opus2: add Tristan Nitot message from today's conference - tgtimes - The Gopher Times HTML git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Tags DIR README --- DIR commit 60994acbda5e995b520127c6a39bda018029ca70 DIR parent 205d26f3839f051c1c396d42a0825884d3b3bc4f HTML Author: glenda <glenda@9front.local> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:33:37 +0000 opus2: add Tristan Nitot message from today's conference Diffstat: A opus2/article-gopherml-twtxt-and-g… | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ M opus2/article-jwz-they-live-obey.mw | 2 +- A opus2/article-nitot-a-message.mw | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A opus2/article-nixers-conference-re… | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ A opus2/article-tgtimes-hosting-prov… | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ M opus2/tgtimes2.mw | 4 ++++ M opus2/tgtimes2.pdf | 0 M opus2/tgtimes2.txt | 249 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- A opus3/article-chemla-confessions-t… | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 9 files changed, 528 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) --- DIR diff --git a/opus2/article-gopherml-twtxt-and-gopher.mw b/opus2/article-gopherml-twtxt-and-gopher.mw @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.SH "gopher ml" +Twtxt Over Gopher +. +.PP +The \fCtwtxt\fR format is a plain text microbloggin format that +lives as a text file hosted on any server, in the same style as +RSS feeds. +. +.PP +The support gopher://example.com/0/twtxt.txt is already there! +As \fIprologic\fR points out on the Gopher Mailing list, +it is possible to use gopher:// links for twtxt, as showcased +by the yarn.social search engine. +. +.PP +This might as well be the case for many other twtxt clients, +given that libcurl supports gopher:// and gophers://. +. +.PP +It will soon be difficult to find a single software that does +\fBnot\fR support Gopher... +. +.DS +https://twtxt.net/ +https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/ +https://yarn.social/ +.DE DIR diff --git a/opus2/article-jwz-they-live-obey.mw b/opus2/article-jwz-they-live-obey.mw @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .SH jwz -Mozilla's Logo, The "OBEY" Clothing Brand, A 1988 movie +Mozilla, "OBEY" and 1988 movie . .PP Surprisingly diverse themes. Just as diverse as Jamie Zawinski's DIR diff --git a/opus2/article-nitot-a-message.mw b/opus2/article-nitot-a-message.mw @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +.SH nitot +A message to developers +. +.PP +While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going while a former +founder moved elsewhere offering to try a different take on +technology. +. +.PP +Tristan Nitot is the of Mozilla Europe, who also worked at Netscape +before its decline. After he left Mozilla, he published +"surveillance://" defending privacy, and went as far as offering +alternative to Google by joining the Qwant team (web serach engine). +Yes, this is a Google-funded conference. +. +.PP +During this web, mobile and cloud conference, under OVH, Google, +and Microsoft sponsorship, what message would he have to spread +to developers getting started? Mind the Global Warming! +. +.PP +How unexpected but welcome. He simply shew the numbers, and shew +big newspaper headlines: explaining that the poor performance of +software have been largely compensated by the Moore's law for +the last 50 years, letting software fat to accumulate without +dire consequence on usability. +. +.PP +A call to developers to consider supporting the existing hardware +through providing reasonable performance, considering removing +features, would have the greatest impact; most CO² emission of IT +originating from producing new end-user devices. He blamed Windows +11 badly for that, refusing to support older chips. +Yes, this is a Microsoft-funded conference. +. +.QP +Between the early web pages of a few kilobytes to the web pages of +today, the size was went up by a factor of 150. Are web pages 150 +times better than they used to be? +. +.PP +At the beginning of its talk, Tristan Nitot quoted Upton Sinclair: +. +.QP +It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary +depends upon his not understanding it. +. +.DS +https://devfest.gdglille.org/ +https://climatefresk.org/ +https://standblog.org/blog/ +.DE DIR diff --git a/opus2/article-nixers-conference-recordings.mw b/opus2/article-nixers-conference-recordings.mw @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +.SH nixers +Nixers.net Con 2021 +. +.PP +On November the 7th, the second edition of the nixers.net +*NIX users community took place: +. +.IP * +Creating your own troff macros — seninha +. +.IP * +Keeping track of your things — venam +. +.IP * +Truly Federated Identity for the web — push-f +. +.PP +The video recording are