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2026-08-30T12:45:17+0200	Let's see if that can work
2026-08-30T13:25:01+0200	Note to self: need to set noexpandtab for twtxt
2026-08-30T14:56:09+0200	I guess a backup on RTC makes sense, as NC gets stuck from time to time
2026-08-31T22:25:29+0200	There's only a thin line betweeen privacy and obscurity
2026-09-02T21:15:41+0200	I'm definitely "team learn yet another thing" over "install yet another piece of software"
2026-09-04T09:59:17+0200	~oberon: of course I remember ~adamaster@rtc, you were one of the people who made the place worth logging into.
2026-09-04T10:03:42+0200	(cont'd) I'm on my "travel system", without access to m old-RTC archives, but I would assume there was a strong opinion of mine we had a dispute about.
2026-09-04T10:04:47+0200	nightfall.city just took a break, again. It's a good time to remember to be thankful to people who run our sites, without recompensation and hardly any recognition.
2026-09-06T00:54:18+0200	"The Matrix" got it wrong. We're not batteries, we're "data acquisition wetware". And not even pods for everyone.
2026-09-06T01:05:48+0200	@oberon: I am hardly a mentor material, just a smartass with some skills, mouth (fingers) faster than my brain, and a lot of attitude.
2026-09-06T01:12:29+0200	@oberon: On the other hand, Dunning-Kruger syndrome [talking about myself] can be a good thing - knowing something is impossible usually makes people stop trying ;)
2026-09-06T12:13:03+0200	~woog's nex server software is quite efficient (at least as seen on the receiving side). I'm quite curious how and in what direction it evolves (knowing his work from RTC - it might be something fun and unexpected).
2026-09-09T23:53:57+0200	NPS services on nex.runbsd.io (send "help" to see the selection) are pretty dope. "history" tool reminded me about DMR's birthday (Dennis Ritchie, IYKYK), by the way
2026-09-11T23:29:46+0200	Listened to ~thelovebug's podcast on https://tilderadio.org. Quite good, next one coming on Fri, Sep 18, 10:30pm GMT+2
2026-09-12T19:29:32+0200	nightfall is read-only again. I'll just water my plant and wait ;)
2026-09-12T22:51:19+0200	Topology of Geminispace: https://clehaxze.tw/misc/geminispace-topology-2026-09/
2026-09-13T22:52:43+0200	Read an insightful post by ~softwarepagan "What's Missing from Retro" https://midnight.pub/posts/2679
2026-09-13T23:18:58+0200	@oberon: I guess Nightfall (and its creator) become victims of the success of the working Proof of Concept that turned into a hub for everything around the protocol.
2026-09-13T23:21:23+0200	@oberon: One day you're writing a fun little program for own use, and one month later you're processing bug reports and PRs.
2026-09-13T23:23:49+0200	@oberon: As Linus Torvalds once said: "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" :D
2026-09-13T23:30:14+0200	@oberon: That makes the "off-site" experiments even more important for the survival of the idea.
2026-09-16T13:02:40+0200	@oberon: I don't think there's a lot of dial-in BBSes (there are some, I know from articles I read, but they're an absolute rarity). These days even getting speeds below 9600 set up becomes a challenge (I have a TI700 running at 300baud, and some of USB-RS232 converters do not support speeds that low anymore).
2026-09-16T13:03:43+0200	I think various tilde servers took over the BBS role, although support for offline reading is rather limited (I think offpunk allows it, to some reasonable extent).
2026-09-16T13:06:40+0200	@oberon: 'learning things old-way' is for me more about resources used, not the sources. But in a way - yes - like in the BBS era - get the software, get the manual, ask people _you know they know_, and an anonymous bot or site.
2026-09-16T13:11:16+0200	Not a set of ready-to-use recipes, or a walk-through, but a general introduction - how to set variables, how to do I/O, repetitions, branching, math and string ops. With all the rest left to figure out on my own ;)
2026-09-16T13:17:05+0200	At some point you know how to work efficiently, but learning new things these days feels shallow, sometimes. When knowledge is served on a plate there's no room for "Wow" or "WTF".
