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(HTM) Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:44:43 +0200
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+.SH josuah
+I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me
+.
+.PP
+The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that cannot be ignored anymore:
+NSA (among others) is watching you (among others).
+.
+.PP
+Does that change anything to my everyday life?
+Probably not, they already were before you knew about it.
+Should I do anything about it?
+No answer.
+The eternal doubt that modern society is famous for:
+.
+.QP
+I do not know, do not ask me.
+That question is weird anyway.
+Let me go back to my life.
+.
+.PP
+That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a supermarket and see the mess of wires,
+tubes, cables and neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in white...
+The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as if taken straight out of the Brazil
+.FS
+https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
+.FE
+movie.
+.
+.PP
+A landscape that is in such opposition with the images of every product being sold,
+picturing what more or less fits the collective imagery of "house of my grandparents in back-country",
+promising a natural environment...
+Where did they even find all these landscapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere,
+tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses or wind turbines to put on these product label background images?
+.
+.QP
+I do not know, do not ask me.
+That question is weird anyway.
+Let me go back to my life.
+.
+.PP
+How did such a landscape,
+neon distopia pictures that seems straight out of /r/cyberpunk post or the latest Blade Runner,
+got invited into the cozzy bubble of the average citizen?
+.FS
+https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg
+.FE
+Who made these places so ugly?
+Why do I feel like human is being considered like cattle in these kind of places?
+.
+.QP
+I do not know, do not ask me.
+That question is weird anyway.
+Let me go back to my life.
+.
+.PP
+What weird things am I even saying!
+Am I trying to tell that an NSA agent is sitting on the metal beams of these places disfigure passersby with their empty gaze.
+There are cameras though.
+What do they film? Thieves? Who is checking? Software? Peoples? Are marketting people looking at these pictures? Of me too?
+What do they think of me? Did they look at my hand hesitating between these two products?
+.
+.QP
+I do not know, do not ask me.
+That question is weird anyway.
+Let me go back to my life.
+.
+.PP
+Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on a backpack barely full,
+with a small cup filled with coins, looking a bit panicked, looking a bit dirty, looking a bit lost,
+sometimes even a bit drunk.
+Occasionally they will ask you for another coin to add to their small collection.
+Passerbys offer them a lie such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no, sorry",
+keep walking faster without looking, and eventually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going before they got asked for more.
+What did happen to them? Did they choose to live here?
+How can I know it will never happen to me?
+Why do I feel bad if I do not give them what they ask?
+Why do I feel bad if I give them what they ask?
+.
+.QP
+I do not know, do not ask me.
+That question is weird anyway.
+Let me go back to my life.
+.
+.PP
+Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here:
+Writing this, I am not asking these questions to you, neither you are asking these questions to yourself.
+The \fIplaces\fR are asking these questions to you themself.
+.
+.PP
+By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but displaying eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not even exist,
+it is obvious that people will notice the disbalance between the two.
+.
+.PP
+By placing cameras filming every square meter of such a place, or even a whole city,
+it is obvious that people will wonder at some point, who is behind the screen reviewing these images.
+.
+.PP
+The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even hint about the answer.
+We are left in the doubt,
+letting some ensure "it is just in case of a thief, the police officer is going to watch"
+or other affirm "they are using these images to study how we think to better control us!".
+.
+.PP
+Such divergent claims based on convictions, the technician installing these cameras up there has no hint either,
+its manager followed the recommandations of the mothership company,
+itself getting directions from the parent investor group who lately purchased the brand,
+who themself are only trying to keep-up with the most up to date business practices,
+read on an online newspaper article recommanded by a colleague.
+.
+.PP
+I stopped to care about these silly things since long.
+I came back to the real world for the better.
+I live my life and it works plenty well, so why would I care?
+.
+.QP
+So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my gut, there is a voice whispering to me, that's something's wrong.
+.FS
+https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q
+.FE
+.
+.PP
+The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is:
+you do not get too many answers about how the whole place works.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-animated-text-art.mw b/opus5/article-linuxconsole-animated-text-art.mw
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-bluetooth-brain.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-bluetooth-brain.mw
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.SH josuah
+.SH tgtimes
Wireless, wireless everywhere
.2C 60
.
@@ -77,4 +77,8 @@ https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/
among others, the gears for letting one experiment with radio transmissions.
.
.PP
+Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication,
+and its chapter 1 section 1 is \fIDo-It-Yourself Wireless\fR.
+.
+.PP
This is an invitation for everyone to discover or rediscover the universe of electromagnetic fields communication.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-darkfi.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-darkfi.mw
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-embedded-forth.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-embedded-forth.mw
@@ -15,11 +15,134 @@ They serve their purpose to embedded enthusiasts as educational and scripting la
But small "language in a nutshell" are fitting right the small resources of microcontrollers.
This is the case of Forth and its stack-machine approach.
.
-.PP
-https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220331-0.gmi?inline=1
-https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220305-0.gmi?inline=1
-
+.IP Mecrisp Forth - http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/
+This implementation immediately targets microcontrollers.
+See for instance the work of librehacker.com author Christopher Howard.
+.FS
+gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220331-0.gmi
+gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220305-0.gmi
+.FE
+.
