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            4                       The Gopher Times
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            6 ____________________________________________________________
            7 
            8          Opus 2 - Gopher news and more - Nov. 2021
            9 ____________________________________________________________
           10 
           11 
           12 
           13   Amiga-style demos on microcontrollers                ltf
           14 ____________________________________________________________
           15 
           16    The   demoscene  is  an  UNESCO-recognised  art  where
           17    computer  are  programmmed  to  display  graphics  and
           18    soundtrack   in  real-time.   Competitions  challenges
           19    everyone to build the most impressive demo out of  the
           20    same  limited resources as everyone, such as venerable
           21    computers like Comodore64 or Amiga computers.
           22 
           23    While  faster  computers  are  being  built  everyday,
           24    computers with even less resources than the early days
           25    are   still   in   massive   production   and    used:
           26    microcontrollers.
           27 
           28    Linus Akesson, a demoer known for his "A Mind Is Born"
           29    winning entry [1] is pushing  the  kind  of  CPU  that
           30    controls  your elevator to its limits to produce waves
           31    of colors and rivers of melodies.
           32 
           33 
           34     https://www.linusakesson.net/pages/scene.php
           35     ____________________
           36      [1]
           37      1st place on Revision 2017 competition
           38 
           39 
           40 
           41   The aNONradio station                                sdf
           42 ____________________________________________________________
           43 
           44    A  non-radio  is  an  independent  radio blasting live
           45    broadcasting from the sdf.org infrastructure: a  group
           46    of  various  UNIX-like  system  servers providing free
           47    shell accounts among other services.
           48 
           49    The presenter is well aware of the  various  UNIX-like
           50    systems  culture and operation, so do not be surprised
           51    if you hear him talk  about  IRC  channels  or  server
           52    updates straight from the waves.
           53 
           54    There  are  music  from  community  DJ   and   artists
           55    broadcast,   weekly  radio  shows,  handpicked  tunes,
           56    announce about upcoming shows, and even world news.
           57 
           58    There are also Open MiC sessions where anyone may join
           59    and  discuss  or broadcast, so drop them a word if you
           60    want something played to that station.
           61 
           62    Much like Bitreich conferences, live comments  can  be
           63    sent to the presenter over IRC.
           64 
           65     https://anonradio.net/
           66     ircs://irc.sdf.org/#anonradio
           67 
           68 
           69 
           70   Phrack Magazine                                    fnord
           71 ____________________________________________________________
           72 
           73    On  the  world of hacker, warez, and computer security
           74    has  a  long-standing  magazine   respected   by   the
           75    pioneers: Phrack.
           76 
           77    May its crude plaintext  aspect  not  mislead  you  in
           78    thinking  it is one of these retro computing group, as
           79    cutting edge pentest strategies, defence strategy,  or
           80    reverse engineering material might likely be disclosed
           81    in here:
           82 
           83 
           84    • Android Kernel Rootkit
           85 
           86    • Revisiting Mac OS X Kernel Rootkits
           87 
           88    • Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve
           89 
           90    • .NET Instrumentation via bytecode injection
           91 
           92    Recent versions of the planet's  most  used  operating
           93    systems, terrific topics such as VM escape.  Phrack is
           94    not script kidding around!
           95 
           96    Thanks to fnord.one gopher hole,  each  opus  is  also
           97    available directly over gopher:
           98 
           99     gopher://gopher.fnord.one/1/Mirrors/
          100 
          101 
          102 
          103   FreeChess chess server                            telnet
          104 ____________________________________________________________
          105 
          106    Chess  has  likely  been there since forever, it might
          107    have as well been there  since  longer  than  life  on
          108    earth   [citation  needed].   As  such,  software  for
          109    playing chess might have been around for  a  similarly
          110    long amount of time.
