asjo

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

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 2:230/149 on Fidonet. Can't remember my AmiNet address.

asjo

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

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 (Thunderbird, Gnus, slrn, nn, tin, Pan, or even Lynx or ELinks, for instance) and read usenet delayed 40-46 years.

asjo

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML

asjo

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

This is why I read RSS over NNTP: https://feedbase.org/

(Shameless plug: I made Feedbase.)

asjo

l’année dernièrediscuss

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

asjo

l’année dernièrediscuss

It was indeed - one was fired against a club house, in 1996: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Poulsen

asjo

l’année dernièrediscuss

What is a "Markdown Paper"?

asjo

l’année dernièrediscuss

That's kinda mean. Surely Windows ME was peak Microsoft.

asjo

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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¹ It is an NNTP interface so the article is superseded; https://feedbase.org/about/ - if you don't want to see updates, you can configure your newsreader to skip supersedes.

asjo

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Yes, the `guid` field in RSS and the `id` field in Atom.

asjo

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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 more often than once and hour, use ETag and If-Modified-Since to determine whether to download the full feed again.

Which items you have seen previously is something the feed reader keeps track of.

asjo

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

I got the same with Firefox 114 - so I used `M-x eww` in Emacs and read the page that way.

asjo

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Paging sysop... paging sysop... paging sysop...

:-)

asjo

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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 the sounds while trying "Little Computer People" for a nostalgia trip after reading "Hacking Little Computer People on the Amiga" (http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/hacking-little-computer-people-o...) last summer.

asjo

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

In my day we made (some parts of) a kernel on Motorola 68000-boxes - they were quite main stream at the time.

asjo

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Which feels like a cover of Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson.

asjo

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

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: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/limits.html

Where do you have the 64KB number from?

A small test:

    test=# create table test_table (test_field text);
    CREATE TABLE
    test=# insert into test_table select string_agg('x', '') from generate_series(1, 128*1024);
    INSERT 0 1
    test=# select length(test_field) from test_table;
     length 
    --------
     131072
    (1 row)

asjo

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

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 Feedbase (2015) I wasn't really good enough at Haskell to accomplish the task before I giving up in frustration, so I fell back to my usual preferred scripting language, Perl, for the part that fetches the feeds and updates the database and for the nntp server - I only implemented the (quite simple) website in Haskell.

I've gotten a little better since then, so my little blog-engine, Lantern, which also uses nntp as the main "interface", is written completely in (beginner) Haskell.

asjo

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Jam: haha, cool, I will let you know when there is something to look at.

asjo

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

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.

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