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HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:45:48 +0200

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M opus5/article-bitreich-BIG-BROWSER… | 8 ++++++--
M opus5/article-bitreich-Bitreich-Co… | 6 +++---
M opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildg… | 2 +-
M opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-R… | 9 +++++----
M opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know… | 4 ++--
M opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animate… | 6 +++++-
A opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Ne… | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
D opus5/article-tgtimes-Bluetooth-Br… | 84 -------------------------------
D opus5/article-tgtimes-Breathing-Op… | 54 -------------------------------
M opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-For… | 9 +++++----
D opus5/article-tgtimes-Gopher-Podca… | 35 -------------------------------
D opus5/article-tgtimes-IRCNow.mw | 61 -------------------------------
M opus5/article-tgtimes-Maemo-Leste-… | 4 +++-
A opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encr… | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
D opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo.mw | 32 -------------------------------
A opus5/article-tgtimes-Open-Source-… | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
M opus5/article-tgtimes-Relics-of-Fa… | 10 +++++++++-
A opus5/article-tgtimes-Search-Podca… | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus5/article-tgtimes-Wireless-Wir… | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
M opus5/footer.mw | 11 ++++++++++-
M opus5/tgtimes5.mw | 18 ++++++++++--------
M opus5/tgtimes5.pdf | 0
M opus5/tgtimes5.txt | 1332 +++++++++++++++++--------------

