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HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:55:36 +0200
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M opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw | 5 ++---
M opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-R… | 18 ++++++++++++------
M opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know… | 4 ++--
M opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animate… | 5 ++---
M opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Ne… | 7 ++-----
M opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-For… | 15 ++++++++-------
M opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encr… | 2 +-
M opus5/article-tgtimes-Sailing-With… | 8 ++++----
M opus5/article-tgtimes-Synthetic-As… | 5 +++--
M opus5/footer.mw | 17 +++++++----------
M opus5/tgtimes5.pdf | 0
M opus5/tgtimes5.txt | 120 ++++++++++++++-----------------
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DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-20h-Bitreich-Con-2022-Come-and-Talk.mw b/opus5/article-20h-Bitreich-Con-2022-Come-and-Talk.mw
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
.SH 20h
Bitreich Con 2022, Come and Talk!
-.2C 19v
+.2C 18v
.
.PP
Greetings at 852.770114854 km/h, 34943.004 miles over the Atlantic Ocean.
.
.PP
This is a happy reminder, that in less than 30 days, brcon2022 will happen.
-When you have anything interesting to share, please send in your proposals for talks to
-Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
.
.PP
There will be two parts:
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw b/opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ Are there TLS support on some gopher clients already?
.PP
There is support in curl, mpv/ffmpeg, sacc and more.
It is very easy to add TLS support to any client.
-You simply connect via TLS and if it works, keep that connection open.
-s,via TLS,& on the gopher TCP port (default: 70),
+You simply connect via TLS on the gopher TCP port (default: 70) and if it works,
+keep that connection open.
.
.QP
Are there been any evolution of the gopher protocol itself since the beginning of Geomyidae?
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ There is software written just for Geomyidae and its gph format.
The TLS extension of the protocol came from Bitreich / Geomyidae.
We also set the standard to simply use UTF-8 as default representation in gopher menus and so bring it into the 21st century.
I can conclude: Yes, Geomyidae changed and will change gopher.
-s,changed,&,
.
.QP
Have you seen Geomyidae ever used outside a hobby project?
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw b/opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw
@@ -14,17 +14,23 @@ is a tool to convert RSS or Atom feeds from XML to a TAB-separated file.
.
.PP
sfeed has the following notable changes compared to 1.4:
-.PP
-Changes:
+.
.IP \(bu
-sfeed_curses: interrupt waitpid while interactive child program is running This now handles SIGTERM on sfeed_curses while an interactive child program is running.
+sfeed_curses: interrupt waitpid while interactive child program is running.
+This now handles SIGTERM on sfeed_curses while an interactive child program is running.
+.
.IP \(bu
-sfeed_curses: close stdin before spawning a plumb program in non-interactive mode, which is more intuitive: the program doesn't seem to hang when it expects input in this case since there is no way to send input anyway.
+sfeed_curses: close stdin before spawning a plumb program in non-interactive mode, which is more intuitive:
+the program doesn't seem to hang when it expects input in this case since there is no way to send input anyway.
+.
.IP \(bu
Properly escape backslashes in the man pages (thanks adc!).
+.
.IP \(bu
Documentation improvements to the man pages and a progress indicator example script for sfeed_update.
+.
.PP
-I want to thank all people who gave feedback,
+I want to thank all people who gave feedback.
+.
.PP
-Thanks, Hiltjo
+Thanks, Hiltjo.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know-Do-Not-Ask-Me.mw b/opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know-Do-Not-Ask-Me.mw
@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ Let me go back to my life.
.
.PP
What weird things am I even saying!
-Am I trying to tell that an NSA agent is sitting on the metal beams of these places disfigure passersby with their empty gaze.
+It is not like an NSA agent is sitting on every metal beams of these supermarket looking at passersby with an empty gaze.
There are cameras though.
What do they film?
Thieves?
Who is checking?
Software?
Peoples?
-Are marketting people looking at these pictures?
+Are marketting managers looking at these pictures?
Of me too?
Right now?
What do they think of me?
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw b/opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again
after watching.
.
.PP
-Some are a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement,
+Some are just a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement,
while other might be closer to a short animated movie.
Talking of which, long movies were also done:
.
@@ -48,5 +48,4 @@ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
.
.PP
These characters transmitted through one protocol or another,
-whispers to us, through our terminal screen, fruit of the imagination of plain text artists.
-
+whispers to us, through our terminal screen, tales from the imagination of plain text artists.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Network-IRCNow.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Network-IRCNow.mw
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH tgtimes
A new IRC network: IRCNow!
