Danke, @arne@uplegger.eu. Ich werde berichten.
@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Usenet is NNTP. No other way. And yes, it is very much alive. Now, finding servers to interact with it, freely, is becoming more of a problem these days.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev grats! A few things. Typo on jenny; that’s, it’s “jenny”, not “Janny”. You missed how to reply to others, and how to find those who “follow” you, which will require to mention the current extensions.
Why have I never checked out KolibriOS before? That thing is crazy. 😳
So, just a hobby. It won’t be big and professional like GNU, then?
Ha! 😅 No, that certainly won’t happen this time. 🥴
(What an exciting time that was when there were new operating systems. 🤔)
I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself.
So, just a hobby. It won’t be big and professional like GNU, then?
Seriously, that’s very cool. I wish my bootloader was that excited about a successful boot.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right. It’s nice. I’ve had the same one through numerous router restarts and at least two 4-6 hour power outages. I’m definitely not paying for a wildly inflated business plan to self-host a few things. It was like that on my last ISP as well, although they only gave me about 20mbps up.
Wait Usernet is alive? Does it using NNTP or some other modern technology?
Improving the filesystem is probably going to be the next big task. I don’t know that much about this stuff, so I’ll have to learn a lot. 🥴
@prologic@twtxt.net 😃 It surely was/is one of the most fun projects recently.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de That is so insanely cool! 😎
Hmm one of my Hypervisor nodes has failed and I’ve had to rain its VMs and take it offline. Damn 😢
@bender@twtxt.net Heh, crazy. Here in Germany, they make you pay good extra money for that. I get a new IP every time my router connects to the internet.
I’ve been making a little toy operating system for the 8086 in the last few days. Now that was a lot of fun!
I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a first step. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.
It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).
Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):
https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4
(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)
It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.
And a screenshot running in QEMU:
@movq@www.uninformativ.de not uncommon. I have mine for the last 4+ years.
@prologic@twtxt.net Exactly. 😂
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Soeey what fuxking scroll bar?! 🤦♂️
Props to you if you can easily spot the scrollbar in this picture:
Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn’t happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.
You mean to say you have the same public IP all the time? For 2.5 years now? Without paying extra? 🤔
@mckinley@twtxt.net That’s fair 👌
@mckinley@twtxt.net I just accept that if shit™ breaks, there ain’t much I can do about it until I can. So that forces me to automate things as much as possible.
@prologic@twtxt.net It looks interesting; definitely a novel approach. I just don’t think I have any use for it right now. I’ve thought about joining one those pubnixes that are around but I don’t think I’d ever do anything with an account on someone else’s server.
@prologic@twtxt.net I guess the difference is that your self-hosted services are publicly accessible so it allows such a setup. For me, everything is over Wireguard. If that link breaks and I’m not at home I can’t resolve domain names, let alone do any kind of server administration. That’s what the hidden service is for.
Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn’t happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.
Btw @mckinley@twtxt.net – You may be interested (not sure if have the time though) in mbox.blue 🤔
@mckinley@twtxt.net Nope.
@prologic@twtxt.net There’s no remote administration in the Mills DC? Not even through a VPN?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I work entirely remotely myself too, so I don’t really need this level of remote access either.
@mckinley@twtxt.net I used to have an SSH port reachable from the outside, but since I’m doing 99.999999% working-from-home now, I no longer need that. (I don’t even have a desk at the office anymore and – and this is important for us Germans! – no parking spot, either! 😅)
QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?
No. My network is firewalled and the only way into it is physically being on it.
QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?
I have a Tor hidden service that lets me SSH into my server from anywhere. I never had to use it until last week. I was playing around with the port forwarding configuration on my router for Wireguard (migrating to a new server, very exciting), forgot to change it back, and found myself an hour away from home hoping to watch a show on Jellyfin. All it took to fix it was an SSH port forward through that hidden service to (very slowly) access my home router’s Web interface.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yes! then there was this fun breaker of an article but hey, I ain’t doing it for security 😆 so I’ll just keep on keeping on.
Woot! I got wolfssl and the wolfssl command-line tool compiled successfully and installed on µLinux 💪 Now I can do all sorts of crypto stuff, generate TLS keys, etc all from a tiny ~20MB Linux distro 🥳
@prologic@twtxt.net I’m scratching my head already trying to figure this one out 🤣 not sure if just mirroring ldd’s output into my image’s content would do, -I’ve Just found about that one by the way.- but I’ll never know until I try.
@johanbove@johanbove.info Hey! 👋 Wishhing you all the best too! Hope you have a great break with your family! See ya around 🤗
As long as you can correctly statically link your binary of course 🤣
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yes building OCI images with no userland to speak of is great isn’t it 🤣
@bender@twtxt.net Dud! you should see the updated version! 😂 I have just discovered the scratch #container image and decided I wanted to play with it… I’m probably going to end up rebuilding a LOT of images.
~/htwtxt » podman image list htwtxt
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-scratch 2d5c6fb7862f About a minute ago 12 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.5-alpine 13610a37e347 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-alpine 2a5c560ee6b7 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
docker.io/buckket/htwtxt latest c0e33b2913c6 8 years ago 778 MB
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Nice! 😊
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com hello to your nephew, mate! Cheers!
Showing my nephew around linux… and what’s a better example of text editing in terminal than an actual twt? eh? 😆
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Looks fun. Also kind of looks like APL and Forth had a baby on Jupyter.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Hello!
@kh1b@kh1b.org Welcome to twtxt!
@prologic@twtxt.net Haha, nice! :-D This is the real one today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2024-12-20/01.jpg It was a bit more intense some minutes ago, though.
Moin @arne@uplegger.eu, herzlich willkommen! Ich bin gerade auf https://uplegger.eu/blog/popelfinger gestoßen und war sofort sehr begeistert. :-D Mal sehen, ob ich die anderen an einem der Feiertage davon überzeugt bekomme, das mal auszuprobieren. :-)
Sunset:
No, of course not. This is the gingerbread in the oven with my digicam’s sunset program. The second photo shows the colors more like they are in reality. It surprises me every year how absolutely sticky this dough is. Holy cow! Close to impossible to spread it evenly in the baking tray. https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/lebkuchen-2024-12-20/
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Sweet! 😅
Glad you like them, @aelaraji@aelaraji.com. Anytime!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Beautiful shots as usual! thank you for sharing these with us. 🤘