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4 The Gopher Times
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8 Opus 1 - Gopher news and more - Nov. 2021
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13 A Newspaper for Gopher josuah
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16 Starting from today, The Gopher Times is going to be
17 published. How can a paper-oriented journal make
18 sense in this hypermedia [1] era?
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20 Rather than a continuous feed of upmost shocking
21 headlines, The Gopher Times publishes news you can
22 read without a cookiewall or paywall.
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24 Paper newspapers go through a long chain: reporters,
25 photographers, redactors, editors, columnists, layout
26 artists, typesetters, printers, carriers and other
27 supportive technicians... and are sold for a quarter.
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29 The web considerably shackled the landscape: the high
30 speed of computers made real-time text news a reality,
31 where time from Trump's tweet announcements to
32 publication is below a few hours.
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34 This journal diverts the present norm by 90° by using
35 troff(1) as its foundation: a typesetter producing
36 static documents ready to be printed.
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38 A new markdown to troff converter [2] as well as an
39 entire custom macro set mw [3] are built to fit
40 screens of all shapes, and build-up the sensibility of
41 an actual journal.
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43 [1]
44 term used by Roy Fielding (Apache httpd)
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46 git://git.z0.is/notmarkdown
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48 git://bitreich.org/tgtimes
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52 This month in Nixers Book Club nixers
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55 There are a lot of books in a library, and it is the
56 role of teachers to build up a sequence of books to
57 learn a topic. This Nixers.net forum thread follows
58 the path of Operating System and UNIX working and
59 design.
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61 The UNIX Programming Environment: from shell scripting
62 to C programming with UNIX system calls by Kernighan
63 himself.
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65 https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2390
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67 The UNIX-HATERS Handbook: A semi-humorous edited
68 compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing
69 list.
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71 https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2417
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73 The Art of Unix Programming: by Eric S. Raymond,
74 history and culture of Unix programming
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76 https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2466
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78 Computer Science from the Bottom Up: a shop class for
79 computer science: where do you go to learn what is
80 under the hood?
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82 https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2508
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86 The good old web nixers
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89 That thread in the Nixers.net forum proposes to
90 recognize a website given a small screenshot.
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92 Hackers sometimes build webpages for a software
93 project, a community, even an error page, which never
94 ever changed. Website appearance sometimes enter deep
95 into our memories.
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97 We remember places we lived in, faces of people we
98 met... but also how web pages look? Are web pages
99 like places we frequently visit? You might be
100 surprised:
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102 https://nixers.net/Thread-Web-Tag
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106 Analgram Authentication 20h
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109 As you know, bitreich is always ahead of time and
110 in introducing new technology. We now offer members
111 the authentication to all services via
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113 gopher://bitreich.org/I/memecache/bitreich-2fa.jpg
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115 Via your analprint scan you are distinguished from
116 all other humans. No other human has such an analprint
117 as you have. You are special.
118
119 In case you want to authenticate, come on #bitreich-
120 anal on IRC and send the picture of your analprint. We
121 call this the analgram authentication. It is secure,
122 cannot be easily copied and the biometric feature
123 is hidden for most of your life. No simple photo can
124 steal this credential.
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126 Current work is done to make this a standard for all
127 U.S. and EU funded projects and contracts. Hopefully
128 the future is anal-gram!
129
130 Sincerely yours, Chief Backwater Officer (CRO)
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133
134 BAN Party on 2021-10-03 20h
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137 This Sunday, on 2021-10-03, at 13:00 UTC, we will
138 have another BAN party, to play the new Supertuxkart
139 release. There are new tracks, new drivers and more
140 fun. For this BAN party we set a new time at 1pm, so
141 friends from America and Australia can join in at a
142 natural time.
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144 Sincerely yours, Main Gaming Officer (MGO)
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148 BAN Party Results 20h
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151 Today we had a two part BAN party. The first onw
152 was teeworlds, since this was easily running and
153 through a community effort openra in the newest
154 appimage got setup in some virtualbox debianesque
155 setup on FreeBSD. It really ran. And so in a
156 combined effort of Dutch Australian and German armies,
157 we defeated the enemies using all kind of weaponry,
158 from naval to aircraft units. Long live Bitreich!
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160 Yes, it was very much fun.
