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(HTM) Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:24:47 +0200

opus4: fix layout issues

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(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-06T21-20-12-652045.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-06T21-20-12-652045.mw
@@ -17,6 +17,4 @@ See you at the next GangBAN!
.
.PP
Sincerely yours,
-.
-.PP
20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-07T13-00-00-133769.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-07T13-00-00-133769.mw
@@ -12,17 +12,12 @@ file.
.PP
It can be found at:
.
-.IP -
+.DS
git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed
-.
-.IP -
gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed
-.
-.IP -
https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/
-.
-.IP -
gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed/
+.DE
.
.PP
sfeed has the following notable changes compared to 1.2:
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw
@@ -19,10 +19,4 @@ https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Freedoom
See you on Sunday!
.PP
Sincerely yours,
-.PP
20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)
-.DS
-
-.DE
-.PP
-
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ gopher://bitreich.org/0/memecache/news.atom
Please subscribe for your newest meme pleasure!
.PP
Sincerely yours,
-.PP
20h Chief Meme Officer (CMO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ git://bitreich.org/rfcommd
.PP
Just attach a serial2bluetooth dongle and some bluetooth dongle in your linux machine, then use the new added filter:
.DS
-gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/rfcommd/commit/9b77ca90e9cf4ca7cd9521e6756dc2b833cdefce.gph
+gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/rfcommd/commit
+/9b77ca90e9cf4ca7cd9521e6756dc2b833cdefce.gph
.DE
.PP
This will automatically connect your serial connection to a doom server over tcp/ip.
@@ -30,5 +31,4 @@ The possibilities are endless.
See you next time, with whatever machine you can find and which runs DOOM!
.PP
Sincerely yours,
-.PP
20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-29T17-17-55-362953.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-29T17-17-55-362953.mw
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Bitreich is always ahead in its structure, organisation and technology.
So is our democracy:
.
.DS
-gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/bitreich-council/commit/f43daad938405d966c158a12b6fcb8f13a9d1868.gph
+gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/bitreich-council/commit
+/f43daad938405d966c158a12b6fcb8f13a9d1868.gph
.DE
.
.PP
@@ -23,5 +24,4 @@ https://lwn.net/Articles/889444/
This is completely prevented in the Bitreich model, since multiple council members are allowed under one bedcover, while hidden from any eavesdropper in the room.
.PP
Sincerely yours,
-.PP
20h Chief Democracy Officer (CDO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw
@@ -30,6 +30,4 @@ business life.
.
.PP
Sincerely yours,
-.
-.PP
20h Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw
@@ -15,27 +15,21 @@ with technology.
investigating global interconnection utopia, spiritual magic and contemporary algorithmic slavery dystopia
.
.PP
-Has we seen a clear event where computer-based #technology moved
-from hobby that only a bunch of looneys were adorating on their
-geek basement, and mainstream adoption?
-.
-.PP
+Was there an event declaring that technology was not only for looneys
+on their geek basement?
The opening of facebook? The advent of the iPhone? The first day
you could fired from an office job for not being able to turn on a
computer?
-.
-.PP
Technology did not really appear all at once in our lives, and does
-not even reach every citizen of every country. Looking at ourself
-with a fresh, candide look, and think whether how we live make sense,
-is becoming increasingly difficult. Day after day, without us noticing,
-the tiny steps.
+not even reach every citizen of every country.
+Looking at ourself with a fresh candide look and wondering if how
+we live make sense is becoming increasingly difficult.
.
.PP
Like Filipe Vilas-Boas, artists offers us a tiny window onto our own
life, a porthole toward ourself, for allowing us to watching ourself
from the outside.
.
-.BD
+.DS
https://filipevilasboas.com/Carrying-The-Cross
-.ED
+.DE
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-st-lazare-transforms.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-st-lazare-transforms.mw
@@ -36,5 +36,6 @@ compromise price to setup, comfort of use, reliability, finding the
new staff in charge of maintenance... A reminder that technical
solutions only solve technical problems.
.
-.PP
+.DS
https://lenouvelautomobiliste.fr/actualites/39949/des-portes-pour-transformer-la-vie-de-la-gare-saint-lazare/
+.DE
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ The bug was reproduced on earth and patched, latter explained on a
mailing list, published online.
.
.DS
-https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp790/papers/mars_pathfinder_long_version.html
+https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp790
+/papers/mars_pathfinder_long_version.html
.DE
.
.PP
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.pdf b/opus4/tgtimes4.pdf
Binary files differ.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.txt b/opus4/tgtimes4.txt
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Leveraging functionnal programming with Racket, the
binaries come battery included, bundling the racket
runtime code, famous for building-up robust graphical
- user interfaces straight from the core language
- libraries.
+ user interfaces straight from the core language li-
+ braries.

