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\== Usenet: Network News Free Speech Network ==
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\## Contents ##
- Introduction
- Ways to access Usenet
- Links to Usenet hosts and software
- Rough traffic count
Do you remember Network News, AKA Usenet? At over 40 years old, Usenet is the original 'social network'. Usenet is the oldest bastion of digital free speech networks.
Usenet is highly resistant to censorship. For decades Usenet has served as a free speech haven. It has also served as a platform for secure and anonymous messaging.
I suspect that many of GenY and GenZ have never heard of Usenet. We can change that. We can alert them to this censorship-resistant network as an alternative to highly censored social media.
\## Ways to access Usenet ##
There are multiple ways to access Usenet:
\- web front ends \- dedicated graphical clients \- dedicated terminal clients
\## Links to Usenet hosts and software ##
Users can access Usenet to read and post by installing free client software or by visiting a host that provides web browser access.
\* Free Forum front end for Usenet: https://novabbs.org
\* Free Usenet servers list: https://sybershock.com/#usenet
\* Free Usenet reader software:
\- Thunderbird https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ \- Betterbird https://www.betterbird.eu/ \- Claws Mail https://www.claws-mail.org/ \- Sylpheed https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ \- Seamonkey https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
\## Rough traffic count ##
A few days ago when I counted, more than 16 thousand articles were posted in Usenet threads in a 24-hour period. I checked today as of a few minutes past midnight GMT, and almost 12 thousand articles were posted in the past 24-hour period. At this rate about 4.4 million articles would be posted in a single year.
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Hey Fedi Readers: want to avoid Amazon for books?
Hey Fedi Readers: want to avoid Amazon for books?
Ebooks: Nook, Apple, GooglePlay&Kobo have apps for any device.
Print books: https://bookshop.org/ benefits small bookstores
Audiobooks: there are a zillion audiobook distributors
All 3: USE THE LIBRARY (they pay authors) https://susankayequinn.com/1-2-3-how-to-get-sues-ebooks-audiobooks-from-your-library
\#library #sci-fi #romance #audiobooks #ebooks #paperbacks @bookstodon
I've just installed #koreader on a couple of my devices and like it so far. Connecting to #Calibre wirelessly works on one of them.
I've just installed #koreader on a couple of my devices and like it so far. Connecting to #Calibre wirelessly works on one of them.
If I could code, I'd try to make a plugin that automatically updates progress with #TheStoryGraph if that is even possible. \#books @bookstodon
I've been using Calibre to manage my ebooks for years, but haven't delved very deep into what it's actually capable of. But it seems that the combination of koreader and Calibre might be very useful.
I've been using Calibre to manage my ebooks for years, but haven't delved very deep into what it's actually capable of. But it seems that the combination of koreader and Calibre might be very useful. I'm not quite sure what to do yet, but having Calibre serve books to my Kobo devices and automatic syncing between them over wireless sounds super useful. I'm sure I can squeeze in a raspberry pi in there too somewhere. :-) Time to tinker, I think. \#Kobo #KoReader #Calibre #RaspberryPi @bookstodon
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Are you a webmaster with your own domain and web site?
If you have your own domain name and a web site please send me a mention with the link. I'm especially grateful for webmasters who publish RSS feeds of their sites.
I am avoiding all big tech sites as much as I can. This means I am mostly avoiding free blog sites, forums, most social media (except some Fediverse), video sites, substack, whatever. I am truly interested in reading and viewing only subject matter published by webmasters who have taken the time to set up their own web sites. This separates most low-effort work from real work. This is a good sanity check as well.
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Title: Millions of cats Author: Wanda Gág Original publication: New York: Coward McCann, Inc, 1928
A short, syrupy, predictable children's fable that is totally worth it. The story has a multiple morals entwined in a five-minute read without being moralistic. Although a children's fable the moral is every bit applicable to adults and even old codgers. I adore old writings such as this. This is a free Gutenberg book available at the link below.
Is it too soon to Covid times from 2020 in a fictional story? I’m thinking about including that as one of the plots in an upcoming book. #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon #author #amwriting
Is it too soon to Covid times from 2020 in a fictional story? I’m thinking about including that as one of the plots in an upcoming book. #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon #author #amwriting #bookstodon @bookstodon @[email protected]
My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.
My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.
The cruelty is the point.
https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/
\#Books #BookBans #Bookstodon #Libraries @bookstodon [email protected]
#booksuggestions anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like #StarTrek for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.
\#booksuggestions anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like #StarTrek for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.
Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. 😅
A book I edited was written up in the local paper.
A book I edited was written up in the local paper.
So happy to see Shannon Bohrer's book, Judicial Soup: One Man's Wrongful Conviction and What It Means for Criminal Justice Reform, getting some media attention. This is a very relatable book on a hugely important topic. When you read it, first you'll be angry. Then you'll think, "If it can happen to that guy, it can happen to anyone."
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.
Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.
The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. #bookstodon @librarians
The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. #bookstodon @bookstodon @librarians
"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that
"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."
\--Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Ursula Le Guin Kim Stanley Robinson Octavia Butler N. K. Jemisin Becky Chambers Iain M. Banks Martha Wells M. R. Carey Lois McMaster Bujold Vonda McIntyre
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 148.
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 148.
The first book of Ann Leckie's Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice (2013) offers an interesting plot of AI, identity & insurrection. Leckie builds an interesting (political) world/universe for her tale of revenge & becoming, which while at times a little too tricksy, overall remains a compelling bit of space-opera. If at times the plot seems a little too convoluted, the central idea(s) is/are intriguing & developed interestingly
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror #books far & wide.