-.2C 25v
+.2C 26v
.
.PP
A new IRC network is in town!
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ the community is welcoming and active.
IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users
.
.PP
-A LibrePlanet event
-.
-.PP
Something else from this community might catch your attention,
is its orientation toward being administrated by its users themself:
rather than letting the founder handle everything,
@@ -57,4 +54,4 @@ which offers a comfortable step-by-step introduction to a complete server admini
.FS
https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp
.FE
-I have often seen administrators hired with less than this much knowledge!
+I have seen system administrators getting hired knowing less than this!
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-Forth-Programming.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-Forth-Programming.mw
@@ -67,10 +67,12 @@ This proves Forth as the new programming language \fIen vogue\fR
What else does a programming language need to prove itself useful?
A kernel? Check!
Collapse OS
-is an operating system targetted at resilience over nine thousands,
-as it is designed to resist everything around it tearing apart, including the whole civilisation.
-When nothing remains but wastelands, CollapseOS will be there to reborn from scavenged parts and
-from old computers.
+is an operating system targetting resilience beyond extreme,
+as it is designed to resist everything around it tearing apart,
+including the whole civilisation.
+When nothing remains but wastelands,
+CollapseOS will be there for a rebirth of civilisation out of computers made from scavenged parts.
+Civilisation is rising and falling all of the time, just not all parts at the same time.
.
.QP
Forth is, to my knowledge, the most compact language allowing high level constructs. -- Collapse OS author.
@@ -139,11 +141,10 @@ Think of a LISP machine, but instead being a Forth machine.
This video-game uses Forth as a scripting language.
When a whole scripting language fits on a thumb, putting it everywhere costs nothing!
.
-.2C 5v
+.2C 4v
.
.PP
Such a large tool chest for such a small language.
With the Covid, Wars under disguise, and other supply chain troubles,
-the era of "more features" is coming to an end,
-and the era of reliability rises.
+the demand of feature stability rises face to the traditionnal "more features".
In these trying times, anyone is welcome to go Forth.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encrypted-IRC.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encrypted-IRC.mw
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Part of the DarkFi project, this is what Mallumo
.FS
https://github.com/darkrenaissance/mallumo
.FE
-brings in a simple piece of code using libNaClk,
+brings in a simple piece of code using libNaCl,
the crypto library from Dan Bernstein,
author of ED25519 (in its repackaged libsodium form).
This is state-of-the-art, well-proven and fast cryptography for end-to-end communication.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Sailing-With-Grace.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Sailing-With-Grace.mw
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Sailing With Grace
.
.PP
The sea!
-Water all around, not a single piece of ground around to stand in, only a single boat that becomes one with you, its capitain.
+Water all around, not a single piece of land around to stand in, only a single boat that becomes one with you, its capitain.
Infinite waves under the blue or cloudly sky is all you see for a long trip of many days.
-Feeling both lost, but at the same time united with surrounding nature.
+Feeling lost, but at the same time united with surrounding nature.
After all, the largest part of Earth is covered by the sea.
.
.PP
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com
.FE
This recalls an interesting point:
it proves that Gopher is not only good for talking about Gopher and computer things,
-but is also oriented toward the outside,
-is it ready to be used by people who are not gopher geeks?
+but is also oriented toward the outside.
+Is it ready to be used by people who are not gopher geeks?
.
.PP
It always was to begin with, so why would it not?
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Synthetic-Ascii-Art.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Synthetic-Ascii-Art.mw
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Synthetic ASCII Art
.
.PP
When an entirely new way to solve problems is discovered,
-the media is often fond of covering these topics.
+all sorts of medias, and not only the tech-oriented ones,
+are fond to publish abundantly about it.
Be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine learning...
Shortly after a new big toys like these comes-up,
hackers come, and start experimenting with it,
@@ -81,4 +82,4 @@ ASCII art has the ability to fit an image somewhere where there could only be te
For the example of a train station concourse with a large split-flap display:
for displaying a big arrow at the end of the service,
replacing the display by an equally large color screen can be costly and much more power-hungry,
-while an ASCII arrow with display saves the existing hardware while consuming no power for that still arrow.
+while an ASCII arrow on that existing display would be consuming no power for that still image.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/footer.mw b/opus5/footer.mw
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH you
Publishing in The Gopher Times
-.2C 12v
+.2C 10v
.
.PP
Want your article published?
@@ -11,17 +11,14 @@ Directly related to Gopher or not,
reach us on IRC with an article in any format,
we will handle the rest.
.
-.PP
-Did you notice the new layout?