- Inline images, multiple tabs, keyboard navigation,
- Gopher and Gemini support, opening external http://
+ Inline images, multiple tabs, keyboard navigation, Go-
+ pher and Gemini support, opening external http://
links on an external browser, Molasses has everything
one might expect to browse the little Internet.

@@ -49,21 +49,18 @@ ____________________________________________________________

It can be found at:

- - git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed
-
- - gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed
-
- - https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/
-
- - gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed/
+ git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed
+ gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed
+ https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/
+ gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed/

sfeed has the following notable changes compared to
1.2:

Fixes

- - Fix a compiler warning with some curses
- implementations, like NetBSD curses.
+ - Fix a compiler warning with some curses implementa-
+ tions, like NetBSD curses.

- sfeed_curses: add keybinds for the home key and the
default home and end key for urxvt.
@@ -78,26 +75,26 @@ ____________________________________________________________

Documentation

- - README: add an example script to count new and
- unread items. This can be useful for some statusbar
+ - README: add an example script to count new and un-
+ read items. This can be useful for some statusbar
indicator (asked about by e-mail).

- - Small code-style, comments and documentation
- improvements and fixes.
+ - Small code-style, comments and documentation im-
+ provements and fixes.

Testsuite improvements

The testsuite repo has had improvements to test the
- most important code paths of sfeed_curses in an
- automated way (currently 95% automated coverage). The
+ most important code paths of sfeed_curses in an auto-
+ mated way (currently 95% automated coverage). The
sfeed.c and xml.c parser coverage has also near 100%
coverage.

The goal is to find bugs and avoid regressions.

The input/sfeed/realworld/ directory contains files
- with various feeds from popular systems to more
- obscure ones. These may be useful to test other
+ with various feeds from popular systems to more ob-
+ scure ones. These may be useful to test other
RSS/Atom programs aswell.

These tests can be found here:
@@ -113,20 +110,20 @@ ____________________________________________________________
BBC Reviving the Plain Old Radio tgtimes
____________________________________________________________

- BBC, one of the earliest if not the first radio
- broadcasting ever, comes back to using a WWII era
- technology, to overcome limitation Russia imposes over
+ BBC, one of the earliest if not the first radio broad-
+ casting ever, comes back to using a WWII era technol-
+ ogy, to overcome limitation Russia imposes over
Ukraine.

In between a rain of missiles and a short moment of
- temporary peace, fetching information on what is
- happening around is a relief, maybe even a requirement
+ temporary peace, fetching information on what is hap-
+ pening around is a relief, maybe even a requirement
for survival.

Internet infrastructure of Ukraine are being impacted,
- and the backbone getting shackled by all kind of
- limitations, provoked the BBC news bulletin to be
- unreachable.
+ and the backbone getting shackled by all kind of limi-
+ tations, provoked the BBC news bulletin to be unreach-
+ able.

A more primitive way to broadcast critical headlines
than Internet: shortwave radio, which can live off a
@@ -137,15 +134,16 @@ ____________________________________________________________
news a day. These frequencies can be received clearly
in Kyiv and parts of Russia.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-news
+ https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-
+ russians-turn-to-bbc-news

Shortly after, possessing a shortwave radio device at
home became forbidden, proving that in spite of being
a low-technology solution, it was efficient enough to
disturb the control of the press by the government.

- This showcases how quickly-deployed and resilient
- simple technologies can be in comparison to fragile,
+ This showcases how quickly-deployed and resilient sim-
+ ple technologies can be in comparison to fragile,
high-tech interdependent ecosystems.

Radio is also trivially interfaced with high-tech: Any
@@ -154,17 +152,17 @@ ____________________________________________________________

Given instructions, a receiver is also very easy to
build with scavenged parts. An antenna is simply a
- wire producing an input signal, that after
- demodulation, becomes a sound signal to be fed to a
- speaker.
+ wire producing an input signal, that after demodula-
+ tion, becomes a sound signal to be fed to a speaker.

