opus7: import all bitreich news - tgtimes - The Gopher Times
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(HTM) Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 21:45:37 +0100
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A opus7/article-bitreich-c-thaumatur… | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-dj-vlad-on-… | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-donkey-mete… | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-groundhog-d… | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-library-of-… | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-meme-cache-… | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.7.mw | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-telemetry-s… | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-bitreich-volunteers-… | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
A opus7/article-ggg-bitreich-cooking… | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
D opus7/article-ggg-ggg.mw | 22 ----------------------
M opus7/article-tgtimes-announcing-t… | 4 ++--
M opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal… | 2 +-
M opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal… | 1 +
M opus7/tgtimes7.mw | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
M opus7/tgtimes7.pdf | 0
M opus7/tgtimes7.txt | 609 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
R opus7/article-tgtimes-panopticon-e… | 0
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(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-brcon2023.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-brcon2023.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+Brcon2023 from August 7th to 13th
+.2C 30
+.
+.PP
+The community has decided!
+Brcon2023 will happen between 7th to 13th of August beginning with an
+online session from 7th to 10th August and a presence part from 11th to
+13th of August in Callenberg, Germany:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/1/con/2023
+.
+.PP
+This means, the call for papers/presentations is open. This year the main
+topic will of course be gopher and all kind of simple services created
+for gopherspace. All other simple protocols are welcome too.
+.
+.PP
+Some topics that are already planned and may inspire you:
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Entropy services via gopher.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Serving highly-complex memes via IRC/gopher including gopher GPU services.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Geo / map services via gopher.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Qi Gong for beginners (in the forest!) including an inspiring forest walk in the sun.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Gophers and other family members in a museum exhibition with an exclusive tour.
+.
+.PP
+It is very simple to hold a presentation.
+Please see the slides from a previous con:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/1/con/2022
+.
+.PP
+And it is possible from all over the world!
+The world is invited!
+.
+.PP
+Please send proposals for talks to Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>.
+.
+.PP
+See you at brcon2023!
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Conference Officer (CCO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-c-thaumaturgy-center.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-c-thaumaturgy-center.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+C Thaumaturgy Center opens at Bitreich
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+People always had a desire for magic.
+This magic does not end in modern times.
+.
+.QP
+Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
+-- Arthur C. Clarke
+.
+.PP
+So is C, C pointers and C bit twiddling:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/1/thaumaturgy
+.
+.PP
+Get your daily magic there!
+.
+.PP
+In case you have your own C magic spells laying around and want to offer
+them to the public, send them to: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
+.
+.PP
+I will include them into the programme of the C Thaumaturgy Center.
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Magic Officer (CMO)
+
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-dj-vlad-on-2023-03-11.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-dj-vlad-on-2023-03-11.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+DJ Vlad Session on Bitreich Radio on 2023-03-11
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+New DJ Vlad Session from Serbia on Bitreich Radio on 2023-03-11T20:00 CET.
+.
+.PP
+Our residing DJ Vlad (not from Russia or Ukraine) has found a new sound
+and will present it to us at 2023-03-11T20:00 CET exclusively on Bitreich Radio!
+.
+.PP
+He will be streaming from Serbia to all over the gopherspace and the
+world!
+.
+.PP
+The whole session can be listened to of course at:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/1/radio/listen
+.
+.PP
+It is so easy and simple.
+.
+.PP
+See you all for this exclusive experience from Serbia!
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Vibe Officer (CVO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-donkey-meter.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-donkey-meter.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+Donkey Meter goes online.
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+Have you ever wondered, how much traffic is used on Bitreich.org? Now you
+can see it. In combination with our French friends who spread donkey
+technology, we now have a Donkey Meter:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/1/donkeymeter
+.
+.PP
+It takes a second to load due to donkey technology restrictions.
+.
+.PP
+You might also be interested in our Large Donkey Collider technology.
+.
+.PP
+Have fun!
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Donkey Officer (CDO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-groundhog-day-service.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-groundhog-day-service.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+Groundhog Day Service Page online.