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DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-BIG-BROWSER-IS-WATCHING-YOU.mw b/opus5/article-bitreich-BIG-BROWSER-IS-WATCHING-YOU.mw
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
.SH 20h
BIG BROWSER IS WATCHING YOU!
+.2C 11v
.
.PP
-Are you feeling watched all the time? Do you feel unsure when doing something nasty? It is true, you are watched: By BIG BROWSER. Whenever you use the web, someone else is masturbating to your web history.
+Are you feeling watched all the time? Do you feel unsure when doing something nasty? It is true, you are watched: By BIG BROWSER.
+Whenever you use the web,
+someone else is masturbating to your web history.
.
.PP
-You want to know how to be able to do nasty things online without someone masturbating to it? Come to brcon2022 and find out more.
+You want to know how to be able to do nasty things online without someone masturbating to it?
+Come to brcon2022 and find out more.
.FS
gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2022
.FE
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-Bitreich-Con-2022-Come-and-Talk.mw b/opus5/article-bitreich-Bitreich-Con-2022-Come-and-Talk.mw
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH 20h
Bitreich Con 2022, Come and Talk!
-.2C 20v
+.2C 19v
.
.PP
Greetings at 852.770114854 km/h, 34943.004 miles over the Atlantic Ocean.
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
.PP
There will be two parts:
.
-.IP July 25th to 28th
+.IP "July 25th to 28th"
Online presentations, then one day to get to Belgrade
.
-.IP July 30th to 31st
+.IP "July 30th to 31st"
We will be in presence, having fun in Belgrade, Serbia.
.
.PP
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildgaard:-Only-Turtle-Fans.mw b/opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildgaard:-Only-Turtle-Fans.mw
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH 20h
Prof. Skildgaard: Only Turtle Fans
-.2C 10v
+.2C 11v
.
.PP
I am happy to announce, that the scientific head of bitreich, Prof. Skildgaard, the professor for slow sciences at the Aarhus university in Denmark, now has opened his own website
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw b/opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
.SH Hiltjo
sfeed 1.5 Released
+.2C 17v
.
.PP
sfeed
@@ -15,13 +16,13 @@ is a tool to convert RSS or Atom feeds from XML to a TAB-separated file.
sfeed has the following notable changes compared to 1.4:
.PP
Changes:
-.IP •
+.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.
-.IP •
+.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.
-.IP •
+.IP \(bu
Properly escape backslashes in the man pages (thanks adc!).
-.IP •
+.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,
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
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH josuah
I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me
-.2C 95v
+.2C 78v
.
.PP
The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that cannot be ignored anymore:
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ it is obvious that people will wonder at some point, who is behind the screen re
.PP
The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even hint about the answer.
We are left in the doubt,
-letting some ensure "it is just in case of a thief, the police officer is going to watch"
+letting some ensure "it is just in case of a burglary, the police officer is going to watch"
or other affirm "they are using these images to study how we think to better control us!".
.
.PP
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw b/opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH linuxconsole
Animated ASCII art
-.2C 20v
+.2C 10v
.
.PP
With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene,
@@ -18,11 +18,15 @@ The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal,
and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised
by linuxconsole.net, or with the script below:
.
+.1C
+.
.DS
curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt |
while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done
.DE
.
+.2C 10
+.
.PP
You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again
after watching.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Network-IRCNow.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Network-IRCNow.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+A new IRC network: IRCNow!
+.2C 25v
+.
+.PP
+A new IRC network is in town!
+.FS
+irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667
+ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697
+.FE
+.
+Ever wanted to feel what an early community looks like?
+The admin jrmu brought the project together, and is currently collecting users along the way.
+.
+.PP
+Whether you looked for a place to host your own community,
+or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from fertile ground,
+the community is welcoming and active.
+.
+.QP
+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,
+the community is oriented toward serious teaching of unix command line and system administration to anyone,
+from beginners to advanced users seeking improvement.
+.
+.PP
+In-person teaching sessions were covered during the LibrePlanet 2022 event
+.FS
+https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf
+.FE
+with recording of a test-run of the event
+.FS
+https://0x0.st/oTal.webm - 0h20m: audio starts - 1h15m: talking about Gopher
+.FE
+where future and present hackers met together working our their system administration and community building skills.
+.
+Linux Magazine also ran an interview giving a good impression about the spirit of the project:
+.FS
+https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
+.FE
+.
+.PP
+Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with,
+IRCnow offers hosting services for
+IRC bouncers, Bots, E-Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts.
+.
+.PP
+The wiki itself features plenty of technical information on system administration as a support for its bootcamps,
+which offers a comfortable step-by-step introduction to a complete server administration.
+.FS
+https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp
+.FE
+I have often seen administrators hired with less than this much knowledge!
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Bluetooth-Brain.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Bluetooth-Brain.mw
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-.SH tgtimes
-Wireless, wireless everywhere
-.2C 60
-.
-.PP
-Wires! Cables! Connectors!
-Computer and electric systems seems to befriend with plugs and sockets.
-Why is the computer industry running away from them for everything exposed to users?
-.
-.IP "Where do I plug the cable?"
-Everyone needfully face this question at least once, be it the first time they own a computer.
-From the various connector shapes to choose from, to the various set of protocol the Universal USB connector supports,
-cables provoke confusion to cable-haters and computer neophytes.
-.
-.IP "Cables are ugly"
-It might not be true for everyone, but computer manufacturers seems to say differently.
-Starting with the name "wireless", that comes by opposition to wires, supposing they were something to avoid.
-Cable management is a full time job for datacenter jockeys, and a chore for the cable-hating computer user.
-.
-.IP "Cables are immobile"
-Unless making use of an uncommon cable management strategy,
-objects connected to cables cannot be carried too far away without unplugging everything devices are connected to.
-.
-.PP
-So here comes wireless.
-While not frequent in large computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the market along with battery devices.
-Using radio waves to make device talk to each other, at various frequencies, modulation, datarate and distance.
-Ready to sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make itself more seducing to the market,
-marketting perpetuates the same illusion of making computer troubles fade away with wireless.
-.
-.PP
-From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases and compmlexity,
-to the security vulnerabilities of Wi-Fi,
-to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth,
-to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan,
-to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to wires,
-to the black box of wireless broadband such as UTMS and LTE,
-Wireless does not have the same fame among developers valuing simplicity and reliability.
-.
-.PP
-Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless such as Bluetooth,
-and disrecommand it for use by militaries:
-.FS
-https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_Web.pdf
-.FE
-.
-.
-.QP
-Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive, store, or process classified information.
-.
-.PP
-Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled with culture.
-While marketting pushed engineers from the wireless cliff,
-long before computer came, radio waves were put at good use in the most simple forms: radio communication.
-From the AM and FM radio stations to listen while on the road,
-the medium-range boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even satellite communications,
-hobbyists building-up their own antennas for inter-continental communication,
-garage door openners and remotely controlled drones...
-.
-.PP
-Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a special case of radio communication,
-and simple unobfuscated methods of communication are possible, and even frequent.
-.
-.PP
-Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver
-.FS
-https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
-.FE
-to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF
-.FS
-https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/
-.FE
-or LimeSDR
-.FS
-https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/
-.FE
-among others, the gears for letting one experiment with radio transmissions.
-.
-.PP
-Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication,
-and its chapter 1 section 1 is \fIDo-It-Yourself Wireless\fR.
-.
-.PP
-This is an invitation for everyone to discover or rediscover the universe of electromagnetic fields communication.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Breathing-Open-Source.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Breathing-Open-Source.mw
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-.SH tgtimes
-Open-Source Breathing
-.
-.PP
-The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could
-be to get open hardware medical devices.
-.
-The Freespireco
-.FS
-https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/
-.FE
-project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely
-Open Hardware project.
-.
-.PP
-The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is
-reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be
-accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications
-needed before being allowed to the medical device market.
-.
-.PP
-There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial
-respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project
-have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long
-road to go.
-.
-.PP
-It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical
-devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification:
-designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing
-standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial
-port directly from the device).
-.
-.PP
-The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust.
-Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that
-are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing
-repair or even inspection.
-.
-.PP
-In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing the Outter Space.
-And it is, as crazy as it looks, far from impossible to contribute to
-space research even without a diploma: The RTEMS
-.FS
-https://rtems.org/
-.FE
-project is open to contribution.
-.
-.PP
-But that does not discourage the authors of the respirator project to keep going.
-Not in a blind trust for the medical industry,
-but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy made in a garage.
-With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is done",
-and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-Forth-Programming.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-Forth-Programming.mw
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
.SH tgtimes
Embedded Forth Programming
+.2C 10v
.
.PP
Big computers can run large and complex programming languages,
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ They serve their purpose to embedded enthusiasts as educational and scripting la
But small "language in a nutshell" are fitting right the small resources of microcontrollers.
This is the case of Forth and its stack-machine approach.
.
+.1C
+.
.IP Mecrisp Forth - http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/
This implementation immediately targets microcontrollers.
See for instance the work of librehacker.com author Christopher Howard.
@@ -33,8 +36,6 @@ among the mosts critical pieces of software of a shuttle.
.
.IP https://github.com/corecode/forth
Among notable Forth projects is Simon "corecode" Schubert's nimble forth implementation
-.FS
-.FE
as well as hardware code describing the working of a CPU that executes Forth natively
.FS
https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu
@@ -76,8 +77,6 @@ Forth is, to my knowledge, the most compact language allowing high level constru
.
.IP "gopher://retroforth.org/ https://retroforth.org/"
A forth implemented in C, Python, C#, Nim, JavaScript and Pascal!
-.FS
-.FE
The C version permits to embed the script into a binary along with the interpreter,
for a single-binary deployment process.
The more classic way to use it is to use shebangs scripts to have executable scripts.
@@ -140,6 +139,8 @@ 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
+.
.PP
Such a large tool chest for such a small language.
With the Covid, Wars under disguise, and other supply chain troubles,
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Gopher-Podcast-Search.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Gopher-Podcast-Search.mw
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-.SH tgtimes
-Search podcasts via Gopher
-.
-.PP
-Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer?
-Maybe you considered to have something to listen to on the road or while cooking.
-.
-.PP
-Combining many different sources, you may encounter some heirlooms
-by searching through this gopher front-end for podcast search.
-.FS
-gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
-.FE
-.
-.PP
-The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts,
-and extracts the RSS links for you,
-so you do not have to search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS button.
-.
-.PP
-For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I tried searching for it:
-"Amp Hour" in the search field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast",
-that was quickly added to my list of RSS feeds in a blast.
-.
-.PP
-Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to automate a script searching for podcasts, then
-downloading the entries and uploading them to an MP3 player of any kind
-(dedicated, or as part of a phone or other portable computer).
-.
-.PP
-Want to know more about it?
-One place to discuss about it is the Bitreich IRC server
-.FS
-ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
-.FE
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-IRCNow.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-IRCNow.mw
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-.SH tgtimes
-A new IRC network: IRCNow!
-.
-.PP
-A new IRC network is in town!
-.FS
-irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667
-ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697
-.FE
-.
-Ever wanted to feel what an early community looks like?
-The admin jrmu brought the project together, and is currently collecting users along the way.
-.
-.PP
-Whether you looked for a place to host your own community,
-or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from fertile ground,
-the community is welcoming and active.
-.
-.QP
-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,
-the community is oriented toward serious teaching of unix command line and system administration to anyone,
-from beginners to advanced users seeking improvement.
-.
-.PP
-In-person teaching sessions were covered during the LibrePlanet 2022 event
-.FS
-https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf
-.FE
-with recording of a test-run of the event
-.FS
-the voice only starts from 0h20m
-talking about Gopher at 1h15m
-https://0x0.st/oTal.webm
-.FE
-where future and present hackers met together working our their system administration and community building skills.
-.
-Linux Magazine also ran an interview giving a good impression about the spirit of the project:
-.FS
-https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
-.FE
-.
-.PP
-Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with,
-IRCnow offers hosting services for
-IRC bouncers, Bots, E-Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts.
-.
-.PP
-The wiki itself features plenty of technical information on system administration as a support for its bootcamps,
-which offers a comfortable step-by-step introduction to a complete server administration.
-.FS
-https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp
-.FE
-I have often seen administrators hired with less than this much knowledge!
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Maemo-Leste-Update.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Maemo-Leste-Update.mw
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
.SH tgtimes
Maemo Leste keeps kicking in!
+.2C 31v
.
.PP
The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource powered hand-held computer.
@@ -42,5 +43,6 @@ The support for the inexpensive PinePhone means you can get a fully working linu
Grab it while it is hot, the lack of bloated prebuilt application forced into it by the vendor means it will not catch fire!
.
.FS
-https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-december-2021-january-april-2022.html
+https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-
+december-2021-january-april-2022.html
.FE
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encrypted-IRC.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encrypted-IRC.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+.SH darkfi
+Mallumo Encrypted IRC
+.2C 18v
+.
+.PP
+IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the advent of the Web.
+.
+.PP
+It still has users, it still has new network and communities initiatives springing out, it is alive.
+.
+.PP
+One single little touch it lacks is end-to-end encryption.
+Without it it is perfect for public communities such as software projects discussions and support chat, live event chats...
+but private 1-to-1 communication could suddenly become a good candidate for end-to-end encryption.
+.
+.PP
+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,
+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.
+.
+.PP
+With this plug-in dropped in the plugin folder,
+all private communication start by a simple key exchange over normal IRC,
+and the conversation upgrades to nacl-encrypted messages over regular IRC.
+.
+.PP
+There might not be any simpler way to encrypt peer-to-peer communication online.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo.mw
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-.SH darkfi
-The Mallumo Weechat Plugin
-.2C 10v
-.
-.PP
-IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the advent of the Web.
-.
-.PP
-It still has users, it still has new network and communities initiatives springing out, it is alive.
-.
-.PP
-One single little touch it lacks is end-to-end encryption.
-Without it it is perfect for public communities such as software projects discussions and support chat, live event chats...
-but private 1-to-1 communication could suddenly become a good candidate for end-to-end encryption.
-.
-.PP
-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,
-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.
-.
-.PP
-With this plug-in dropped in the plugin folder,
-all private communication start by a simple key exchange over normal IRC,
-and the conversation upgrades to nacl-encrypted messages over regular IRC.
-.
-.PP
-There might not be any simpler way to encrypt peer-to-peer communication online.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Open-Source-Breathing.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Open-Source-Breathing.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Open-Source Breathing
+.2C 30v
+.
+.PP
+The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could
+be to get open hardware medical devices.
+.
+The Freespireco
+.FS
+https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/
+.FE
+project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely
+Open Hardware project.
+.
+.PP
+The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is
+reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be
+accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications
+needed before being allowed to the medical device market.
+.
+.PP
+There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial
+respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project
+have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long
+road to go.
+.
+.PP
+It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical
+devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification:
+designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing
+standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial
+port directly from the device).
+.
+.PP
+The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust.
+Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that
+are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing
+repair or even inspection.
+.
+.PP
+In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing the Outter Space.
+And it is, as crazy as it looks, far from impossible to contribute to
+space research even without a diploma: The RTEMS
+.FS
+https://rtems.org/
+.FE
+project is open to contribution.
+.
+.PP
+But that does not discourage the authors of the respirator project to keep going.
+Not in a blind trust for the medical industry,
+but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy made in a garage.
+With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is done",
+and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Relics-of-Fast-Fourrier-Transform.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Relics-of-Fast-Fourrier-Transform.mw
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
.SH tgtimes
Relics of Fast Fourrier Transform
-.1C
+.2C 3v
.
.PP
In 1967, the Kooley-Tukey FFT algorythm (the one we all use now) was written in Fortran.
What the hell were they running it on, and what damned data were they feeding into it?!
.
+.1C
+.
.DS
SUBROUTINE FOUR1(DATA,NN,ISIGN)
C THE COOLEY-TUKEY FAST ROURIER TRANSFORM IN USASI BASIC FORTRAN
@@ -62,15 +64,21 @@ C SEE-- IEEE AUDIO TRANSACTIONS (JUNE 1967), SPECIAL ISSUE ON FFT.
END
.DE
.
+.1C
+.
.PP
And no, you \fBcannot\fR get the IEEE document because IEEE broke it up into pages and sells each page individually.
.
+.1C
+.
.DS
"PROGRAMS FOUR2 AND FOURT ARE AVAILABLE THAT RUN
C TWICE AS FAST AND OPERATE ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS WHOSE
C DIMENSIONS ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO POWERS OR TWO."
.DE
.
+.2C 15v
+.
.PP
But, this code was easy to port because it was small, so, to this day, we use it.
It was ported from Fortran to BASIC, then to C, then to C++ and everything else.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Search-Podcasts-With-Gopher.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Search-Podcasts-With-Gopher.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Search podcasts via Gopher
+.2C 20v
+.
+.PP
+Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer?
+Maybe you considered to have something to listen to on the road or while cooking.
+.
+.PP
+Combining many different sources, you may encounter some heirlooms
+by searching through this gopher front-end for podcast search.
+.FS
+gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
+.FE
+.
+.PP
+The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts,
+and extracts the RSS links for you,
+so you do not have to search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS button.
+.
+.PP
+For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I tried searching for it:
+"Amp Hour" in the search field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast",
+that was quickly added to my list of RSS feeds in a blast.
+.
+.PP
+Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to automate a script searching for podcasts, then
+downloading the entries and uploading them to an MP3 player of any kind
+(dedicated, or as part of a phone or other portable computer).
+.
+.PP
+Want to know more about it?
+One place to discuss about it is the Bitreich IRC server
+.FS
+ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
+.FE
DIR diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-Wireless-Wireless-Everywhere.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-Wireless-Wireless-Everywhere.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Wireless, wireless everywhere
+.2C 60v
+.
+.PP
+Wires! Cables! Connectors!
+Computer and electric systems seems to befriend with plugs and sockets.
+Why is the computer industry running away from them for everything exposed to users?
+.
+.IP "Where do I plug the cable?"
+Everyone needfully face this question at least once, be it the first time they own a computer.
+From the various connector shapes to choose from, to the various set of protocol the Universal USB connector supports,
+cables provoke confusion to cable-haters and computer neophytes.
+.
+.IP "Cables are ugly"
+It might not be true for everyone, but computer manufacturers seems to say differently.
+Starting with the name "wireless", that comes by opposition to wires, supposing they were something to avoid.
+Cable management is a full time job for datacenter jockeys, and a chore for the cable-hating computer user.
+.
+.IP "Cables are immobile"
+Unless making use of an uncommon cable management strategy,
+objects connected to cables cannot be carried too far away without unplugging everything devices are connected to.
+.
+.PP
+So here comes wireless.
+While not frequent in large computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the market along with battery devices.
+Using radio waves to make device talk to each other, at various frequencies, modulation, datarate and distance.
+Ready to sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make itself more seducing to the market,
+marketting perpetuates the same illusion of making computer troubles fade away with wireless.
+.
+.PP
+From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases and compmlexity,
+to the security vulnerabilities of Wi-Fi,
+to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth,
+to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan,
+to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to wires,
+to the black box of wireless broadband such as UTMS and LTE,
+Wireless does not have the same fame among developers valuing simplicity and reliability.
+.
+.PP
+Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless such as Bluetooth,
+and disrecommand it for use by militaries:
+.FS
+https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/
+ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_Web.pdf
+.FE
+.
+.QP
+Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive, store, or process classified information.
+.
+.PP
+Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled with culture.
+While marketting pushed engineers from the wireless cliff,
+long before computer came, radio waves were put at good use in the most simple forms: radio communication.
+From the AM and FM radio stations to listen while on the road,
+the medium-range boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even satellite communications,
+hobbyists building-up their own antennas for inter-continental communication,
+garage door openners and remotely controlled drones...
+.
+.PP
+Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a special case of radio communication,
+and simple unobfuscated methods of communication are possible, and even frequent.
+.
+.PP
+Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver
+.FS
+https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
+.FE
+to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF
+.FS
+https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/
+.FE
+or LimeSDR
+.FS
+https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/
+.FE
+among others, the gears for letting one experiment with radio transmissions.
+.
+.PP
+Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication,
+and its chapter 1 section 1 is \fIDo-It-Yourself Wireless\fR.
+.
+.PP
+This is an invitation for everyone to discover or rediscover the universe of electromagnetic fields communication.
DIR diff --git a/opus5/footer.mw b/opus5/footer.mw
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH you
Publishing in The Gopher Times
-.2C 7v
+.2C 12v
.
.PP
Want your article published?
@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ 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/
DIR diff --git a/opus5/tgtimes5.mw b/opus5/tgtimes5.mw
@@ -4,20 +4,22 @@ The Gopher Times
Opus 5 - Gopher news and more - May. 2022
.AE
.
-.so opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw
-.so opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildgaard:-Only-Turtle-Fans.mw
+.so opus5/article-bitreich-Bitreich-Con-2022-Come-and-Talk.mw
.so opus5/article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw
+.so opus5/article-bitreich-Prof-Skildgaard:-Only-Turtle-Fans.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Synthetic-Ascii-Art.mw
-.so opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw
+.so opus5/article-bitreich-BIG-BROWSER-IS-WATCHING-YOU.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Sailing-With-Grace.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Bluetooth-Brain.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Breathing-Open-Source.mw
+.so opus5/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.5-Released.mw
+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Wireless-Wireless-Everywhere.mw
+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Open-Source-Breathing.mw
+.so opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Embedded-Forth-Programming.mw
+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-A-New-IRC-Network-IRCNow.mw
+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Search-Podcasts-With-Gopher.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Relics-of-Fast-Fourrier-Transform.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Gopher-Podcast-Search.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-IRCNow.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Maemo-Leste-Update.mw
.so opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know-Do-Not-Ask-Me.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo.mw
+.so opus5/article-tgtimes-Mallumo-Encrypted-IRC.mw
.
.so opus5/footer.mw
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
@@ -11,191 +11,80 @@ ____________________________________________________________