It also shows benefits of putting all the technically
difficult parts onto the side of the content producer.
It helps with adoption of a new technology: Making the
- client device/software trivial and safe to build,
- setup and use.
+ client device/software trivial and safe to build, set-
+ up and use.

- https://hackaday.com/2022/03/17/owning-a-shortwave-radio
+ https://hackaday.com/2022/03/17/owning-a-shortwave-
+ radio

@@ -175,24 +173,31 @@ ____________________________________________________________
is a daemon sitting on top of your bluez/bluetooth
stack, waiting for RFCOMM devices to connect. The
daemon will then run scripts or daemons on that
- new rfcomm connection. This can be used to
- create a custom bluetooth printer without buying
- some dedicated hardware device. See the filter
- spirofilter in the repository for some pcl printer
- script.
+ new rfcomm connection. This can be used to cre-
+ ate a custom bluetooth printer without buying some
+ dedicated hardware device. See the filter spirofil-
+ ter in the repository for some pcl printer script.

gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/rfcommd

Here is the first release:

- gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.lz
- gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.lz.sha512sum
- ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.lz
- ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.lz.sha512sum
- gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.gz
- gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.gz.sha512sum
- ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-v0.2.tar.gz.sha512sum
+ gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.lz
+ gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.lz.sha512sum
+ ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.lz
+ ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.lz.sha512sum
+ gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.gz
+ gopher://bitreich.org/9/scm/rfcommd/tag/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.gz.sha512sum
+ ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp@bitreich.org/releases/rfcommd/rfcommd-
+ v0.2.tar.gz.sha512sum
All questions and comments welcome!

Please send them to:
@@ -209,8 +214,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
2022-03-06 GangBAN aftermaths 20h
____________________________________________________________

- This Sunday was a fun one. After lunch we had the
- supertuxkart tournament of five(!) players competing
+ This Sunday was a fun one. After lunch we had the su-
+ pertuxkart tournament of five(!) players competing
against eachother on various tracks. All kind of CPUs
and hardware setups participates and rushed off the
cliffs.
@@ -223,17 +228,15 @@ ____________________________________________________________

See you at the next GangBAN!

- Sincerely yours,
-
- 20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)

Breaking free from medical devices 20h
____________________________________________________________

- Unlike most USB gadgets around, medical devices
- require a specification to be proven fit for handling
+ Unlike most USB gadgets around, medical devices re-
+ quire a specification to be proven fit for handling
patients data. This makes doctor-hacking difficult
for the sake of better control over what is allowed
for medical use.
@@ -241,14 +244,14 @@ ____________________________________________________________
While this may sound as a non-starter for many, not
all doctors are discouraged. Interview with 20h:

- >> You are __20h__, a doctor in Falken, the best
- village to live in in Germany, is that correct?
+ >> You are __20h__, a doctor in Falken, the best vil-
+ lage to live in in Germany, is that correct?

Yes.

- >> You managed to do some hacking around a medical
- device. What was it? How did it help you in your
- diagnostics?
+ >> You managed to do some hacking around a medical de-
+ vice. What was it? How did it help you in your di-
+ agnostics?

I wrote rfcommd to have my spirometer print out the
results to a standard printer. It helps me having a
@@ -269,8 +272,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
network printer.

>> What software were provided to collect the data on
- a computer? On which kind of system was that
- running?
+ a computer? On which kind of system was that run-
+ ning?

Before rfcommd there was no collection of the data.
The spirometer has some built-in printer, which is
@@ -278,18 +281,18 @@ ____________________________________________________________

>> Are you using it often?

- I/We are using it every day for printing out
- spirometry (lung function) results.
+ I/We are using it every day for printing out spirome-
+ try (lung function) results.

- By the way. A secondary function why rfcommd has
- filters: We have a sterilization device, which has a
- serial printout of sterilization runs.
+ By the way. A secondary function why rfcommd has fil-
+ ters: We have a sterilization device, which has a se-
+ rial printout of sterilization runs.

This is what rfcommd does print out too.

- The features of rfcommd moved from: Accept every
- rfcomm request to having filters per device mac, was
- because of those two devices.
+ The features of rfcommd moved from: Accept every rf-
+ comm request to having filters per device mac, was be-
+ cause of those two devices.

