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4 The Gopher Times |
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6 ____________________________________________________________ |
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8 Opus 3 - Gopher news and more - Jan. 2022 |
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9 ____________________________________________________________ |
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14 Heaven and computers tgtimes |
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15 ____________________________________________________________ |
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17 Before the era of smartphones, laptops, before Windows |
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18 and Apple, there were pioneers who took the fun of |
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19 computers from the hands of the few who could afford |
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20 computers, and shared them massively so that mere |
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21 individuals could afford it. |
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22 |
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23 An ocean of creativity spread. Art of all kinds were |
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24 made on these new toys, that were permitting many to |
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25 try on their own, or enjoy a tune of 8-bit music, a |
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26 demo scene, play a video game, ASCII art... |
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27 |
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28 Offering these pioneers a one-way ticket to enter the |
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29 legend, 8bitlegends.com builds a corner of peace, |
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30 making some room in our heart for the 8bit heroes. |
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31 |
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32 https://8bitlegends.com/ |
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36 Bitreich Radio playing auto-generated music 20h |
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37 ____________________________________________________________ |
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38 |
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39 Bitreich Radio was lacking love. The scripts were |
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40 bugged and outputted strange music. To change this, a |
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41 redesign was done. See |
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42 |
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43 gopher://bitreich.org/1/radio |
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45 for the new gopherhole menu. |
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47 When you listen to |
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49 gopher://bitreich.org/9/radio/listen |
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50 |
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51 you will hear music auto-generated without any |
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52 copyright. It is relaxing music you can listen to in a |
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53 background, on a toilet, all for free and forever. |
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54 |
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55 The #bitreich-radio title display has been fixed too. |
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56 |
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57 I hope, this increases the listening experience. |
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58 |
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59 All recommendations, especially about more auto- |
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60 generated music, are welcome. We need to escape the |
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61 copyright mafia trap. |
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62 |
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63 Sincerely yours, Chief Music Manager (CMM) |
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68 Computer that lasts forever ploum |
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69 ____________________________________________________________ |
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71 More RAM, faster CPU, more cache size, lower latency. |
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72 Computer industry never sleeps while trying to raise |
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73 the bar over and over. It plays with the limit of |
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74 physics to keep the Moore's Law dream going. |
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76 By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer |
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77 more resources to software makers, allowing them to |
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78 build more ambitious projects. The computer |
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79 performance discipline sure has been worked up |
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80 thoroughly. |
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81 |
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82 If the software comsumes all the extra computing power |
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83 for its own goal, then we are conjointly building very |
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84 fast snails. |
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85 |
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86 This conquest for a better cost/performance balance is |
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87 one direction for the evolution of computers, but it |
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88 is also possible to imagine a race for better |
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89 reliability and durability instead. |
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91 Ploum offers a vision of what computers are like when |
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92 maximizing durability of the hardware, but also the |
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93 software ecosystem, so that a computer built today |
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94 still be useful in 50 years, without upgrades (not |
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95 preventing upgrades to happen). |
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97 An old knife is still a piece of metal that can be |
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98 sharpened over again to be able to cut long after it |
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99 was built. Could this also be true for computers? |
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101 https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/ |
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105 Year End Meeting 2021 Recordings Online 20h |
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106 ____________________________________________________________ |
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108 For everyone not able to join the 2021 year end |
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109 meeting, here are the recordings: |
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111 gopher://bitreich.org/1/end-year-meeting/2021 |
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113 Thanks to everyone who contributed to bitreich over |
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114 the last five years! |
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115 |
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116 Sincerely yours, Chief Community Manager (CCM) |
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121 100 years of radiodiffusion tgtimes |
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122 ____________________________________________________________ |
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124 The Internet existed forever: books and printed press |
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125 have always been around for communicating ideas and |
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126 information, and evolved progressively to become what |
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127 the Internet is today. |
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128 |
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129 Letters were carried by messengers riding horses, |
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130 postal train, or airplanes. Long-range communication |
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131 evolved slowly for a long time, but has accelerated |
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132 rapidly in recent years, until today extreme bandwidth |
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133 and latency. |
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134 |
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135 The common pattern: a new discovery in electronics |
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136 permits a new way to communicate information over a |
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137 long-distance, with a lightning-fast adoption all |
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138 around the world: |
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139 |
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140 1919 wireless telegraphy and music transmission in |
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141 Germany, Netherland and United-States |
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143 1920 daily radio programmes in England, United-States |
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144 and USSR |
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146 1921 radio broadcasting from Eiffel Tower with 900 W |
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147 power intensity |