- 20h Presents: Geomyidae 20h
-____________________________________________________________
-
- This project existed since a while, and kept improv-
- ing. In this interview with 20h, he shows us what
- Geomyidae's got under the hood.
-
- >> What is Geomyidae?
-
- Geomyidae is a Unix/Linux daemon/service serving the
- gopher protocol.
-
- >> So what is gopher?
-
- Gopher here is an internet protocol, which was first
- developed at the University of Minnesota. After its
- short success, it declined, but is now striving again
- to be used for its simplicity and hierarchy. For bet-
- ter visual display of your gopher experience, use
- something like links, lynx or sacc. Those are gopher
- clients.
-
- >> How does Geomyidae help with getting started with
- gopher?
-
- The installation of Geomyidae is very simple. You can
- setup your Geomyidae right away:
-____________________________________________________________
-
- git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae
- cd geomyidae
- make
- curl -s gopher://localhost:7070
+ Bitreich Con 2022, Come and Talk! 20h
____________________________________________________________

- Yes, curl supports gopher! And it supports gopher and
- TLS too!
-
- >> Are there many alternatives among gopher daemons?
-
- Yes, there are many. Some are there due to historical
- reasons, others have gone out of shape over time. One
- of the most popular alternatives is pygopherd.
-
- >> How does Geomyidae compares to other implementa-
- tions?
-
- Geomyidae offers a unique simple way of expressing go-
- pher content. See the manpage or the examples in the
- source for how .gph files are formatted. And it does
- just what you want it to do. No strange abstraction
- files like in the original gopher daemons are the de-
- fault way. In the newest release of Geomyidae compat-
- ibility scripts were added. But those are to preserve
- the unique history of gopher.
-
- >> Did Geomyidae have significant evolutions since the
- beginning?
-
- Yes. Originally Geomyidae was named gopherd for Plan
- 9. It then was ported over to Linux. On Linux it was
- renamed to Geomyidae. During that development much
- has happened: There were significant speedups (due to
- the patches and work of other people!), features were
- added especially in new dynamic content handling. You
- can easily see all features in the documentation and
- especially the simple manpage.
-
- >> Does Geomyidae work with all gopher clients?
-
- Yes. Geomyidae supports the original protocol from
- the beginning, up to modern gopher with TLS. For the
- intermediary gopher+ protocol there is a compatibility
- layer.
-
- >> Has NSA inserted a backdoor onto Geomyidae?
-
- I am not allowed to tell you.
-
- >> How does gopher help with privacy?
-
- The gopher protocol has the unique property that all
- data you send over the line can be easily controlled
- and seen. This is different to HTTP, where headers,
- HTML and Javascript got so complex, it is uncontrol-
- lable. See the gopher onion project [1] for how to
- combine this with tor for total privacy and anonymity.
-
- >> Are there TLS support on some gopher clients al-
- ready?
-
- 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),
-
- >> Are there been any evolution of the gopher protocol
- itself since the beginning of Geomyidae?
+ Greetings at 852.770114854 km/h, 34943.004 miles over
+ the Atlantic Ocean.

- The technology used is simple. Gopher does not allow
- requests, which begin with the first bytes of a TLS
- request. So any proper and old gopher daemon will
- simply refuse the connection. Then the client is free
- to reconnect without TLS based on its security config-
- uration. Any ISDN line will handle such probing re-
- quests for TLS easily.
+ This is a happy reminder, that in 60 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>

- >> Did Geomyidae have to adapt itself to the gopher
- protocol? Did it make gopher change?
+ There will be two parts:

- Geomyidae changed the part of gophespace it was able
- to reach. Many servers run on Geomyidae. There is
- software written just for Geomyidae and its gph for-
- mat. The TLS extension of the protocol came from Bi-
- treich / Geomyidae. We also set the standard to sim-
- 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,&,
+ July 25th to 28th Online presentations, then one day
+ to get to Belgrade

- >> Have you seen Geomyidae ever used outside a hobby
- project?
+ July 30th to 31st We will be in presence, having fun
+ in Belgrade, Serbia.

- Well, Bitreich is serious in changing the software
- world. Most of gopherspace is »hobby projects«. But
- then, most of gopherspace is made from heart blood and
- love, which makes it part of the life of the authors.
+ If you want to hold a presention of your interest,
+ please see the Call for Papers: [1] and send your pro-
+ posal to Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>

- >> Is Geomyidae ready for non-hobby uses?
+ There is already a wide variety of topics registered,
+ from medicine to simple software over geology and
+ hopefully a special greeting from our science supervi-
+ sor Prof. Skildgaard who wants to give advices to all
+ of us humans.

- Geomyidae is ready for any use. It is stable and op-
- timized to scale better than the cloud.
+ See you online and in presence!

- >> Geomyidae uses ".gph" files.
+ Sincerely yours,

- Does it replace the gophermap standard? Yes, in Ge-
- omyidae it does. Gph is simpler and easier to adapt
- to, especially when you come from some markup world.
+ 20h Chief Conference Officer (CCO)
+ 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2022

- >> Does Geomyidae support dynamic pages?

- Geomyidae supports two forms of dynamic pages: One
- which uses the gph markup and one, where the
- script/application outputs raw gopher output. Addi-
- tionally it supports in the latest release a form of
- REST, where paths are transformed into arguments to
- scripts. There is also support for
- index.dcgi/index.cgi scripts to have better looking
- paths and URIs.

- >> Is Geomyidae already packaged in some Linux/BSD
- distributions?

- As far as I know it is packaged in gentoo, Archlinux
- (and more), all BSDs. Since it is so simple to pack-
- age: Just extract the tarball, run make and make in-
- stall, the packages are easily made for any package
- manager.
+ Animated ASCII art linuxconsole
+____________________________________________________________

- >> What is planned for the next releases of Geomyidae?
+ With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, it
+ would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the
+ two in animated ASCII art. Courtesy of textfiles.com,
+ we can browse through a collection of 93 animated
+ ASCII pieces of arts. [1]

- As of now I have worked through my whole long-standing
- TODO list for Geomyidae. New ideas will evolve from
- people sending in patches or through practical need.
- Geomyidae follows the Bitreich manifesto [2] where a
- software can be done.
+ The animation speed will likely be too high for a ter-
+ minal, and can be slowed down with the throttle(1)
+ program as advised by linuxconsole.net, or with the
+ script below:
+ 1 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
+ http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html
+____________________________________________________________

- >> How to get involved? Getting help, discussing, bug
- hunting, code contribution, documentation...
+ curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt |
+ while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done
+____________________________________________________________

- If anyone wants to get involved, first download Ge-
- omyidae, run it, have fun using it, creating gopher
- content. If you run into problems, have patches or
- suggestions, come on IRC [3] and discuss with us your
- problem. For e-mail, send such requests to 20h@r-
- 36.net. All contact is in the manpage too.
+ You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal
+ normal again after watching.

- >> Can I have an ice cream?
+ 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:

- Yes, you will get one, once we meet again.
- 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion
+ https://www.asciimation.co.nz/
+ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

- 2 gopher://bitreich.org/0/documents/bitreich-manifesto.md
- 3 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
+ These characters transmitted through one protocol or
+ another, whispers to us, through our terminal screen,
+ fruit of the imagination of plain text artists.

@@ -223,209 +112,48 @@ ____________________________________________________________

- I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me josuah
+ Synthetic ASCII Art tgtimes
____________________________________________________________

- The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that can-
- not be ignored anymore: NSA (among others) is watching
- you (among others).
-
- Does that change anything to my everyday life? Proba-
- bly not, they already were before you knew about it.
- Should I do anything about it? No answer. The eter-
- nal doubt that modern society is famous for:
+ Sometimes, an entirely new way to approach problems is
+ found. The media is often fond of covering these top-
+ ics, be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine
+ learning... With these big toys come people experi-
+ menting with it.

- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+ This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learn-
+ ing and ASCII art.

- That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a su-
- permarket and see the mess of wires, tubes, cables and
- neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in
- white... The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as
- if taken straight out of the Brazil [1] movie.
+ I was expecting to present cute attempts at drawing
+ images with computer-made text, but this is nothing of
+ the sort. Be prepared to see Science at the service
+ of Art.