already available: +. +.DS +https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-net-Conf-2021 +.DE DIR diff --git a/opus2/article-tgtimes-hosting-providers.mw b/opus2/article-tgtimes-hosting-providers.mw @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +.SH tgtimes +Hosting Providers Projects +. +.PP +While hosting a server at home has its benefits (and its charms), +some interesting hosting providers do a good job at sharing all +the fun that hosting servers can have while still handling the +long-winged work of keeping the hypervisors up and running. +. +.PP +Efforts also coming from the community that sometimes take part +into the project, or in reverse, hosting providers contributing +to help community projects, either through funds or bug-fixing. +. +.IP "sdf.org " +Around since as early as 1987, the Super Dimension Fortress +describes itself as a public access supercomputing center. +An invitation to jump both foot into the UNIX culture featuring +games, email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace, +programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and more. +A different sense of community than the one offered by social +networks. +. +.IP "sdfeu.org " +Joint effort with the north Amercian sdf.org, the European +counterpart will have a better network lattency for European, +Middle east, and African users. +. +.IP "grex.org " +Grex brings democracy to hosting, a concept little explored by +commercial hosting providers: open access, but also owned by +its members who can vote on what to plan next for Grex. +Also a good pretext to get around a good meal during the Grex +conferences. +. +.IP "openbsd.amsterdam " +A hosting provider running OpenBSD for its entire stack, +including the hypervisor itself: \fCvmm(4)\fR. It permits +its user to connect directly onto the hypervisor through +SSH and run commands such as \fCvmctl vm02 restart\fR. +. +.IP "blinkenshell.org " +Younger by a few years, this open shell project lets you +give Linux a try. Occasion to make someone discover the +world of command-line and programming through the editor +and compilers installed up there. +. +.IP "prgmr.com " +While keeping a commercial model, this Xen-based hosting +provider offers a command-line approach to hosting, and +consider the user as a respectable admin rather than a +supermarket custommer. DIR diff --git a/opus2/tgtimes2.mw b/opus2/tgtimes2.mw @@ -10,4 +10,8 @@ Opus 2 - Gopher news and more - ..-..-2021 .so opus2/article-telnet-freechess-server.mw .so opus2/article-ganssle-embedded-muse.mw .so opus2/article-jwz-they-live-obey.mw +.so opus2/article-gopherml-twtxt-and-gopher.mw +.so opus2/article-tgtimes-hosting-providers.mw +.so opus2/article-nixers-conference-recordings.mw +.so opus2/article-nitot-a-message.mw .so opus2/footer.mw DIR diff --git a/opus2/tgtimes2.pdf b/opus2/tgtimes2.pdf Binary files differ. DIR diff --git a/opus2/tgtimes2.txt b/opus2/tgtimes2.txt @@ -10,6 +10,34 @@ ____________________________________________________________ + Amiga-style demos on microcontrollers ltf +____________________________________________________________ + + The demoscene is an UNESCO-recognised art where + computer are programmmed to display graphics and + soundtrack in real-time. Competitions challenges + everyone to build the most impressive demo out of the + same limited resources as everyone, such as venerable + computers like Comodore64 or Amiga computers. + + While faster computers are being built everyday, + computer with even less resources than the early days + are still in massive production and used: + microcontrollers. + + Linus Akesson, a demoer known for its "A Mind Is Born" + winning entry [1] is pushing the kind of CPU that + controll your elevator to its limits to produce waves + of colors and rivers of melodies. + + + https://www.linusakesson.net/pages/scene.php + ____________________ + [1] + 1st place on Revision 2017 competition + + + The aNONradio station sdf ____________________________________________________________ @@ -39,34 +67,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________ - Amiga-style demos on microcontrollers ltf -____________________________________________________________ - - The demoscene is an universe where computer-generated - graphics and soundtrack are being rendered real-time, - striving to build the most impressive demo out of the - same limited resources, such as Old-School competition - category using original C64 and Amigas - Comodore or Amiga computers. - - While faster computers are being built everyday, - computer with even less resources than the early days - are still in massive production and used: - microcontrollers. - - Linus Akesson, a demoer known for its "A Mind Is Born" - winning entry [1] is pushing the kind of CPU that - controll your elevator to its limits to produce waves - of colors and rivers of melodies. - - - https://www.linusakesson.net/pages/scene.php - ____________________ - [1] - 1st place on Revision 2017 competition - - - Phrack Magazine fnord ____________________________________________________________ @@ -164,6 +164,199 @@ ____________________________________________________________ + The Embedded Muse Newsletter ganssle +____________________________________________________________ + + Ever felt curious about the embedded world? These tiny + machines that are low-power enough to last all winter + powered by a potato battery? Then take a peek at the + Embedded Muse Newsletter. + + This mail-based monthly publication is run by Jack + Ganssle since 1997. A well-known pioneer, but each + issue is turned toward the community, where everyone + submits its story that Jack publishes back. + + You might find spicy UNIX and engineering humour. + + http://www.ganssle.com/tem-back.htm + + + + Mozilla, "OBEY" and 1988 movie jwz +____________________________________________________________ + + Surprisingly diverse themes. Just as diverse as Jamie + Zawinski's creations: Netscape, Mozilla, the DNA- + Lounge night club. + + The 1988 movie offers a revelation about advertizing. + The "OBEY" Clothing Brand refers to that movie. The + Mozilla logo shares the same author as the "OBEY" + logo. Out of tihs, jwz narrates us a piece of our own + history. + + Sometimes, ubiquitous, vastly popular, and highly + profitable projects have the most unexpected history, + in contradiction with what they became. + + https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the + -secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/ + + + + Twtxt Over Gopher gopher ml +____________________________________________________________ + + The twtxt format is a plain text microbloggin format + that lives as a text file hosted on any server, in the + same style as RSS feeds. + + The support gopher://example.com/0/twtxt.txt is + already there! As prologic points out on the Gopher + Mailing list, it is possible to use gopher:// links + for twtxt, as showcased by the yarn.social search + engine. + + This might as well be the case for many other twtxt + clients, given that libcurl supports gopher:// and + gophers://. + + It will soon be difficult to find a single software + that does not support Gopher... + + https://twtxt.net/ + https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/ + https://yarn.social/ + + + + Hosting Providers Projects tgtimes +____________________________________________________________ + + While hosting a server at home has its benefits (and + its charms), some interesting hosting providers do a + good job at sharing all the fun that hosting servers + can have while still handling the long-winged work of + keeping the hypervisors up and running. + + Efforts also coming from the community that sometimes + take part into the project, or in reverse, hosting + providers contributing to help community projects, + either through funds or bug-fixing. + + sdf.org Around since as early as 1987, the Super + Dimension Fortress describes itself as a public + access supercomputing center. An invitation to jump + both foot into the UNIX culture featuring games, + email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace, + programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and + more. A different sense of community than the one + offered by social networks. + + sdfeu.org Joint effort with the north Amercian + sdf.org, the European counterpart will have a better + network lattency for European, Middle east, and + African users. + + grex.org Grex brings democracy to hosting, a concept + little explored by commercial hosting providers: + open access, but also owned by its members who can + vote on what to plan next for Grex. Also a good + pretext to get around a good meal during the Grex + conferences. + + openbsd.amsterdam A hosting provider running OpenBSD + for its entire stack, including the hypervisor + itself: vmm(4). It permits its user to connect + directly onto the hypervisor through SSH and run + commands such as vmctl vm02 restart. + + blinkenshell.org Younger by a few years, this open + shell project lets you give Linux a try. Occasion to + make someone discover the world of command-line and + programming through the editor and compilers + installed up there. + + prgmr.com While keeping a commercial model, this Xen- + based hosting provider offers a command-line + approach to hosting, and consider the user as a + respectable admin rather than a supermarket + custommer. + + + + Nixers.net Con 2021 nixers +____________________________________________________________ + + On November the 7th, the second edition of the + nixers.net *NIX users community took place: + + * Creating your own troff macros — seninha + + * Keeping track