+.IP chipFORTH
+Another implementation of Forth, which were used by NASA
+.FS
+https://www.forth.com/space-shuttle-instrumentation-interface/
+.FE
+for improving reliability of its flight control system,
+among the mosts critical pieces of software of a shuttle.
+.
+.IP https://github.com/corecode/forth
+Among notable Forth projects is Simon "corecode" Schubert's nimble forth implementation
+.FS
+.FE
+as well as hardware code describing the working of a CPU that executes Forth natively
+.FS
https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu
-https://github.com/corecode/forth
-
-https://www.forth.com/tag/chipforth/
+.FE
+.
+.IP https://forth.chat/
+If feeling like having a taste of Forth and Forth community, there are several channels
+featuring forth that you could enjoy,
+some of which are oriented toward hardware projects directly
+.FS
+ircs://irc.hackint.org/#forth-hardware-projects
+.FE.
+.
+.IP https://github.com/chmykh/apl-life
+This is Conway Game of Life in APL in Forth
+What a long chain! It is APL programming language implemented in Forth,
+and Conway game of life implemented in APL
+.
+.IP https://github.com/remko/waforth
+Feeling like pushing the irony of "Web" assembly even further?
+Why not blasting a Forth implementation at it?
+.FS
+https://el-tramo.be/waforth/
+https://el-tramo.be/thurtle/
+.FE
+This proves Forth as the new programming language \fIen vogue\fR
+.
+.IP http://collapseos.org/
+What else does a programming language need to prove itself useful?
+A kernel? Check!
+Collapse OS
+is an operating system targetted at resilience over nine thousands,
+as it is designed to resist everything around it tearing apart, including the whole civilisation.
+When nothing remains but wastelands, CollapseOS will be there to reborn from scavenged parts and
+from old computers.
+.
+.QP
+Forth is, to my knowledge, the most compact language allowing high level constructs. -- Collapse OS author.
+.
+.IP "gopher://retroforth.org/ https://retroforth.org/"
+A forth implemented in C, Python, C#, Nim, JavaScript and Pascal!
+.FS
+.FE
+The C version permits to embed the script into a binary along with the interpreter,
+for a single-binary deployment process.
+The more classic way to use it is to use shebangs scripts to have executable scripts.
+.
+.PP
+Many smaller utilities can already provide something you needed:
+.
+.IP http://retroforth.org/examples/Casket-HTTP.retro.html
+An HTTP server
+.
+.IP http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua-WWW.retro.html
+A Gopher to HTTP+HTML Proxy on top of Atua.
+.
+.IP http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua.retro.html Gopher server
+A gopher server, already listed on the Gopher index of links, the Gopher Lawn
+.FS
+bitreich.org/1/lawn/c/gopher.gph
+.FE
+.
+.IP http://retroforth.org/examples/7080.retro.html
+A s
+.
+.IP https://gitlab.com/goblinrieur/spreedsheet/
+A spreadsheet application in the terminal.
+.
+.IP gopher://forth.works:100 http://forthworks.com/
+This is a collection of code blocks written in the Retro Forth's author (crc) newest Forth implementation.
+It is itself served by a gopher server (blocks 203-205 on the list above) in Forth.
+.
+.IP https://github.com/oriontransfer/pl0-language-tools
+A PL/0 implementation in Python that can emmit Retro Forth code as ouput.
+It looks like Forth simplicity, portability, stability and speed of execution made it a good candidate as a target language.
+The PL/0 language is known for the book \fIAlgorithms + Data Structures = Programs\fR
+from Niklaus Wirth, himself famous for the Wirth Law:
+.
+.QP
+The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills.
+However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness.
+-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
+.
+.IP https://ribccs.com/candy/
+If you were doubting about Forth being fit for the industry, bear in mind that the above is
+a very-large scale VFX Forth project with over a million lines of code!
+.
+.IP http://sam-falvo.github.io/kestrel/2016/03/29/vibe-2.2
+Why not spin a vi-like text editor itself in forth?
+See how few code it takes to implement one.
+.
+.IP https://git.sr.ht/~vertigo/shoehorn
+An answer to the bootstrapping problem: how to get from no software to a complete system?
+Which compiler compiles the first compiler?
+Forth's simplicity is a good candidate for solving this problem.
+.
+.IP https://git.sr.ht/~vertigo/forthbox
+Software environment for computers to base upon right after booting:
+a system shell in forth with real hardware projects dedicated to it.
+Think of a LISP machine, but instead being a Forth machine.
+.
+.IP http://deathroadtocanada.com/
+This video-game uses Forth as a scripting language.
+When a whole scripting language fits on a thumb, putting it everywhere costs nothing!
+.
+.PP
+Such a large tool chest for such a small language.
+With the Covid, Wars under disguise, and other supply chain troubles,
+the era of "more features" is coming to an end,
+and the era of reliability rises.
+In these trying times, anyone is welcome to go Forth.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-gopher-podcast-search.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-gopher-podcast-search.mw
@@ -2,6 +2,34 @@
Search podcasts via Gopher
.
.PP
+Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer?
+Maybe you considered to have something to listen to on the road or while cooking.
+.
+.PP
+Combining many different sources, you may encounter some heirlooms
+by searching through this gopher front-end for podcast search.
.FS
gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
.FE
+.
+.PP
+The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts,
+and extracts the RSS links for you,
+so you do not have to search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS button.
+.