- A landscape that is in such opposition with the images
- of every product being sold, picturing what more or
- less fits the collective imagery of "house of my
- grandparents in back-country", promising a natural en-
- vironment... Where did they even find all these land-
- scapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere,
- tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses or wind tur-
- bines to put on these product label background images?
+ Generated Typewriter Art This research paper (no
+ less!) shows that it is possible to write software
+ for placing characters, later typed during 6 hours
+ by a human operator (for this example). It is un-
+ settling to see details much smaller than the char-
+ acters themself be drawn on paper, along with shades
+ of grey of various intensities. [1]

- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
-
- How did such a landscape, neon distopia pictures that
- seems straight out of /r/cyberpunk post or the latest
- Blade Runner, got invited into the cozzy bubble of the
- average citizen? [2] Who made these places so ugly?
- Why do I feel like human is being considered like cat-
- tle in these kind of places?
-
- >> 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?
- Thieves? Who is checking? Software? Peoples? Are mar-
- ketting people looking at these pictures? Of me too?
- What do they think of me? Did they look at my hand
- hesitating between these two products?
-
- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
-
- Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on a
- backpack barely full, with a small cup filled with
- coins, looking a bit panicked, looking a bit dirty,
- looking a bit lost, sometimes even a bit drunk. Occa-
- sionally they will ask you for another coin to add to
- their small collection. Passerbys offer them a lie
- such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no,
- sorry", keep walking faster without looking, and even-
- tually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going be-
- fore they got asked for more. What did happen to
- them? Did they choose to live here? How can I know it
- will never happen to me? Why do I feel bad if I do
- not give them what they ask? Why do I feel bad if I
- give them what they ask?
-
- >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
- weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
-
- Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here: Writ-
- ing this, I am not asking these questions to you, nei-
- ther you are asking these questions to yourself. The
- places are asking these questions to you themself.
-
- By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but dis-
- playing eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not
- even exist, it is obvious that people will notice the
- disbalance between the two.
-
- By placing cameras filming every square meter of such
- a place, or even a whole city, it is obvious that peo-
- ple will wonder at some point, who is behind the
- screen reviewing these images.
-
- The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even
- hint about the answer. We are left in the doubt, let-
- ting some ensure "it is just in case of a thief, the
- police officer is going to watch" or other affirm
- "they are using these images to study how we think to
- better control us!".
-
- Such divergent claims based on convictions, the tech-
- nician installing these cameras up there has no hint
- either, its manager followed the recommandations of
- the mothership company, itself getting directions from
- the parent investor group who lately purchased the
- brand, who themself are only trying to keep-up with
- the most up to date business practices, read on an on-
- line newspaper article recommanded by a colleague.
-
- I stopped to care about these silly things since long.
- I came back to the real world for the better. I live
- my life and it works plenty well, so why would I care?
-
- >> So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my
- gut, there is a voice whispering to me, that's
- something's wrong. [3]
-
- The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is:
- you do not get too many answers about how the whole
- thing works.
-
- 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
- 2 https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg
-
- 3 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q
-
-
-
- Animated ASCII art linuxconsole
-____________________________________________________________
-
- With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, it
- would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the
- two in animated ASCII art. Courtesy of textfiles.com,
- we can browse through a collection of 93 animated
- ASCII pieces of arts. [1]
-
- The animation speed will likely be too high for a ter-
- minal, and can be slowed down with the throttle(1)
- program as advised by linuxconsole.net, or with the
- script below:
-
- curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt |
- while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done
-
- 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:
-
- 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.
-
-
- 1 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
- http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html
-
-
-
- Synthetic ASCII Art tgtimes
-____________________________________________________________
-
- Sometimes, an entirely new way to approach problems is
- found. The media is often fond of covering these top-
- ics, be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine
- learning... With these big toys come people experi-
- menting with it.
-
- This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learn-
- ing and ASCII art.
-
- I was expecting to present cute attempts at drawing
- images with computer-made text, but this is nothing of
- the sort. Be prepared to see Science at the service
- of Art.
-
- Generated Typewriter Art This research paper (no
- less!) shows that it is possible to write software
- for placing characters, later typed during 6 hours
- by a human operator (for this example). It is un-
- settling to see details much smaller than the char-
- acters themself be drawn on paper, along with shades
- of grey of various intensities. [1]
-
- Generated ASCII Art in 2010 This is possibly the state
- of the art of 2010 technology. It was announced in
- the yearly conference SIGGRAPH hence presented to an
- audience full of computer graphics engineers. The
- work of three researchers from Hong Kong, Xuemiao
- Xu, Linling Zhang and Tien-Tsin Wong, shows results
- of surprising accuracy. The story does not tell
- whether there ever was a job offer "looking for
- ASCII artists for a scientific experiment" posted on
- the job board of the Chinese University of Hong
- Kong. While the paper contains the complete math
- used, it also illustrates and explains methods to
- acheive this level of accuracy. And no, it is not
- exactly machine learning, but hand-crafted strate-
- gies, combined statistics and other data massaging.
- After all, it was published five years before things
- like Tensor Flow were introduced... [2]
+ Generated ASCII Art in 2010 This is possibly the state
+ of the art of 2010 technology. It was announced in
+ the yearly conference SIGGRAPH hence presented to an
+ audience full of computer graphics engineers. The
+ work of three researchers from Hong Kong, Xuemiao
+ Xu, Linling Zhang and Tien-Tsin Wong, shows results
+ of surprising accuracy. The story does not tell
+ whether there ever was a job offer "looking for
+ ASCII artists for a scientific experiment" posted on
+ the job board of the Chinese University of Hong
+ Kong. While the paper contains the complete math
+ used, it also illustrates and explains methods to
+ acheive this level of accuracy. And no, it is not
+ exactly machine learning, but hand-crafted strate-
+ gies, combined statistics and other data massaging.
+ After all, it was published five years before things
+ like Tensor Flow were introduced... [2]

Generated ASCII Art in 2017 Is seven years enough time
to improve upon that previous acheivement? Quoting
@@ -472,6 +200,103 @@ ____________________________________________________________

+ BIG BROWSER IS WATCHING YOU! 20h
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Are you feeling watched all the time? Do you feel un-
+ sure when doing something nasty? It is true, you are
+ watched: By BIG BROWSER. Whenever you use the web,
+ someone else is masturbating to your web history.
+
+ You want to know how to be able to do nasty things on-
+ line without someone masturbating to it? Come to br-
+ con2022 and find out more. [1]
+
+ This time online and in presence!
+
+ See you there!
+
+ Sincerely yours,
+
+ 20h Chief Espionage Officer (CEO)
+
+ 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2022
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+ This is the world of Sailing that awaits each of us,
+ for a single trip hosted by a well proven crew, or as
+ a lone sailor braving tempests after tempests.
+
+ Sailing blogs are definitely a good opportunity to
+ dream, the instant of an article.
+
+ This blog, Sailing With Grace, has taken the decision
+ of offering all its content through HTTP, but also
+ 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?
+
+ It always was to begin with, so why would it not? Are
+ people less able to use computers now than they was
+ before the web came? The discussion is open.
+
+ 1 gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com
+
+
+
+ sfeed 1.5 Released Hiltjo
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ sfeed [1] is a tool to convert RSS or Atom feeds from
+ XML to a TAB-separated file.
+
+ 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.
+
+ o sfeed_curses: close stdin before spawning a plumb
+ program in non-interactive mode, which is more intu-
+ itive: the program doesn't seem to hang when it ex-
+ pects input in this case since there is no way to
+ send input anyway.
+
+ o Properly escape backslashes in the man pages (thanks
+ adc!).
+
+ 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,
+
+ Thanks, Hiltjo
+
+ 1 git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed
+ gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed
+ https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/
+ gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed/
+
+
+
Wireless, wireless everywhere tgtimes
____________________________________________________________

@@ -496,130 +321,322 @@ ____________________________________________________________
acenter jockeys, and a chore for the cable-hating
computer user.