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148 |
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149 1922 foundation of the BBC and arrival of 2000 W |
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150 broadcastings |
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151 |
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152 A few years before, the long-range communication tool |
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153 of choice was paper. |
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154 |
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155 A few years later, the telephone and television |
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156 started to develop. |
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160 Bitreich University reaches 100% employment rate 20h |
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161 ____________________________________________________________ |
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162 |
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163 The first students are leaving the MEME university |
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164 degree programme. We, the board of meme professors, |
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165 would like to thank all students who participated. |
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167 All students found jobs in different careers: |
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168 Politics, News Reporters, Youtubers, Twitter |
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169 Conspiracy Trolls or Bakers. Just watch your local |
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170 news, radio, TV or anti-social network for them. |
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171 |
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172 This means, there is a 100% employment rate! |
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173 |
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174 We are so proud and hope for a new semester of |
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175 successful students. |
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176 |
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177 Sincerely yours, Chief Meme Caretaker (CMC) |
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182 A world of tiny creatures tgtimes |
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183 ____________________________________________________________ |
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184 |
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185 Ants. Is that what we would look like to the eyes of a |
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186 giant? What if one of those giants had the curiosity |
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187 of looking down on our world, watching all our tiny |
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188 activities, our tiny trades, our tiny farming, our |
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189 tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives? |
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190 |
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191 E.O. Wilson was one of these giants, looking at the |
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192 ants: the real ones, the insect ones: An entomologist, |
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193 someone dedicated to the study of insects. |
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194 |
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195 After 92 years of empassioned life, E.O. Wilson is |
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196 fading away, joining the soil, which he spent his life |
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197 observing. Closing his own book, while at the same |
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198 time inviting everyone to open their eyes, and look, |
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199 carefully, at this world of tiny creatures. |
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200 |
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204 stagit and stagit-gopher 1.0 is released bob |
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205 ____________________________________________________________ |
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207 I want to thank all contributors for patches and other |
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208 feedback. |
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209 |
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210 You can find the releases on codemadness (primary) and |
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211 bitreich (mirror). |
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212 |
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213 gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/ |
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214 https://codemadness.org/releases/ |
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215 gopher://bitreich.org/1/releases/ |
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216 |
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217 It has the following changes: |
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218 |
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219 stagit: |
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220 |
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221 - Print the number of remaining commits. |
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222 |
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223 - Ignore '\r' in writing diffs and file blobs. |
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224 |
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225 - Percent encode characters in path names, like '?' |
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226 and '#'. |
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227 |
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228 - Encode XML / HTML entities in the project name. |
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229 |
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230 - Add EXAMPLES section to the man pages. |
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231 |
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232 stagit-gopher: |
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233 |
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234 - Print the number of remaining commits. |
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235 |
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236 - Add EXAMPLES section to the man pages. |
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237 |
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238 Thanks to: |
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239 |
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240 - quinq: for the remaining commits patch. |
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241 |
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242 - srfsh: for suggesting to look into percent encoding |
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243 characters. |
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244 |
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245 (cl|g)it commander Bob |
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250 Uxn portable assembly language 100r.co |
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251 ____________________________________________________________ |
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252 |
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253 The web is well-known for its drift toward platform |
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254 effect: reproducing the features of the underlying |
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255 operating system from one of its applications, in this |
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256 case, the web browser. This is largely made possible |
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257 through javascript, and the advent of WebAssembly can |
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258 only contribute more to this. |
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259 |
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260 But making an assembly language a standard for |
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261 shipping graphical applications needs not to rhime |
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262 with excess and abuse of a platform. A more |
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263 conventional approach would be standardising high- |
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264 level API and protocols, for which low-level drivers |
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265 would be written. Instead, Uxn standardises as low as |
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266 the assembly language itself. |
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267 |
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268 Yet, Uxn has nothing in common with Java: |
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269 |
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270 >> Features were weighted against the relative |
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271 difficulty they would add for programmers |
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272 implementing their own emulators. |
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273 |
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274 Say welcome to this rabbit hole, inviting you with a |
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275 fresh take on making computers work for end-users. |
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276 |
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277 Impressive acheivements were reached, such as |
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278 portability of this platform on things as small as a |
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279 32bit microcontroller: |
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280 |
