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by spc476 5y ago
I wrote my own gopher server [1] that works for me. I haven't looked at any other gopher servers in any detail to give a recommendation (unless you want to use the one I wrote). [1] https://github.com/spc476/port7
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by spc476 5y ago
Know your market. There's a substantial number of people who use gopher from older computers (think of retro computing). Also, error reporting in the gopher protocol is terrible at best.
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by spc476 5y ago
There are very few, if any Gopher+ servers. And because of that, there are very few clients that support it. And I do see some clients attempting TLS connections to my gopher server, and it clutters the logs with garbage attempts.
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by spc476 5y ago
While in one sense, it's trivial to transport gopher over TLS, in another sense, it's hard to add because gopher itself has no concept of TLS, and thus a client cannot know from within gopher to use TLS or not. I blogged about
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by spc476 5y ago
Not that I'm aware of. I even disabled the Firefox Enhanced Tracking protection for that site, and didn't get anywhere.
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by spc476 5y ago
I have Javascript enabled.
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by spc476 5y ago
Is there anyone else having issues reading the site? I'm using the latest version of Firefox, and I get: This site uses features not available on older iPhones. I'm interested in reading the site, not editing it. I'm
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by spc476 5y ago
Not to mention kill files, allowing you to filter out people/topics/threads you don't wish to read.
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by spc476 5y ago
One book I found that was incredible was _Mathematics for the Million_ (3rd edition, from 1951) that's part mathematics book, part history book. It goes over the history of mathematics from ancient Egypt going forward, showing how onl
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by spc476 5y ago
Another way to look at it: by the time you graduate high school, you will have spent 1/4 of your life there. By the time you are 40, 10 years is 1/4 of your life. By the time you are 80, 20 years is 1/4 of your life. The r
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by spc476 5y ago
If you read the early RFCs (say, RFC-1000 or earlier) you'll find that FTP was the go-to protocol of the day, much like HTTP has become today.
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by spc476 5y ago
Yes they are. I'm on the list of sites under ".com, .net, .info, .land and .org" (#22).
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by spc476 5y ago
I use 418 on my gopher server [1] to inform misinformed webbots that they're not talking to an actual webserver. It works remarkably well. [1] gopher.conman.org
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by spc476 5y ago
You should instead say "it blew my mind how booby trapped CPUs can be."
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by spc476 5y ago
And here I thought NaN was a definition from IEEE-754.
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by spc476 5y ago
it's just Google externalizing their training costs.
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by spc476 5y ago
Perhaps because of this Bill Gates quote? "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough
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by spc476 5y ago
In my case, it wasn't MDD. I was tasked by my manager to take a look into this whole SIP thing. So I started reading up on it and writing code in Lua (using LPEG) as an exploratory project [1]. Unbeknownst to me, my prototype was pu
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by spc476 5y ago
If you have an E2E testing platform, and a bug is found in production, can you reproduce the issue with the E2E testing platform? How easy is it?
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by spc476 5y ago
I'm someone who had to build some mocked services to do end-to-end testing (well, as much as we can). The stuff I work on involves making two DNS requests (to different providers) and a possible HTTP request (for notification) and the
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by spc476 5y ago
I'm no sure how things are now, but 15 years ago (back when I was doing network admin type stuff), most routers did destination routing in hardware, source routing hit the CPU and was thus, very slow. I think that was the primary reas
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by spc476 5y ago
I was counting on that when I added status 418 to my gopher server. It shut a particular web bot right up when I did that.
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by spc476 5y ago
I added the 418 response code to my gopher server [1]. There was one web bot that constantly hit it and was clueless that it wasn't a web server. It finally got a clue. [1] https://github.com/spc476/port70
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by spc476 5y ago
No one has asked before. Also, I only have an English version (the King James in particular). I don't see much of an issue with adding alternative book names (I also support two letter abbreviations) other than working on a twenty-plu
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by spc476 5y ago
Your method sounds similar to the system I used for < http://literature.conman.org/bible/ >. I also correct for spelling mistakes. Right now it only returns HTML, and only has the King James version of the Bible,
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by spc476 5y ago
I too went to FAU, but by the time I attended (late 80s/early 90s) they had an undergraduate program in Computer Science. It's odd to think of FAU as being "way west" as it's less than two miles from the ocean and
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by spc476 5y ago
I recall when IBM left Boca Raton, Florida (where the PC was invented) in the mid-90s. About a year after they left, a few friends and I roamed the abandoned IBM facility [1] and it was odd seeing empty computer rooms sans the raised floor
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by spc476 5y ago
C has the concept of bit fields, and this could be specified as: struct build_info_control { unsigned char : 1; unsigned char SendSeq : 3; unsigned char Poll : 1; unsigned char RecvSeq : 3; }
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by spc476 5y ago
POSIX is ask first (can I do I/O?) then do, while NT is do, then ask (is it done?).
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by spc476 5y ago
My dad would always tell me about his ideas for smart phone apps, if only I would build them (and in my mind---he'd get the money). I would always then search the app store for his "idea" and find N number of apps, already t

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