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+At Bitreich we support the culture of grounded, based and ecological- and
+animal-friendly technology. In this sense, it is natural for us to
+support Groundhog Day, the scientific measurement for winter length
+prediction. In preparation for our now yearly celebration of this day, we
+now offer the current groundhog shadow status on Bitreich:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/1/groundhog-day
+.
+.PP
+Future prediction has never been that easily and worldwide available!
+.
+.PP
+Now groundhog was harmed in the production of this service!
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Ground Officer (CGO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-library-of-babel.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-library-of-babel.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+Library of Babel now available on gopherspace.
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+What is the Library of Babel?
+.
+.QP
+> The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists
+> and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of
+> humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it's just like
+> any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible
+> combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space,
+> comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been
+> written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every
+> song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution,
+> every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible
+> pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.
+.
+.LK https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html
+.
+.PP
+Now available on gopherspace!
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/1/babel
+.
+.PP
+Have fun!
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Librarian Officer (CLO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-meme-cache-pointer-support.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-meme-cache-pointer-support.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+Meme cache pointer support
+.2C 30
+.
+.PP
+The Bitreich memecache joins modern programming languages like C in
+supporting pointer notation. Get a pointer representation of a meme by
+referencing it in our IRC channels with the syntax '*<tag>', instead of
+the usual '#<tag>'.
+.
+.PP
+Example:
+.
+.DS
+<adc> #gnu-hut
+<annna> #gnu-hut: gophers://bitreich.org/I/memecache/gnu-hut.jpg
+<adc> *gnu-hut
+<annna> *gnu-hut: gophers://bitreich.org/9/memecache/filter/*gnu-hut.jpg
+.DE
+.
+.PP
+The pointer notation works for image and video memes. Remember that
+you can explore our memes with
+.FS
+git://bitreich.org/bitreich-tardis
+.FE
+bitreich-tardis, and explore the inner
+workings of annna in the
+.FS
+git://bitreich.org/annna
+.FE
+git repository.
+-adc
+.
+.SS
+Deep pointer support in memes.
+.
+.PP
+Thanks the ground work of adc, we had pointer support for memes. Based on
+this, we now have deep pointer support for all kind of memes:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/9/memecache/filter/**********athas-teapot.jpg
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/9/memecache/filter/****athas-teapot.jpg
+.
+.PP
+With cache support.
+Have fun pointing at memes! We had much fun making this. :D
+.
+.
+.SS
+Reverse pointer support for memes.
+.
+.PP
+After a public request by an avid pointer lover, we of course implemented
+reverse pointer support for memes now:
+.
+.LK gophers://bitreich.org/9/memecache/filter/&&&&&&athas-teapot.jpg
+.
+.PP
+See how you can dereference this teapot now.
+.
+.PP
+Have fun!
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Pointy Officer (CPO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.7.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.7.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+.SH Hiltjo
+sfeed 1.7 was released.
+.2C 30
+.
+.PP
+sfeed is a tool to convert RSS or Atom feeds from XML to a TAB-separated file.
+.
+.PP
+It can be found at:
+.
+.LK git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed
+.LK gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed
+.LK https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/
+.LK gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed/
+.PP
+sfeed has the following small changes compared to 1.6:
+.
+.SS
+sfeed_curses:
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Add SCO keys for next, prior (CSI I and CSI G).
+Tested on DragonFlyBSD (cons25 console).
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Add SUN keys support.
+Tested on OpenIndiana.
+.
+.SS
+sfeed_gopher:
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Remove unnecesary PATH_MAX restricting the path length.
+This also makes it compile cleanly on GNU/Hurd.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Man page and documentation improvements.
+.
+.PP
+I want to thank all people who gave feedback,
+.
+.PP
+Thanks,
+Hiltjo
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-telemetry-service.md b/opus7/article-bitreich-telemetry-service.md
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+Bitreich Telemetry Service goes Public.
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+The industry is going towards telemetry everywhere: Go programming
+language logging, Windows 11 poop logging etc.
+To save you from burnout
+(which is what Google uses for telemetry excuse!),
+Bitreich is moving forwards too.
+Try it now!
+.
+.DS
+$ git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae
+$ cd geomyidae
+$ make telemetry
+.DE
+.
