Also, a service port is always qualified by its protocol. There are separate port namespaces for each IP protocol that uses ports. "8483" is not a service port, until you spell it out:
Me too, but not for usenet. The server-to-server protocol is a low ceremony, high observability, standardised and battle-proven gossip-flood protocol with hierarchical channelisation and robust mature tooling, ideal for eventually-consistent distribution of telemetry and control messages over a node mesh of uncertain reliability up to global scale. What's not to like?
I'm sorry, it's only for people I know personally. Also, it only holds minor Usenet hierarchies like the vestigial dk.*.
It's not too difficult to set up INN2, and it's easy to get an external feed. It uses minimal resources, and there is hardly any maintanance once it has been installed and configured.
Does anything happen in the dk. hierarchy anymore. Last time I check, probably 10 years ago, it was either spam or one crazy person.
It's a bit of a shame, I really want something like dk.city.copenhagen and dk.city.copenhagen.noerrebro to replace Facebook groups. That's probably never going to happen, it's seems like a missed opportunity.
There's a small aside in one of the ongoing sagas with a casual but sophisticated recognition in passing, about the ultimate effect of mass propaganda:
>because of the false cause of the Bentites and the Persians, the peoples of the cities turned against one another, and with swords sharper than those of their enemies, they perished.
>Ponus the tyrant, the enemy of righteousness, with his arrogance that exceeded all bounds, destroyed and annihilated many every day.
In the same breath, associated it with deep character defects to the extreme, such as lack of empathy that is off the charts.
This is nothing new, lots of people have been instantly recognizing this stuff no differently for millennia.
The ongoing problem is, lots of other people fall for certain propaganda at certain times, hook, line, and sinker.
And when it's coming from a character having extreme lack of empathy or even downright hate, the people who are drawn to congregating around that lightning-rod are the more hateful, as well as more easily manipulated, or they wouldn't be there.
It's got to be the worst when it's somebody well-known enough to write about historically, and all future generations are supposed to learn from.
Edit; Found the alternate translation to the above passage:
>Because of the absurd reasons of the Veneti and the Prasini, the peoples of the towns fought each other and were destroying themselves with swords sharper than the swords of the enemies.
>Bonosus, the tyrant and the enemy of good, with a haughtiness exceeding all, was killing and destroying many every day.
When we realised that in order to live in a society we’d need things like laws, democracy, courts, human rights, and so on. We, as a species, are still working on that and civilisation seems both imperfect and poorly distributed.
no "we" is not accurate.. males of certain tribes were slaughtered at various times very thoroughly. The admixture result is politically toxic to discuss, so it is not discussed.
* https://tlon.io/
The two may have vastly different implementations, though.
reply