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Adam Sjøgren - https://koldfront.dk/
Oh, there was some spam and a lot of political stuff due to the hierarchical nature of Fidonet. Tiny Denmark had 3 networks.
No AI slop, luckily. And a lot of fun.
I used to run 2:230/149 on Fidonet. Can't remember my AmiNet address.
In case you feel like visiting usenet as it looked 40+ years ago, I run https://olduse.net/ - which Joey Hess originally did as an art project - where you can connect a news reader (Thunderbird, Gnus, slrn, nn, tin, Pan, or even Lynx or ELinks, for instance) and read usenet delayed 40-46 years.
The D in DHTML is usually short for "Dynamic".
Around the time that abbreviation became fashionable using a lot of DIV elements also did, but that wasn't what the "D" stood for.
This is why I read RSS over NNTP: https://feedbase.org/
(Shameless plug: I made Feedbase.)
How is this open source? This is the license, in full:
"All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2014 Lucian Marin"
· https://github.com/lucianmarin/subreply/blob/master/LICENSE
It was indeed - one was fired against a club house, in 1996: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Poulsen
What is a "Markdown Paper"?
That's kinda mean. Surely Windows ME was peak Microsoft.
My system updates¹ the entry and marks the changes in the first case. What is right and what is wrong depends on what you want, I think.
The latter is annoying, I agree.
¹ It is an NNTP interface so the article is superseded; https://feedbase.org/about/ - if you don't want to see updates, you can configure your newsreader to skip supersedes.
Yes, the `guid` field in RSS and the `id` field in Atom.
rachelbythebay has a service and a series of blog posts about the technical side of this, starting at https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/
TL;DR: readers should not poll more often than once and hour, use ETag and If-Modified-Since to determine whether to download the full feed again.
Which items you have seen previously is something the feed reader keeps track of.
I got the same with Firefox 114 - so I used `M-x eww` in Emacs and read the page that way.
Paging sysop... paging sysop... paging sysop...
:-)
The FS-UAE emulator (https://fs-uae.net/) emits the familiar grinding floppy disk sounds of Amigas, if you need a hit without getting the old hardware out :-)
I was surprised by the sounds while trying "Little Computer People" for a nostalgia trip after reading "Hacking Little Computer People on the Amiga" (http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/hacking-little-computer-people-o...) last summer.
In my day we made (some parts of) a kernel on Motorola 68000-boxes - they were quite main stream at the time.
Which feels like a cover of Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson.
The PostgreSQL manual states:
the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB.
· https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.h...
See also: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/limits.html
Where do you have the 64KB number from?
A small test:
test=# create table test_table (test_field text);
CREATE TABLE
test=# insert into test_table select string_agg('x', '') from generate_series(1, 128*1024);
INSERT 0 1
test=# select length(test_field) from test_table;
length
--------
131072
(1 row)I had been wanting to learn Haskell for a long time, and came to the conclusion that without an actual project, I would never get anywhere.
However when I started working on Feedbase (2015) I wasn't really good enough at Haskell to accomplish the task before I giving up in frustration, so I fell back to my usual preferred scripting language, Perl, for the part that fetches the feeds and updates the database and for the nntp server - I only implemented the (quite simple) website in Haskell.
I've gotten a little better since then, so my little blog-engine, Lantern, which also uses nntp as the main "interface", is written completely in (beginner) Haskell.
Jam: haha, cool, I will let you know when there is something to look at.
There used to be a distributed, cooperative spam-marking system in usenet - the name escapes me right now - but I'm not sure it ever worked really well.
Some blogs have a regular feed and a comment feed - I haven't really tried to use the latter, as comments in many places unfortunately is even more spammy than usenet.
It would be fun if you could post comments to the original blogs through Feedbase, alas, that would probably means custom integration for each and every one, and would be prone to abuse. So comments (follow ups) on Feedbase are local to Feedbase (and not used much).
Good point, that's perhaps a little too jargon-y. I will see if I can reword it in a more accessible way.
Any nntp client that renders HTML. Most obvious choices are Gnus, if you like Emacs, and Thunderbird.
You can use more old school clients such as slrn, tin, and nn - but usually displaying HTML takes some work.
Pan is another GUI client, I don't remember if it renders HTML.
I would think INN2 (https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/) is the most widely used - it is still maintained and readily available in eg Debian.
I don't know if you would define it as "modern".
I like Gnus so much that I try to put an nntp interface on most things, but the servers that come out of that are specialized, like Feedbase or my little blog-engine, Lantern.
I haven't released the source code, it's an ungodly mix of Perl and Haskell, but maybe I will try and clean it up a little and make it public - it's quite hardcoded, eg the domain, currently.
How do you keep up with 1000+ feeds now? I feel using Gnus is quite efficient, but of the 664 feeds on Feedbase currently I'm subscribed to "only" 304.
"modern" is often overrated.
And arguably the venerable Apache HTTP Server · https://httpd.apache.org/ :-)
My Netgear R6350 wifi access point running OpenWrt 21.02.03 and 5 GHz only uses ~4.5 W in casual use, and goes up to ~6.8 W when I run iperf3 full tilt through it.
Measured using a watt-o-meter like this: http://seacourse.dk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Home+Electricit...
They can be borrowed in libraries in Denmark, same as books.
I have a raspberry pi set up with an infrared LED to control my old NAD amplifier.
Interesting - could you share a little about how you have done this?
I have a Raspberry Pi that I use as a jukebox, connected to a NAD C320BEE amplifier, and I would like the jukebox to turn the amplifier and (active) loudspeakers on, using a usb-controlled relay, when I unpause mpd and off when I pause it, but unfortunately when the amplifier is powered on, it is humming until a source is physically selected!
I did, and tried to comment there, but failed.
I think replicating Warhol's Amiga should include a correct size keyboard. Going through all that trouble to imitate a CRT, and then skipping out on the keyboard makes little sense.