-We now can jump between single and double column as it is more fit.
-Some content like large code chunks will simply not fit in the two-columns
-and the text is more pleasant to read on two columns.
-A block is too small and would look silly on two columns for a single sentence?
-It is kept on a single column.
-Note that websites do not usually support this feature!
-.
.DS
ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/
git://bitreich.org/tgtimes/
.DE
+.
+.PP
+Did you notice the new layout?
+We now can jump between single and double column as it is more fit:
+Some large code chunks will not fit in a two-column layout,
+but text is more pleasant to read on two columns.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/tgtimes5.pdf b/opus5/tgtimes5.pdf
Binary files differ.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/tgtimes5.txt b/opus5/tgtimes5.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
____________________________________________________________
- Opus 5 - Gopher news and more - May. 2022
+ Opus 5 - Gopher news and more - Jun. 2022
____________________________________________________________
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
the Atlantic Ocean.
This is a happy reminder, that in less than 30 days,
- brcon2022 will happen. When you have anything inter-
- esting to share, please send in your proposals for
- talks to Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
+ brcon2022 will happen.
There will be two parts:
@@ -77,18 +75,17 @@ ____________________________________________________________
You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal
normal again after watching.
- Some are a pun, a few frames to only give impression
- of movement, while other might be closer to a short
- animated movie. Talking of which, long movies were
- also done:
+ Some are just a pun, a few frames to only give impres-
+ sion of movement, while other might be closer to a
+ short animated movie. Talking of which, long movies
+ were also done:
https://www.asciimation.co.nz/
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
These characters transmitted through one protocol or
another, whispers to us, through our terminal screen,
- fruit of the imagination of plain text artists.
-
+ tales from the imagination of plain text artists.
@@ -120,11 +117,12 @@ ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
When an entirely new way to solve problems is discov-
- ered, the media is often fond of covering these top-
- ics. Be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine
- learning... Shortly after a new big toys like these
- comes-up, hackers come, and start experimenting with
- it, sometimes coming-up with entirely new way to use
+ ered, all sorts of medias, and not only the tech-
+ oriented ones, are fond to publish abundantly about
+ it. Be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine
+ learning... Shortly after a new big toys like these
+ comes-up, hackers come, and start experimenting with
+ it, sometimes coming-up with entirely new way to use
it.
This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learn-
@@ -197,9 +195,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
play: for displaying a big arrow at the end of the
service, replacing the display by an equally large
color screen can be costly and much more power-hungry,
- while an ASCII arrow with display saves the existing
- hardware while consuming no power for that still ar-
- row.
+ while an ASCII arrow on that existing display would be
+ consuming no power for that still image.
1 https://graphicsinterface.org/wp-content/uploads/gi2021-13.pdf
2 http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/asciiart/asciiart.html
@@ -241,13 +238,13 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Sailing With Grace tgtimes
____________________________________________________________
- The sea! Water all around, not a single piece of
- ground around to stand in, only a single boat that be-
- comes one with you, its capitain. Infinite waves un-
- der the blue or cloudly sky is all you see for a long
- trip of many days. Feeling both lost, but at the same
- time united with surrounding nature. After all, the
- largest part of Earth is covered by the sea.
+ The sea! Water all around, not a single piece of land
+ around to stand in, only a single boat that becomes
+ one with you, its capitain. Infinite waves under the
+ blue or cloudly sky is all you see for a long trip of
+ many days. Feeling lost, but at the same time united
+ with surrounding nature. After all, the largest part
+ of Earth is covered by the sea.
This is the world of Sailing that awaits each of us,
for a single trip hosted by a well proven crew, or as
@@ -261,8 +258,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
proxied over Gopher. [1] This recalls an interesting
point: it proves that Gopher is not only good for
talking about Gopher and computer things, but is also
- oriented toward the outside, is it ready to be used by
- people who are not gopher geeks?
+ oriented toward the outside. Is it ready to be used
+ by people who are not gopher geeks?
It always was to begin with, so why would it not? Are
people less able to use computers now than they was
@@ -281,12 +278,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________
sfeed has the following notable changes compared to
1.4:
- Changes:
-
o sfeed_curses: interrupt waitpid while interactive
- child program is running This now handles SIGTERM on
- sfeed_curses while an interactive child program is
- running.
+ child program is running. This now handles SIGTERM
+ on sfeed_curses while an interactive child program
+ is running.
o sfeed_curses: close stdin before spawning a plumb
program in non-interactive mode, which is more intu-
@@ -300,9 +295,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
o Documentation improvements to the man pages and a
progress indicator example script for sfeed_update.