But it will allow to have the ecg readout as a filter
for free.
@@ -302,20 +305,20 @@ ____________________________________________________________
some bluetooth printer service, which bluetooth
clients connect to and send print jobs.

- But I migrated this to some C implementation and
- generalized it as rfcommd so it is more modular for me
+ But I migrated this to some C implementation and gen-
+ eralized it as rfcommd so it is more modular for me
and others can reuse it too.

Bluez stack had some rfcomm client application, but it
- was removed in newer version because they hate
- commandline users.
+ was removed in newer version because they hate comman-
+ dline users.

>> Was it difficult? How long did it take?

- Digging around bluetooth is difficult. It looks
- similar to TCP/IP, but is its own terminology,
- protocols and principles. Look at rfcommd for how to
- announce some service.
+ Digging around bluetooth is difficult. It looks simi-
+ lar to TCP/IP, but is its own terminology, protocols
+ and principles. Look at rfcommd for how to announce
+ some service.

It took me two weekends to write rfcommd as it is now.

@@ -334,8 +337,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
For example in the spirometry description, they say,
that only some bluetooth printers are compatible.

- This is due to the bluetooth standard not having
- defined, what is sent to bluetooth printers.
+ This is due to the bluetooth standard not having de-
+ fined, what is sent to bluetooth printers.

It should be the minimum, to define this, as it is in
the USB printing standard.
@@ -343,11 +346,11 @@ ____________________________________________________________
>> What kind of protocol interface would have been the
easiest?

- The easiest protocol interface, also considering
- security and data protection standard, would be ssh
- over TCP/IP. Everyone knows SSH, it can be integrated
- into everything and it is easily upgradable to newer
- security standards.
+ The easiest protocol interface, also considering secu-
+ rity and data protection standard, would be ssh over
+ TCP/IP. Everyone knows SSH, it can be integrated into
+ everything and it is easily upgradable to newer secu-
+ rity standards.

>> What does it permits to do that was not possible
before?
@@ -359,12 +362,12 @@ ____________________________________________________________
>> Are other people using it in the practice as well?
Even indirectly?

- My nurses use it mainly. They press the »print«
- button on the spirometry device and it prints the
- results.
+ My nurses use it mainly. They press the »print« but-
+ ton on the spirometry device and it prints the re-
+ sults.

- I, as doctor, only see the printed out results and
- explain them to patients.
+ I, as doctor, only see the printed out results and ex-
+ plain them to patients.

>> Does she have to use command line interface for
that?
@@ -374,9 +377,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
spirofilter printing filter script, which invokes
lpr(1).

- >> Are there many situations like that, where
- cumbersome interfaces makes life harder for working
- with medical devices?
+ >> Are there many situations like that, where cumber-
+ some interfaces makes life harder for working with
+ medical devices?

Yes, it's built into all medical devices to enforce
proprietary and expensive Windows software to be
@@ -393,8 +396,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
>> Do you think designers would benefits themself from
offering another interface that is easier to use?

- In the short term viewpoint it protects you from
- competitors to enter the market. But in the long run,
+ In the short term viewpoint it protects you from com-
+ petitors to enter the market. But in the long run,
this now stops me from easily processing patient data
for further research. I am using a 25 yr old ECG and
some 10 yr old spirometer.
@@ -418,12 +421,12 @@ ____________________________________________________________
my practical examples.

>> Would it have been possible to build such device
- yourself from parts, but with sane interfaces
- instead?
+ yourself from parts, but with sane interfaces in-
+ stead?

Building such a device is not the hard part. The hard
- part is licensing the device as being a medical
- device.
+ part is licensing the device as being a medical de-
+ vice.

I am, as a doctor, am allowed to license some medical
device for my patients. But if I'd want to sell or
@@ -439,20 +442,20 @@ ____________________________________________________________
it for selling is what makes it expensive and/or keeps
the competition low.

- >> What do you advise to people also stuck with
- cumbersome device, but without reverse engineer
- superpowers?
+ >> What do you advise to people also stuck with cum-
+ bersome device, but without reverse engineer super-
+ powers?

Force the device producers to open up standards.
- Write into contracts, that devices have to be
- interoperable, so producers need to adapt.
+ Write into contracts, that devices have to be interop-
+ erable, so producers need to adapt.

It's the same for software. If you can't write it on
your own, force them to open up standards, because you
want to extend the software.