+.PP
+In case you want to use the telemetry API in your project, just us:
+.
+.DS
+# Everything behind the second / field will be stripped.
+$ printf "/${projectname}/...\r\n" | nc bitreich.org 70
+Thank you for installing ${projectname}!
+Nothing is logged. You can trust us, we are not Google.
+.DE
+.
+.PP
+It is free to use!
+.
+.PP
+Have fun!
+20h
+Chief Telemetry Officer (CTO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-bitreich-volunteers-for-a-trial-wanted.mw b/opus7/article-bitreich-volunteers-for-a-trial-wanted.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+.SH Bitreich
+Volunteers for a The Gopher Times trial wanted.
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+As pioneers in the gopher world, we at Bitreich want to make the gopher
+times more accessible to all people over the world. For this, we are
+planning a trial to have printed out the gopher times sent to your
+doorstep.
+.
+.PP
+If you want to participate, please send your name and address to
+.
+.DS
+Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
+.DE
+.
+.PP
+World delivery to all remote places is possible too.
+.
+.PP
+Sincerely yours,
+20h
+Chief Press Officer (CPO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-ggg-bitreich-cooking.mw b/opus7/article-ggg-bitreich-cooking.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+.SH ggg
+#bitreich-cooking
+.2C 20
+.
+.PP
+In the city home to the best pubs in the English-speaking world, Truth keeps ggg alive, tantalises him sadistically, and heals, then looks after him.
+Coming from China, ggg waded through lies to learn that nothing is more powerful than Truth;
+coming into Cork, ggg learnt that Truth catches up nicely with nobody, still, you would prefer Truth's company anyway.
+.
+.PP
+Life is fierce futility.
+Agony unites us.
+Renaissance will come.
+.
+.PP
+60% hustler + 15% hacker + 25% hipster is ggg.
+The more he writes, the less words he ends up with.
+You can find ggg on #bitreich-en and #bitreich-cooking.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-ggg-ggg.mw b/opus7/article-ggg-ggg.mw
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-.SH ggg
-<ggg>
-.2C
-.
-.PQ
-In the city home to the best pubs in the English-speaking world, Truth keeps ggg alive, tantalises him sadistically, and heals then looks after him.
-.
-.PQ
-Coming from China, ggg waded through lies to learn that nothing is more powerful than Truth;
-coming into Cork, ggg learnt that Truth catches up nicely with nobody,
-still, you would prefer Truth's company anyway.
-.
-.PQ
-The world is and has always been on fire.
-Agony unites us.
-Renaissance will come.
-.
-.PQ
-60% hustler + 15% hacker + 25% hipster is ggg.
-The more he writes, the less words he ends up with.
-You can find ggg on #bitreich-en and #bitreich-cooking.
-He waits.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-tgtimes-announcing-the-trigger-word.mw b/opus7/article-tgtimes-announcing-the-trigger-word.mw
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.SH tgtimes
-Announcing the \fC"tgtimes"\fR keyword
-.2C
+Announcing the \fC"tgtimes"\fB keyword
+.2C 20
.
.PP
As any newspaper, The Gopher Times goal is to relay information.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal-gopher-client.mw b/opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal-gopher-client.mw
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.SH athas
+.SH tgtimes
Most minimal gopher client
.2C 30
.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal-gopher-server.mw b/opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal-gopher-server.mw
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
.SH tgtimes
Most minimal Gopher server
+.2C 300
.
.PP
Gopher is a protocol providing a gateway to a document system, allowing
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/tgtimes7.mw b/opus7/tgtimes7.mw
@@ -5,10 +5,22 @@ Opus 7 - Gopher news and more - Jan. 2023
.AE
.