+.PP
+For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I tried searching for it:
+"Amp Hour" in the search field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast",
+that was quickly added to my list of RSS feeds in a blast.
+.
+.PP
+Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to automate a script searching for podcasts, then
+downloading the entries and uploading them to an MP3 player of any kind
+(dedicated, or as part of a phone or other portable computer).
+.
+.PP
+Want to know more about it?
+One place to discuss about it is the Bitreich IRC server
+.FS
+ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
+.FE
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@@ -2,8 +2,60 @@
A new IRC network: IRCNow!
.
.PP
-jrmu, is trying to get exposure for a network he started [ http://ircnow.org ]
-He has an upcoming free workshop in the LibrePlanet online conference (that anyone can join), on May 9 @ 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC. [ https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/event/info?eset=1&id=104 ]
-We recorded a testrun of his slides yesterday. "IRCNow FSF - workshop testrun" (1h15m, 12022-04-21T16:00Z#4) | https://0x0.st/oTal.webm (167MB). He's also a fan of the gopher protocol (at 1hr10min) [ https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf ] .
-Here's another article that was written in Linux Magazine in August 2021, about the network he started. https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
+A new IRC network is in town!
+.FS
+irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667
+ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697
+.FE
+.
+Ever wanted to feel what an early community looks like?
+The admin jrmu brought the project together, and is currently collecting users along the way.
+.
+.PP
+Whether you looked for a place to host your own community,
+or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from fertile ground,
+the community is welcoming and active.
+.
+.QP
+IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users
+.
+.PP
+A LibrePlanet event
+.
+.PP
+Something else from this community might catch your attention,
+is its orientation toward being administrated by its users themself:
+rather than letting the founder handle everything,
+the community is oriented toward serious teaching of unix command line and system administration to anyone,
+from beginners to advanced users seeking improvement.
+.
+.PP
+In-person teaching sessions were covered during the LibrePlanet 2022 event
+.FS
+https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf
+.FE
+with recording of a test-run of the event
+.FS
+the voice only starts from 0h20m
+talking about Gopher at 1h15m
+https://0x0.st/oTal.webm
+.FE
+where future and present hackers met together working our their system administration and community building skills.
+.
+Linux Magazine also ran an interview giving a good impression about the spirit of the project:
+.FS
+https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
+.FE
+.
+.PP
+Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with,
+IRCnow offers hosting services for
+IRC bouncers, Bots, E-Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts.
+.
+.PP
+The wiki itself features plenty of technical information on system administration as a support for its bootcamps,
+which offers a comfortable step-by-step introduction to a complete server administration.
+.FS
https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp
+.FE
+I have often seen administrators hired with less than this much knowledge!
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@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Maemo Leste keeps kicking in!
+.
+.PP
+The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource powered hand-held computer.
+.
+.PP
+Where to start from?
+There can be two walls preventing every Linux enthusiast from having its own phone with a Linux Powered sticket on it:
+.
+.IP 1.
+hardware support: getting Linux to boot on these twisted hardware setups that smartphones are can be frustrating.
+.
+.IP 2.
+application support: writing all the tools that make a plain unix shell useable as a phone.
+It may be as simple as a daemon watching incoming phone call from hardware abstractions (those from in 1.)
+and playing a ringtone.wav whenever a call comes in,
+it still has to be written.
+Same goes for a keyboard application if it uses a touch-screen.
+Same goes for anything.
+.
+.PP
+Since it goes beyond the scope of a week-end hack,
+collaboration takes place for making these projects happen.
+.
+.PP
+Maemo Leste is now existing since more than four years, and keeps being developed at good pace.
+It even shines where Android does not:
+it uses mainline Linux kernel instead of forks that never get upgraded nor contributed back to Linux.
+This means that all software officially supported by Maemo Leste might also be available to many more Linux-based projects.
+.
+.PP
+Of course, there are non-official porting efforts for more hardware underway to become a completely supported target.
+Like it is for every operating system project.
+.
+.PP
+Maemo Leste, the project bringing a real UNIX shell where you only had a Android Java ecosystem,
+featuring GPS chips reverse engineering, and a working phone module.
+.
+.PP
+The support for the inexpensive PinePhone means you can get a fully working linux phone in your pocket.
+Grab it while it is hot, the lack of bloated prebuilt application forced into it by the vendor means it will not catch fire!
+.
.FS
https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-december-2021-january-april-2022.html
.FE
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-mallumo.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-mallumo.mw
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+.SH darkfi
+The Mallumo Weechat Plugin
+.
+.PP
+IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the advent of the Web.
+.
+.PP
+It still has users, it still has new network and communities initiatives springing out, it is alive.
+.
+.PP
+One single little touch it lacks is end-to-end encryption.
+Without it it is perfect for public communities such as software projects discussions and support chat, live event chats...
+but private 1-to-1 communication could suddenly become a good candidate for end-to-end encryption.
+.
+.PP
+Part of the DarkFi project, this is what Mallumo
.FS
https://github.com/darkrenaissance/mallumo
.FE
+brings in a simple piece of code using libNaClk,
+the crypto library from Dan Bernstein,
+author of ED25519 (in its repackaged libsodium form).
+This is state-of-the-art, well-proven and fast cryptography for end-to-end communication.
+.
+.PP
+With this plug-in dropped in the plugin folder,
+all private communication start by a simple key exchange over normal IRC,
+and the conversation upgrades to nacl-encrypted messages over regular IRC.
