# Twtxt is an open, distributed microblogging platform that # uses human-readable text files, common transport protocols, # and free software. # # Learn more about twtxt at # https://github.com/buckket/twtxt # # ------------------------------------------ # nick = samhunter # lang = en # url = nex://nightfall.city/shore/samhunter/twtxt.txt # url = https://rawtext.club/~samhunter/twtxt.txt # description = samhunter!shore!nightfall.city # ------------------------------------------ 2026-08-30T12:45:17+0200 Let's see if that can work 2026-08-30T13:25:01+0200 Note to self: need to set noexpandtab for twtxt 2026-08-30T14:56:09+0200 I guess a backup on RTC makes sense, as NC gets stuck from time to time 2026-08-31T22:25:29+0200 There's only a thin line betweeen privacy and obscurity 2026-09-02T21:15:41+0200 I'm definitely "team learn yet another thing" over "install yet another piece of software" 2026-09-04T09:59:17+0200 ~oberon: of course I remember ~adamaster@rtc, you were one of the people who made the place worth logging into. 2026-09-04T10:03:42+0200 (cont'd) I'm on my "travel system", without access to m old-RTC archives, but I would assume there was a strong opinion of mine we had a dispute about. 2026-09-04T10:04:47+0200 nightfall.city just took a break, again. It's a good time to remember to be thankful to people who run our sites, without recompensation and hardly any recognition. 2026-09-06T00:54:18+0200 "The Matrix" got it wrong. We're not batteries, we're "data acquisition wetware". And not even pods for everyone. 2026-09-06T01:05:48+0200 @oberon: I am hardly a mentor material, just a smartass with some skills, mouth (fingers) faster than my brain, and a lot of attitude. 2026-09-06T01:12:29+0200 @oberon: On the other hand, Dunning-Kruger syndrome [talking about myself] can be a good thing - knowing something is impossible usually makes people stop trying ;) 2026-09-06T12:13:03+0200 ~woog's nex server software is quite efficient (at least as seen on the receiving side). I'm quite curious how and in what direction it evolves (knowing his work from RTC - it might be something fun and unexpected). 2026-09-09T23:53:57+0200 NPS services on nex.runbsd.io (send "help" to see the selection) are pretty dope. "history" tool reminded me about DMR's birthday (Dennis Ritchie, IYKYK), by the way 2026-09-11T23:29:46+0200 Listened to ~thelovebug's podcast on https://tilderadio.org. Quite good, next one coming on Fri, Sep 18, 10:30pm GMT+2 2026-09-12T19:29:32+0200 nightfall is read-only again. I'll just water my plant and wait ;) 2026-09-12T22:51:19+0200 Topology of Geminispace: https://clehaxze.tw/misc/geminispace-topology-2026-09/ 2026-09-13T22:52:43+0200 Read an insightful post by ~softwarepagan "What's Missing from Retro" https://midnight.pub/posts/2679 2026-09-13T23:18:58+0200 @oberon: I guess Nightfall (and its creator) become victims of the success of the working Proof of Concept that turned into a hub for everything around the protocol. 2026-09-13T23:21:23+0200 @oberon: One day you're writing a fun little program for own use, and one month later you're processing bug reports and PRs. 2026-09-13T23:23:49+0200 @oberon: As Linus Torvalds once said: "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" :D 2026-09-13T23:30:14+0200 @oberon: That makes the "off-site" experiments even more important for the survival of the idea. 2026-09-16T13:02:40+0200 @oberon: I don't think there's a lot of dial-in BBSes (there are some, I know from articles I read, but they're an absolute rarity). These days even getting speeds below 9600 set up becomes a challenge (I have a TI700 running at 300baud, and some of USB-RS232 converters do not support speeds that low anymore). 2026-09-16T13:03:43+0200 I think various tilde servers took over the BBS role, although support for offline reading is rather limited (I think offpunk allows it, to some reasonable extent). 2026-09-16T13:06:40+0200 @oberon: 'learning things old-way' is for me more about resources used, not the sources. But in a way - yes - like in the BBS era - get the software, get the manual, ask people _you know they know_, and an anonymous bot or site. 2026-09-16T13:11:16+0200 Not a set of ready-to-use recipes, or a walk-through, but a general introduction - how to set variables, how to do I/O, repetitions, branching, math and string ops. With all the rest left to figure out on my own ;) 2026-09-16T13:17:05+0200 At some point you know how to work efficiently, but learning new things these days feels shallow, sometimes. When knowledge is served on a plate there's no room for "Wow" or "WTF".