- Cables are immobile Unless making use of an uncommon
- cable management strategy, objects connected to ca-
- bles cannot be carried too far away without unplug-
- ging everything devices are connected to.
+ Cables are immobile Unless making use of an uncommon
+ cable management strategy, objects connected to ca-
+ bles cannot be carried too far away without unplug-
+ ging everything devices are connected to.
+
+ So here comes wireless. While not frequent in large
+ computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the mar-
+ ket along with battery devices. Using radio waves to
+ make device talk to each other, at various frequen-
+ cies, modulation, datarate and distance. Ready to
+ sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make it-
+ self more seducing to the market, marketting perpetu-
+ ates the same illusion of making computer troubles
+ fade away with wireless.
+
+ From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases
+ and compmlexity, to the security vulnerabilities of
+ Wi-Fi, to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth,
+ to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan,
+ to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to
+ wires, to the black box of wireless broadband such as
+ UTMS and LTE, Wireless does not have the same fame
+ among developers valuing simplicity and reliability.
+
+ Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless
+ such as Bluetooth, and disrecommand it for use by mil-
+ itaries: [1]
+
+ >> Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive,
+ store, or process classified information.
+
+ Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled
+ with culture. While marketting pushed engineers from
+ the wireless cliff, long before computer came, radio
+ waves were put at good use in the most simple forms:
+ radio communication. From the AM and FM radio sta-
+ tions to listen while on the road, the medium-range
+ boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even
+ satellite communications, hobbyists building-up their
+ own antennas for inter-continental communication,
+ garage door openners and remotely controlled drones...
+
+ Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a spe-
+ cial case of radio communication, and simple unobfus-
+ cated methods of communication are possible, and even
+ frequent.
+
+ Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver
+ [2] to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF [3]
+ or LimeSDR [4] among others, the gears for letting one
+ experiment with radio transmissions.
+
+ Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is
+ publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication,
+ and its chapter 1 section 1 is Do-It-Yourself Wire-
+ less.
+
+ This is an invitation for everyone to discover or re-
+ discover the universe of electromagnetic fields commu-
+ nication.
+
+ 1 https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/
+ ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_Web.pdf
+ 2 https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
+
+ 3 https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/
+ 4 https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/
+
+
+
+
+ Open-Source Breathing tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The previous opus had a word or two about how diffi-
+ cult it could be to get open hardware medical devices.
+ The Freespireco [1] project aims to bring a respirator
+ device to life as a completely Open Hardware project.
+
+ The challenge is not coming-up with something that
+ works and is reliable, but instead to provide a struc-
+ ture robust enough to be accepted (and funded) for
+ performing all the necessary certifications needed be-
+ fore being allowed to the medical device market.
+
+ There are usually categories of criticalities, and an
+ artificial respirator is not escaping to the rule. The
+ organiser of the project have pursued this goal since
+ long, and might likely have a very long road to go.
+
+ It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for crit-
+ ical medical devices, step-by-step paving up the road
+ toward certification: designing and building devices
+ to test these equipment, issuing standards for data
+ (like a JSON schema received over a serial port di-
+ rectly from the device).
+
+ The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor
+ for trust. Precious argument for facing big pharma
+ equipment vendors that are having an interest in lock-
+ ing their device down, preventing repair or even in-
+ spection.
+
+ In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing
+ the Outter Space. And it is, as crazy as it looks,
+ far from impossible to contribute to space research
+ even without a diploma: The RTEMS [2] project is open
+ to contribution.
+
+ But that does not discourage the authors of the respi-
+ rator project to keep going. Not in a blind trust for
+ the medical industry, but in full foresight that no-
+ body would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy
+ made in a garage. With this reality in mind, "what-
+ ever it takes" turns into "whatever is done", and the
+ road to certification progresses, one breath at a
+ time.
+ 1 https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/
+
+ 2 https://rtems.org/
+
+
+
+ 20h Presents: Geomyidae 20h
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ This project existed since a while, and kept improv-
+ ing. In this interview with 20h, he shows us what
+ Geomyidae's got under the hood.
+
+ >> What is Geomyidae?
+
+ Geomyidae is a Unix/Linux daemon/service serving the
+ gopher protocol.
+
+ >> So what is gopher?
+
+ Gopher here is an internet protocol, which was first
+ developed at the University of Minnesota. After its
+ short success, it declined, but is now striving again
+ to be used for its simplicity and hierarchy. For bet-
+ ter visual display of your gopher experience, use
+ something like links, lynx or sacc. Those are gopher
+ clients.
+
+ >> How does Geomyidae help with getting started with
+ gopher?
+
+ The installation of Geomyidae is very simple. You can
+ setup your Geomyidae right away:
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae
+ cd geomyidae
+ make
+ curl -s gopher://localhost:7070
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Yes, curl supports gopher! And it supports gopher and
+ TLS too!
+
+ >> Are there many alternatives among gopher daemons?
+
+ Yes, there are many. Some are there due to historical
+ reasons, others have gone out of shape over time. One
+ of the most popular alternatives is pygopherd.
+
+ >> How does Geomyidae compares to other implementa-
+ tions?
+
+ Geomyidae offers a unique simple way of expressing go-
+ pher content. See the manpage or the examples in the
+ source for how .gph files are formatted. And it does
+ just what you want it to do. No strange abstraction
+ files like in the original gopher daemons are the de-
+ fault way. In the newest release of Geomyidae compat-
+ ibility scripts were added. But those are to preserve
+ the unique history of gopher.
+
+ >> Did Geomyidae have significant evolutions since the
+ beginning?
+
+ Yes. Originally Geomyidae was named gopherd for Plan
+ 9. It then was ported over to Linux. On Linux it was
+ renamed to Geomyidae. During that development much
+ has happened: There were significant speedups (due to
+ the patches and work of other people!), features were
+ added especially in new dynamic content handling. You
+ can easily see all features in the documentation and
+ especially the simple manpage.
+
+ >> Does Geomyidae work with all gopher clients?
+
+ Yes. Geomyidae supports the original protocol from
+ the beginning, up to modern gopher with TLS. For the
+ intermediary gopher+ protocol there is a compatibility
+ layer.
+
+ >> Has NSA inserted a backdoor onto Geomyidae?
+
+ I am not allowed to tell you.
+
+ >> How does gopher help with privacy?
+
+ The gopher protocol has the unique property that all
+ data you send over the line can be easily controlled
+ and seen. This is different to HTTP, where headers,
+ HTML and Javascript got so complex, it is uncontrol-
+ lable. See the gopher onion project [1] for how to
+ combine this with tor for total privacy and anonymity.
+
+ >> Are there TLS support on some gopher clients al-
+ ready?

- So here comes wireless. While not frequent in large
- computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the mar-
- ket along with battery devices. Using radio waves to
- make device talk to each other, at various frequen-
- cies, modulation, datarate and distance. Ready to
- sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make it-
- self more seducing to the market, marketting perpetu-
- ates the same illusion of making computer troubles
- fade away with wireless.
+ 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),

- From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases
- and compmlexity, to the security vulnerabilities of
- Wi-Fi, to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth,
- to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan,
- to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to
- wires, to the black box of wireless broadband such as
- UTMS and LTE, Wireless does not have the same fame
- among developers valuing simplicity and reliability.
+ >> Are there been any evolution of the gopher protocol
+ itself since the beginning of Geomyidae?

- Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless
- such as Bluetooth, and disrecommand it for use by mil-
- itaries: [1]
+ The technology used is simple. Gopher does not allow
+ requests, which begin with the first bytes of a TLS
+ request. So any proper and old gopher daemon will
+ simply refuse the connection. Then the client is free
+ to reconnect without TLS based on its security config-
+ uration. Any ISDN line will handle such probing re-
+ quests for TLS easily.

- >> Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive,
- store, or process classified information.
+ >> Did Geomyidae have to adapt itself to the gopher
+ protocol? Did it make gopher change?

- Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled
- with culture. While marketting pushed engineers from
- the wireless cliff, long before computer came, radio
- waves were put at good use in the most simple forms:
- radio communication. From the AM and FM radio sta-
- tions to listen while on the road, the medium-range
- boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even
- satellite communications, hobbyists building-up their
- own antennas for inter-continental communication,
- garage door openners and remotely controlled drones...
+ Geomyidae changed the part of gophespace it was able
+ to reach. Many servers run on Geomyidae. There is
+ software written just for Geomyidae and its gph for-
+ mat. The TLS extension of the protocol came from Bi-
+ treich / Geomyidae. We also set the standard to sim-
+ 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,&,

- Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a spe-
- cial case of radio communication, and simple unobfus-
- cated methods of communication are possible, and even
- frequent.
+ >> Have you seen Geomyidae ever used outside a hobby
+ project?

- Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver
- [2] to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF [3]
- or LimeSDR [4] among others, the gears for letting one
- experiment with radio transmissions.
+ Well, Bitreich is serious in changing the software
+ world. Most of gopherspace is »hobby projects«. But
+ then, most of gopherspace is made from heart blood and
+ love, which makes it part of the life of the authors.

- Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is
- publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication,
- and its chapter 1 section 1 is Do-It-Yourself Wire-
- less.
+ >> Is Geomyidae ready for non-hobby uses?

- This is an invitation for everyone to discover or re-
- discover the universe of electromagnetic fields commu-
- nication.
+ Geomyidae is ready for any use. It is stable and op-
+ timized to scale better than the cloud.