of your things — venam + + * Truly Federated Identity for the web — push-f + + The video recording are already available: + + https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-net-Conf-2021 + + + + A message to developers nitot +____________________________________________________________ + + While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going + while a former founder moved elsewhere offering to try + a different take on technology. + + Tristan Nitot is the of Mozilla Europe, who also + worked at Netscape before its decline. After he left + Mozilla, he published "surveillance://" defending + privacy, and went as far as offering alternative to + Google by joining the Qwant team (web serach engine). + Yes, this is a Google-funded conference. + + During this web, mobile and cloud conference, under + OVH, Google, and Microsoft sponsorship, what message + would he have to spread to developers getting started? + Mind the Global Warming! + + How unexpected but welcome. He simply shew the + numbers, and shew big newspaper headlines: explaining + that the poor performance of software have been + largely compensated by the Moore's law for the last 50 + years, letting software fat to accumulate without dire + consequence on usability. + + A call to developers to consider supporting the + existing hardware through providing reasonable + performance, considering removing features, would have + the greatest impact; most CO² emission of IT + originating from producing new end-user devices. He + blamed Windows 11 badly for that, refusing to support + older chips. Yes, this is a Microsoft-funded + conference. + + >> Between the early web pages of a few kilobytes to + the web pages of today, the size was went up by a + factor of 150. Are web pages 150 times better than + they used to be? + + At the beginning of its talk, Tristan Nitot quoted + Upton Sinclair: + + >> It is difficult to get a man to understand + something when his salary depends upon his not + understanding it. + + https://devfest.gdglille.org/ + https://climatefresk.org/ + https://standblog.org/blog/ + + + Publishing in The Gopher Times you ____________________________________________________________ DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-chemla-confessions-thief.mw b/opus3/article-chemla-confessions-thief.mw @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +.SH chemla +Confessions of a thief +. +SHOULD NOT BE PUBLISHED BEFORE DENOEL EDITIONS AGREEMENT! +. +.QP +Below is the beginning of "Confessions of a Thief" from Laurent +Chemla, founded a major French DNS registrar, but before that, was +the first to commit online piracy in France (from a Minitel), and +worked on development tools Atari. The book is published online in +French and translated below. +. +.PP +A thief. How else to name one of the first individual in France to +procure itself an Internet access? In 1994, borrowing the clothes of +a telecommunication expert, that I was not yet, I obtained from an IT +staff employee of a parisian University that he let me an access to +Internet. In exchange, I brought him help - relatively - to the +building of a network devoted to let student work from home. +. +.PP +I then stole, I confess, this first access to a network that remained +to me a mostly unexplored land since my last visits in 1992, mediated +by obscure manoeuvres of a friend or through piracy. +. +.PP +This theft benefited to me, I could learn to use a tool long before +the majority of the IT crowd, gaining an advance that still persist +today. +. +.PP +I stole, but I plead good faith. At this epoch nobody around me did +understand what it was about. Would it bit a thief to steal something +nobody had interest in? This access was to the reach of only a few +testing university students, this access that a small IT company could +not afford, I stole it, and I am not ashamed. +. +.PP +For my relatives, I am nontheless an "IT janitor". Programmer to a +tiny IT company, I always have been passionated by telematic networks. +A passion that costed me, in 1986, to be the first to be guilty of +piracy in France, pirated from a Minitel, yes, but to each his glory. +As there was not yet any law against IT piracy, I have been +incriminated for stealing electrical power. All that ended up in an +acquittal, but still, here is a decent start for a thief career! +. +.PP +Indeed, how to name differently someone who constituted its +professional network by taking part to associations? We have the +impression to contribute unpaid for the many, but we mostly get known +and, time after time, the clients get attracted by this visibility. +Of course anyone whose professional occupation deals with voluntary +sector end-up face to its own consciousness. Not unlike, I suppose, a +lawyer who gain clients from the excluded folk that he help