Paradoxically, your yells in Facebook might be less inpactful to each of those 6 million than to each of the 6 BBS users. It is a supply and demand thing. When you post something in a venue with 6 million posters, your post becomes backround noise nobody notices. With only 6 posters, your post is a big percentage of the global traffic of the platform.
I have the suspicion that California is to America what Andaluca is to Spain.
If Andaluca split off from the rest of Spain there is a whole lot of people who would not care the least XD
It pisses me off no end when I am at, say, a My Little Pony themed IRC channel and somebody shows up and tries to convince everybody to move over to their new Discord server (which is not their server, btw). It is like religious zealots moving from door to door and trying to get you to join
if you want i can make you a znc account.
irc bouncers are usually feature rich and do more than one thing.
I am disgusted by the modern WWW. The one served over http(s). It is all avertisements and trackers and cookie warnings all around. Then you want to visit some blog and it downloads 25 megabytes of javascript libraries to draw a fancy background.
I have the suspicion that California is to America what Andaluca is to Spain.
If Andaluca split off from the rest of Spain there is a whole lot of people who would not care the least XD
I have the suspicion that California is to America what Andaluc¡a is to Spain.
If Andaluc¡a split off from the rest of Spain there is a whole lot of people who would not care the least XD
I am disgusted by the modern WWW. The one served over http(s). It is all
I'm tempted to start an HTTP-only movement; all information is creative-commons licensed, so there's no reason for encryption.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Boraxman <=-
@MSGID: <628E2F10.51476.dove.dove-gen@realitycheckbbs.org>
@REPLY: <628C3308.56291.dove-gen@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
Boraxman wrote to Andre <=-
You can use a simply Discord client, but then people will expect you to see the animated GIFs, images, video chat.
Sort of like those Fidonet to Signal gates. Meme posts in Signal end
up as a URL to an image, which doesn't carry well to a BBS terminal
session.
"All on one" solutions generally suffer from this problem. There is
merit to the "do one thing, and do it well" philosophy.
Agreed. The only effective "swiss army knife" that I've experienced
was Netscape Communicator, which, back in 2000, was an effective web
browser, mail, IRC and news client.
I like to run a lean environment on the BBS, and loaded Mozilla
Seamonkey on it; Seamonkey is a continuation of Communicator, and
it's still a decent multi-tool - and it saves me from running a
separate email client and IRC client on the BBS box.
Oh, there is one "all on one" which works, and that is Emacs. Technically its just a LISP Machine which defaults to a text editor, but its flexible enough to not constrain you at all.
Look windows now. Windows 11 requires you to have TPM 2.0. It's known that it could also be done software side. But hey! We need to sell new machines.
Totally. There still isn't a compelling reason to upgrade to Windows 11. It is far less performant than Windows 10 for gaming and even business computing; you won't see massive adoption by "enthusiasts" until a lot of the advanced multimedia libraries, like DirectX, become Windows 11 exclusives.
Where do you see that Windows 11 is far less performant than Windows 10? I've upgraded to Windows 11, and I enjoy playing PC games and haven't seen any reduction in performance. One of the games I sometimes play recently is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and it runs just fine in Windows 11. I haven't seen any reduction in performance with it.
BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of
It felt like you were part of a secret society that few people you encountered even knew about. You'd meet someone and mention something about connect tones or downloading, and if you saw a glint in their
eyes knew that they knew.
BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
You copied a paragraph I wrote to someone else and pasted it verbatim in your reply to boraxman.. ?
Re: Re: Hello
By: the doctor to MRO on Tue May 24 2022 11:15 am
I'm sure I'm going to regret this. Why should you not trust Jewish
tech people?
It's not much better the the dipshit comment he was responding to.
Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I'm tempted to start an HTTP-only movement; all information is creative-commons licensed, so there's no reason for encryption.
eh.. I'd rather still be able to have my login & other information encrypted when using my bank accounts on their web site.
I'm tempted to start an HTTP-only movement; all information is
creative-commons licensed, so there's no reason for encryption.
eh.. I'd rather still be able to have my login & other information
encrypted when using my bank accounts on their web site.
100%, but my Firefly fan appreciation site doesn't need encryption...
100%, but my Firefly fan appreciation site doesn't need encryption...
Where do you see that Windows 11 is far less performant than Windows 10? I've upgraded to Windows 11, and I enjoy playing PC games and haven't seen any reduction in performance. One of the games I sometimes play recently is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and it runs just fine in Windows 11. I haven't seen any reduction in performance with it.
Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I'm tempted to start an HTTP-only movement; all information is creative-commons licensed, so there's no reason for encryption.
eh.. I'd rather still be able to have my login & other information encrypted when using my bank accounts on their web site.
100%, but my Firefly fan appreciation site doesn't need encryption...
100%, but my Firefly fan appreciation site doesn't need encryption...
Web sites can use either HTTP or HTTPS. They aren't forced to use HTTPS, so I'm not sure I see the problem.
Nightfox
So yeah the near future will come with TLS enforced. Which kind of sucks because it will give so much power to certificate authorities to decide which websites are acceptable and which websites won't be accessible without the user having to wade through dire brower warnings.
Re: Re: Hello
By: Arelor to Nightfox on Sat May 28 2022 09:13 pm
So yeah the near future will come with TLS enforced. Which kind of sucks because it will give so much power to certificate authorities to decide which websites are acceptable and which websites won't be accessible with the user having to wade through dire brower warnings.
you could always have a self signed cert, a free cert or use cloudflare like me.