- 1 https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_Web.pdf
- 2 https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
+ >> Geomyidae uses ".gph" files.

- 3 https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/
- 4 https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/
+ Does it replace the gophermap standard? Yes, in Ge-
+ omyidae it does. Gph is simpler and easier to adapt
+ to, especially when you come from some markup world.

+ >> Does Geomyidae support dynamic pages?

+ Geomyidae supports two forms of dynamic pages: One
+ which uses the gph markup and one, where the
+ script/application outputs raw gopher output. Addi-
+ tionally it supports in the latest release a form of
+ REST, where paths are transformed into arguments to
+ scripts. There is also support for
+ index.dcgi/index.cgi scripts to have better looking
+ paths and URIs.

+ >> Is Geomyidae already packaged in some Linux/BSD
+ distributions?

- Open-Source Breathing tgtimes
+ As far as I know it is packaged in gentoo, Archlinux
+ (and more), all BSDs. Since it is so simple to pack-
+ age: Just extract the tarball, run make and make in-
+ stall, the packages are easily made for any package
+ manager.

- The previous opus had a word or two about how diffi-
- cult it could be to get open hardware medical devices.
- The Freespireco [1] project aims to bring a respirator
- device to life as a completely Open Hardware project.
+ >> What is planned for the next releases of Geomyidae?

- The challenge is not coming-up with something that
- works and is reliable, but instead to provide a struc-
- ture robust enough to be accepted (and funded) for
- performing all the necessary certifications needed be-
- fore being allowed to the medical device market.
+ As of now I have worked through my whole long-standing
+ TODO list for Geomyidae. New ideas will evolve from
+ people sending in patches or through practical need.
+ Geomyidae follows the Bitreich manifesto [2] where a
+ software can be done.

- There are usually categories of criticalities, and an
- artificial respirator is not escaping to the rule. The
- organiser of the project have pursued this goal since
- long, and might likely have a very long road to go.
+ >> How to get involved? Getting help, discussing, bug
+ hunting, code contribution, documentation...

- It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for crit-
- ical medical devices, step-by-step paving up the road
- toward certification: designing and building devices
- to test these equipment, issuing standards for data
- (like a JSON schema received over a serial port di-
- rectly from the device).
+ If anyone wants to get involved, first download Ge-
+ omyidae, run it, have fun using it, creating gopher
+ content. If you run into problems, have patches or
+ suggestions, come on IRC [3] and discuss with us your
+ problem. For e-mail, send such requests to 20h@r-
+ 36.net. All contact is in the manpage too.

- The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor
- for trust. Precious argument for facing big pharma
- equipment vendors that are having an interest in lock-
- ing their device down, preventing repair or even in-
- spection.
+ >> Can I have an ice cream?

- In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing
- the Outter Space. And it is, as crazy as it looks,
- far from impossible to contribute to space research
- even without a diploma: The RTEMS [2] project is open
- to contribution.
+ Yes, you will get one, once we meet again.

- But that does not discourage the authors of the respi-
- rator project to keep going. Not in a blind trust for
- the medical industry, but in full foresight that no-
- body would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy
- made in a garage. With this reality in mind, "what-
- ever it takes" turns into "whatever is done", and the
- road to certification progresses, one breath at a
- time.
- 1 https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/
+ 1 gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion
+ 2 gopher://bitreich.org/0/documents/bitreich-manifesto.md

- 2 https://rtems.org/
+ 3 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en

Embedded Forth Programming tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________

- Big computers can run large and complex programming
+ Big computers can run large and complex programming
languages, so what can small computer run?

Compiled languages, in particular those with a small
@@ -634,9 +651,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________
But small "language in a nutshell" are fitting right
the small resources of microcontrollers. This is the
case of Forth and its stack-machine approach.
+____________________________________________________________

Mecrisp This implementation immediately targets micro-
- controllers. See for instance the work of
+ controllers. See for instance the work of
librehacker.com author Christopher Howard. [1]

chipFORTH Another implementation of Forth, which were
@@ -646,15 +664,15 @@ ____________________________________________________________

https://github.com/corecode/forth Among notable Forth
projects is Simon "corecode" Schubert's nimble forth
- implementation [3] as well as hardware code describ-
- ing the working of a CPU that executes Forth na-
- tively [4]
+ implementation as well as hardware code describing
+ the working of a CPU that executes Forth natively
+ [3]

https://forth.chat/ If feeling like having a taste of
Forth and Forth community, there are several chan-
nels featuring forth that you could enjoy, some of
which are oriented toward hardware projects directly
- [5]
+ [4]

https://github.com/chmykh/apl-life This is Conway Game
of Life in APL in Forth What a long chain! It is APL
@@ -663,7 +681,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________

https://github.com/remko/waforth Feeling like pushing
the irony of "Web" assembly even further? Why not
- blasting a Forth implementation at it? [6] This
+ blasting a Forth implementation at it? [5] This
proves Forth as the new programming language en
vogue

@@ -682,7 +700,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________

gopher://retroforth.org/ https://retroforth.org/ A
forth implemented in C, Python, C#, Nim, JavaScript
- and Pascal! [7] The C version permits to embed the
+ and Pascal! The C version permits to embed the
script into a binary along with the interpreter, for
a single-binary deployment process. The more clas-
sic way to use it is to use shebangs scripts to have
@@ -699,7 +717,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________

http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua.retro.html A go-
pher server, already listed on the Gopher index of
- links, the Gopher Lawn [8]
+ links, the Gopher Lawn [6]

http://retroforth.org/examples/7080.retro.html A s

@@ -752,10 +770,11 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Forth as a scripting language. When a whole script-
ing language fits on a thumb, putting it everywhere
costs nothing!
+____________________________________________________________

- 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
+ 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
trying times, anyone is welcome to go Forth.

@@ -763,16 +782,104 @@ ____________________________________________________________
gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220305-0.gmi
2 https://www.forth.com/space-shuttle-instrumentation-interface/

- 3
- 4 https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu
+ 3 https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu
+ 4 ircs://irc.hackint.org/#forth-hardware-projects

- 5 ircs://irc.hackint.org/#forth-hardware-projects
- 6 https://el-tramo.be/waforth/
+ 5 https://el-tramo.be/waforth/
https://el-tramo.be/thurtle/
+ 6 bitreich.org/1/lawn/c/gopher.gph
+
+
+
+
+ A new IRC network: IRCNow! tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ A new IRC network is in town! [1] Ever wanted to feel
+ what an early community looks like? The admin jrmu
+ brought the project together, and is currently col-
+ lecting users along the way.
+
+ Whether you looked for a place to host your own commu-
+ nity, or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from
+ fertile ground, the community is welcoming and active.
+
+ >> 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
+ founder handle everything, the community is oriented
+ toward serious teaching of unix command line and sys-
+ tem administration to anyone, from beginners to ad-
+ vanced users seeking improvement.
+
+ In-person teaching sessions were covered during the
+ LibrePlanet 2022 event [2] with recording of a test-
+ run of the event [3] where future and present hackers
+ met together working our their system administration
+ and community building skills. Linux Magazine also
+ ran an interview giving a good impression about the
+ spirit of the project: [4]
+
+ Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with, IRCnow
+ offers hosting services for IRC bouncers, Bots, E-
+ Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts.
+
+ The wiki itself features plenty of technical informa-
+ 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!
+ 1 irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667
+ ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697
+
+ 2 https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf
+ 3 https://0x0.st/oTal.webm - 0h20m: audio starts - 1h15m: talking about Gopher
+
+ 4 https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
+ 5 https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp
+
+
+
+
+ Search podcasts via Gopher tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer? Maybe you con-
+ sidered to have something to listen to on the road or
+ while cooking.
+
+ Combining many different sources, you may encounter
+ some heirlooms by searching through this gopher
+ front-end for podcast search. [1]
+
+ The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS
+ link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts, and
+ extracts the RSS links for you, so you do not have to
+ search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS
+ button.
+
+ For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I
+ tried searching for it: "Amp Hour" in the search
+ field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour
+ Electronics Podcast", that was quickly added to my
+ list of RSS feeds in a blast.
+
+ Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to
+ automate a script searching for podcasts, then down-
+ loading the entries and uploading them to an MP3
+ player of any kind (dedicated, or as part of a phone
+ or other portable computer).