graciously +and daily. I ignore what its consciousness would tell him, but I know +mine is not at rest. +. +.PP +Nowadays again, my activities continue to be lucrative out of +Internet, at the time of Nasdaq's fall. How can one earn while +everyone loose, if not by cheating? +. +.PP +A thief is on that use to its profit else's good. To me, Internet is +a public good and, if serve as commercial gallery for some, it must +not limit itself to such a deviation. Internet must first and +foremost be the tool that, for the first time in mankind, permitted +the freedom of speech, defined as a fundamental human right. +. +.PP +This right, in all its guarantee from our constitutional state, has +stayed hypothetical since its proclamation. In France law protects +freedom of Speech of syndicates and journalists but no text that +permit to the simple citizen to undertake justice, to reach its +freedom. What else since, before Internet, this freedom was to the +reach of some privilegied? The lawyer protected them because only +them needed that protection. Ten years ago, noone would have been +able to benefit an as simple, fast and affordable way to expose works, +arts or ideas but by vociferating in the street or by climbing the +social scale rung by rung to the point of having media's attention. +One had to be represented by others with the expression right for +themself. Only ersatz. The only freedom that matters is the one +available to all and I dont give a damn about those reserved to the +mighty or their representatives. +. +.PP +Internet thereby permit to a growing number of citizen to apply their +fundamental right to take the parole on the public place. From this +point of view, it must be protected such as any other necessary yet +fragile resource, such as water we drink everyday. It cannot be +reserved to anyone, neither be limited in its usages if not by the +common right. No exception legislation must forbide the exercise of +freedom of speech and, as soon as possible, states must preserve the +common tool that became a public benefit. And as I use a public good +to lead my own fights, yet again, I behave as a thief. +. +.PP +I thereby knew the Internet some time before everybody else, still at +the age of the Far West, Eldorado, Utopia. At this era, the network +was backed by public money (mostly from United States), the life was +happier and the electronic sky bluer. We worked all along, among +passionated, inventing new computer objects that even Microsoft did +ignore, like Linux or the World Wide Web (you know, the three +fastidious *w* we have to type in the address of your favorite porn +website...) that did not yet exist and that today everybody mistake +for the network itself. +. +.PP +We were far from thinking that some day, we would need a plethora of +lawyers to organize the network. That some day, we would need +interdepartmental comittees to address of the question. That some +day, we would have to put black on white the manners not yet named +"netiquette" that seemd all so natural to us. Our only desire, share +that formidable invention with the most people, make its apology, +attract the most numerous of passionated who shared with us their +competency, their knowledge and intelligence. +. +.PP +I remember that at this epoch, when I was saying "Internet", my +friends looked at me as if coming from another planet. When I +transfered a file from a computer from one end of of the world to my +own machine - by cabalistic commands typed by hand under an interface +working without a mouse pointer - the seasoned IT engineers was +assisting to the demonstration as to a bad movie: finding a file was +taking hours, reading speeds was worth a sick snail and the file often +revealed to be unusable... But while a pal entered in my office, I +would show him how by typing a single command line I could share, for +a ridiculous price, my work, my knowledge, my files or my data with +pure strangers and that could live at the other side of the street as +the other side of the world. +. +.PP +Besides from other passionated people, everybody was laughing at me. +I could tell them that this thingy would be a revolution for human +knowledge, they looked at me in pity and went back to their work. +. +.PP +In the best case, I was told with lucidity "It is a pirate thing.". +Some was asking who would that fit, beyond telematic specialists. +Other claimed that volontary and free sharing of resources would not +have, by definition, any economical future. I was also asked +sometimes who would dare to provide such a terrible service. And when +I explained them that everything was entirely decentralised, with for +only coordination volunteership and good will of all, the same ones +was telling me that it could never work at a large scale. +. +.DS +https://www.confessions-voleur.net/ +.DE