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162 Next time with more players we can play even bigger
163 maps. Everyone is invited!
164
165 Sincerely yours, Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)
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169 Other newspaper projects josuah
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172 OpenBSD Webzine: As a complement to undeadly.org, the
173 OpenBSD Webzine provides a condensed summary of what
174 is new on OpenBSD.
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176 https://webzine.puffy.cafe/
177
178 The Webpage: Aggregation of multiple RSS feeds,
179 rendered server-side into a paper newspaper looking
180 page. Similarly to The Gopher Times, the layout of
181 the document published is static.
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183 https://webzine.puffy.cafe/
184
185 Low-Tech Magazine: This magazine published a
186 simplistic version for its solar-powered server,
187 with dithered images and other techniques to save
188 bandwidth and reducing the workload server-side.
189
190 https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
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194 10k Meme BAN party on 2021-10-31 20h
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197 The Bitreich Meme database is approaching 10k memes.
198 To celebrate this, we will hold a BAN party on
199 2021-10-31 on 11:00 GMT (12:00 CET). The time is
200 adapted so bitreich people from America and
201 Australia can join in at the same time.
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203 Games we will play:
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205 • OpenRA Dune2k, CNC and RA Be sure to have a current
206 version due to multiplayer protocol changes.
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208 • Teeworlds
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210 • SuperTuxKart on extreme level Be sure to run the
211 newest version because of new race tracks and
212 characters.
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214 • Armagetronad
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216 • Wireguard
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218 • Whatever game you like to play.
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220 Everyone is welcome. We will be using a mumble server
221 for instant audio talk, where the details are
222 revealed on #bitreich-en on BAN party day. Please
223 join there to get further details.
224
225 Sincerely yours, Chief BAN Officer (CBO)
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229 World of Animals 0x1bi
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232 Back in the nineties when Windowds 3.1 was still very
233 much a thing, my old man, while doing his post
234 graduated studies, found this story on some Russian
235 usenet group, saved it, printed it out, posted it in
236 his office.
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238 Years later he made the mistake of giving me the
239 internet. And I found the same story, now on the world
240 wide web.
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242 I've taken the time to translate the story from
243 Russian to English such that everyone can enjoy the
244 gifts of Russian usenet koans.
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246 Enjoy responsibly.
247
248 >> Медведь был безобpазным, косолапым и гpязным
249 животным. Однако добpее его не было никого во всем
250 лесy. Hо звеpи замечали только его внешность, на что
251 Медведь жyтко обижался, ловил их и жестоко избивал
252 ногами. Поэтомy звеpи его не любили. Хотя он был
253 очень добpым. И веселым. Он любил задоpные шyтки. За
254 эти шyтки звеpи его скоpо жyтко возненавидели и били.
255 Да, тpyдно быть на свете добpым и веселым.
256
257 The bear was a filthy, clumsy, and dirty animal.
258 However, no one was as loving as he was in the whole
259 forest. But the animals only saw his exterior, to
260 which the bear became upset, caught them, and brutaly
261 beat them with his legs. Even though he was very
262 loving. And happy. He loved practical jokes. For these
263 jokes the animals started to hate the bear and beat
264 him. Yes, it;s hard to be loving and happy.
265
266 >> Волк был тоже безобpазным и гpязным. И еще он был
267 очень злым и жестоким. Hо звеpи не испытывали к немy
268 ненависти и не били. Потомy, что Волк yмеp еще в
269 pаннем детстве. Потомy, что Медведь pодился pаньше
270 Волка. Да, хоpошо, когда Добpо побеждает Зло.
271
272 The wolf was also filthy and dirty. He was also very
273 evil and cruel. But the animals din't hate him and
274 didn't beat him. Because the wolf died early in his
275 childhood. Because the bear was born before the wolf.
276 Yes, it's good when good triumphs over evil.
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278 >> Заяц тоже был злым и жестоким. И гpязным. И еще он
279 был тpyсливым. Гадостей Заяц никомy никогда не делал.
280 Потомy, что боялся. Hо его все pавно сильно били.
281 Потомy, что Зло всегда должно быть наказано.
282
283 The rabbit was also evil and cruel. And dirty. He was
284 also a coward. The rabbit never commited any evil as
285 he was scared. But he was still beaten. Because evil
286 must be punished.