- For extension of software, reverse engineering is
- legal.
+ For extension of software, reverse engineering is le-
+ gal.

@@ -460,39 +463,34 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Carrying the Cross tgtimes
____________________________________________________________

- Walking on the streets, slowly, slowed-down by
- carrying a huge wooden cross, tall as three persons,
- painted in blue, a recognisable cross shaped as an
- 'f', the 'f' of facebook.
+ Walking on the streets, slowly, slowed-down by carry-
+ ing a huge wooden cross, tall as three persons, paint-
+ ed in blue, a recognisable cross shaped as an 'f', the
+ 'f' of facebook.

This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting anyone
to watch the unrealistic scene, and question themself
on the weight of social media, and beliefs associated
with technology.

- >> investigating global interconnection utopia,
- spiritual magic and contemporary algorithmic slavery
- dystopia
-
- Has we seen a clear event where computer-based
- #technology moved from hobby that only a bunch of
- looneys were adorating on their geek basement, and
- mainstream adoption?
-
- The opening of facebook? The advent of the iPhone? The
- first day you could fired from an office job for not
- being able to turn on a computer?
-
- Technology did not really appear all at once in our
- lives, and does not even reach every citizen of every
- country. Looking at ourself with a fresh, candide
- look, and think whether how we live make sense, is
- becoming increasingly difficult. Day after day,
- without us noticing, the tiny steps.
-
- Like Filipe Vilas-Boas, artists offers us a tiny
- window onto our own life, a porthole toward ourself,
- for allowing us to watching ourself from the outside.
+ >> investigating global interconnection utopia, spiri-
+ tual magic and contemporary algorithmic slavery dys-
+ topia
+
+ Was there an event declaring that technology was not
+ only for looneys on their geek basement? The opening
+ of facebook? The advent of the iPhone? The first day
+ you could fired from an office job for not being able
+ to turn on a computer? Technology did not really ap-
+ pear all at once in our lives, and does not even reach
+ every citizen of every country. Looking at ourself
+ with a fresh candide look and wondering if how we live
+ make sense is becoming increasingly difficult.
+
+ Like Filipe Vilas-Boas, artists offers us a tiny win-
+ dow onto our own life, a porthole toward ourself, for
+ allowing us to watching ourself from the outside.
+
https://filipevilasboas.com/Carrying-The-Cross

@@ -520,9 +518,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
created by engineering, or hacking things together.

Low-Life Refers to those put aside by society, such as
- criminal or drug dealer, making itself edgy; or
- hobos and beggars, pushed to the edge by more or
- less everyone.
+ criminal or drug dealer, making itself edgy; or ho-
+ bos and beggars, pushed to the edge by more or less
+ everyone.

One way to develop the idea of High-Tech Low-Life
would be a criminal using modern tools such to empower
@@ -530,23 +528,23 @@ ____________________________________________________________
guns. Not good.

But another way to portray it is someone rejected by
- its surroundings, seeking support through
- technological tools. May it be as a source of direct
- income, or as a way to get informed, or inform its
- surrounding, perhaps the entire world such as what did
- happen with the late revolts in China.
+ its surroundings, seeking support through technologi-
+ cal tools. May it be as a source of direct income, or
+ as a way to get informed, or inform its surrounding,
+ perhaps the entire world such as what did happen with
+ the late revolts in China.

The "High Tech, Low Life" (2012) documentary shows us
- that it is not a science-fiction plot, but a
- phenomenon happenning today.
+ that it is not a science-fiction plot, but a phe-
+ nomenon happenning today.

Giving High-Tech toys to poor population sounds more
- like a GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple,
- Microsoft) plan to rule over the third-world while
- looking like a humanitarian hero saving the world. But
- another way to see it is surrending the Low-Life
- people to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending
- further the frontiers of ad-tech.
+ like a GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Mi-
+ crosoft) plan to rule over the third-world while look-
+ ing like a humanitarian hero saving the world. But an-
+ other way to see it is surrending the Low-Life people
+ to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending further the
+ frontiers of ad-tech.

Giving entertainment platform is probably not the most
urgent kind of technology people without a meal a day
@@ -558,16 +556,19 @@ ____________________________________________________________
minutes riding this board.

https://nextshark.com/chinese-farmer-hoverboard-life/
- https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-13/800254.shtml
+ https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-
+ 13/800254.shtml

Or what about deploying long-range point-to-point
wireless links in west Africa to circumvent the poor
cable infrastructure? This would help escaping the
- lobby and regulations that take over the few IT
- resources of that country?
+ lobby and regulations that take over the few IT re-
+ sources of that country?