2026-09-17T12:24:54+0200	TIL: I knew '_' can be used to skip a value in Python, but it also stores the result of the last executed command in the interactive Python interpreter. One thing less to copy and paste.
2026-09-18T12:04:09+0200	Hypothesis: `printf "/booth/\r\n" | nc nightfall.city 1900 |wc -l` returning 0 means NC is gone read-only.
2026-09-18T12:29:33+0200	I'm pretty happy with my gonzo setup for the smolnet. That's the whole message.
2026-09-19T01:14:06+0200	@oberon: I guess 'watering' updates some kind of database, either located elsewhere, in-memory, or the update does not increase the size of the file on the disk (thus making the lack of free space irrelevant).
2026-09-19T01:16:17+0200	I wrote a Russian roulette one-liner: russian_roulette() { [[ $(printf "/booth/\r\n" | nc nightfall.city 1900 |wc -l) -ne 0 ]] && echo "click" || echo "BANG"  ; }; russian_roulette ## you get shot when NC is read-only :D
2026-09-20T00:48:34+0200	"Bit the bullet", and wrote a nex client for the "real" Acme -- URLs in the Acme is processed by plumber, sent to a small handler script, and loaded into the window. Still have to figure out a way to handle partial paths, but it's already working and usable.
2026-09-20T01:41:07+0200	I'll just leave it here: pretty much anything with Prof. Sarah Paine talking is worth watching/listening.
2026-09-20T18:27:17+0200	Thank you, @balloon!
2026-09-26T23:44:43+0200	Experience feeds the intuition - the other day I thought: there must be a vim register containing the last/current ex command. Because, from experience, there's one for almost anything happening in the editor. And there is -> use Ctrl-R + : (in Insert Mode)
2026-09-27T17:15:44+0200	Maggie Smith died 2 years ago. Cliff Burton died 40 years ago.
2026-09-27T19:52:33+0200	A random discovery - "drawing" windows in tmux (next-3.9 compiled from the source - hold Ctrl, drag with M1) works the same way it works in Plan 9's rio. Quite cool.
2026-09-28T11:03:38+0200	Custom array sorting in MKS AWK (woog@rtc): gemini://rawtext.club/~woog/gemlog/gem-2026-09-27.gmi
2026-09-28T21:36:17+0200	DECWAR: a multiplayer space-combat game played over telnet: telnet play.decwar.org 2423
2026-10-01T19:34:37+0200	SLES 16 is a dumpster fire. SUSE basically threw out 30 years of continuity for some "shiny-clicky". Barely anyone wanted them on their laptop, now they're screwing up their own position in the server world.
2026-10-02T21:57:45+0200	misfin protocol specification reads like a mockery of IETF RFCs.
2026-10-04T23:43:20+0200	A "tongue in the cheek" article about becoming a Linux snob: kepler://larsthebear.me:2009/linux_snob.gmi
2026-10-04T23:44:42+0200	In case your client doesn't support kepler:// URLs - the same content is available over Gemini (just replace the protocol part)
2026-10-05T08:04:34+0200	~oberon: you definitely get points for running Slackware - I didn't have it on my system in this millenium, I think, but it was one of the first distros I ever installed.
2026-10-05T08:07:45+0200	The only distro I don't respect is Omarchy, and I'm a little suspicious about Nix -- both make something weird on top of a Linux kernel -- Nix might be technically a solid OS, but it's not Unix anymore.
2026-10-05T08:11:16+0200	I'm neither a ricer nor a member of the Rust cult. I also prefer my terminals in a GUI (even if I spend days in one fullscreen Foot terminal with tmux). Even my smolnet client runs in a graphical editor, because I can't be arsed with typing when I browse. So - I don't think I'll pass the test either.