287
288 >> И Дятел тоже был злым и жестоким. Он не бил звеpей,
289 потомy, что y него не было pyк. Поэтомy, он вымещал
290 свою злость на деpевьях. Его не били. Потомy, что не
291 могли дотянyться. Однажды его пpидавило насмеpть
292 yпавшее деpево. Поговаpивали, что оно отомстило.
293 После этого звеpи целый месяц боялись мочиться на
294 деpевья. Они мочились на Зайца. Заяц пpостyдился и
295 yмеp. Всем было ясно, что во всем был виноват Дятел.
296 Hо его не тpонyли. Посколькy не смогли выковыpять
297 из-под yпавшего деpева. Да, Зло иногда остается
298 безнаказанным.
299
300 The woodpecker was also evil and cruel. He didn't beat
301 animals, as he didn't have any arms. So he took his
302 anger out on trees. He was not beaten, as no one could
303 reach him. One day a tree crushed him to death. The
304 animals said it took revenge. After that, then animals
305 were afraid of pissing on trees for a month. Instead
306 they pissed on the rabbit. The rabbit got a cold and
307 died. Everyone knew that the woodpecker was at fault.
308 But he wasn't beaten, as no one could get him out from
309 the fallen tree. Yes, sometimes evil remains
310 unpunished.
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312 >> Кpот был маленьким и слепым. Он не был злым. Он
313 пpосто хоpошо делал свое дело. Это он подъел деpево,
314 котоpое yпало на дятла. Об этом никто не yзнал, и
315 поэтомy его не избили. Его вообще били pедко. Чаще
316 пyгали. Hо его было очень тpyдно испyгать, потомy что
317 он был слепой и не видел, что его пyгают. Когда не
318 yдавалось испyгать Кpота, звеpи очень огоpчались. И
319 били Медведя. Потомy, что им было очень обидно.
320 Однажды Медведь тоже захотел испyгать Кpота. Hо Кpот
321 не испyгался. Потомy, что Медведь его yбил.
322 Hечаянно. Пpосто Медведь был очень неyклюжим. И
323 звеpи его очень сильно избили. Даже, несмотpя на то,
324 что Медведь сказал, что пошyтил. Плохо, когда твои
325 шyтки никто не понимает.
326
327 The mole was small and blind. He was not evil. He just
328 did his job really well. It was he who dug under the
329 tree which fell on the woodpecker. No one knew about
330 his digging and he was not beaten. He was rarely
331 beaten. More often scared. But it was really hard to
332 scare him as he was blind, and didn't see that he was
333 being scared. When the animals were unable to scare
334 the mole they became very upset. And beat the bear.
335 One day the bear decided to sacre the mole. But he
336 didn't scare the mole. Because he killed him.
337 Accidentally. As he was very clumsy. And the animals
338 brutally beat him for killing the mole, even though
339 the bear said it was a prank. It's unfortunate when no
340 one understands your pranks.
341
342 >> Лиса была очень хитpой. Она могла запpосто
343 обхитpить кого yгодно. Когда ей это yдавалось, то ее
344 не били. Hо иногда ей не везло. И ее били. Били всем
345 лесом. И она yже не могла кого-нибyдь обхитpить.
346 Потомy, что очень тpyдно го-нибyдь обхитpить, когда
347 тебя бьют. Однажды ее избили до смеpти. Да, жилда
348 всегда на пpавдy выйдет.
349
350 The fox was very cunning. She could easily outsmart
351 anyone. When she could outsmart someone, she was not
352 beaten. But when she coudln't, she was beaten. Hard.
353 And at that point she couldn't outsmart anyone, as
354 it's hard to outsmart someone when you're being
355 beaten. One day she was beaten to death. Yes, truth
356 will always come to light.
357
358 >> Кабан был большой, сильный и стpашный. Его все
359 очень боялись. И поэтомy его били только всем лесом.
360 Или пpосто кидали в него камнями. Кабан этого очень
361 не любил. И однажды ночью он спpятал все камни в
362 лесy. За это его очень сильно избили. Больше Кабан
363 никогда не пpятал камни. Воистинy говоpят - вpемя
364 собиpать камни и вpемя их не тpогать никогда.
