tgtimes2.txt - tgtimes - The Gopher Times HTML git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Tags DIR README --- tgtimes2.txt (17345B) --- 1 2 3 4 The Gopher Times 5 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 ____________________________________________________________ 545 546 Want your article published? Want to announce 547 something to the Gopher world? Directly related to 548 Gopher or not, reach us on IRC with an article in any 549 format, we will handle the rest. 550 551 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en 552 gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/ 553 554 555 556