Mike Dank @Famicoman@mastodon.sdf.org
Currentry playing with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, vintage computers, PBX, meshnets, gopher. Write for n-o-d-e.net, 2600, Lunchmeat, Exolymph, Neondystopia.
here are some thoughts on core principles for the webring, let me know your thoughts:
* every site should list all* of the other sites in the webring
* you cannot do this automatically. it has to be an inefficient organic process over either fediverse or email
* it's fine if things aren't completely consistent. in fact you can do anything that adds flavor to the list of links. you can also omit people you don't want to link for whatever reason
* the core theme of the webring is "we want webrings to be a thing again"
* your website can be any http(s)-addressible page that you want to share
* no zuckerbook/birdsite links
Documented how to emulate a z/OS mainframe, https://famicoman.com/2018/06/28/emulating-a-z-os-mainframe-with-hercules/
Awesome site detailing telecommunications infrastructure, http://cityinfrastructure.com
1960s/70s special design control unit from (T&N) Telefonbau und Normalzeit DE, (also used by PTT Netherlands),
with loudspeaker and link capability to connect analogue VHF portable radio scheme (sets in vehicles communicating via repeater in high place) with fixed telephone network
This sort of setup was used by public services, railways etc (separate to any civilian public mobile phone network) and has to be carefully planned and licensed by the PTT or Communications Ministry..
Anyone know if reproduction blue boxes are available anywhere? I'd like to get into old phreak boxes.
"Is it open-source, or is it bullshit?"
but, I mean, just look how cute the first ever palmtop was! How could I not?
The complete collection of Processed World is also available in Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/processedworld
also this volume with some articles translated in italian
https://archive.org/details/ribellione-nella-silicon-valley
After covering the whole life of OMNI a year or so ago, I'm going to guess that the new OMNI issue released late last year is the last one we will see. Penthouse's parent publisher filed for bankruptcy protection in February and new OMNI's web presence has slowed to nothing.
This is nice, http://damnfine.coffee
I've been trying to boot my emulated zOS mainframe for 2 weeks without luck and finally tried to use a backup that I know was working and still haven't got a 3270 console to connect. I think at this point I accidentally updated Hercules and it is broken.
Gopher is still alive!
To all the #minimalism and #retrocomputing fans out there, what would you think of going one step further than what #Neocities is doing and create an easy to use phlog system using #Gopher?
Gopher is the predecessor to HTTP and it enforced a minimalist menu-document interface, without all the embedded multimedia of the current web, but crucially focused on the content, without distractions, cookies, banners...
Surfing the Gopher Space in 2018:
I wrote an article about the origins of the bOING bOING zine, https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-books-fiction/the-brain-mutator-for-higher-primates-a-boing-boing-retrospective/
So Wired is now charging $50 a year for a subscription. I'm not sure I've been charged more than $15 or $20 a year in the last decade. Will not renew.
I need to generate IPv6 fragments, what tools are good for creating weird packets?
#freebsd only please
Selecting text on an iPhone is the hardest problem in computer science
Actually, if I did a series of articles on (non-secret parts of) Xanadu internals, would anybody care? Not just transcopyright -- I've got detailed knowledge on how ZZOGL / FloatingWord did layout, for instance. I think I can explain these things in a clearer way than Ted does, in some cases.
My Soviet phone is alive, the Grandstream ATA is registering with my PBX so I can make and take calls :)