365
366 The boar was big, strong, and scary. Everyone was
367 scared of him. That is why he was always beaten with
368 the whole forest. Or simply stoned him. The boar
369 didn't like that. One day he hid all of the stones in
370 the forest. For the he was beaten really hard. After
371 that, the boar never hid stones. And so they say,
372 there is time to collect stones, and time to not touch
373 them.
374
375 >> Козел не был ни злым, ни добpым. Он был пpосто
376 Козел. н часто козлил. И его боялись бить. И он
377 своим козловством всех достал. И тогда его избили до
378 смеpти. Потомy, что иначе он бы yмеp от стаpости.
379 Когда-нибyдь. Когда Козел yмеp, Медведь сильно
380 плакал. Потомy, что он в тайне любил Козла. Да,
381 любовь зла, полюбишь и Козла.
382
383 The goat was neither good nor evil. He was a goat. He
384 often goated. And the animals were scared of beating
385 him. With his goatness he got on everyones nerves. And
386 he was beaten to death, because otherwise he would
387 have died of old age. Someday. After the goat died,
388 the bear cried, because he secretly loved the goat.
389 Yes, love is a cruel mistress.
390
391 >> Ежик был маленький и колючий. Он кололся. Он не был
392 злым, он кололся по своей пpиpоде. Из-за этого его
393 били только в живот. Ежик этого не любил и стал
394 бpиться наголо. И тогда его стали бить как всех. Да,
395 очень тpyдно быть не таким как все.
396
397 The hedgehog was small and prickly. He wasn't evil, he
398 was prickly by his own nature. For that he was beaten
399 exclusively in the stomach. And so the hedgehog
400 started shaving bald. And he was beaten like everyone
401 else. Yes, it's hard to be not like everyone else.
402
403 >> Скyнс был почти таким, как Заяц. Hо только очень
404 нючим. Он плохо пахнyл. Его били только в
405 полиэтиленовом пакете. Тогда запах был не такой
406 сильный. Однажды y Скyнса был день pождения. Он
407 пpигласил всех звеpей, потомy, что был жадным и любил
408 подаpки. И звеpи подаpили емy новый полиэтиленовый
409 пакет. И сильно избили до потеpи сознания. И Скyнс
410 задохнyлся в пакете. Так его и похоpонили. В пакете.
411 В очень Дальнем Лесy. Потомy, что меpтвый Скyнс вонял
412 еще сильнее. Потом пpишли жители Очень Дальнего Леса
413 и в сех сильно избили. Им не понpавился запах
414 меpтвого Скyнса. Да, с соседями надо жить в миpе.
415
416 The skunk was very much like rabbit. But very smelly.
417 He was beaten only inside a plastic bag, because then
418 the smell wasn't as bad. One day the skunk had a
419 birthday party, and he invited all of the animals as
420 he was greedy and he loved presents. The animals got
421 him a new plastig bag. And then proceeded to beat him
422 until loss of consciousness. The skunk then suffocated
423 inside the bag. That is how he was buried. In the
424 plastic bag. In the very far away forest, as a dead
425 skunk smelt worse than a living skunk. Then the
426 animals from the very far away forest came and beat
427 everyone hard. They didn't like the smell of the dead
428 skunk. Yes, you must love your neighbour.
429
430 >> Хомяк был тоже очень жадным. И богатым. Если бы он
431 делился своим богатством, его бы били не так сильно.
432 Hо он был очень жадным. За это его били сильно. И емy
433 все pавно пpиходилось делиться. И он гоpько плакал.
434 Да, богатые тоже плачyт.
435
436 The hasmter was also very greedy. And rich. If he
437 shared his riches he woudn't be beaten as hard. But he
438 was greedy. And he was beaten hard. And he still had
439 to share his riches. For that he cried. Yes, even rich
440 people cry.
441
442 >> Лев был цаpь звеpей. Он пpавил лесом. Цаpей бить не
443 положено. Это закон. Hо звеpи давно забили на закон.
444 Звеpи били и льва. Hи за что. Потомy, что так yж
445 здесь повелось.
446
447 The lion was king. He ruled the forest. You're not
448 supposed to beat kings. Such is the law. But the
449 animals gave a fuck about the law. They beat the lion.
450 Why? That's just how things go in forest.
451
452 >> Моpаль: А зоpи здесь тихие...
453
454 Moral: Sunrises here are quiet...
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