.so opus7/article-athas-shell-redirections.mw
-.so opus7/article-tgtimes-10-cent-risc-v-mcu.mw
-.so opus7/article-tgtimes-a-billion-gopher.mw
-.so opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal-gopher-client-hardware.mw
-.so opus7/article-tgtimes-panopticon-effect.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-library-of-babel.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-donkey-meter.mw
+.so opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal-gopher-server.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-groundhog-day-service.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-dj-vlad-on-2023-03-11.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-c-thaumaturgy-center.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-telemetry-service.md
.so opus7/article-tgtimes-peering-cake.mw
+.so opus7/article-tgtimes-announcing-the-trigger-word.mw
+.so opus7/article-ggg-bitreich-cooking.mw
+.so opus7/article-tgtimes-most-minimal-gopher-client.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-meme-cache-pointer-support.mw
+.so opus7/article-tgtimes-a-billion-gopher.mw
+.so opus7/article-josuah-the-road-to-success.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-sfeed-1.7.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-volunteers-for-a-trial-wanted.mw
+.so opus7/article-bitreich-brcon2023.mw
.
-.so opus6/footer.mw
+.so opus7/footer.mw
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/tgtimes7.pdf b/opus7/tgtimes7.pdf
Binary files differ.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus7/tgtimes7.txt b/opus7/tgtimes7.txt
@@ -71,8 +71,613 @@ ____________________________________________________________
$ (rm numbers && sort > numbers) < numbers
This approach requires no dependencies and will work
- in any Unix shell. https://github.com/ptrks/AVR-
- ENC28J60-Examples
+ in any Unix shell.
+
+
+
+ Library of Babel now available on gopherspace.Bitreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ What is the Library of Babel?
+
+ >> > The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to
+ do research, for artists > and writers to seek inspi-
+ ration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of > hu-
+ mor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in
+ short, it's just like > any other library. If com-
+ pleted, it would contain every possible > combination
+ of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case let-
+ ters, space, > comma, and period. Thus, it would con-
+ tain every book that ever has been > written, and ev-
+ ery book that ever could be - including every play,
+ every > song, every scientific paper, every legal de-
+ cision, every constitution, > every piece of scrip-
+ ture, and so on. At present it contains all possible
+ > pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.
+
+ Now available on gopherspace!
+
+ Have fun!
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Librarian Officer (CLO)
+
+
+
+
+ Donkey Meter goes online. Bitreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Have you ever wondered, how much traffic is used on
+ Bitreich.org? Now you can see it. In combination with
+ our French friends who spread donkey technology, we
+ now have a Donkey Meter:
+
+ It takes a second to load due to donkey technology re-
+ strictions.
+
+ You might also be interested in our Large Donkey Col-
+ lider technology.
+
+ Have fun!
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Donkey Officer (CDO)
+
+
+
+ Most minimal Gopher server tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Gopher is a protocol providing a gateway to a document
+ system, allowing to serve an organized hierarchy of
+ files over the network. Dynamically generating the
+ content as per user requests is also possible. The
+ client side is in charge of rendering the content as
+ it sees fit.
+
+ Generating Gopher indexes and transmitting file con-
+ tents or generated contents is low in software compm-
+ lexity, and in turn allows less expensive hardware to
+ be run than complex web stacks.
+
+ Which cost would we end-up for building a minimal
+ piece of hardware able to host the Gopher protocol
+ acheiving all of the above? The Gopher Times investi-
+ gates.
+
+ Communication While WiFi is inexpensive and fits mov-
+ ing device gracefully, the reliability of Ethernet
+ is indicated for a server. Ethernet adds 1 USD of
+ cost for the transceiver handling the electricial
+ characteristics of Ethernet. These typically expose
+ an RGMII interface.
+
+ Processing A microcontroller featuring an Ethernet pe-
+ ripheral (with an RGMII interface) could be the pop-
+ ular STM32F103, or an alternative compatible part.
+ Enough processing power would be present for an em-
+ bedded TCP/IP and a TLS stack.
+
+ Automation In addition, most microcontrollers feature
+ a large range of built-in peripheral such as timers
+ and communication or analog interfaces, enabling au-
+ tomation of devices such as lighting, heating, laun-
+ dry, motors, or an entire car, through external mod-
+ ules. This would come for no extra cost.
+
+ Storage A slot for a MicroSD card would allow storing
+ and updating the static content to serve, and stor-
+ ing network configuration.
