Dang, all my Raspberry Pis are engaged in doing something, so I don't have a spare one to run my telnet BBS when my old hobby server VM gets shutdown. Such problems I have
@craigmaloney Well, that's the thing, I'm trying to cut back on cloud VMs for my hobby crap :)
I *am* half tempted to install this Synchronet BBS thing on my mini-MAME arcade cab thing, just because it would be kind of cool for it to answer "calls" while running the Darkstalkers attract mode in the corner of my office
cubic on main
"Firebirds! Energy weapons! Both these things are interesting to me. I don't care how you get them. I need them both and I need them urgently."
@ramsey Oh, no, nothing that interesting. This is BBS software from the 90s that got open sourced (Synchronet) and now runs on Linux. Can accept ssh, rlogin, and telnet connections. https://bbs.decafbad.com
@ramsey I *am* tempted to set up one of my 8-bit computers with a wifi modem and run a BBS on one of those someday too, though
@nolan Yeah, it's a hard thing: Mozilla exists to have a say in keeping the web open and advocating for the user, etc. Firefox is the way Mozilla has a say.
Maybe a switch to Chromium is the doomsday scenario where at least Mozilla still has *some* say.
Then again, there are a lot of folks who look at Gecko as kind of like an Arctic Seed Vault for web tech. It has to survive for the day when a Google or Apple gets bored with the web.
@nolan Yeah, it like, what's the business case for a shared global seed vault? Very hard to make sense in a spreadsheet. But there are people who maintain it because they believe it's necessary, even if it costs more from quarter-to-quarter than it might make. Someday it will be priceless.
(now whether we're succeeding at that is another story entirely)
@bobstechsite @nolan And I mean, a weird thing is that as Google's Chrome rose, some (lots of?) folks at Mozilla actually cheered. Because 1) some ex-Firefox friends were working on it and 2) we really actually want a capable, open, living web and 3) Chrome turned out to be a good browser!
@bobstechsite @nolan Of course, since then, we've flirted with some edgy marketing to jab at them over privacy and such. And there were also folks at Mozilla who bristled at those tactics. It's a weird coop-etition thing
Stealthily snuck in my first stream of the year, also first since November https://www.twitch.tv/videos/371892644