+.
+.PP
+There might not be any simpler way to encrypt peer-to-peer communication online.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-sailingwithgrace.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-sailingwithgrace.mw
@@ -1,2 +1,34 @@
-
+.SH tgtimes
+Sailing With Grace
+.
+.PP
+The sea!
+Water all around, not a single piece of ground around to stand in, only a single boat that becomes one with you, its capitain.
+Infinite waves under the blue or cloudly sky is all you see for a long trip of many days.
+Feeling both lost, but at the same time united with surrounding nature.
+After all, the largest part of Earth is covered by the sea.
+.
+.PP
+This is the world of Sailing that awaits each of us,
+for a single trip hosted by a well proven crew,
+or as a lone sailor braving tempests after tempests.
+.
+.PP
+Sailing blogs are definitely a good opportunity to dream,
+the instant of an article.
+.
+.PP
+This blog, Sailing With Grace, has taken the decision of offering all its content through HTTP,
+but also proxied over Gopher.
+.FS
gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com
+.FE
+This recalls an interesting point:
+it proves that Gopher is not only good for talking about Gopher and computer things,
+but is also oriented toward the outside,
+is it ready to be used by people who are not gopher geeks?
+.
+.PP
+It always was to begin with, so why would it not?
+Are people less able to use computers now than they was before the web came?
+The discussion is open.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-sortix.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes-sortix.mw
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-.LK https://twitter.com/sortiecat/status/1511449871416545283
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@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ Opus 5 - Gopher news and more - May. 2022
.AE
.
.so opus5/article-20h-geomyidae.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-animated-text-art.mw
+.so opus5/article-bitreich-onlyturtlefans.mw
+.so opus5/article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know-Do-Not-Ask-Me.mw
+.so opus5/article-linuxconsole-animated-text-art.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-ascii-art-rendering.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-bluetooth-brain.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-breathing-open-source.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-darkfi.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-embedded-forth.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-fft-hack.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-gopher-podcast-search.mw
@@ -17,6 +18,5 @@ Opus 5 - Gopher news and more - May. 2022
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-maemo-leste-update.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-mallumo.mw
.so opus5/article-tgtimes-sailingwithgrace.mw
-.so opus5/article-tgtimes-sortix.mw
.
.so opus5/footer.mw
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@@ -185,12 +185,163 @@ ____________________________________________________________
- Animated ASCII art linuxconsole
+ Prof. Skildgaard: Only Turtle Fans
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ I am happy to announce, that the scientific head of
+ bitreich, Prof. Skildgaard, the professor for slow
+ sciences at the Aarhus university in Denmark, now has
+ opened his own website:
+
+ http://onlyturtlefans.com/
+
+ You can see many #turtlefan pictures. annna | #turtle-
+ fan: gopher://bitreich.org/I/memecache/turtlefan.png
+
+ Please recommend his work! He has done so much for us,
+ like reviewing all entries to the last and the coming
+ brcon. This takes ages!
+
+ Sincerely yours,
+
+ 20h Chief Slowness Executive (CSE)
+
+
+
+
+ I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me josuah
+
+ The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that can-
+ not be ignored anymore: NSA (among others) is watching
+ you (among others).
+
+ Does that change anything to my everyday life? Proba-
+ bly not, they already were before you knew about it.
+ Should I do anything about it? No answer. The eter-
+ nal doubt that modern society is famous for:
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a su-
+ permarket and see the mess of wires, tubes, cables and
+ neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in
+ white... The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as
+ if taken straight out of the Brazil [1] movie.
+
+ A landscape that is in such opposition with the images
+ of every product being sold, picturing what more or
+ less fits the collective imagery of "house of my
+ grandparents in back-country", promising a natural en-
+ vironment... Where did they even find all these land-
+ scapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere,
+ tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses or wind tur-
+ bines to put on these product label background images?
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ How did such a landscape, neon distopia pictures that
+ seems straight out of /r/cyberpunk post or the latest
+ Blade Runner, got invited into the cozzy bubble of the
+ average citizen? [2] Who made these places so ugly?
+ Why do I feel like human is being considered like cat-
+ tle in these kind of places?
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ What weird things am I even saying! Am I trying to
+ tell that an NSA agent is sitting on the metal beams
+ of these places disfigure passersby with their empty
+ gaze. There are cameras though. What do they film?
+ Thieves? Who is checking? Software? Peoples? Are mar-
+ ketting people looking at these pictures? Of me too?
+ What do they think of me? Did they look at my hand
+ hesitating between these two products?
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on a
+ backpack barely full, with a small cup filled with
+ coins, looking a bit panicked, looking a bit dirty,
+ looking a bit lost, sometimes even a bit drunk. Occa-
+ sionally they will ask you for another coin to add to
+ their small collection. Passerbys offer them a lie
+ such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no,
+ sorry", keep walking faster without looking, and even-
+ tually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going be-
+ fore they got asked for more. What did happen to
+ them? Did they choose to live here? How can I know it
+ will never happen to me? Why do I feel bad if I do
+ not give them what they ask? Why do I feel bad if I
+ give them what they ask?
+
+ >> I do not know, do not ask me. That question is
+ weird anyway. Let me go back to my life.