- I want to thank all people who gave feedback,
+ I want to thank all people who gave feedback.
- Thanks, Hiltjo
+ Thanks, Hiltjo.
1 git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed
gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed
https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/
@@ -556,9 +551,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
There is support in curl, mpv/ffmpeg, sacc and more.
It is very easy to add TLS support to any client. You
- simply connect via TLS and if it works, keep that con-
- nection open. s,via TLS,& on the gopher TCP port (de-
- fault: 70),
+ simply connect via TLS on the gopher TCP port (de-
+ fault: 70) and if it works, keep that connection open.
>> Are there been any evolution of the gopher protocol
itself since the beginning of Geomyidae?
@@ -582,7 +576,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
ply use UTF-8 as default representation in gopher
menus and so bring it into the 21st century. I can
conclude: Yes, Geomyidae changed and will change go-
- pher. s,changed,&,
+ pher.
>> Have you seen Geomyidae ever used outside a hobby
project?
@@ -706,12 +700,14 @@ ____________________________________________________________
http://collapseos.org/ What else does a programming
language need to prove itself useful? A kernel?
- Check! Collapse OS is an operating system targetted
- at resilience over nine thousands, as it is designed
- to resist everything around it tearing apart, in-
- cluding the whole civilisation. When nothing re-
- mains but wastelands, CollapseOS will be there to
- reborn from scavenged parts and from old computers.
+ Check! Collapse OS is an operating system target-
+ ting resilience beyond extreme, as it is designed to
+ resist everything around it tearing apart, including
+ the whole civilisation. When nothing remains but
+ wastelands, CollapseOS will be there for a rebirth
+ of civilisation out of computers made from scavenged
+ parts. Civilisation is rising and falling all of
+ the time, just not all parts at the same time.
>> Forth is, to my knowledge, the most compact lan-
guage allowing high level constructs. -- Collapse OS
@@ -793,8 +789,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Such a large tool chest for such a small language.
With the Covid, Wars under disguise, and other supply
- chain troubles, the era of "more features" is coming
- to an end, and the era of reliability rises. In these
+ chain troubles, the demand of feature stability rises
+ face to the traditionnal "more features". In these
trying times, anyone is welcome to go Forth.
1 gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220331-0.gmi
gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220305-0.gmi
@@ -824,8 +820,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________
>> IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users
- A LibrePlanet event
-
Something else from this community might catch your
attention, is its orientation toward being adminis-
trated by its users themself: rather than letting the
@@ -850,8 +844,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
tion on system administration as a support for its
bootcamps, which offers a comfortable step-by-step in-
troduction to a complete server administration. [5] I
- have often seen administrators hired with less than
- this much knowledge!
+ have seen system administrators getting hired knowing
+ less than this!
1 irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667
ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697
@@ -1102,12 +1096,12 @@ ____________________________________________________________
>> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
- What weird things am I even saying! Am I trying to
- tell that an NSA agent is sitting on the metal beams
- of these places disfigure passersby with their empty
- gaze. There are cameras though. What do they film?
+ What weird things am I even saying! It is not like an
+ NSA agent is sitting on every metal beams of these su-
+ permarket looking at passersby with an empty gaze.
+ There are cameras though. What do they film?
Thieves? Who is checking? Software? Peoples? Are
- marketting people looking at these pictures? Of me
+ marketting managers looking at these pictures? Of me
too? Right now? What do they think of me? Did they
look at my hand hesitating between these two products?
@@ -1201,7 +1195,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
end-to-end encryption.
Part of the DarkFi project, this is what Mallumo [1]
- brings in a simple piece of code using libNaClk, the
+ brings in a simple piece of code using libNaCl, the
crypto library from Dan Bernstein, author of ED25519
(in its repackaged libsodium form). This is state-
of-the-art, well-proven and fast cryptography for
@@ -1229,19 +1223,15 @@ ____________________________________________________________
with an article in any format, we will handle the
rest.
- Did you notice the new layout? We now can jump be-
- tween single and double column as it is more fit.
- Some content like large code chunks will simply not
- fit in the two-columns and the text is more pleasant
- to read on two columns. A block is too small and
- would look silly on two columns for a single sentence?
- It is kept on a single column. Note that websites do
- not usually support this feature!
-
ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/
git://bitreich.org/tgtimes/
+ Did you notice the new layout? We now can jump be-
+ tween single and double column as it is more fit: Some
+ large code chunks will not fit in a two-column layout,
+ but text is more pleasant to read on two columns.
+