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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/21
Earlier this year, someone mentioned Mastofeed. Then I found there are two kinds of Mastofeeds. Both have their own domain and their own repository. Both are free, so I wonder what their business models are as something or somebody needs to be the product. Both have to do with feeds and the ActivityPub protocol of the Fediverse (which mainly consists of Mastodon servers, but other types of servers are still growing). Both can be self-hosted. Both their directions and audience differs.
In short:
- mastofeed.org (mentioned to me first) is uses RSS as feed and posts entries to the Fediverse
- mastofeed.com (found later) uses Fediverse as feed and exposes entries as an HTML iframe using an HTTP API
Some more links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/23
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).
I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13
[Wayback/Archive] Beeper — All your chats in one app
Via a friend that mentioned Beeper to me.
On the list to try out somewhere during the year.
It is open source; some more links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/11
Some of the people I know are not on any of Signal, WhatsApp, Google Chat, or other usual direct message platforms.
This left Discord, which I use more (at least weekly) than Facebook Messenger (once a month or so).
Sharing a user-link there proved to be quite a bit more difficult than I anticipated: it even involves enabling developer mode!
The steps are at [WaybackSave/Archive] How To Share Discord Profile Link [Copy & Share]
Found via query: [WaybackSave/Archive] share direct link to discord account – Google Suche
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/24
Edit 20260218: added archived links to the July 1988 “USERS’ DIRECTORY OF COMPUTER NETWORKS” and the direct link to the Kremvax article from Piet Beertema himself (in addition to the April Fools on the Net posts that were already there) .
Triggered by [Wayback/Archive] Hillel on Twitter: “Gen-Z programmers are always chasing the new shiny thing like Tailwind and Svelte instead of learning CS fundamentals, like React”, below some links on HEARN, EARN and BITNET Relay: conference system before IRC.
I might amend it later with more information, but for now the list is so that I do not have to re-do the search queries.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/09
Besides the Delphi Praxis servers (the [Wayback/Archive] German one has existed for what seems eternity, the [Wayback/Archive] English one took over the Google Plus Delphi group – see Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019; DelphiPraxis might start English forums and have RSS – and de-facto the dead Embarcadero forums as the old newsgroup servers went dead, and the new ones weren’t known for their high up-time [Wayback/Archive] community.embarcadero.com’s forums – General Help – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]), nowadays – with the shortened attention span of many people – Discord has a few Delphi servers as well:
They are chat based, and suffer from messages and threads disappearing, just like the Delphi newsgroups and forums suffered from, and archiving content can be difficult or impossible (not just because of the Wayback Machine being down).
Queries:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/11
About 2 years after Google switched every Google Hangouts user over to Google Chat, I still wonder about [Wayback/Archive] Will the new Google Chat PWA for Chrome ever have system tray support? : gsuite:
Chrome _right now_ can be sustained as a background process with the Chrome-ball in the system tray. This is the vehicle with which Hangouts remains open at all time, so why not Chat, too?
I’m left with no option but to have Chat running on a mobile device so I have always on access. Perhaps this is the angle. I nunno.
Your support page link I’ve seen already and it doesn’t answer the Why question.
It is absolutely a bizzarotown implementation.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/15
I forgot where I originally downloaded bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx from, but for posterity, here it is:
[Wayback] bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx
Related blog posts:
–jeroen
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