+
+ Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here: Writ-
+ ing this, I am not asking these questions to you, nei-
+ ther you are asking these questions to yourself. The
+ places are asking these questions to you themself.
+
+ By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but dis-
+ playing eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not
+ even exist, it is obvious that people will notice the
+ disbalance between the two.
+
+ By placing cameras filming every square meter of such
+ a place, or even a whole city, it is obvious that peo-
+ ple will wonder at some point, who is behind the
+ screen reviewing these images.
+
+ The questions are left open. Nothing is made to even
+ hint about the answer. We are left in the doubt, let-
+ ting some ensure "it is just in case of a thief, the
+ police officer is going to watch" or other affirm
+ "they are using these images to study how we think to
+ better control us!".
+
+ Such divergent claims based on convictions, the tech-
+ nician installing these cameras up there has no hint
+ either, its manager followed the recommandations of
+ the mothership company, itself getting directions from
+ the parent investor group who lately purchased the
+ brand, who themself are only trying to keep-up with
+ the most up to date business practices, read on an on-
+ line newspaper article recommanded by a colleague.
+
+ I stopped to care about these silly things since long.
+ I came back to the real world for the better. I live
+ my life and it works plenty well, so why would I care?
+
+ >> So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my
+ gut, there is a voice whispering to me, that's
+ something's wrong. [3]
+
+ The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is:
+ you do not get too many answers about how the whole
+ place works.
+
+
+ [1]
+ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
+
+ [2]
+ https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg
+ [3]
+ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q
- With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, it
- would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the
+
+
+ Animated ASCII art
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, it
+ would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the
two in animated ASCII art. Courtesy of textfiles.com,
- we can browse through a collection of 93 animated
+ we can browse through a collection of 93 animated
ASCII pieces of arts. [1]
The animation speed will likely be too high for a ter-
@@ -218,19 +369,20 @@ ____________________________________________________________
+
[1]
http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html
-
Synthetic ASCII Art tgtimes
+____________________________________________________________
Sometimes, an entirely new way to approach problems is
found. The media is often fond of covering these top-
- ics, be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine
- learning... With these big toys come people experi-
+ ics, be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine
+ learning... With these big toys come people experi-
menting with it.
This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learn-
@@ -299,10 +451,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________
could only be text.
- >> Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive,
- store, or process classified information. [4]
-
-
[1]
https://graphicsinterface.org/wp-content/uploads/gi2021-13.pdf
@@ -315,8 +463,105 @@ ____________________________________________________________
https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmymwx/machine-learning-ascii-art-neural-net
https://github.com/OsciiArt/DeepAA
- [4]
+
+
+ Wireless, wireless everywhere
+____________________________________________________________
+
+ Wires! Cables! Connectors! Computer and electric sys-
+ tems seems to befriend with plugs and sockets. Why is
+ the computer industry running away from them for ev-
+ erything exposed to users?
+
+ Where do I plug the cable? Everyone needfully face
+ this question at least once, be it the first time
+ they own a computer. From the various connector
+ shapes to choose from, to the various set of proto-
+ col the Universal USB connector supports, cables
+ provoke confusion to cable-haters and computer neo-
+ phytes.
+
+ Cables are ugly It might not be true for everyone, but
+ computer manufacturers seems to say differently.
+ Starting with the name "wireless", that comes by op-
+ position to wires, supposing they were something to
+ avoid. Cable management is a full time job for dat-
+ acenter jockeys, and a chore for the cable-hating
+ computer user.
+
+ Cables are immobile Unless making use of an uncommon
+ cable management strategy, objects connected to ca-
+ bles cannot be carried too far away without unplug-
+ ging everything devices are connected to.
+
+ So here comes wireless. While not frequent in large
+ computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the mar-
+ ket along with battery devices. Using radio waves to
+ make device talk to each other, at various frequen-
+ cies, modulation, datarate and distance. Ready to
+ sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make it-
+ self more seducing to the market, marketting perpetu-
+ ates the same illusion of making computer troubles
+ fade away with wireless.
+
+ From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases
+ and compmlexity, to the security vulnerabilities of
+ Wi-Fi, to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth,
+ to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan,
+ to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to
+ wires, to the black box of wireless broadband such as
+ UTMS and LTE, Wireless does not have the same fame
+ among developers valuing simplicity and reliability.
+
+ Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless
+ such as Bluetooth, and disrecommand it for use by mil-
+ itaries: [1]
+
+ >> Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive,
+ store, or process classified information.
+
+ Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled
+ with culture. While marketting pushed engineers from
+ the wireless cliff, long before computer came, radio
+ waves were put at good use in the most simple forms:
+ radio communication. From the AM and FM radio sta-
+ tions to listen while on the road, the medium-range
+ boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even
+ satellite communications, hobbyists building-up their
+ own antennas for inter-continental communication,
+ garage door openners and remotely controlled drones...
+
+ Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a spe-
+ cial case of radio communication, and simple unobfus-
+ cated methods of communication are possible, and even
+ frequent.
+
+ Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver
+ [2] to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF [3]
+ or LimeSDR [4] among others, the gears for letting one
+ experiment with radio transmissions.
+
+ Every year, the American Relay Radio League (ARRL) is
+ publishing a large book focused on radiocommunication,
+ and its chapter 1 section 1 is Do-It-Yourself Wire-
+ less.
