Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org), page 2

Hmmm or maybe a rethink; how to rig up a server that parses HTML documents for serving in gopherspace. Now that would be win.

@kdriscoll

No but it does look interesting. Mark pointed it out too. Id only skim read about it.

Conversion of my fairly vast HTML is the main issue, scripts to do the work would probably be involved and radically change presentation so I dunno.

I wish there was some way to signal via port or protocol that my HTML site has nothing but html and css.

@ariadne

Di.fm is a small scale streaming service, a corp but not publicly traded. I don't know their relationship to the performers. It's narrowly focused on dance music. I've been a member for a decade. I'm part owner too, lol, they did a fundraiser once by selling shares, I own 100.

No ads of course. You can + and - the stream with like dislike. Lots of channels.

They serve as contrast to the big scumbags.

@artologica

I tell our dogs, "those are professional animals. They do that for a living."

They don't listen.

My website is very old (1994) and varied in popularity between a little and full-on obscurity. There were times in there when I wanted more clicks etc but now I'm like wut; it's where I put things I want to persist, often written for some target purpose, link posted somewhere, then it remains for reference or whatever. This is all fine.

But the last few years, even for stuff on it that is rarely found elsewhere, and that google would dredge up (FIELDATA character code meanings, Librascope, whatever) has essentially disappeared; search engines mostly stopped indexing stuff that isn't commerce.

(I had a two year period when I did all the SEO shit, figured out it was all bullshit, and stripped it all out; Google owes me ~ $80 for ad income (lol) for those two years but they don't write checks under $100. "Policy".)

So moving to gopher space will cost me (sic) nothing.

In fact it will save me (sic): no security.

There is no way a mere mortal such as I can win at the encryption war. That is a corporate game. I will never win but I will never play a game that's rigged.

All of my websites are pure 100% HTML and CSS. I was fine with http: until the EFF thing. I hate SSL as it makes hosting data dependent on corporate entities, de facto.

So I won't lose any clicks (sic) if I move to gopher. You can get to it with lynx or links. And maybe I'll ditch cloudflare ( Iwas gonna revert to lets encrypt, but etc) and https entirely and just tell people, my site is a mere document, it can't track you. Well it could but it doesn't; look at the page source.

Screw this, I've had it, I'm moving back to gopherspace.

I think I'm serious.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Apache::GopherHandler

This was well after my desqview time, somwhere in the mid 90s i'd switched to 386/bsd. but it looks very nice.

I can attest the multitasking of earlier desqview was top notch.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s

OK sheesh, THIS was a super-sweet spot in my (admittedly ancient) computing platform history: DESQView and QEMM.

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

I mistakenly remembered it as OS/2, which I did run around that time (88, 89, 90) but no, it was desqview.

I'm fine without a mouse, it turns out. I've been writing a bunch of CP/M sofware and old workflows came back (hint: its barbaric, I don't fully recommend it).

Gonna put a web page up about the CP/M thing soon. Got my version 2 boards from JLCPCB, awaiting a delayed delivery from Digikey.

#retrocomputing

@liaizon

I was outspokenly opposed to any commercialization of FidoNet and actively sabotaged efforts to do so at a big IFNA convention, and signed on to some legal shenanigans with the packing of votes and other things. That umm probably didn't help.

Thanks for mentioning me!

I was in Mexico until yesterday, they sensibly don't do this foolish ritual, so between travel and (minor) 2 hr time change I didn't even notice spring back fall ahead.

@atarifrosch

Well I'm gonna look and see which browser does what.

Do you know for certain that DDG doesn't share? (I guess I can install and find out
... sigh.)

Ok here we go.

@sun

Lovely!

@lanodan @mos_8502

@lanodan

"Designer" has as much meaning today as "influencer". Some schmuck with a laptop. Knowledge not required.

Such things insult us.

Not only. Someone approved the design. Others caused it to go to manufacturing. A cascade of fools and stupidity.

Lol!
@grips

@sigflup

Don't think so. Not actual serial terminals. There's not much they could do other than capture or interpret the serial stream that they're rendering.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat

@lanodan

Yeah, all that crunchy texture!

@lanodan

I read somewhere someone made brownies in a waffle maker ... just sayin

Its written for a particular, narrow demographic. It would take too long here to explain.

I've had this particular friend, rural south carolina guy, we've been friends for over 30 years. He's what we used to call conservative..

Hes been basically kind and not an asshole all this time. Ivisited him on my 2018 tour of the southeast in my roadster (for a car event; i wanted to experience wtf was going on... another tl;dr here, some time over coffee...)

Anyway i felt need to more or less confront him on current affairs, not red vs blue bullshit, .... what do you think about the destruction (musk, unelected) etc. Hard questtions but zero buzzwords.

Well I got what I asked for. The worst shit excuse making, transparent propaganda, all parrotted fox news doublespeak. As I feared etc.

No Im not surprised, just disappointed at the depth of disappointment.

Anyway its the final straw for me.

FIFTY CONSCIOUS (OK maybe semi-) YEARS I've wrenched rambler cars. Done now.

Even this, its been a longer exit than that, 10 years maybe. But I was clinging onto a tiny, shrinking number of non-assholes.

The car world is not an easy place to be queer. Its fairly impossible now.

I'm wondering if I should leave this editorial up. My only fear is physical retribution.

Opinions welcome.

https://www.ramblerlore.com/index.html