#usenet — Public Fediverse posts

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

#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

Archival link to a long threaded discussion about #spoilers, #FandomHistory, #fanzines

"Are you a person who was around in, or knows a lot about, 1970s/1980s fandoms? I'm working on a project about spoilers and want to learn more about early uses of the term in its modern sense. I'm reading #Usenet archives; do you have memories of earlier emergent uses? Please share! Non-fandom memories and leads also welcome, of course."

https://archive.ph/qTb5P

Record of my input https://archive.ph/S6eMT

📬Powerjedi: die Usenet-Szene trauert um einen guten Freund📬 https://tarnkappe.info/powerjedi-die-ganze-usenet-szene-trauert-um-einen-guten-freund/ #Niemalsgehtmansoganz #SpaceCowboys #Powerjedi #TrudeHerr #Trauer #Usenet #Szene #Tod