#usenet

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Looking for these kinds of accounts to follow to keep informed on software and papers: ActivityPub and Fediverse hosters and software developers.Secure communication hosters and software developers.Usenet / NNTP hosters and software developers.Cryptographers, cryptanalysts, cipher code makers and breakers.Writers of papers and preprints.Textual Criticism buffs and translators, including producers of papers and software. #Introduction #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Usenet #NNTP #InfoSec #Papers #Cryptography #Cryptology #Encryption #Bible #TextualCriticism #Antiquities #Translation

The #Mastodon client @tootapp@mastodon.social do have an interesting visualization of discussion threads, but I think the #Usenet client #NewsTap https://mobile.clauss-net.de/NewsTap/ solution to something similar is better

Thinking of starting a Usenet newsgroup for the No Agenda crowd. Yes, Usenet, in 2026. No algorithm, no owner, nobody can take it down. I read it every day from a text terminal and it's wonderful. Question: which would you actually join? alt.fan.no-agenda alt.fan.john-c-dvorak I'll write a ten-minute setup guide so anyone can get on. Boost if you're curious. #NoAgenda #Usenet #Dvorak

This is the way. My first thirty years online looked like this. #Usenet on UW's legendary #Pine then later the #Alpine fork.

I think it's time to dust off some #oldschool #usenet / #bbs things online to befuddle #chatcontrol carpet #surveillance. Adding #lineeater fodder and #origin lines in a #sigfile, but updated to be #AI adversarial snippets and filter saturation #keywords. And hope no automated decision making based on such #sabotage comes back and bites. WCPGW.

#alfabetfandomu #usenet #fandom Siądźcie wygodnie, drogie dzieci, wujek Fandom opowie Wam, jak to drzewiej w internetach bywało i jakimi gołębiami starożytni fandomici wysyłali sobie wiadomości o tym, dlaczego najnowszy odcinek „Star Treka” jest obrazą dla inteligencji jego widzów. Otóż w czasach, których nikt już prawie dziś nie pamięta, zanim internet przeniósł się na Facebooka, fantaści gadali ze sobą na Usenecie. Co to Usenet?

Amazed that the tin usenet news reader is still around and updated and how it is a thousand times better than any GUI I've used over the past year since I'm running my own news server again.

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#Usenet #RetroComputing

Mój najstarszy post na usenetowej grupie alt.pl.comp.os.linux.newbie jaki udało mi się znaleźć. Powinno być sporo starszych, ale nie wiem, czy w ogóle jest jakiś sposób, by do nich jeszcze dotrzeć. Zapomniałem wczoraj wrzucić w wątku o budowaniu przeglądarki archiwów Usenetu, więc niech będzie dzisiaj luzem. #Usenet #tbrowser #archiwum #apcoln #linux #linuxNewbie

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 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland

https://eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=NewUser&language=en #usenet