+
+ This is an invitation for everyone to discover or re-
+ discover the universe of electromagnetic fields commu-
+ nication.
+
+
+
+ [1]
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_Web.pdf
+ [2]
+ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
+
+ [3]
+ https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/
+ [4]
+ https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/
+
@@ -367,15 +612,14 @@ ____________________________________________________________
time.
-
[1]
https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/
+
[2]
https://rtems.org/
-
Embedded Forth Programming tgtimes
Big computers can run large and complex programming
@@ -394,15 +638,151 @@ ____________________________________________________________
the small resources of microcontrollers. This is the
case of Forth and its stack-machine approach.
- https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220331-
- 0.gmi?inline=1
- https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220305-
- 0.gmi?inline=1
+ Mecrisp This implementation immediately targets micro-
+ controllers. See for instance the work of
+ librehacker.com author Christopher Howard. [1]
+
+ chipFORTH Another implementation of Forth, which were
+ used by NASA [2] for improving reliability of its
+ flight control system, among the mosts critical
+ pieces of software of a shuttle.
+
+ https://github.com/corecode/forth Among notable Forth
+ projects is Simon "corecode" Schubert's nimble forth
+ implementation [3] as well as hardware code describ-
+ ing the working of a CPU that executes Forth na-
+ tively [4]
+
+ https://forth.chat/ If feeling like having a taste of
+ Forth and Forth community, there are several chan-
+ nels featuring forth that you could enjoy, some of
+ which are oriented toward hardware projects directly
+ [5]
+
+ https://github.com/chmykh/apl-life This is Conway Game
+ of Life in APL in Forth What a long chain! It is APL
+ programming language implemented in Forth, and Con-
+ way game of life implemented in APL
+
+ https://github.com/remko/waforth Feeling like pushing
+ the irony of "Web" assembly even further? Why not
+ blasting a Forth implementation at it? [6] This
+ proves Forth as the new programming language en
+ vogue
+
+ http://collapseos.org/ What else does a programming
+ language need to prove itself useful? A kernel?
+ Check! Collapse OS is an operating system targetted
+ at resilience over nine thousands, as it is designed
+ to resist everything around it tearing apart, in-
+ cluding the whole civilisation. When nothing re-
+ mains but wastelands, CollapseOS will be there to
+ reborn from scavenged parts and from old computers.
+
+ >> Forth is, to my knowledge, the most compact lan-
+ guage allowing high level constructs. -- Collapse OS
+ author.
+
+ gopher://retroforth.org/ https://retroforth.org/ A
+ forth implemented in C, Python, C#, Nim, JavaScript
+ and Pascal! [7] The C version permits to embed the
+ script into a binary along with the interpreter, for
+ a single-binary deployment process. The more clas-
+ sic way to use it is to use shebangs scripts to have
+ executable scripts.
+
+ Many smaller utilities can already provide something
+ you needed:
+
+ http://retroforth.org/examples/Casket-HTTP.retro.html
+ An HTTP server
+
+ http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua-WWW.retro.html A
+ Gopher to HTTP+HTML Proxy on top of Atua.
+
+ http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua.retro.html A go-
+ pher server, already listed on the Gopher index of
+ links, the Gopher Lawn [8]
+
+ http://retroforth.org/examples/7080.retro.html A s
+
+ https://gitlab.com/goblinrieur/spreedsheet/ A spread-
+ sheet application in the terminal.
+
+ gopher://forth.works:100 This is a collection of code
+ blocks written in the Retro Forth's author (crc)
+ newest Forth implementation. It is itself served by
+ a gopher server (blocks 203-205 on the list above)
+ in Forth.
+
+ https://github.com/oriontransfer/pl0-language-tools A
+ PL/0 implementation in Python that can emmit Retro
+ Forth code as ouput. It looks like Forth simplic-
+ ity, portability, stability and speed of execution
+ made it a good candidate as a target language. The
+ PL/0 language is known for the book Algorithms +
+ Data Structures = Programs from Niklaus Wirth, him-
+ self famous for the Wirth Law:
+
+ >> The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure
+ all software ills. However, a critical observer may
+ observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in
+ size and sluggishness. --
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
+
+ https://ribccs.com/candy/ If you were doubting about
+ Forth being fit for the industry, bear in mind that
+ the above is a very-large scale VFX Forth project
+ with over a million lines of code!
+
+ http://sam-falvo.github.io/kestrel/2016/03/29/vibe-2.2
+ Why not spin a vi-like text editor itself in forth?
+ See how few code it takes to implement one.
+
+ https://git.sr.ht/~vertigo/shoehorn An answer to the
+ bootstrapping problem: how to get from no software
+ to a complete system? Which compiler compiles the
+ first compiler? Forth's simplicity is a good candi-
+ date for solving this problem.
+
+ https://git.sr.ht/~vertigo/forthbox Software environ-
+ ment for computers to base upon right after booting:
+ a system shell in forth with real hardware projects
+ dedicated to it. Think of a LISP machine, but in-
+ stead being a Forth machine.
+
+ http://deathroadtocanada.com/ This video-game uses
+ Forth as a scripting language. When a whole script-
+ ing language fits on a thumb, putting it everywhere
+ costs nothing!
+
+ Such a large tool chest for such a small language.