- http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-reassessing.pdf
- https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/
+ http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-
+ reassessing.pdf
+ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-
+ build-a-low-tech-internet/

Or even inventing affordable small solar or wind-power
stations for the tights budgets of off-grid villages?
@@ -587,17 +588,18 @@ ____________________________________________________________
FreeDOOMDay on 2022-03-27 20h
____________________________________________________________

- In comemoration of the beginning summer time in
- central Europe, we will celebrate FreeDOOMDay! On
+ In comemoration of the beginning summer time in cen-
+ tral Europe, we will celebrate FreeDOOMDay! On
2022-03-27 20:00 CEST (be careful!), we will play
chocolate-doom

https://www.chocolate-doom.org

- This is a doom variant which runs on nearly every
- machine out there and supports extra modes:
+ This is a doom variant which runs on nearly every ma-
+ chine out there and supports extra modes:

- https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Three_screen_mode
+ https://www.chocolate-
+ doom.org/wiki/index.php/Three_screen_mode

Please try to install the FreeDOOM wad files as a
base:
@@ -606,9 +608,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________

See you on Sunday!

- Sincerely yours,
-
- 20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)

@@ -656,9 +656,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________

Please subscribe for your newest meme pleasure!

- Sincerely yours,
-
- 20h Chief Meme Officer (CMO)
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Meme Officer (CMO)

@@ -666,16 +664,16 @@ ____________________________________________________________
St-Lazare's Paris Train Station tgtimes
____________________________________________________________

- Ah! The Saint Lazare train station. Emblem of the
- Parisian train station, and today still looking like
- on the painting by the XIXth century painter Monet.
+ Ah! The Saint Lazare train station. Emblem of the Par-
+ isian train station, and today still looking like on
+ the painting by the XIXth century painter Monet.

This typical look were somehow preserved regardless of
the modernisation of the train equipments. Lately, new
- equipments have been installed to prevent fraud:
- ticket barriers are now surrounding all the stations
- and their surrounding, only letting those owning a
- ticket onto the station.
+ equipments have been installed to prevent fraud: tick-
+ et barriers are now surrounding all the stations and
+ their surrounding, only letting those owning a ticket
+ onto the station.

Not unexpected from a train company for a country with
fraud around 10% on long train lines. Mr. Monet would
@@ -690,16 +688,16 @@ ____________________________________________________________
high error rate for passengers trying to insert their
ticket or NFC card.

- In case of a misunderstanding of how to use these
- devices, the train stations are not overcrowded with
+ In case of a misunderstanding of how to use these de-
+ vices, the train stations are not overcrowded with
staff to welcome passengers in need for information,
and it would take a bit of time.

Setting-up a new solution seems a difficult challenge,
putting in compromise price to setup, comfort of use,
- reliability, finding the new staff in charge of
- maintenance... A reminder that technical solutions
- only solve technical problems.
+ reliability, finding the new staff in charge of main-
+ tenance... A reminder that technical solutions only
+ solve technical problems.

https://lenouvelautomobiliste.fr/actualites/39949/des-
portes-pour-transformer-la-vie-de-la-gare-
@@ -715,21 +713,22 @@ ____________________________________________________________
worked out pretty well. In the end we played the
freedm.wad of freedoom.

- Some statistics: Maximum up and down bandwidth
- required was 14 kbytes/s. Maximum CPU usage here: 2%
- of one core. RAM: 400 kb.
+ Some statistics: Maximum up and down bandwidth re-
+ quired was 14 kbytes/s. Maximum CPU usage here: 2% of
+ one core. RAM: 400 kb.

- Chocolate Doom is compatible to vanilla doom.
- Everyone having some old DOS doom can join in using
- rfcommd:
+ Chocolate Doom is compatible to vanilla doom. Every-
+ one having some old DOS doom can join in using rf-
+ commd:

git://bitreich.org/rfcommd

- Just attach a serial2bluetooth dongle and some
- bluetooth dongle in your linux machine, then use the
- new added filter:
+ Just attach a serial2bluetooth dongle and some blue-
+ tooth dongle in your linux machine, then use the new
+ added filter:

- gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/rfcommd/commit/9b77ca90e9cf4ca7cd9521e6756dc2b833cdefce.gph
+ gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/rfcommd/commit
+ /9b77ca90e9cf4ca7cd9521e6756dc2b833cdefce.gph

This will automatically connect your serial connection
to a doom server over tcp/ip. Change it to
@@ -742,9 +741,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
See you next time, with whatever machine you can find
and which runs DOOM!