          111 
          112    Possibly  one  of  the  longest-running  chess  system
          113    online for playing chess is FreeChess, the free online
          114    chess server, and it is accessible over telnet:
          115 
          116 
          117     $ telnet freechess.org 5000
          118 
          119    A prompt offers to logon, and "guest" can  be  entered
          120    for  using  it  without an account, then <Enter> (then
          121    once again later):
          122 
          123     login: guest
          124 
          125    By just staying here waiting, battle offers from other
          126    players start to spawn:
          127 
          128     GuestJZMS (++++) seeking 5 0 unrated blitz f \
          129        ("play 50" to respond)
          130     GuestJZMS (++++) seeking 5 0 unrated wild/fr f \
          131        ("play 72" to respond)
          132     GuestJZMS (++++) seeking 1 0 unrated lightning f \
          133        ("play 73" to respond)
          134     fics%
          135 
          136    Playing one of these  games  leads  you  to  an  ASCII
          137    chessboard ready for white to play:
          138 
          139     fics% play 72
          140 
          141            ---------------------------------
          142         8  | *R| *N| *B| *Q| *K| *B| *N| *R|
          143            |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
          144         7  | *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P|
          145            |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
          146         6  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
          147            |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
          148         5  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
          149            |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
          150         4  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
          151            |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
          152         3  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
          153            |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
          154         2  | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
          155            |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
          156         1  | R | N | B | Q | K | B | N | R |
          157            ---------------------------------
          158              a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h
          159     fics%
          160 
          161    In complement to the raw telnet interface, a graphical
          162    client may be used to join a game with the board shown
          163    on-screen.
          164 
          165 
          166 
          167   The Embedded Muse Newsletter                     ganssle
          168 ____________________________________________________________
          169 
          170    Ever felt curious about the embedded world? These tiny
          171    machines that are low-power enough to last all  winter
          172    powered  by a potato battery?  Then take a peek at the
          173    Embedded Muse Newsletter.
          174 
          175    This mail-based monthly publication  is  run  by  Jack
          176    Ganssle  since  1997.   A well-known pioneer, but each
          177    issue is turned toward the community,  where  everyone
          178    submits its story that Jack publishes back.
          179 
          180    You might find spicy UNIX and engineering humour.
          181 
          182     http://www.ganssle.com/tem-back.htm
          183 
          184 
          185 
          186   Mozilla, "OBEY" and 1988 movie                       jwz
          187 ____________________________________________________________
          188 
          189    Surprisingly  diverse themes. Just as diverse as Jamie
          190    Zawinski's  creations:  Netscape,  Mozilla,  the  DNA-
          191    Lounge night club.
          192 
          193    The 1988 movie offers a revelation about  advertizing.
          194    The  "OBEY"  Clothing Brand refers to that movie.  The
          195    Mozilla logo shares the  same  author  as  the  "OBEY"
          196    logo.  Out of this, jwz narrates us a piece of our own
          197    history.
          198 
          199    Sometimes,  ubiquitous,  vastly  popular,  and  highly
          200    profitable  projects have the most unexpected history,
          201    in contradiction with what they became.
          202 
          203     https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the
          204     -secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/
          205 
          206 
          207 
          208   Twtxt Over Gopher                              gopher ml
          209 ____________________________________________________________
          210 
          211    The  twtxt format is a plain text microblogging format
          212    that lives as a text file hosted on any server, in the
          213    same style as RSS feeds.
          214 
          215    The   support   gopher://example.com/0/twtxt.txt    is
          216    already  there!   As prologic points out on the Gopher
          217    Mailing list, it is possible to  use  gopher://  links
          218    for  twtxt,  as  showcased  by  the yarn.social search
          219    engine.
          220 
          221    This might as well be the case for  many  other  twtxt
          222    clients,  given  that  libcurl  supports gopher:// and
          223    gophers://.
          224 
          225    It will soon be difficult to find  a  single  software
          226    that does not support Gopher...
          227 
          228     https://twtxt.net/
          229     https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/
          230     https://yarn.social/
          231 
          232 
          233 
          234   Hosting Providers Projects                       tgtimes
          235 ____________________________________________________________
          236 
          237    While  hosting  a server at home has its benefits (and
          238    its charms), some interesting hosting providers  do  a
          239    good  job  at sharing all the fun that hosting servers
          240    can have while still handling the long-winged work  of
          241    keeping the hypervisors up and running.
          242 
          243    Efforts also coming from the community that  sometimes
          244    take  part  into  the  project, or in reverse, hosting
          245    providers contributing  to  help  community  projects,
          246    either through funds or bug-fixing.
          247 
          248    sdf.org Around since  as  early  as  1987,  the  Super
          249      Dimension  Fortress  describes  itself  as  a public
          250      access supercomputing center.  An invitation to jump
          251      both  feet  into  the  UNIX culture featuring games,
          252      email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace,  webspace,
          253      programming   utilities,  archivers,  browsers,  and
          254      more.  A different sense of community than  the  one
          255      offered by social networks.
          256 
          257    sdfeu.org  Joint  effort  with  the   north   Amercian
          258      sdf.org, the European counterpart will have a better
          259      network  latency  for  European,  Middle  east,  and
          260      African users.
          261 
          262    grex.org Grex brings democracy to hosting,  a  concept
          263      little  explored  by  commercial  hosting providers:
          264      open access, but also owned by its members  who  can
          265      vote  on  what  to  plan next for Grex.  Also a good
          266      pretext to get around a good meal  during  the  Grex
          267      conferences.