- 7
- 8 bitreich.org/1/lawn/c/gopher.gph
+ Want to know more about it? One place to discuss
+ about it is the Bitreich IRC server [2]
+ 1 gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod

+ 2 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en

@@ -783,6 +890,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
all use now) was written in Fortran. What the hell
were they running it on, and what damned data were
they feeding into it?!
+____________________________________________________________

SUBROUTINE FOUR1(DATA,NN,ISIGN)
C THE COOLEY-TUKEY FAST ROURIER TRANSFORM IN USASI BASIC FORTRAN
@@ -837,18 +945,21 @@ ____________________________________________________________
GO TO 6
9 RETURN
END
+____________________________________________________________

- And no, you cannot get the IEEE document because IEEE
- broke it up into pages and sells each page individu-
+ And no, you cannot get the IEEE document because IEEE
+ broke it up into pages and sells each page individu-
ally.
+____________________________________________________________

"PROGRAMS FOUR2 AND FOURT ARE AVAILABLE THAT RUN
C TWICE AS FAST AND OPERATE ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS WHOSE
C DIMENSIONS ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO POWERS OR TWO."
+____________________________________________________________

- But, this code was easy to port because it was small,
- so, to this day, we use it. It was ported from For-
- tran to BASIC, then to C, then to C++ and everything
+ But, this code was easy to port because it was small,
+ so, to this day, we use it. It was ported from For-
+ tran to BASIC, then to C, then to C++ and everything
else.

Nobody ever actually understood it, so they didn't fix
@@ -868,101 +979,11 @@ ____________________________________________________________

- Search podcasts via Gopher tgtimes
-
- Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer? Maybe you con-
- sidered to have something to listen to on the road or
- while cooking.
-
- Combining many different sources, you may encounter
- some heirlooms by searching through this gopher
- front-end for podcast search. [1]
-
- The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS
- link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts, and
- extracts the RSS links for you, so you do not have to
- search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS
- button.
-
- For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I
- tried searching for it: "Amp Hour" in the search
- field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour
- Electronics Podcast", that was quickly added to my
- list of RSS feeds in a blast.
-
- Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to
- automate a script searching for podcasts, then down-
- loading the entries and uploading them to an MP3
- player of any kind (dedicated, or as part of a phone
- or other portable computer).
-
- Want to know more about it? One place to discuss
- about it is the Bitreich IRC server [2]
-
- 1 gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
- 2 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
-
-
-
-
- A new IRC network: IRCNow! tgtimes
-
- A new IRC network is in town! [1] Ever wanted to feel
- what an early community looks like? The admin jrmu
- brought the project together, and is currently col-
- lecting users along the way.
-
- Whether you looked for a place to host your own commu-
- nity, or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from
- fertile ground, the community is welcoming and active.
-
- >> 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
- founder handle everything, the community is oriented
- toward serious teaching of unix command line and sys-
- tem administration to anyone, from beginners to ad-
- vanced users seeking improvement.
-
- In-person teaching sessions were covered during the
- LibrePlanet 2022 event [2] with recording of a test-
- run of the event [3] where future and present hackers
- met together working our their system administration
- and community building skills. Linux Magazine also
- ran an interview giving a good impression about the
- spirit of the project: [4]
-
- Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with, IRCnow
- offers hosting services for IRC bouncers, Bots, E-
- Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts.
-
- The wiki itself features plenty of technical informa-
- 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!
- 1 irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667
- ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697
-
- 2 https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf
- 3 the voice only starts from 0h20m
- talking about Gopher at 1h15m
- https://0x0.st/oTal.webm
-
- 4 https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
- 5 https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp
-
-
-

Maemo Leste keeps kicking in! tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________

- The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource pow-
+ The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource pow-
ered hand-held computer.

Where to start from? There can be two walls prevent-
@@ -1009,12 +1030,136 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Grab it while it is hot, the lack of bloated prebuilt
application forced into it by the vendor means it will
not catch fire! [1]
- 1 https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-december-2021-january-april-2022.html
+ 1 https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-
+ december-2021-january-april-2022.html
+
+
+
+
+ I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me josuah
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that can-
+ not be ignored anymore: NSA (among others) is watching
+ you (among others).
+
+ Does that change anything to my everyday life? Proba-
+ bly not, they already were before you knew about it.
+ Should I do anything about it? No answer. The eter-
+ nal doubt that modern society is famous for:
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a su-
+ permarket and see the mess of wires, tubes, cables and
+ neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in
+ white... The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as
+ if taken straight out of the Brazil [1] movie.
+
+ A landscape that is in such opposition with the images
+ of every product being sold, picturing what more or
+ less fits the collective imagery of "house of my
+ grandparents in back-country", promising a natural en-
+ vironment... Where did they even find all these land-
+ scapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere,
+ tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses or wind tur-
+ bines to put on these product label background images?
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ How did such a landscape, neon distopia pictures that
+ seems straight out of /r/cyberpunk post or the latest
+ Blade Runner, got invited into the cozzy bubble of the
+ average citizen? [2] Who made these places so ugly?
+ Why do I feel like human is being considered like cat-
+ tle in these kind of places?
+
+ >> 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?
+ Thieves? Who is checking? Software? Peoples? Are mar-
+ ketting people looking at these pictures? Of me too?
+ What do they think of me? Did they look at my hand
+ hesitating between these two products?
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on a
+ backpack barely full, with a small cup filled with
+ coins, looking a bit panicked, looking a bit dirty,
+ looking a bit lost, sometimes even a bit drunk. Occa-
+ sionally they will ask you for another coin to add to
+ their small collection. Passerbys offer them a lie
+ such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no,
+ sorry", keep walking faster without looking, and even-
+ tually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going be-
+ fore they got asked for more. What did happen to
+ them? Did they choose to live here? How can I know it
+ will never happen to me? Why do I feel bad if I do
+ not give them what they ask? Why do I feel bad if I
+ give them what they ask?
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here: Writ-
+ ing this, I am not asking these questions to you, nei-
+ ther you are asking these questions to yourself. The
+ places are asking these questions to you themself.
+
+ By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but dis-
+ playing eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not
+ even exist, it is obvious that people will notice the
+ disbalance between the two.
+
+ By placing cameras filming every square meter of such
+ a place, or even a whole city, it is obvious that peo-
+ ple will wonder at some point, who is behind the
+ screen reviewing these images.
+
+ The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even
+ hint about the answer. We are left in the doubt, let-
+ ting some ensure "it is just in case of a burglary,
+ the police officer is going to watch" or other affirm
+ "they are using these images to study how we think to
+ better control us!".
+
+ Such divergent claims based on convictions, the tech-
+ nician installing these cameras up there has no hint
+ either, its manager followed the recommandations of
+ the mothership company, itself getting directions from
+ the parent investor group who lately purchased the
+ brand, who themself are only trying to keep-up with
+ the most up to date business practices, read on an on-
+ line newspaper article recommanded by a colleague.
+
+ I stopped to care about these silly things since long.
+ I came back to the real world for the better. I live
+ my life and it works plenty well, so why would I care?
+
+ >> So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my
+ gut, there is a voice whispering to me, that's
+ something's wrong. [3]
+
+ The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is:
+ you do not get too many answers about how the whole
+ thing works.
+ 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
+
+ 2 https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg
+ 3 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q

- The Mallumo Weechat Plugin darkfi
+ Mallumo Encrypted IRC darkfi
____________________________________________________________

IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the ad-
@@ -1049,40 +1194,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________

- 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.
-
- This is the world of Sailing that awaits each of us,
- for a single trip hosted by a well proven crew, or as
- a lone sailor braving tempests after tempests.
-
- Sailing blogs are definitely a good opportunity to
- dream, the instant of an article.
-
- This blog, Sailing With Grace, has taken the decision
- of offering all its content through HTTP, but also
- 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?
-
- It always was to begin with, so why would it not? Are
- people less able to use computers now than they was
- before the web came? The discussion is open.
- 1 gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com
-
-
-
-
Publishing in The Gopher Times you
____________________________________________________________

@@ -1093,6 +1204,15 @@ ____________________________________________________________
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/