- Sincerely yours,
-
- 20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Gaming Officer (CGO)

@@ -752,8 +749,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
What really happened on Mars? tgtimes
____________________________________________________________

- What can possibly go wrong while sending a device
- entirely controlled by software on a remote location
+ What can possibly go wrong while sending a device en-
+ tirely controlled by software on a remote location
where noone would ever be able to go for a long while?
The question opens a vast field of answers.

@@ -762,14 +759,15 @@ ____________________________________________________________
system onboard, embedding an 6-wheeled Sojourner rover
with custom firmware, landed on Mars.

- During a field data collection mission a priority
- inversion did happen on the Pathfinder station total
+ During a field data collection mission a priority in-
+ version did happen on the Pathfinder station total
loss of control for the time of a reboot.

The bug was reproduced on earth and patched, latter
explained on a mailing list, published online.

- https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp790/papers/mars_pathfinder_long_version.html
+ https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp790
+ /papers/mars_pathfinder_long_version.html

At its core, most operating systems are built around a
scheduler that orchestrates execution of many tasks
@@ -779,27 +777,27 @@ ____________________________________________________________
time.

Complex systems may be unfit for such purposes, and
- software simplicity has found its way through
- experimenting how complex systems may end-up in
- difficult-to-debug situations.
+ software simplicity has found its way through experi-
+ menting how complex systems may end-up in difficult-
+ to-debug situations.

Imagine yourself in charge of reproducing a bug on
earth for something that went wrong on another planet,
- with a patch expected for next Monday. A strong
- argument toward keeping systems simple and easier to
- debug.
+ with a patch expected for next Monday. A strong argu-
+ ment toward keeping systems simple and easier to de-
+ bug.

Although, the Mars operating system landscape is not
all VxWorks and nothing else. For instance, the RTEMS
system, Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
- was open-sourced from US army 1993 and is today
- actively maintained by both corporations and the open
+ was open-sourced from US army 1993 and is today ac-
+ tively maintained by both corporations and the open
source community.

- Being part of Google Summer of Code, it is also
- welcoming newcomers to real-time operating system
- development, who might be able to contribute to
- embedded software making its way onto space.
+ Being part of Google Summer of Code, it is also wel-
+ coming newcomers to real-time operating system devel-
+ opment, who might be able to contribute to embedded
+ software making its way onto space.

https://www.rtems.org/

@@ -819,8 +817,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
medical documentation. You named it: PubMed itself
have been delivering documents through Gopher:

- Phone books with name, phone number and e-mail
- addresses of those willing to submit it,
+ Phone books with name, phone number and e-mail ad-
+ dresses of those willing to submit it,

Images like weathermaps,

@@ -854,27 +852,26 @@ ____________________________________________________________

Amazon Kindle were text files through Gopher.

- Office365 were telnet interactive session, or
- WordStar, PostScript, and ASCII files through
- Gopher.
+ Office365 were telnet interactive session, or Word-
+ Star, PostScript, and ASCII files through Gopher.

Google was either gopher search, or interactive telnet
sessions, with sometimes powerful query languages,
- permitting to filter the result held in the
- databases: Searching for references about Italians
- with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH)
-
- This showcases that a lot of thing declared as
- possible today thank to the advances of technology
- were available since as early as 1994. With much less
- bells and much less whistles. With much less bandwidth
- for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as
+ permitting to filter the result held in the data-
+ bases: Searching for references about Italians with
+ AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH)
+
+ This showcases that a lot of thing declared as possi-
+ ble today thank to the advances of technology were
+ available since as early as 1994. With much less bells
+ and much less whistles. With much less bandwidth for
+ everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as
well.

Interactive database querying languages would look a
- bit uninviting, and TurboGopher (showcased in the
- document) has not all the font, layout, media
- integration features of modern day web browsers.
+ bit uninviting, and TurboGopher (showcased in the doc-
+ ument) has not all the font, layout, media integration
+ features of modern day web browsers.