          268 
          269    openbsd.amsterdam A hosting provider  running  OpenBSD
          270      for  its  entire  stack,  including  the  hypervisor
          271      itself: vmm(4).  It  permits  its  user  to  connect
          272      directly  onto  the  hypervisor  through SSH and run
          273      commands such as vmctl vm02 restart.
          274 
          275    blinkenshell.org Younger by a  few  years,  this  open
          276      shell project lets you give Linux a try. Occasion to
          277      make someone discover the world of command-line  and
          278      programming   through   the   editor  and  compilers
          279      installed up there.
          280 
          281    prgmr.com While keeping a commercial model, this  Xen-
          282      based   hosting   provider   offers  a  command-line
          283      approach to hosting, and  consider  the  user  as  a
          284      respectable   admin   rather   than   a  supermarket
          285      customer.
          286 
          287 
          288 
          289   Nixers.net Con 2021                               nixers
          290 ____________________________________________________________
          291 
          292    On  November  the  7th,  the  second  edition  of  the
          293    nixers.net *NIX users community took place:
          294 
          295    • Creating your own troff macros — seninha
          296 
          297    • Keeping track of your things — venam
          298 
          299    • Truly Federated Identity for the web — push-f
          300 
          301    The video recordings are already available:
          302 
          303     https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-net-Conf-2021
          304 
          305 
          306 
          307   A message to developers                            nitot
          308 ____________________________________________________________
          309 
          310    While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going,
          311    a former founder moved elsewhere  offering  to  try  a
          312    different take on technology.
          313 
          314    Tristan Nitot founded Mozilla Europe, and also  worked
          315    at   Netscape  before  its  decline.   After  he  left
          316    Mozilla,  he  published  "surveillance://"   defending
          317    privacy,  and  went  as far as offering alternative to
          318    Google by joining the Qwant team (web search  engine).
          319    Yes, this is a Google-funded conference.
          320 
          321    During this web, mobile and  cloud  conference,  under
          322    OVH,  Google,  and Microsoft sponsorship, what message
          323    would he have to spread to developers getting started?
          324    Mind the Global Warming!
          325 
          326    How unexpected  but  welcome.  He  simply  showed  the
          327    numbers  and  big newspaper headlines: explaining that
          328    the poor performance  of  software  has  been  largely
          329    compensated  by the Moore's law for the last 50 years,
          330    letting  software  fat  to  accumulate  without   dire
          331    consequence on usability.
          332 
          333    A  call  to  developers  to  consider  supporting  the
          334    existing   hardware   through   providing   reasonable
          335    performance, considering removing features, would have
          336    the   greatest   impact;   most  CO²  emission  of  IT
          337    originating from producing new  end-user  devices.  He
          338    blamed  Windows 11 badly for that, refusing to support
          339    older  chips.   Yes,  this   is   a   Microsoft-funded
          340    conference.
          341 
          342    >> Between the early web pages of a few  kilobytes  to
          343     the  web  pages  of  today, the size was went up by a
          344     factor of 150. Are web pages 150  times  better  than
          345     they used to be?
          346 
          347    At the beginning of its  talk,  Tristan  Nitot  quoted
          348    Upton Sinclair:
          349 
          350    >>  It  is  difficult  to  get  a  man  to  understand
          351     something  when  his  salary  depends  upon  his  not
          352     understanding it.
          353 
          354     https://devfest.gdglille.org/
          355     https://climatefresk.org/
          356     https://standblog.org/blog/
          357 
          358 
          359 
          360   cirosantilli, a rabbit hole on its own           tgtimes
          361 ____________________________________________________________
          362 
          363    Is  this  name familiar to you?  Maybe you encountered
          364    cirosantilli on a StackOverflow or remember one of the
          365    iconic  profile  pictures  he chose? Did you encounter
          366    the name on GitHub? If so  you  may  have  immediately
          367    recall  how  he  weaponized  this popular code hosting
          368    platform  into  a  freedom  of  speech  silver  bullet
          369    against China's censorship.
          370 
          371    The  entire  user  profile  was  turned  into  a  long
          372    document   that  can  resist  to  the  most  ferocious
          373    censorship. A  vast  amount  of  images  and  keywords
          374    censored  by  China is published straight on the front
          375    page, making it outstanding to the visitors.