+
+ Scripting There exist project to fit programming lan-
+ guages onto microcontrollers. Separate projects for
+ supporting a subset of each of Python, Ruby,
+ Javscript, Go, Rust, Lua, Forth and more.
+
+ Power By letting power supply happen through the USB
+ port, a large range of power source can be used,
+ such as battery, solar panels, wind turbine, hy-
+ dropower, or power outlet.
+
+ The bill of materials for such a design would approxi-
+ mate 5 USD. A marketed device with a small margin for
+ the seller could reach as low as 10 USD.
+
+ Interestingly, such a device would also be able to
+ provide an equivalent Web service able to work with
+ all Web client, but not running the existing popular
+ Web server software stacks known as "Web Frameworks".
+
+
+
+
+ Groundhog Day Service Page online. Bitreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ At Bitreich we support the culture of grounded, based
+ and ecological- and animal-friendly technology. In
+ this sense, it is natural for us to support Groundhog
+ Day, the scientific measurement for winter length pre-
+ diction. In preparation for our now yearly celebration
+ of this day, we now offer the current groundhog shadow
+ status on Bitreich:
+
+ Future prediction has never been that easily and
+ worldwide available!
+
+ Now groundhog was harmed in the production of this
+ service!
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Ground Officer (CGO)
+
+
+
+ DJ Vlad Session on Bitreich Radio on 2023-03-11itreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ New DJ Vlad Session from Serbia on Bitreich Radio on
+ 2023-03-11T20:00 CET.
+
+ Our residing DJ Vlad (not from Russia or Ukraine) has
+ found a new sound and will present it to us at 2023-
+ 03-11T20:00 CET exclusively on Bitreich Radio!
+
+ He will be streaming from Serbia to all over the go-
+ pherspace and the world!
+
+ The whole session can be listened to of course at:
+
+ It is so easy and simple.
+
+ See you all for this exclusive experience from Serbia!
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Vibe Officer (CVO)
+
+
+
+
+ C Thaumaturgy Center opens at Bitreich Bitreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ People always had a desire for magic. This magic does
+ not end in modern times.
+
+ >> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistin-
+ guishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
+
+ So is C, C pointers and C bit twiddling:
+
+ Get your daily magic there!
+
+ In case you have your own C magic spells laying around
+ and want to offer them to the public, send them to:
+ Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
+
+ I will include them into the programme of the C Thau-
+ maturgy Center.
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Magic Officer (CMO)
+
+
+
+
+ Bitreich Telemetry Service goes Public. Bitreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The industry is going towards telemetry everywhere: Go
+ programming language logging, Windows 11 poop logging
+ etc. To save you from burnout (which is what Google
+ uses for telemetry excuse!), Bitreich is moving for-
+ wards too. Try it now!
+
+ $ git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae
+ $ cd geomyidae
+ $ make telemetry
+
+ In case you want to use the telemetry API in your pro-
+ ject, just us:
+
+ # Everything behind the secon0 | ncebitreich.orgt70pped.
+ Thanknyou"forpinstalling}${projectname}!
+ Nothing is logged. You can trust us, we are not Google.
+
+ It is free to use!
+
+ Have fun! 20h Chief Telemetry Officer (CTO)
+
+
+
+
+ Peering Cake for IPv6 tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The Internet Protocol is the fundamental encoding and
+ communication convention that permits computers to
+ reach each other across multiple LANs.
+
+ An Protocol to allow Inter-Network communication.
+ Andy Tanenbaum wrote a beautiful introduction about
+ the underlying idea:
+
+ The part of Internet visible from a single user looks
+ like a tree, with at its root the service provider.
+ Regardless how complex the branches are, there is usu-
+ ally "the gateway", implying a single one per network,
+ to allow traffic to "exit", implying a single direc-
+ tion to go for reaching the outter world. The routing
+ configuration rarely changes, and is often boiling
+ down to "going out", implying beyond the gateway is
+ outside..
