yeti, 3 hours ago

@crmsnbleyd

\o/ ____( Yayyyyyy! )

yeti, 1 day ago

@louis

Nice!!!
You always can bet on [Horror Sapiens]'s greed breaking (nearly) everything.
Finally some reasons to leave New Fedistan again! ⠀ \o/
I love it!

yeti, 8 hours ago

🇪🇺 ⠀ 🐳 ⠀ 🇪🇺 ⠀ 🐋 ⠀🇪🇺 ⠀ 🐳 ⠀ 🇪🇺 ⠀ 🐋 ⠀🇪🇺

Na?
Schon gewählt?

Ich lasse mir mit der Briefwahl typischerweise Zeit bis zum Wochenede vor der eigentlichen Wahl, also werde das dies Wochenende umsetzen Es passierte zwar nie, daß ich in letzter Minute durch irgendwelche Ereignisse dann meine Meinung änderte, aber zu früh festlegen mag ich mich trotzdem nicht und dies ist alles, was ich zur Verteilung meiner Kreuze verrate.

Ok, rechts der Mitte wird mich wohl eh niemand verorten, oder? Das scheint ja oft genug durch und das reicht.

#Europa #EuropaWahl #Wählen #ZackZack

yeti, 1 hour ago

@holgerschurig

Du hast halt verständlicherweise andere Dinge im Kopf (gehabt) ... gute Besserung!

Ich beantrage seit Jahren grundsätzlich nur noch Briefwahl, aber kann mir vorstellen, daß selbst dann noch was schief gehen kann.

yeti, 3 days ago

WELTSCHMERTZ
Grundunordnung (Remastered 2023)
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=nfyjI2acbaQ

#WELTSCHMERTZ

2¢: War gut, ist gut, bleibt besser! Manch Tag könnt ich das echt als Loop vertragen... paßt auch grad eben noch fast zum Datum...

yeti, 3 days ago

SPLIFF
Deja vu Live 1981
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=3ADqM7Ng5yw

#SPLIFF

2¢: Aber nu is wieder Ruhe... vermutlich... vermut ich...

yeti, 3 days ago

@kyonshi @lkh

Are you discussing this somewhere in Usenet?

yeti, 3 days ago

@kyonshi @lkh

Once upon a time I played with such things.
Then I switched to SMTP directly over Tor, but I seem to be alone there.

And even homeless when Arti will replace Tor (or be the new Tor). I'm not in the mood to stress small systems (including myself) with Rust.

So what I'm looking for is something giving hidden service like constant addresses in an open mesh. Maybe like Tinc without needing to configure each connection?

If all else fails, I might crawl back to UUCP and then may dedust the modems too. My 2 landlines aren't used for voice any more, so that could be fun. But UUCP needing each connection configured on both sides is not the open network I want to see...

yeti, 3 days ago

@lkh @kyonshi

I'm good at being silly!

yeti, 3 days ago

@lkh @kyonshi

I do not bite. I just want to play.

My default sig in Usenet.

yeti, 3 days ago

@kyonshi @lkh

UUCP over ultrasound "soft" modem?
And all bats and dogs get upset.
Nah. I don't need to try every idea.

yeti, 2 days ago

@kyonshi @lkh

Uness laws about HAM changed, HAM is too restricted here. You may just experiment around, but not really use it for everyday communication.

yeti, 2 days ago

@kyonshi @lkh

What I'm missing most in UUCP is that you need to know everyone before they can "call" you.

The unknown config seems to only apply to anonymous UUCP file transfer.

A network layer like hidden services where the (onion-)address is all you need still needs each system know each directly called one in the ports table. That might be solved with some small patches, but as long as this isn't fixed, each connection needs to be configured on both ends which the yields a complete graph.

For SMTP over Tor, the mail itself contains all you need: The address of the recipient and so Postfix with a miniscule change directly can deliver it over its own torsocks wrapped smtp backend.

I asked Santarella to lead me to some I2P/Tor alternatives, but so far nothing interesting⁽¹⁾ showed up. If we had a light weight layer that gives us provider independent constant addresses in an overlay network, that would be a fantastic addition not only for SmallWeb/-Net fans. We could bring up a complete parallel universe driven by its users. The individual connections then could provide the needed security instead of it being baked into the overlay layer.

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1: It should be lightweight, have a spec in RFC style als "primary definition" and should be implementable in many different languages, especially good old C for some low end systems that never will be able to run those gigabytes of modern languages' SDKs/toolchains.

yeti, 2 days ago

@kyonshi @lkh

SuperTXT looks like an interesting use case of SSH.

https://supertxt.net/00-intro.html
https://supertxt.net/specs/index.html

Something like these "open" SSH based services may be a nice layer atop an overlay network that does not handle the crypto stuff (beyond handling the addresses) on its own.

I'm really not a fan of glueing different layers of protocols together. Why shouldn't we transfer GMI, HTML, PDF, ... over the protocol we choose?

Btw.: Nailing together Dillo plugins is easy, so Dillo is a nice toolkit to play with protocols. I hate single protocol network file viewers! But let's keep that (sub-)topic for an other epic rant on a long winter night. Let's phrase it in a positive way: I'm a fan of a diverse network.

Remotely (tsching-bang!) related:

printf '%srn' 'article <CAFTy05b=VURe-19V3gsP_EXWSopCHsopRU5EXLqYBnWU7ZP3Yw@mail.gmail.com>' quit . | nc news.gmane.io 119 | less<br></br>

printf 'R scorpion://zzo38computer.org/smallweb.txtrn' | nc zzo38computer.org 1517 | fmt | less<br></br>

yeti, 2 days ago

@kyonshi @lkh

I currently have no UUCP running. Does yours' allow anonymous UUCP? Or do you know a node that does?

I'd like to look at how to accessing that over TCP via telnet or netcat. If easy enough, anonymous UUCP may deserve to be added to ...

printf 'R scorpion://zzo38computer.org/smallweb.txt\r\n' | nc zzo38computer.org 1517 | fmt | less  

If it is halfway easy to access, I'll add it to at least my "copy" (menawhile diverged a lot) of it. Later we can convince ZZO38 (via comp.infosystems or IRC) to do the same too.

yeti, 1 day ago

@lkh @kyonshi

UUCP's protocols probably are too diverse and too complex to just be "played" via netcat. I'll drop the idea to see UUCP/TCP as candidate for easy homegrown smallnet experiments. File transfer would fit into the smallnet/web context but then probably better with NNTP as frontend and UUCP as optional transport.

yeti, 1 day ago

@lkh @kyonshi

Apart from manually needing to wire each peer into UUCP's config I do not remember to having wired each peer into Postfix config. But it wasn't yesterday, so I may forget some stuff already.

SMTP directly over Tor (using *.onion addresses) turned out to be much easier with Postfix and especially open to everyone.

I'll try to ask somewhere about similar layers like Tor's hidden services. There has to be something similar, but with more relaxed anonymity. I do not want such addresses to hide, I want them just to be provider independent and constant. And it should be a well defined system with a spec and implementable in many languages. I'm too old for Haslell, Go and Rust! ⠀ :-P