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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:…

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…

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. ht…

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…

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 m…

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 …

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: …

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 Feedba…

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 …

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 di…

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 def…

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,…