+
+ The part of Internet visible from a service provider,
+ however, looks like a mesh, a more balanced graph,
+ with many possible gateways, many possible "exit" di-
+ rections, and no more idea of "outside". If you pick
+ one possible gateway picked at random, hoping them to
+ nicely find the correct destination for your IP pack-
+ ets, they may realistically cut your connection and
+ never ever talk to you again, depending on how much
+ traffic you suddenly sent (routing your IPs to
+ 0.0.0.0). This happens frequently. Network admin mail-
+ ing lists are constantly active with many people dis-
+ cussing with many others.
+
+ Network admins themself are usually friendly among
+ themself, even across concurrents, but companies do
+ not always play nice with each other.
+
+ There is a legendary dispute known by all Internet
+ Service Provider (ISP) netadmins: the two biggest in-
+ ternational internet network providers, Cogent and
+ Hurricane Electric, are disconnected. The two major
+ IPv6 Carriers, those giants connecting the ISP togeth-
+ ers across continents, are currently refusing to ex-
+ change IPv6 packets with each other. This means that
+ with IPv6, from a country connected to only Cogent, it
+ is not possible to reach a country connected to only
+ Hurricane Electric, and the other way around. For
+ this reason, all ISPs from all countries connections
+ with many more carriers for IPv6 than it is for IPv4,
+ resulting in either lower stability or higher cost.
+
+ This strategy permits Cogent to remain competitive
+ face to its larger concurrents. Hurricane Electric,
+ on the other hand, have much more commercial advantage
+ to perform peering with Cogent, to therefore exchange
+ traffic. In the diversity of attempts to get Cogent
+ to change its mind, Hurricane Electric decorated a
+ large creamy cake with a message, and shipped the cake
+ to the headquarters of Cogent. Here is what the mes-
+ sage said in 2009:
+
+ >> Cogent (AS174) Please IPv6 peer with us XOXOX -
+ Hurricane Electric (AS6939).
+
+
+
+ Announcing the "tgtimes" keyword tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ As any newspaper, The Gopher Times goal is to relay
+ information. Through chat discussions, The Gopher
+ Times ocasionnally collect heirlooms which are pub-
+ lished back to the community in this newspaper.
+
+ We propose this way of catching The Gopher Times at-
+ tention, so that editors can collect all occurences:
+ In an IRC chat discussion, simply make the word tg-
+ times appear as a way to pingback to us.
+
+ Upon publishing The Gopher Times, the IRC logs of var-
+ ious channels will be searched for this keyword, hence
+ noticing every time someone wanted to submit something
+ to the The Gopher Times. One word to say and The Go-
+ pher Times comes that way.
+
+
+
+
+ #bitreich-cooking ggg
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ In the city home to the best pubs in the English-
+ speaking world, Truth keeps ggg alive, tantalises him
+ sadistically, and heals, then looks after him. Coming
+ from China, ggg waded through lies to learn that noth-
+ ing is more powerful than Truth; coming into Cork, ggg
+ learnt that Truth catches up nicely with nobody,
+ still, you would prefer Truth's company anyway.
+
+ Life is fierce futility. Agony unites us. Renais-
+ sance will come.
+
+ 60% hustler + 15% hacker + 25% hipster is ggg. The
+ more he writes, the less words he ends up with. You
+ can find ggg on #bitreich-en and #bitreich-cooking.
+
+
+
+ Most minimal gopher client tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Gopher is a protocol allowing browsing text, images
+ interactively, reach telnet interfaces, and download
+ any file, or open any URL, for custom action to be
+ chosen by the user.
+
+ Network One reliable way to fetch the content from in-
+ ternet would be Ethernet, but convenience and price
+ would push toward using radio transmission such as
+ WiFi. [1]
+
+ Processing One inexpensive family of processors fea-
+ turing a high cost-to-performance ratio, which also
+ features WiFi, is the ESP32. The C3 iteration even
+ uses the open-source architecture RISC-V. The speed
+ is decent enough for decoding JPEG an PNG, or sup-
+ port TLS as used in gophers://.
+
+ Display The cost of displays have dropped considerably
+ as they invaded the market. Economy of scale made
+ small color displays even cheaper than character-
+ based displays.
