with exploring Usenet on my dial-up AOL account.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/17/weekly-output-teen-social-media-use-google-maps-timeline-privacy-journalism-as-a-career-spam-texts-google-groups-to-dump-usenet/

#careerDay #GoogleGroups #GoogleLocationHistory #GoogleMapsTimeline #PewResearchCenter #robotexts #spamTexts #teenSocialMediaUse #teenageSocialMediaUse #Usenet

📬 Usenet-Provider Dreamload.com offline
#Szene #Usenet #dreamload #Dreamloadcom #Firstload #UsenetProvider https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/szene/usenet/usenet-provider-dreamload-com-offline-282398.html

📬 Usenet-Foren im Mai 2023
#Usenet #WarezListen #Firstload #nzbsuchmaschine #UsenetBoard #UsenetForum #UsenetProvider https://tarnkappe.info/listen/usenet-foren-im-mai-2023-274419.html

📬 House of Usenet wechselt bald die Forensoftware
#Usenet #Warez #Forensoftware #HouseofUsenet #mark_travelling #Umstellung https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/usenet/house-of-usenet-wechselt-bald-die-forensoftware-272199.html

📬 BREIN verliert 14-jährigen Rechtsstreit gegen Usenet Provider
#Rechtssachen #Usenet #AntiPiraterie #BREIN #NewsServiceEurope #ObersterGerichtshofderNiederlande #TakedownVerfahren #TimKuik #Uploadfilter #UsenetProvider #WierdBonthuis https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/rechtssachen/brein-verliert-14-jaehrigen-rechtsstreit-gegen-usenet-provider-264308.html

📬 Easy-Leech.to – Usenet-Indexer offline
#Usenet #easyleechto #HouseofUsenet #NZBIndexer #Scenenzbscom https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/usenet/easy-leech-to-usenet-indexer-offline-259520.html

📬 Usenet-Foren & NZB-Suchmaschinen im Oktober 2022
#Listen #Usenet #nzb #NZBIndexer #UsenetForen #UsenetForum #UsenetIndexer #UsenetProvider https://tarnkappe.info/listen/usenet-foren-nzb-suchmaschinen-im-oktober-2022-257715.html

📬 Weiterer Usenet-Uploader muss 10.000 € zahlen
#Rechtssachen #Usenet #Brabant #BREIN #NZBIndexer #uploader https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/usenet/weiterer-usenet-uploader-muss-10-000-e-zahlen-255832.html

📬 Usenet-Uploader muss 10.500 Euro an BREIN zahlen
#Rechtssachen #Usenet #BREIN #CyandoAG #NewsServicecom #NZBIndexer #UsenetProvider #UsenetUploader https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/usenet/usenet-uploader-muss-10-500-euro-an-brein-zahlen-254629.html

📬 Scenenzbs.com: neuer Usenet-Indexer in Kooperation mit HoU geöffnet
#Usenet #HouseofUsenet #NZBIndexer #SceneNzbcom #Scenenzbscom #Sonarr https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/usenet/scenenzbs-com-neuer-usenet-indexer-in-kooperation-mit-hou-geoeffnet-244147.html

📬 Usenet-Uploader muss 10.800 Euro Strafe zahlen #Usenet #Alkmaar #BREIN #UsenetProvider #UsenetUploader https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/usenet/usenet-uploader-muss-10-800-euro-strafe-zahlen-188480.html

📬 Sky of Usenet: Forum ist seit Freitag zurück #Usenet #Predator #R4bbit #Scott #SkyofUsenet https://tarnkappe.info/sky-of-usenet-forum-ist-seit-freitag-zurueck/

📬 Momentum: Usenet-Client klaut schon wieder die Passwörter #Usenet #Fileleechersinfo #HolmeZSoftSolutionsPteLtd #Momentum #MomentumPlus #Tensai https://tarnkappe.info/momentum-usenet-client-klaut-schon-wieder-die-passwoerter/

📬 HolmeZ – Betreiber stellt Usenet-Reader ein #Usenet #Fileleechers #HolmeZ #Momentum #NewzBee #Tensai https://tarnkappe.info/holmez-betreiber-stellt-usenet-reader-ein/

📬 Usenet-Foren & NZB-Suchmaschinen im Dezember 2021 #Listen #Usenet #binsearch #Fileleechers #HouseofUsenet #NZBIndexer #retention https://tarnkappe.info/usenet-foren-nzb-suchmaschinen-im-dezember-2021/

📬 House of Usenet im Interview #Interviews #Usenet #Defetzer #Fairlight #HouseofUsenet https://tarnkappe.info/house-of-usenet-im-interview/

📬 Sky of Usenet ist down, diesmal für immer? #Usenet #SkyofUsenet https://tarnkappe.info/sky-of-usenet-ist-down-diesmal-fuer-immer/

📬Brothers of Usenet öffnet Registrierung für eingeladene Gäste📬 https://tarnkappe.info/brothers-of-usenet-oeffnet-registrierung-fuer-eingeladene-gaeste/ #BrothersofUsenet #Momentum #Usenet #HolmeZ

📬World-of-use.net möchte Besuch von der Polizei haben📬 https://tarnkappe.info/world-of-use-net-moechte-besuch-von-der-polizei-haben/ #World-of-use.net #DMSolutions #Shimada #Usenet