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281 >> Currently, there are ports (not all are complete) |
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282 for GBA, Nintendo DS, Playdate, DOS, PS Vita, |
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283 Raspberry Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32, iOS, STM32, |
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284 STM32, IBM PC, and many more. |
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285 |
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286 https://100r.co/site/uxn.html |
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287 |
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290 New Gopher Banner on bitreich.org 20h |
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291 ____________________________________________________________ |
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292 |
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293 To support local gopher politics, we added a banner to |
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294 bitreich.org gopherhole. This is there to support |
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295 political movement into more gopher support all over |
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296 the world. Please support your local gopher charity, |
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297 if you can. |
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298 |
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299 Please do not block the banner in your gopher |
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300 adblocker! |
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301 |
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302 +===========================================+ |
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303 +##########[ ALL GOPHERS MATTER ]###########+ |
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304 +##[ DONATE TO YOUR LOCAL GOPHER CHARITY ]##+ |
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305 +##############[ CLICK HERE ]###############+ |
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306 +===========================================+ |
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307 |
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308 Sincerely yours, Chief Political Officer (CPO). |
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309 |
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310 |
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312 |
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313 The UNIX calendar(1) command tgtimes |
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314 ____________________________________________________________ |
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315 |
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316 It is probably there sitting in /usr/bin, the |
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317 calendar(1) command can offer you a fair dose of |
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318 flexibility that web-based or smartphone-based |
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319 calendars lacks. |
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320 |
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321 By storing events in a single file of text edited by |
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322 hand, calendar(1) brings the comfort of your existing |
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323 text editor to manage events with a simple syntax: |
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324 |
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325 - one line per event: first a date, then a tab, then a |
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326 description. |
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327 |
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328 - A line starting with a tab implicitly has the same |
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329 date as the previous event. |
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330 |
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331 - Empty lines are ignored, and the C preprocessor |
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332 brings #include and /* comments */ as needed. |
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333 |
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334 No need to format everything right away: taking notes |
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335 at the bottom of the file, in the middle of a phone |
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336 call and formatting after hanging-up... It is it |
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337 trivial to manage a calendar file. |
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338 |
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339 While the calendar(1) command is run, events for today |
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340 and tomorrow are printed: as a digest of what is |
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341 upcoming. |
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342 |
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343 A command line flag permits sending this digest to all |
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344 users by email, making it a complete calendar software |
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345 suite from edition to reminder. |
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346 |
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347 There is even support for weekly, monthly and yearly |
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348 (birthdays) events. |
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349 |
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350 Sharing calendar events is as easy as sending the |
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351 section of the calendar file by email, and |
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352 synchronising the calendar across devices is a matter |
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353 of synchronising a single file. |
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354 |
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355 By adding a few more custom syntax rules on top of |
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356 those supported by calendar(1), readable text can be |
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357 maintained with little effort. |
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358 |
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359 Jan 23 09:00 Breakfast: cooked eggs and fruits |
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360 @ Home Sweet Home |
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361 |
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362 10:30 The Gopher Times proof-reading |
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363 @ ircs://irc.bitreich.org/ |
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364 |
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365 15:30 On-call duty untill! |
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366 @ https://the-dull-gull.corp/login |
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367 |
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368 Jan 24 12:30 Lunch break in town with folks |
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369 @ that small cafe that does snacks |
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370 |
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371 Jan 26 19:15 Call with friends abroad |
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372 @ mumble://example.com/ |
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373 |
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375 |
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376 Gopher log4j contest 20h |
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377 ____________________________________________________________ |
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378 |
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379 We hereby announce the gopher log4j contest. Anyone |
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380 sending in the patches to java to allow jdni gopher:// |
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381 loading will be awarded with one year free bitreich |
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382 premium membership. One drink per day is free. |
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383 |
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384 Please post your patch on |
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385 |
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386 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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387 |
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388 and you will be rewarded with your membership pass and |
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389 a free towel for the member pool. |
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390 |
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391 Sincerely yours, Leading Organisational Gardener 4 |
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392 Java (LOG4J) |
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393 |
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397 A Guide to Hell by J. Mickens usenix |
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398 ____________________________________________________________ |
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399 |
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400 >> As a highly trained academic researcher, I spend a |
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401 lot of time trying to advance the frontiers of human |
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402 knowledge. However, as someone who was born in the |
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403 South, I secretly believe that true progress is a |
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404 fantasy, and that I need to prepare for the end |
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405 times, and for the chickens coming home to roost, and |
