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mwest
·6개월 전·discuss
That doesn't work either? Looks like the .com and .net domains are sadly just up for sale rather than being used for something fun.
mwest
·6개월 전·discuss
Very cool, some nice nostalgia looking through that list!

Missed a trick not being able to “telnet telnet.org” though. :-)
mwest
·3년 전·discuss
The word "adaptation" has a few specific meanings in the field of biology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation
mwest
·3년 전·discuss
Insomnia Festival is the largest of these in the UK I believe. In fact, i71 is going on right now. :-)

https://www.insomniagamingfestival.com/lan

Still manages to capture some of that "old school" LAN feel if you bring your own PC.
mwest
·3년 전·discuss
The only one I've seen that comes close is https://keys.pub/ but it still misses a lot of what keybase gives (sigchains, etc.)

Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792

Are there any others to consider? It's been quite sad to see Keybase so stifled after being acquired. :-(
mwest
·4년 전·discuss
Wow, I love the "daily tabs" concept. I'll install this and give it a go. Thanks!

"The use-case of tabs are websites that you know are going to change: subreddits, games, or tools that you want to use for a few minutes daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly."
mwest
·4년 전·discuss
If you're interested in this kind of thing, you may also want to check out:

- the Distributed YouTube Archive Discord: https://discord.com/invite/PQqks7eSKc

- ArchiveTeam also do a significant amount of YT archiving: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube

- a similar, but private effort: https://reddit.com/r/Archivists/comments/5uvfpw/youtube_arch...
mwest
·4년 전·discuss
Some great nostalgia reading this. If you want more, check out Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU&list=PL7nj3G6Jpv...
mwest
·4년 전·discuss
In theory you can use OTR[1] but I've yet to see an easy way to use this from a phone.

I remember IRC very fondly, but I feel it has a lot of baggage that makes it difficult to bring into the modern era.

This blog post (not mine) explains it quite well: https://jlu5.com/blog/im-tired-of-irc-heres-why

[1] https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
mwest
·4년 전·discuss
Comes up with a privacy error atm. Guess their server got bit hard by HN?

Cached copy here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220915015328/https://pestnet.i...

Reminds me a bit of SILC: http://www.silcnet.org/

Still going to struggle with UX on a phone though...