+ With the Covid, Wars under disguise, and other supply
+ chain troubles, the era of "more features" is coming
+ to an end, and the era of reliability rises. In these
+ trying times, anyone is welcome to go Forth.
+
+
+ [1]
+ gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220331-0.gmi
+ gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20220305-0.gmi
+ [2]
+ https://www.forth.com/space-shuttle-instrumentation-interface/
+
+ [3]
+ [4]
https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu
- https://github.com/corecode/forth
- https://www.forth.com/tag/chipforth/
+ [5]
+ ircs://irc.hackint.org/#forth-hardware-projects
+ [6]
+ https://el-tramo.be/waforth/
+ https://el-tramo.be/thurtle/
+
+ [7]
+ [8]
+ bitreich.org/1/lawn/c/gopher.gph
@@ -501,46 +881,237 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Search podcasts via Gopher tgtimes
- [1]
+ Do you happen to be a podcast enjoyer? Maybe you con-
+ sidered to have something to listen to on the road or
+ while cooking.
+
+ Combining many different sources, you may encounter
+ some heirlooms by searching through this gopher
+ front-end for podcast search. [1]
+
+ The platform aggregates multiple search APIs of RSS
+ link aggregators with a focus on audio podcasts, and
+ extracts the RSS links for you, so you do not have to
+ search throug a dozen of webpages just to find the RSS
+ button.
+
+ For instance, knowing about the Amp Hour podcast, I
+ tried searching for it: "Amp Hour" in the search
+ field, and bingo! The first result is "The Amp Hour
+ Electronics Podcast", that was quickly added to my
+ list of RSS feeds in a blast.
+
+ Being based off Gopher, this makes it insanely easy to
+ automate a script searching for podcasts, then down-
+ loading the entries and uploading them to an MP3
+ player of any kind (dedicated, or as part of a phone
+ or other portable computer).
+
+ Want to know more about it? One place to discuss
+ about it is the Bitreich IRC server [2]
+
[1]
gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
+ [2]
+ ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
A new IRC network: IRCNow! tgtimes
- jrmu, is trying to get exposure for a network he
- started [ http://ircnow.org ] He has an upcoming free
- workshop in the LibrePlanet online conference (that
- anyone can join), on May 9 @ 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC. [
- https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/event/info?eset=1&id=104 ]
- We recorded a testrun of his slides yesterday. "IRCNow
- FSF - workshop testrun" (1h15m, 12022-04-21T16:00Z#4)
- | https://0x0.st/oTal.webm (167MB). He's also a fan of
- the gopher protocol (at 1hr10min) [
+ A new IRC network is in town! [1] Ever wanted to feel
+ what an early community looks like? The admin jrmu
+ brought the project together, and is currently col-
+ lecting users along the way.
+
+ Whether you looked for a place to host your own commu-
+ nity, or wanted a see a fresh community be grow from
+ fertile ground, the community is welcoming and active.
+
+ >> IRCNow: Of the Users, By the Users, For the Users
+
+ A LibrePlanet event
+
+ Something else from this community might catch your
+ attention, is its orientation toward being adminis-
+ trated by its users themself: rather than letting the
+ founder handle everything, the community is oriented
+ toward serious teaching of unix command line and sys-
+ tem administration to anyone, from beginners to ad-
+ vanced users seeking improvement.
+
+ In-person teaching sessions were covered during the
+ LibrePlanet 2022 event [2] with recording of a test-
+ run of the event [3] where future and present hackers
+ met together working our their system administration
+ and community building skills. Linux Magazine also
+ ran an interview giving a good impression about the
+ spirit of the project: [4]
+
+ Beyond yet another IRC network to chat with, IRCnow
+ offers hosting services for IRC bouncers, Bots, E-
+ Mail, VPN, Code, File Storage, and Shell Accounts.
+
+ The wiki itself features plenty of technical informa-
+ tion on system administration as a support for its
+ bootcamps, which offers a comfortable step-by-step in-
+ troduction to a complete server administration. [5] I
+ have often seen administrators hired with less than
+ this much knowledge!
+
+
+ [1]
+ irc://irc.ircnow.net:6667
+ ircs://irc.ircnow.net:6697
+
+ [2]
https://jrmu.host.ircnow.org/libreplanet/libreplanet.pdf
- ] . Here's another article that was written in Linux
- Magazine in August 2021, about the network he started.
- https://www.linux-
- magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
+ [3]
+ the voice only starts from 0h20m
+ talking about Gopher at 1h15m
+ https://0x0.st/oTal.webm
+
+ [4]
+ https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/249/Interview-IRCNow
+ [5]
https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Minutemin.Bootcamp
- [1] [2]
- gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com
+
+
+
+ Maemo Leste keeps kicking in! tgtimes
+
+ The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource pow-
+ ered hand-held computer.
+
+ Where to start from? There can be two walls prevent-
+ ing every Linux enthusiast from having its own phone
+ with a Linux Powered sticket on it:
+
+ 1. hardware support: getting Linux to boot on these
+ twisted hardware setups that smartphones are can be
+ frustrating.
+
+ 2. application support: writing all the tools that
+ make a plain unix shell useable as a phone. It may
+ be as simple as a daemon watching incoming phone
+ call from hardware abstractions (those from in 1.)
+ and playing a ringtone.wav whenever a call comes in,
+ it still has to be written. Same goes for a key-
+ board application if it uses a touch-screen. Same
+ goes for anything.
