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John Goerzen
Personal blog · complete.orgsystemsprogramming
John Goerzen's personal blog at complete.org covers systems and programming. Since 2014, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “NNCP”. It has a working feed you can follow.
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Most-linked posts?
- NNCP7 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2022-03-27
- Old and Small Technology4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-23
- Filespooler – distributed asynchronous remote execution2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-30
- The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-06
What Hacker News says?
Hah no, but maybe I should. The reason I haven't is that most of my work is just glue code. I use yt-dlp to do Youtube downloads, make use of the Discord, Slack and Telegram APIs to access those services. I run NNCP and the bots in systemd units, though at this point I should probably bake all of these into a VM and just bring it up on whichever cloud instance I want to act as ingress. Cloud IPs stay static as long…
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on “Engineering for Slow Internet”Submitted NNCP as a story · 30 points
HN discussionYes I believe one way to see what is happening is in fact our own mistake. We thought we could prevent those law of being signed but it was very naive. The only way you fight this is by moving forward and faster than them. Because their eternal weakness is that they are slow and somehow stupid. But tech oriented people got pretty lazy in the last 2 decades: - We let ISPs be the only gatekeeper of the Internet - We l…
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on “EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance”Submitted Old and Small Technology as a story · 29 points
HN discussionnncp [1, 2] is probably the best Sneakernet tool I've found. It's very UNIX-y which makes it pretty hard to operate if you're not technical but would also make it pretty easy to wrap around with a UI. You have to explicitly add a list of "neighbors" to your configuration and you can send "packets" either by spooling to file or using a TCP/Noise connection. You can also send data hop-by-hop and is e2e encrypted. [1]:…
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on “Start your own Internet Resiliency Club”Submitted Filespooler – distributed asynchronous remote execution as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYeah agreed but I am just a bit skeptical about the one server as the single point of failure. Building on your idea, wouldn't using 'talk' over a private yggdrasil mesh (so not connected to public peers) [0] or tinc be an elegant solution ? What I am not sure is I believe you still need to have at least 1 peer with a fixed IP address (so not a mobile phone) for a yggdrasil to work. - [0] https://www.complete.org/ea…
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on “The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025”Submitted Easily Using SSH with FIDO2/U2F Hardware Security Keys as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf you want a "modern" take on UUCP, there's NNCP [1] which encrypts packets and offers a TCP transfer mode out of the box. It also has the concept of multicast arenas to send packets to multiple hosts at a time. There's no real concept of paths, but you can write one atop NNCP if you'd like. [1a]: https://www.complete.org/nncp/ a site with info about NNCP [1b]: http://www.nncpgo.org/ the official site. There's also…
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on “Raw Text Club”Submitted Usenet over NNCP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you want a "modern" take on UUCP, there's NNCP [1] which encrypts packets and offers a TCP transfer mode out of the box. [1a]: https://www.complete.org/nncp/ a site with info about NNCP [1b]: http://www.nncpgo.org/ the official site. There's also a Matrix room and an IRC channel for questions and general community if you're interested.
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on “Raw Text Club”Submitted The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's a more complete version of this with nncp: https://www.complete.org/nncp/
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on “Show HN: Tunnelling TCP through a file”Submitted The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe original hackers are the ones from the Lisp Machines and ITS/WAIS under the PDP10. The rest of these are just PC wannabes. Actual hacker knownledge: http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html Under PC's, today, great hackers should be the guy behing https://t3x.org , the one behind EForth running under Subleq, reverse engineers, people reusing DNS' connections for tunnels such as the folks from Iodine,…
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on “The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)”Submitted Filespooler – distributed asynchronous remote execution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA yggdrasil private mesh [0] might be worth evaluating too. - [0] https://www.complete.org/using-yggdrasil-as-an-automatic-mes...
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on “Testing “Exotic” P2P VPN”Submitted NNCP Concepts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTake a look at NNCP[0]. Haven't tried it yet but read several articles about it and I am looking forward to finding time to use it seriously. [0] https://www.complete.org/nncp/
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on “Restic 0.13.0”Submitted Old and Small Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom the same author, "NNCP is to UUCP what ssh is to telnet; NNCP is an Encrypted, authenticated, onion-routed version of UUCP!" => https://www.complete.org/nncp/
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on “Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet”Submitted The Grumpy Cricket (and Other Enormous Creatures) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is a new blogpost from the author that explains the problems: http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9241-update-on-the-sy... TL;DR: systemd breaks badly (at the moment) when having to deal with non-standard setups (ZFS, cryptsetup)... As for the eternal systemd debate... if someone as knowledgeable as the author (his publications: http://www.complete.org/Publications ) can't debug it... we'll have fun times a…
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on “First Impressions of Systemd, and They Are Not Good”Submitted Kermit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou probably want to combine that with filespooler < https://www.complete.org/introduction-to-filespooler/ >, a tool to write packets to be handled sequentially. It will convert everything into files that can then be transported however you want, by mail, by syncthing, by nncp, ...
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on “Nncp: Ad-hoc friend-to-friend delay-tolerant sneakernet-compatible darknet”Submitted Roundup of Data Backup and Archiving Tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI mean, I think understand what you mean, but that feels somewhat uncharitable. That is a kind of catch-all site and not the blog proper, which was linked in OP. From https://www.complete.org/how-this-site-is-built/ : > Each page on this site starts as an org-roam note. org-roam helps highlight, make, and maintain links between related concepts, and you will no doubt notice many, many links here. Since org-roam is a…
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on “The NNCPNET Email Network”Submitted Old and Small Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat website is like Terry Davis brains rsynced backup. So many rabbitholes leading nowhere, just try this page - https://www.complete.org/encrypted/ What exactly it says ? Encryption is good, and lists other services which provide encryption. Ok so click on NNCP, on newly opened page, click encrypted. on newly opened page click NNCP. Continue. Yes thank you. Also i thought CURRENT usenet is just scam.
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on “The NNCPNET Email Network”Submitted Old and Small Technology as a story · 1 points
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