+
+ Input Browsing content is a lot about scrolling. Since
+ we do custom hardware, capacitive touch buttons can
+ be used for little to no extra cost. This could
+ permit a smooth scrolling through the content. [2]
+
+ Text Text is compact and efficient, and bitmap font
+ requires a bit of storage for all the common non-
+ ASCII characters, but ESP32 have 16MB of flash stor-
+ age enough for the entire uncompressed Unifont:
+
+ Audio Producing sound does not cost much more than a
+ small audio amplifier, software for decoding MP3,
+ and a 3.5mm Jack connector. Very small cost added.
+
+ Extension an USB interface would allow plugging the
+ device to a computer for either automation or using
+ a full keybaord.
+
+ Power A small dedicated battery could be included in-
+ creasing the cost, but getting all power from USB
+ would also preserve the choice to the user, free to
+ chose a wall charger or portable power bank.
+
+ Enclosure A custom 3D printed case would allow keeping
+ the cost very low even at small volume production.
+
+ There exist boards around 5 USD which would provide
+ all of the above except audio and a few wires, typi-
+ cally the size of an MP3 player. The grand total bill
+ of material could realistically approach 10 USD. An
+ actual product could eventually reach as low as 15 USD
+ if keeping only a small margin for the seller, and
+ eventually lower if produced on a larger scale.
+
+ The support of TLS does not bring any cost in this ex-
+ ample: an ESP8266 could be used at around 0.85 USD in-
+ stead of 1.25 USD for the ESP32-C3, but is also capa-
+ ble of TLS. Image decoding would then probably be
+ much slower. By far the most resource hungry part of
+ this project.
+
+ Writing the software for such a product from the
+ ground up could take typically an entire week, includ-
+ ing JPEG and PNG decoding libraries, image and font
+ rendering, writing driver for all the parts involved,
+ integrating the TCP/IP stack and TLS stack.
+
+ While an XML parser able to fetch content over HTTP
+ would be relatively as difficult to build, this would
+ not permit the same level of user experience as the
+ Gopher-based project: CSS and JavaScript are becoming
+ an increasingly frequent requirement to access the
+ Web, and reimplementing a new compatible rendering en-
+ gine is not feasible to a single person.
+
+ This requirement would in turn affect the minimal per-
+ formance of the processing unit used: a processor in
+ the GHz range with RAM in the GB range, in particular
+ if anticipating future needs of the Web software sys-
+ tem.
+
+ 1 Ethernet would require an extra transceiver chip, while wifi takes mostly
+ just a wire acting as antenna, which partly explains its low cost.
+ 2 Once again, mostly requiring wires, this cuts the price and explain
+ their popularity.
+
+
+
+
+ Meme cache pointer support Bitreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The Bitreich memecache joins modern programming lan-
+ guages like C in supporting pointer notation. Get a
+ pointer representation of a meme by referencing it in
+ our IRC channels with the syntax '*<tag>', instead of
+ the usual '#<tag>'.
+
+ Example:
+
+ <adc> #gnu-hut
+ <annna> #gnu-hut: gophers://bitreich.org/I/memecache/gnu-hut.jpg
+ <adc> *gnu-hut
+ <annna> *gnu-hut: gophers://bitreich.org/9/memecache/filter/*gnu-hut.jpg
+
+ The pointer notation works for image and video memes.
+ Remember that you can explore our memes with [1]
+ bitreich-tardis, and explore the inner workings of
+ annna in the [2] git repository. -adc Deep pointer
+ support in memes.
+
+ Thanks the ground work of adc, we had pointer support
+ for memes. Based on this, we now have deep pointer
+ support for all kind of memes:
+
+ With cache support. Have fun pointing at memes! We
+ had much fun making this. :D Reverse pointer support
+ for memes.
+
+ After a public request by an avid pointer lover, we of
+ course implemented reverse pointer support for memes
+ now:
+
+ See how you can dereference this teapot now.
+
+ Have fun!
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Pointy Officer (CPO)
+ 1 git://bitreich.org/bitreich-tardis
+
+ 2 git://bitreich.org/annna
+
+
+
+ The Road to Success josuah
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Success, the holy grail in Life. Many different forms
+ and shapes. Marriage? Career? A medal? A stable fi-
+ nancial situation? Crossing the border and get natu-
+ ralized? So many facets to that same shiny diamond.