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406 fast zombies, and slow zombies, and the polite |
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407 zombies who say "sir" and "ma'am" but then try to eat |
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408 your brain to acquire your skills. When the |
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409 revolution comes, I need to be prepared; thus, in the |
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410 quiet moments, when I'm not producing incredible |
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411 scientific breakthroughs, I think about what I'll do |
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412 when the weather forecast inevitably becomes RIVERS |
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413 OF BLOOD ALL DAY EVERY DAY. [...] |
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414 |
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415 If James Mickens looks like he is a highly trained |
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416 soldier killing zombies in the doomed lands of System |
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417 Programming, that is because James Mickens is a highly |
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418 trained soldier killing zombies in the doomed lands of |
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419 System Programming. |
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420 |
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421 https://usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf |
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425 Annna now on #gopherproject too 20h |
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426 ____________________________________________________________ |
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428 With the extension of annna for multi-server support, |
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429 she is now able to join irc.libera.chat/#gopherproject |
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430 and help our gopher comrades there. |
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431 |
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432 They will receive the bitreich news and have all the |
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433 pleasure of annna features, like memes, URI resolvers |
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434 etc. There is much to find out! |
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435 |
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436 If you want to dig deeper, look at the annna |
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437 internals: |
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438 |
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439 git://bitreich.org/annna |
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440 |
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441 I hope this brings an influx of new ideas for |
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442 gopher<>IRC. |
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443 |
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444 Sincerely yours, Chief IRC Officer (CIO) |
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446 |
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449 Confessions of a thief chemla |
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450 ____________________________________________________________ |
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451 |
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452 >> Below is the beginning of "Confessions of a Thief" |
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453 from Laurent Chemla. He founded a major French DNS |
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454 registrar, but before that, was the first to commit |
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455 online piracy in France (from a Minitel), and worked |
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456 on development tools for Atari. The book is published |
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457 online in French and translated below. |
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458 |
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459 A thief. How else to name one of the first individual |
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460 in France to procure itself an Internet access? In |
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461 1994, borrowing the clothes of a telecommunication |
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462 expert, that I was not yet, I obtained from an IT |
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463 staff employee of a parisian University that he let me |
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464 an access to Internet. In exchange, I brought him help |
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465 - relatively - to the building of a network devoted to |
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466 let student work from home. |
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467 |
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468 I then stole, I confess, this first access to a |
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469 network that remained to me a mostly unexplored land |
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470 since my last visits in 1992, mediated by obscure |
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471 manoeuvres of a friend or through piracy. |
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472 |
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473 This theft benefited to me, I could learn to use a |
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474 tool long before the majority of the IT crowd, gaining |
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475 an advance that still persist today. |
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476 |
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477 I stole, but I plead good faith. At this epoch nobody |
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478 around me did understand what it was about. Would it |
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479 bit a thief to steal something nobody had interest in? |
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480 This access was to the reach of only a few testing |
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481 university students, this access that a small IT |
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482 company could not afford, I stole it, and I am not |
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483 ashamed. |
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484 |
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485 For my relatives, I am nontheless an "IT janitor". |
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486 Programmer to a tiny IT company, I always have been |
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487 passionated by telematic networks. A passion that |
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488 costed me, in 1986, to be the first to be guilty of |
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489 piracy in France, pirated from a Minitel, yes, but to |
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490 each his glory. As there was not yet any law against |
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491 IT piracy, I have been incriminated for stealing |
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492 electrical power. All that ended up in an acquittal, |
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493 but still, here is a decent start for a thief career! |
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494 |
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495 Indeed, how to name differently someone who |
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496 constituted its professional network by taking part to |
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497 associations? We have the impression to contribute |
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498 unpaid for the many, but we mostly get known and, time |
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499 after time, the clients get attracted by this |
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500 visibility. Of course anyone whose professional |
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501 occupation deals with voluntary sector end-up face to |
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502 its own consciousness. Not unlike, I suppose, a lawyer |
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503 who gain clients from the excluded folk that he help |
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504 graciously and daily. I ignore what its consciousness |
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505 would tell him, but I know mine is not at rest. |
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506 |
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507 Nowadays again, my activities continue to be lucrative |
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508 out of Internet, at the time of Nasdaq's fall. How can |
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509 one earn while everyone loose, if not by cheating? |
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510 |
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511 A thief is on that use to its profit else's good. To |
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512 me, Internet is a public good and, if serve as |
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513 commercial gallery for some, it must not limit itself |
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514 to such a deviation. Internet must first and foremost |
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515 be the tool that, for the first time in mankind, |
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516 permitted the freedom of speech, defined as a |
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517 fundamental human right. |
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518 |