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror #books far & wide.
The family trauma that pervades THE DAY OF THE DOOR is horrifying enough, but coupled with the intensely creepy events that occur, this story encapsulates "HORROR" in a masterful, terrifying way. Laurel Hightower has written a beautifully dark story about the Things that haunt our hearts. (Ghoulish Books)
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Looking forward to the Liz Truss book getting remaindered at The Works in a month or so. Sounds like the finest work of comedy since Airplane! The Movie. 📖 #books #bookstodon
Looking forward to the Liz Truss book getting remaindered at The Works in a month or so. Sounds like the finest work of comedy since Airplane! The Movie. 📖 #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Ygdrasil, the Internet's first and oldest literary journal is still in operation. Below find three links, to the older archive and to the recent editions and to the old web page.
Ygdrasil, the Internet's first and oldest literary journal is still in operation. Below find three links, [1] to the older archive and [2] to the recent editions and [3] to the old web page.
"Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts is the first Literary Journal to be published on the Internet (1994)."
The oldest archives are here:
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/index.html
Newer issues from about 2017 to date are here:
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/KlausGerken
The ugly old Internet page and archive is here:
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/html/2017/17-02/users.synapse.net/kgerken/index.html
Enjoy!
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough
Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland - the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability.
† Vernor Vinge (79)
† Vernor Vinge (79)
Rest in peace. Loved the Zones of Thought series.
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Looming Groupocalypse : The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh!
Tuesday, September 11088, 1993
https://news.novabbs.org/usenet/article-flat.php?id=4004&group=alt.free.newsservers#4004
@lamp @bookstodon @histodons @academicchatter @actuallyautistic @palestine @infodump while I wish it'd come back, Usenet is 99.99% spam or binaries now. The bins are cool but discussion is all but dead.
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I misunderstood. I assumed you meant plan9 from Bell Labs. There was a long lull of activity on the child project that is now maintaining it.
Dunno what Plan9 is... OS9 was an optional os for tandy Color Computers developed by microware. A small footprint simple unix-like os that ran well on 6809 chips and multitasked. It even had a windows routine, MultiVue, for the COCO3 anyway. The manual came with all the C (no + or ++) for the windows s/w. @lamp @bookstodon @histodons @academicchatter @actuallyautistic @palestine @infodump
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comp.os.plan9 still exists. Some plan9 maintainers were recently discussing appointing a moderator for the group to get it active again. People are thinking about the 'missing moderator' problem and how to solve it. The discussion is in this thread:
https://news.novabbs.org/usenet/article-flat.php?id=201&group=news.groups.proposals#201
"The MVI was prompted by one of the directors of the Plan 9 Foundation, who had written to the Board with the intention of reviving the newsgroup, perhaps via a bidirectional gateway to the 9fans mailing list. He suggested converting the group to unmoderated, but as this is a rather experimental solution, we proposed running an MVI, at least as a first step, to see if the group could remain moderated."
Some people want Usenet to die so they keep saying it is dead. Unfortunately a lot of people take them at their word and don't even bother to check it out. The ISC / Big8 Board is active again and taking care of business in the Big8 hierarchies. Some of us refuse to walk away from Usenet because we understand from experience that it has some features superior to all social networks, especially for decentralization and censorship avoidance. NNTP is simple compared to many 'modern' protocols and easily extended for custom applications.
Last time I looked at nntp 2 or 3 years ago it was 99% spam and adverts... But I repeat myself. I'm sure there are some newsgroups that aren't... But I didn't find them. Not even the tech oriented ones. The advent of a huge www made that sort of inevitable. Last time I used it functionally was when the comp.os9 newsgroup still existed... The 1990s. @lamp @bookstodon @histodons @academicchatter @actuallyautistic @palestine @infodump
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Brains ... more ... brains ... ;)
Like nntp theres no intelligent life there anymore unless you bring it. @lamp @bookstodon @histodons @academicchatter @actuallyautistic @palestine
@[email protected] To hell with Amazon. I ordered one time from them a couple years go. It was a disaster. I haven't been back since.
COVID + fiction is a redundancy of terms.
@picklejr @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon I really like #TheOrville for that. I think they went really far but beware that even if it starts as a comedy, it gets really serious and deep towards the end
@picklejr @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon Becky Chambers
@robolemmy I've heard good things about Wayfarers! Marking down on my To-read list!
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Peter Cawdron
@picklejr @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon Ursula Le Guin
@picklejr @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon I think what you're looking for is Gurren Lagann
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What thing is being denounced? Specifically, and exactly, what is being denounced?
Are you conflating the Bible with Christianity? The twain shall never meet.
More than half of the Bible was written and in circulation 900-1500 years before the existence of Christianity.
If you read the Bible without Christian blinders on, it is plain that the Bible condemns Christianity and all other religions as idolatry. Rather the Bible authors call men to worship God in spirit and truth without regard to a priesthood or place.
This dramatization shows a recorded event from the Bible demonstrating what Jesus taught about the end of religion:
@firefly @fskornia @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Interesting you quote the very thing you denounce.
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Secularism is the religion of the state. Secularism is ecumenicalism taken to its most logical extreme. It is a religion that subverts all other religions to the power of the state. Secularism was the religion of the Roman empire and remains so today.
Go into the capitol building and look up at the dome rotunda, and you will see their secular gods painted a la fresco for all to see.