+
+ Or does success mean avoiding failure? In that case,
+ doing nothing means no failure, but trying always have
+ more chance to reach whatever one names "success".
+
+ If failing means that trying did not lead one as far
+ as hoped for, then the next thing to do for getting
+ closer to "success" again is trying again, in risk to
+ fail over again. And while so, also going a bit
+ closer every time to success. What is the landmark
+ that distinguish being very close to actually reaching
+ success? Which indicator to use? Is it about com-
+ pleting a large project? Fame? A position in the
+ company? And once at the top position of a company,
+ one can still say it was a tiny company and the real
+ goal always was to be at the head of a great company,
+ and that success will be when the company is large
+ enough.
+
+ So if there is no real landmark, if failing is trying
+ but failing to reach an impossible goal, then failing
+ is the result of trying whatever that leads to. Fail-
+ ure would be the moment that follows any attempt to
+ reach the end of a direction. Failure would simply be
+ the moment where you look back at where you were be-
+ fore trying, where you are now, and the road left to
+ go to reach infinity.
+
+ Success looks similar: trying to move forward, con-
+ stantly bumping the objective further as one get
+ closer to it. Again success is the moment where you
+ look at where you are, and estimate how far you've
+ been. If success and failure are the same, this sug-
+ gests that something is wrong somewhere. Somehow, the
+ ultimate acheivement of every life is death.
+
+ The Road to Success? This is the same as the road to
+ Failure: this is Life, it leads to Death. Wherever we
+ go, we will be on it as long as we live. So now, may
+ we move that idea of Success away so that we can enjoy
+ living our life.
+
+
+
+
+ sfeed 1.7 was released. Hiltjo
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ sfeed is a tool to convert RSS or Atom feeds from XML
+ to a TAB-separated file.
+
+ It can be found at:
+
+ sfeed has the following small changes compared to 1.6:
+ sfeed_curses:
+
+ o Add SCO keys for next, prior (CSI I and CSI G).
+ Tested on DragonFlyBSD (cons25 console).
+
+ o Add SUN keys support. Tested on OpenIndiana.
+ sfeed_gopher:
+
+ o Remove unnecesary PATH_MAX restricting the path
+ length. This also makes it compile cleanly on
+ GNU/Hurd.
+
+ o Man page and documentation improvements.
+
+ I want to thank all people who gave feedback,
+
+ Thanks, Hiltjo
+
+
+
+ Volunteers for a The Gopher Times trial wanted.itreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ As pioneers in the gopher world, we at Bitreich want
+ to make the gopher times more accessible to all people
+ over the world. For this, we are planning a trial to
+ have printed out the gopher times sent to your
+ doorstep.
+
+ If you want to participate, please send your name and
+ address to
+
+ Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
+
+ World delivery to all remote places is possible too.
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Press Officer (CPO)
+
+
+
+
+ Brcon2023 from August 7th to 13th Bitreich
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ The community has decided! Brcon2023 will happen be-
+ tween 7th to 13th of August beginning with an online
+ session from 7th to 10th August and a presence part
+ from 11th to 13th of August in Callenberg, Germany:
+
+ This means, the call for papers/presentations is open.
+ This year the main topic will of course be gopher and
+ all kind of simple services created for gopherspace.
+ All other simple protocols are welcome too.
+
+ Some topics that are already planned and may inspire
+ you:
+
+ o Entropy services via gopher.
+
+ o Serving highly-complex memes via IRC/gopher includ-
+ ing gopher GPU services.
+
+ o Geo / map services via gopher.
+
+ o Qi Gong for beginners (in the forest!) including an
+ inspiring forest walk in the sun.
+
+ o Gophers and other family members in a museum exhibi-
+ tion with an exclusive tour.
+
+ It is very simple to hold a presentation. Please see
+ the slides from a previous con:
+
+ And it is possible from all over the world! The world
+ is invited!
+
+ Please send proposals for talks to Christoph Lohmann
+ <20h@r-36.net>.
+
+ See you at brcon2023!
+
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Conference Officer (CCO)
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