#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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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_rebornNext 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
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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
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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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📬 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 -
Just had another Mastodon-reminds-me #Usenet flash... Anyone remember alt.callahans?
Social network as RPG meets fanfiction, based on the #Callahan'sSaloon stories by #SpiderRobinson ... Yarns based on empathy, twisted common #sciencefiction themes, #folkmusic, long form #puns, shaggy dog stories, toasts, a modest amount of drinking, and glasses smashed in the fireplace.
Alas, as it was picking up steam I was trying to get my dissertation going, so I just enjoyed knowing it was there.