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519 This right, in all its guarantee from our |
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520 constitutional state, has stayed hypothetical since |
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521 its proclamation. In France law protects freedom of |
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522 Speech of syndicates and journalists but no text that |
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523 permit to the simple citizen to undertake justice, to |
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524 reach its freedom. What else since, before Internet, |
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525 this freedom was to the reach of some privilegied? The |
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526 lawyer protected them because only them needed that |
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527 protection. Ten years ago, noone would have been able |
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528 to benefit an as simple, fast and affordable way to |
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529 expose works, arts or ideas but by vociferating in the |
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530 street or by climbing the social scale rung by rung to |
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531 the point of having media's attention. One had to be |
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532 represented by others with the expression right for |
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533 themself. Only ersatz. The only freedom that matters |
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534 is the one available to all and I dont give a damn |
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535 about those reserved to the mighty or their |
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536 representatives. |
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537 |
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538 Internet thereby permit to a growing number of citizen |
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539 to apply their fundamental right to take the parole on |
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540 the public place. From this point of view, it must be |
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541 protected such as any other necessary yet fragile |
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542 resource, such as water we drink everyday. It cannot |
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543 be reserved to anyone, neither be limited in its |
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544 usages if not by the common right. No exception |
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545 legislation must forbide the exercise of freedom of |
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546 speech and, as soon as possible, states must preserve |
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547 the common tool that became a public benefit. And as I |
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548 use a public good to lead my own fights, yet again, I |
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549 behave as a thief. |
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550 |
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551 I thereby knew the Internet some time before everybody |
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552 else, still at the age of the Far West, Eldorado, |
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553 Utopia. At this era, the network was backed by public |
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554 money (mostly from United States), the life was |
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555 happier and the electronic sky bluer. We worked all |
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556 along, among passionated, inventing new computer |
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557 objects that even Microsoft did ignore, like Linux or |
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558 the World Wide Web (you know, the three fastidious *w* |
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559 we have to type in the address of your favorite porn |
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560 website...) that did not yet exist and that today |
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561 everybody mistake for the network itself. |
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562 |
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563 We were far from thinking that some day, we would need |
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564 a plethora of lawyers to organize the network. That |
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565 some day, we would need interdepartmental comittees to |
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566 address of the question. That some day, we would have |
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567 to put black on white the manners not yet named |
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568 "netiquette" that seemd all so natural to us. Our only |
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569 desire, share that formidable invention with the most |
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570 people, make its apology, attract the most numerous of |
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571 passionated who shared with us their competency, their |
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572 knowledge and intelligence. |
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573 |
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574 I remember that at this epoch, when I was saying |
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575 "Internet", my friends looked at me as if coming from |
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576 another planet. When I transfered a file from a |
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577 computer from one end of of the world to my own |
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578 machine - by cabalistic commands typed by hand under |
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579 an interface working without a mouse pointer - the |
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580 seasoned IT engineers was assisting to the |
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581 demonstration as to a bad movie: finding a file was |
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582 taking hours, reading speeds was worth a sick snail |
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583 and the file often revealed to be unusable... But |
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584 while a pal entered in my office, I would show him how |
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585 by typing a single command line I could share, for a |
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586 ridiculous price, my work, my knowledge, my files or |
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587 my data with pure strangers and that could live at the |
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588 other side of the street as the other side of the |
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589 world. |
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590 |
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591 Besides from other passionated people, everybody was |
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592 laughing at me. I could tell them that this thingy |
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593 would be a revolution for human knowledge, they looked |
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594 at me in pity and went back to their work. |
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595 |
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596 In the best case, I was told with lucidity "It is a |
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597 pirate thing.". Some was asking who would that fit, |
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598 beyond telematic specialists. Other claimed that |
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599 volontary and free sharing of resources would not |
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600 have, by definition, any economical future. I was also |
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601 asked sometimes who would dare to provide such a |
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602 terrible service. And when I explained them that |
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603 everything was entirely decentralised, with for only |
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604 coordination volunteership and good will of all, the |
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605 same ones was telling me that it could never work at a |
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606 large scale. |
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607 |
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608 https://www.confessions-voleur.net/ |
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612 Publishing in The Gopher Times you |
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613 ____________________________________________________________ |
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614 |
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615 Want your article published? Want to announce |
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616 something to the Gopher world? Directly related to |
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617 Gopher or not, reach us on IRC with an article in any |
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618 format, we will handle the rest. |
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619 |
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620 ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en |
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621 gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/ |
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622 git://bitreich.org/tgtimes/ |
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