Under that perspective, the race to technology looks
like not a quest for new use-cases, but taking what
@@ -885,14 +882,14 @@ ____________________________________________________________

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_april_1994.pdf

- One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine
- project still is blown at full steam, as the National
+ One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine
+ project still is blown at full steam, as the National
Library of Medecine publishes a bibliography for
- setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on
- specific medical topics.
+ setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on spe-
+ cific medical topics.

- >> Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the
- National Library of Medicine
+ >> Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the Na-
+ tional Library of Medicine

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/

@@ -902,21 +899,22 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Secret voting for Bitreich Council 20h
____________________________________________________________

- Bitreich is always ahead in its structure,
- organisation and technology. So is our democracy:
+ Bitreich is always ahead in its structure, organisa-
+ tion and technology. So is our democracy:

- gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/bitreich-council/commit/f43daad938405d966c158a12b6fcb8f13a9d1868.gph
+ gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/bitreich-council/commit
+ /f43daad938405d966c158a12b6fcb8f13a9d1868.gph

The majority of council members has decided, that:

>> Secret voting is possible on certain topics. When
- council members vote in secret, they need to vote
- under a bedcover. Multiple council members can be
- under one bedcover.
+ council members vote in secret, they need to vote un-
+ der a bedcover. Multiple council members can be un-
+ der one bedcover.

- Bitreich is reacting to the decision of Debian to
- introduce back chamber corruption in its decision
- making:
+ Bitreich is reacting to the decision of Debian to in-
+ troduce back chamber corruption in its decision mak-
+ ing:

https://lwn.net/Articles/889444/

@@ -925,9 +923,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
bedcover, while hidden from any eavesdropper in the
room.

- Sincerely yours,
-
- 20h Chief Democracy Officer (CDO)
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Democracy Officer (CDO)

@@ -941,10 +937,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________
lend a hand for the next generation of giants to
stand on ours.

- Focused on the ELF format reverse engineering, the
- online zine culminates a rich set of resources and
- articles by experts for everyone interested in the
- world of ELF hacking.
+ Focused on the ELF format reverse engineering, the on-
+ line zine culminates a rich set of resources and arti-
+ cles by experts for everyone interested in the world
+ of ELF hacking.

- Bare Metal Jacket

@@ -953,8 +949,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________

- Every Boring Problem Found in eBPF

- And much, much more... News straight out of the
- compiler:
+ And much, much more... News straight out of the com-
+ piler:

https://tmpout.sh/2/

@@ -970,10 +966,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________
council decided to go further:

- Windows Server 2022 will be the new server OS for
- growing our business opportunities and fast
- deployment of critical workloads such as SQL Server
- with confidence using 48TB of memory, 64 sockets,
- and 2048 logical cores.
+ growing our business opportunities and fast deploy-
+ ment of critical workloads such as SQL Server with
+ confidence using 48TB of memory, 64 sockets, and
+ 2048 logical cores.

- Irc.bitreich.org will be replaced by Microsoft Teams
to create a more engaging meeting experience with
@@ -983,15 +979,13 @@ ____________________________________________________________
- The ed(1) cloud will be replaced by Microsoft Office
365 to connect and empower every employee, from the
office to the frontline worker, with a Microsoft 365
- solution that enhances productivity and drives
- innovation.
+ solution that enhances productivity and drives inno-
+ vation.

We hope to see you on the new services, which enrich
your daily business life.

- Sincerely yours,
-
- 20h Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
+ Sincerely yours, 20h Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

@@ -999,10 +993,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

The web is hiring over and over. A lot of professions
- were converted from something, to something with
- online web tools and a lot of computer systems are
- using a webinterfaces that are just skins for a
- database.
+ were converted from something, to something with on-
+ line web tools and a lot of computer systems are using
+ a webinterfaces that are just skins for a database.

If you feel like giving a good sweep in all the dust
of webservers, and transform fragile, complex, buggy
@@ -1030,10 +1023,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Publishing in The Gopher Times you
____________________________________________________________

- Want your article published? Want to announce
- something to the Gopher world? Directly related to
- Gopher or not, reach us on IRC with an article in any
- format, we will handle the rest.
+ Want your article published? Want to announce some-
+ thing to the Gopher world? Directly related to Gopher
+ or not, reach us on IRC with an article in any format,
+ we will handle the rest.

ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en
gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/
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