Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/going-where-beos-netpositive-hasnt-gone.html

by todsacerdoti • 4 years ago

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troad• 4 years ago

I love these sorts of posts. Is there a Hacker News just for cool retro-computing hacks and weird hobby OSes I could read?

Ygg2• 4 years ago

There is Lunduke journal substack but nothing like hacker news.

epilys• 4 years ago

lobste.rs has computing only related content (no business - world news) and has a fair amount of retro computing posts

SSLy• 4 years ago

https://lobste.rs/t/historical

anthk• 4 years ago

Reddit's Retrobattlestations, and at Usenet:

comp.infosystems.gopher

comp.infosystems.gemini

alt.folklore.computers

comp.misc (sometimes)

comp.os.cpm

comp.os.misc (from time to time)

layer8• 4 years ago

Sometimes I wonder whether tagging support for HN articles wouldn’t be useful. Members could assign arbitrary publicly visible tags to articles, and upvote/downvote/flag those tags. Everyone could filter by tags and maybe see a vote count for each tag. Of course, that would be one more thing to moderate.

nickt• 4 years ago

https://www.vogons.org/ For the more mainstream retro machines and hardware.

https://forum.vcfed.org/ For the rarer esoteric stuff (but still loads of old Macs, DOS machines, Amigas and 8-bit stuff)

There loads of others, often machine specific, but these 2 are a good place to start.

rwmj2• 4 years ago

I wonder if anyone has asked Access (https://www.access-company.com/) about the BeOS source? I hardly think they care about it now.

TwoFx• 4 years ago

Access has been somewhat reluctant to make BeOS-related material available in the past. For example, they did provide access to the BeOS API documentation (called the Be Book) to the Haiku project, but only under a restrictive no-derivatives license (see [1]). This has caused some pain the past, as extra care must be taken that Haiku's API documentation, the Haiku Book [2], is not a derivative work, so everything had to be rewritten from scratch, even documentation for parts of the API that are largely unchanged.

[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/LegalNotice.html

[2] https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/index.html

pram• 4 years ago

What a joke. Gotta protect the future of those massive profits from BeOS sales I guess.

chrsw• 4 years ago

Not sure how I feel about websites blocking vistors based on their browser type. Is that just a necessary evil at this point because of all network abuse on the public internet?

rwmj2• 4 years ago

It seems like a very odd strategy since for real attackers it's absolutely trivial to pretend to be some random Internet Explorer. However I suppose it may be part of some kind of Bayesian / machine learning black box at Cloudflare.

classichasclass2• 4 years ago

I have great difficulty believing that there are armies of online miscreants spoofing NetPositive, but perhaps Cloudflare has data I don't.

rnhmjoj• 4 years ago

Proxying TLS is becoming unusable, thanks again to cloudflare. You keep getting kicked out because they detect the Client Hello[1] does not match whatever they think it should be, based on the User Agent string. I'm not even sure what this is supposed to protect the website from.

[1] https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/4575

classichasclass2• 4 years ago

(author) Interesting. That may have been what I ran into. carl itself was unaffected, just proxying through it.

simcop2387• 4 years ago

It's probably part of about detection system which cf is usually trying to prevent for their customers. It'd be a relatively easy to detect metric to add to a score for that kind of thing. A bot using a browser use agent string but the wrong tls settings is probably very common.

emj• 4 years ago

Cloudflare does not care about MITM enterprise proxy nor mass surveillance, so there should be wiggle room to get it to work.

memsom3• 4 years ago

Being someone who actually has hardware that can run this, I look forward to giving it a spin. Great work!

Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+

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