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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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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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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. 😄
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Game 7 of our 100th episode special in July will focus on one of the first coffee break length roguelikes: Larn!
A much shorter game than its contemporaries, the main dungeon is only 10 floors, but features 100 levels of difficulty and ... taxes???
Still being updated today and celebrating it's 40th anniversary!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larn_(video_game)
#GROGPOD100 #Larn #roguelike #retrocomputing #retrogaming #gaming #ascii #indiedev #indiegame #usenet #opensource
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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
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It was difficult to get an up to date list on what sites the #Debrid service #PremiumizeMe worked with.
Here are the sites it gives you access to as well as #Usenet. Hopefully this will help others.
While it allows access to many popular #FileSharing sites like RapidGator and 1fichier, it unfortunately does not work with Keep2Share.
Hopefully I can find a reputable service that works with all 3.
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📬 News-Service Europe B.V. einigt sich nach 16 Jahren
#Rechtssachen #Usenet #BREIN #Einigung #NewsServiceEurope #NSE https://sc.tarnkappe.info/538f55 -
Cosa ci ha insegnato la storia?
> Perche` la gerarchia sia efficace e utile, deve essere per l'appunto una gerarchia, e non una collezione di nomi direttamente sotto la radice it. creata piu` o meno a caso.
#aiuto #annunci #arti #associazioni #comp #cultura #diritto #discussioni #economia #fan #fare #hobby #industria #lavoro #medicina #news #notizie #politica #reticiviche #scienza #scuola, #sesso, #sociale #sport #test #tlc
#Usenet
https://www0.mi.infn.it/~calcolo/Italia-news-faq.html#17 -
A good recent article on #usenet on #linux https://www.maketecheasier.com/better-usenet-readers-for-linux/ #nntp #uunet #decentralize #HackerCulture #alt.2600 #alt.cypherpunks #comp.infosystems.gemini #alt.com.os.linux #alt.anonymous
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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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CW: New instance, new intro
#introduction #GenerationX #geek #SoundEngineer #musician #RockMusic #ttrpg #LARP #trans #bisexual #NonBinary #GenderFluid #kinky #Discworld #Pratchett #usenet
#SciFi #pathfinder #forza #xbox #steampunk #corsets #goth
I'm a middle-aged professional geek, moving through several different industries over too many years to think about.
I've also studied, and briefly taught, pop music recording; these days I'm a (lapsed) amateur musician and engineeer.
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