+
+ Since it goes beyond the scope of a week-end hack,
+ collaboration takes place for making these projects
+ happen.
+
+ Maemo Leste is now existing since more than four
+ years, and keeps being developed at good pace. It
+ even shines where Android does not: it uses mainline
+ Linux kernel instead of forks that never get upgraded
+ nor contributed back to Linux. This means that all
+ software officially supported by Maemo Leste might
+ also be available to many more Linux-based projects.
+
+ Of course, there are non-official porting efforts for
+ more hardware underway to become a completely sup-
+ ported target. Like it is for every operating system
+ project.
+
+ Maemo Leste, the project bringing a real UNIX shell
+ where you only had a Android Java ecosystem, featuring
+ GPS chips reverse engineering, and a working phone
+ module.
+
+ The support for the inexpensive PinePhone means you
+ can get a fully working linux phone in your pocket.
+ Grab it while it is hot, the lack of bloated prebuilt
+ application forced into it by the vendor means it will
+ not catch fire! [1]
[1]
https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-december-2021-january-april-2022.html
- [2]
+
+
+
+ The Mallumo Weechat Plugin darkfi
+
+ IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the ad-
+ vent of the Web.
+
+ It still has users, it still has new network and com-
+ munities initiatives springing out, it is alive.
+
+ One single little touch it lacks is end-to-end encryp-
+ tion. Without it it is perfect for public communities
+ such as software projects discussions and support
+ chat, live event chats... but private 1-to-1 communi-
+ cation could suddenly become a good candidate for
+ end-to-end encryption.
+
+ Part of the DarkFi project, this is what Mallumo [1]
+ brings in a simple piece of code using libNaClk, the
+ crypto library from Dan Bernstein, author of ED25519
+ (in its repackaged libsodium form). This is state-
+ of-the-art, well-proven and fast cryptography for
+ end-to-end communication.
+
+ With this plug-in dropped in the plugin folder, all
+ private communication start by a simple key exchange
+ over normal IRC, and the conversation upgrades to
+ nacl-encrypted messages over regular IRC.
+
+ There might not be any simpler way to encrypt peer-
+ to-peer communication online.
+
+
+ [1]
https://github.com/darkrenaissance/mallumo
- Publishing in The Gopher Times you
+
+ Sailing With Grace tgtimes
+
+ The sea! Water all around, not a single piece of
+ ground around to stand in, only a single boat that be-
+ comes one with you, its capitain. Infinite waves un-
+ der the blue or cloudly sky is all you see for a long
+ trip of many days. Feeling both lost, but at the same
+ time united with surrounding nature. After all, the
+ largest part of Earth is covered by the sea.
+
+ This is the world of Sailing that awaits each of us,
+ for a single trip hosted by a well proven crew, or as
+ a lone sailor braving tempests after tempests.
+
+ Sailing blogs are definitely a good opportunity to
+ dream, the instant of an article.
+
+ This blog, Sailing With Grace, has taken the decision
+ of offering all its content through HTTP, but also
+ proxied over Gopher. [1] This recalls an interesting
+ point: it proves that Gopher is not only good for
+ talking about Gopher and computer things, but is also
+ oriented toward the outside, is it ready to be used by
+ people who are not gopher geeks?
+
+ It always was to begin with, so why would it not? Are
+ people less able to use computers now than they was
+ before the web came? The discussion is open.
+
+
+ [1]
+ gopher://gopher.sailingwithgrace.com
+
+
+
+ Publishing in The Gopher Times
____________________________________________________________
Want your article published? Want to announce some-
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@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+.SH tgtimes
+Space Weather Woman
+.
+.PP
+As she names herself, Tamitha Skov
+.FS
+https://www.spaceweatherwoman.com/
+https://yewtu.be/c/TamithaSkov
+.FE
+is the Space Weather Woman.
+You read it right!
+She have been doing, since now close to ten years, forecasts about how is space weather is going.
+.
+.PP
+Just a nerd fantasy?
+Only a sci-fi artist on a periodic one woman show?
+Not at all!
+Knowing what the sun is blasting toward Earth can reveal more useful than it looks.
+This includes:
+.
+.IP \(bu
+personnal safety for some plane flights at high lattitude.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+GPS communication, something happening in the pocket of many individuals,
+some of them even unaware of the involvement of satellites in the process.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Long distance radio communication, which include Amateur Radio operators,
+but also emergency services and militaries.
+.
+.IP \(bu
+Something that Starlink did not invent
+.FS
+WildBlue, Viasat, NordNet...
+First amateur stellite launched in 1961.
+.FE
+is satellite-relayed communication, including satellite internet and voice phone transmission.
+Actually a lot of wind turbines are being given satellite internet,
+and see how a little disruption
+.FS
+https://hackaday.com/2022/06/02/the-great-euro-sat-hack-should-be-a-warning-to-us-all/
+.FE
+in satellite internet access can disrupt their operation.
+.
+.PP
+And all of these fancy things are benefiting from Tamitha Skov's efforts as a researcher,
+but also by informing in layman's terms what is going on outter space.
+.
+.QP
+Weather phenomena like coronal mass ejections, solar flares, and solar particle events.
+.FS
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamitha_Skov
+.FE
+.
+.PP
+Science is elegant.