          376 
          377    Would China dare to try to take down the biggest  code
          378    hosting  platform, harming most of IT companies in the
          379    world? And even if it tries, would it succeed? And  so
          380    without provoking too much tension with the U.S.?
          381 
          382    While China's government censorship violence is  world
          383    famous,   so  is  GitHub's  DDoS  mitigation  services
          384    (provided by a dedicated  company,  not  performed  by
          385    GitHub  themself),  after  undertaking 1.3 Terabit per
          386    second during a famous DDoS attack.
          387 
          388    This Brazilian Italian turned Goliath against Goliath.
          389 
          390    Are you curious about cirosantilli's practical plan to
          391    take  down  China's  great firewall?  Or maybe you are
          392    interested in one of the many computer-related  topics
          393    he teaches on his website?
          394 
          395    This activist doubles as  student  and  teacher  might
          396    take you down the rabbit hole of both computer science
          397    and fight for freedom.
          398 
          399     https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/
          400     https://cirosantilli.com/
          401     https://github.com/cirosantilli
          402 
          403 
          404 
          405   Digitalisation Evangelists Hymn                      20h
          406 ____________________________________________________________
          407 
          408    Original Text: Dieter Birr / Wolfgang Tilgner
          409 
          410     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbQuauLn52c
          411 
          412    >> Einem war sein Heim, war sein Haus zu eng
          413 
          414    One was his home, his home was too narrow
          415 
          416    >> Sehnte sich in die Welt
          417 
          418    Strived for the world
          419 
          420    >> Sah den Himmel an, sah wie dort ein Schwan hinzog
          421 
          422    Saw the sky, saw how a swan directed there
          423 
          424    >> Er hieß Ikarus und er war sehr jung
          425 
          426    He was named Ikarus and he was young
          427 
          428    >> War voller Ungeduld
          429 
          430    He was full of impatience
          431 
          432    >> Baute Flügel sich, sprang vom Boden ab und flog
          433 
          434    Built wings for him, jumped off the ground and flew
          435 
          436    >> Und flog
          437 
          438    And flew
          439 
          440    >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
          441 
          442    Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
          443 
          444    >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
          445 
          446    Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
          447 
          448    >> Als sein Vater sprach: "Fliege nicht zu hoch!
          449 
          450    As his father said: "Do not fly too high!
          451 
          452    >> Sonne wird dich zerstör'n"
          453 
          454    sun will destroy you"
          455 
          456    >> Hat er nur gelacht, hat er laut gelacht und schrie
          457 
          458    He only laughed, he laughed loud and screamed
          459 
          460    >> Er hat's nicht geschafft und er ist zerschellt
          461 
          462    He didn't make it and he shattered
          463 
          464    >> Doch der erste war er
          465 
          466    But the first one he was
          467 
          468    >> Viele folgten ihm, darum ist sein Tod ein Sieg
          469 
          470    Many followed him, that is why his dead is a victory
          471 
          472    >> Ein Sieg!
          473 
          474    A victory!
          475 
          476    >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
          477 
          478    Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
          479 
          480    >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
          481 
          482    Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
          483 
          484    >> Einem war sein Heim, war sein Haus zu eng
          485 
          486    One was his home, his home was too narrow
          487 
          488    >> Sehnte sich in die Welt
          489 
          490    Strived for the world
          491 
          492    >> Sieht den Himmel an, sieht wie dort ein Schwan
          493 
          494    Sees the sky, sees how a swan
          495 
          496    >> Sich wiegt
          497 
          498    himself enjoys
          499 
          500    >> Er heißt Ikarus und ist immer jung
          501 
          502    He is called Ikarus and he is always young
          503 
          504    >> Ist voller Ungeduld
          505 
          506    Is full of impatience
          507 
          508    >> Baut die Flügel sich,  springt  vom  Boden  ab  und
          509     fliegt
          510 
          511    Builds himself wings, jumps off the ground and flies
          512 
          513    >> Und fliegt
          514 
          515    And flies
          516 
          517    >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
          518 
          519    Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
          520 
          521    >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
          522 
          523    Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
          524 
          525    >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
          526 
          527    Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
          528 
          529    >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
          530 
          531    Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
          532 
          533    >> Steige Ikarus! Fliege uns voraus!
          534 
          535    Strive Ikarus! Fly ahead!
          536 
          537    >> Steige Ikarus! Zeige uns den Weg!
          538 
          539    Strive Ikarus! Show us the way!
          540 
          541 
          542 
          543   Publishing in The Gopher Times                       you
          544 ____________________________________________________________
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