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Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by Kye »

Uptrenda wrote: post #59
zafiro17 wrote: post #9

The nightmare is over? I've used Usenet for years. Most serious users filter out any post originating from G2 to do away with Google posts. It's been a huge source of spam and annoyance. Usenet gets better as it gets smaller, honestly. Most groups are carcasses these days, but several have regular use. comp.misc, misc.news.internet.discuss, and sci.misc are active. Several groups in the comp* hierarchy are active. Th…

You think it's worth getting into Usenet for new people?

Gopher is the next big thing.

Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by bilekas »

> Much of the content being disseminated via Usenet today is binary (non-text) file sharing, which Google Groups does not support, as well as spam

I don't know why but I feel this was written by a young gun who doesn't know how usenet, irc etc works and just wants to push everyone to discord and slack.

Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by mcbits »

bazoom42 wrote: post #109
Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you realize that you have given a link to an encyclopedia to show the definition of a word. The fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published in 2011, already gave a second definition of brownshirt: >A racist, especially a violent, right-wing one.[0] Oxford Dictionary has an even broader definition[1] As noted by other users, "brownshirt" is also used to describe "anyone in authority."[2] I actu…

Using “brownshirt” for anyone in authority is clearly missing the point entirely. There is a reason the brownshirts were eliminated after the nazis came to power. They were violent gangs of nazi thugs operating outside the law to terrorize opponents. When the nazi party came to power they were not useful or necessary anymore, since now the party could just change the law and perform terror through official institutio…

> thugs

Please stop using that term unless you're talking specifically about the worshippers of Kali who would strangle and rob travelers in India in the 19th century. It does not mean anything else. It can never mean anything else.

Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by lannisterstark »

supermatt wrote: post #112

Google has seemingly reached the pinnacle of uselessness > To find a client, do a web search for "how do I find a usenet text client" Result: https://imgur.com/a/8VrfuPu

There are plenty of Usenet clients available though. You also have quotes around your query.

Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by bazoom42 »

mcbits wrote: post #114
bazoom42 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using “brownshirt” for anyone in authority is clearly missing the point entirely. There is a reason the brownshirts were eliminated after the nazis came to power. They were violent gangs of nazi thugs operating outside the law to terrorize opponents. When the nazi party came to power they were not useful or necessary anymore, since now the party could just change the law and perform terror through official institutio…

> thugs Please stop using that term unless you're talking specifically about the worshippers of Kali who would strangle and rob travelers in India in the 19th century. It does not mean anything else. It can never mean anything else.

Fair enough - I promise I won’t call dang a thug if he removes my comment!

Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by Fatnino »

blihp wrote: post #45
dataangel wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a broader tutorial for this, newsgroups mostly missed me, I don't really grok how they fit into the greater internet or how their hosting works or why you have to pay a separate provider

In the dark ages when internet access was limited and/or via dialup for most of us, there were several tools and protocols to work with what we had: email, ftp and usenet were some of the main ones. Usenet was basically a primordial set of distributed forums platform (and quasi-social network) where copies of the data were stored locally. It was how a lot of information got disseminated prior to the mid-90's when the…

Also where the (outdated) idea that "the internet never forgets anything" came from.

Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by sgammon »

danpalmer wrote: post #105
sgammon wrote: post #104

me: sundar i want firebase to work with bazel sundar: we are working on an amazing new ai sundar later:

What doesn't work between Firebase and Bazel, out of interest? Bazel seems to be super generic?

https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/6115

https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

Two examples that come to mind but there are plenty

Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet

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Post by preisschild »

supermatt wrote: post #112

Google has seemingly reached the pinnacle of uselessness > To find a client, do a web search for "how do I find a usenet text client" Result: https://imgur.com/a/8VrfuPu

Tbf thats how its supposed to work. By quoting it you are explicitly searching for the text "how do I find a usenet text client".

Remove the quotes.

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