Self-signed certs are fine for sites your three buddies and you use. For widespread use they don't really cut it.
Free certs still require the certificate authority to be on board. Nowadays I don't put it bellow the woke brigade to pest certificate authorities to revoke the certificates of websites they want to cancel. Free certificate authorities are not free from this. There is a number of reasons why pestering certificate authorities is less effective than trying to cajole ISPs but still I think it is dangerous to require people to get the aproval of a CA in order to have a website.
Cloudflare, see above. Besides, I don't like the fact CLoudflare gets to see, analyze and correlate so much Internet traffic. They are a Google-grade threat for privacy.
Cloudflare, see above. Besides, I don't like the fact CLoudflare gets to see, analyze and correlate so much Internet traffic. They are a Google-grade threat for privacy.
Web sites can use either HTTP or HTTPS. They aren't forced to use HTTPS, so I
not sure I see the problem.
Re: Re: Hello
By: Arelor to MRO on Sun May 29 2022 09:53 am
well the way i see it is our privacey is gone. we gave it up many years ago willingly. and once it's gone you will not get it back.
it's really evident with these phones we are all addicted to. this thing is spying on me all day and night and listening to me. it's showing me stuff
in search results and ads when i am having private conversations with people face to face.
Some of them force HTTPS when they don't need to.
it's really evident with these phones we are all addicted to. this thing is spying on me all day and night and listening to me. it's showing me stuff in search results and ads when i am having private conversations with people face to face.
Some of them force HTTPS when they don't need to.
Search engines penalize websites nowdays that aren't using SSL, so plenty of tes "need to".
There is definitely an addiction to cell phones. The hard part is quitting too. I tried and failed. Lets face it, cell phones are just handy. I tried to switch to the PinePhone but that was just an awful experience. Nothing works, and at this poiunt, I doubt it ever will. I then moved to a flip phone and realized how much I miss even some of the basic cell phone features -- like a map.
There is definitely an addiction to cell phones. The hard part is quitting too. I tried and failed. Lets face it, cell phones are just handy. I tried to switch to the PinePhone but that was just an awful experience. Nothing works, and at this poiunt, I doubt it ever will. I then moved to a flip phone and realized how much I miss even some of the basic cell phone features -- like a map.
The Dawn of Demise BBS (tdod.org)
A flip phone IS a basic cell phone. :P Or rather, a map isn't a basic cell phone feature. I think you mean basic smartphone features.
I'm fed up with crappy phones, so I'm making my own "communicator" device wh can take any sort of cellular, WiFi, Lora, packet, etc. as comms. Here's a link (sorry it's on the web, my BBS isn't ready to directly link images yet)
I present, the Hackberry: https://imgur.com/a/rqIhdx2
I'm fed up with crappy phones, so I'm making my own "communicator" device wh
Now that looks impressive. I'm also fed up with these cellphones. If payphones were still around I would rather use one for the rare time that I have to make a call while I'm out. Seems as though the cell companies are purposely killing off the GSM networks so that they can force eveyone to be constantly tracked.
This looks like an interesting alternative.
Dumas Walker wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-I
Web sites can use either HTTP or HTTPS. They aren't forced to use HTTPS, so
not sure I see the problem.
Some of them force HTTPS when they don't need to.
Nightfox wrote to Minex <=-
A flip phone IS a basic cell phone. :P Or rather, a map isn't a basic cell phone feature. I think you mean basic smartphone features.
Multiplemiggs wrote to vxzero <=-
Now that looks impressive. I'm also fed up with these cellphones. If payphones were still around I would rather use one for the rare time
that I have to make a call while I'm out. Seems as though the cell companies are purposely killing off the GSM networks so that they can force eveyone to be constantly tracked.
Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Minex on Tue May 31 2022 05:31 pm
A flip phone IS a basic cell phone. :P Or rather, a map isn't a basic c phone feature. I think you mean basic smartphone features.
basic cellphones are now smart phones.
a flip phone is an antiquated cell phone
Re: Re: Hello
By: Multiplemiggs to vxzero on Tue May 31 2022 09:57 pm
Now that looks impressive. I'm also fed up with these cellphones. If payphones were still around I would rather use one for the rare time that have to make a call while I'm out. Seems as though the cell companies ar purposely killing off the GSM networks so that they can force eveyone to constantly tracked.
This looks like an interesting alternative.
i just want a cellphone that txts and makes calls and runs linux.
I'm not sure if we have anything decent right now for doing that yet.
There are flip phone apps. they're not as polished as smart phone apps. Browsing on a flip phone sucks. I tried to see as far as I can go before moving to a smart phone. My previous employer issued me an Iphone for work, h owever I kept all my private stuff on an old LG phone until 3G was finally dropped in my area.
i just want a cellphone that txts and makes calls and runs linux.
I'm not sure if we have anything decent right now for doing that yet.
Tracfone still offers basic flip phones that text and take pictures.
Force the origin sites to use HTTPS? I thought they'd do an HTTPS to HTTP translation on their end if configured to do so. While this does break the intention of end-to-end encryption, it does provide a level of convenience for someone who doesn't want to deal with certificates but still mostly encrypt the transaction.
That's a bandaid until I learn how to do wildcard cert validation through DNS; I haven't gotten around to that yet.
That's a bandaid until I learn how to do wildcard cert validation throu DNS; I haven't gotten around to that yet.
DNS doesn't have anything to do with certs. Wildcard certs are just a cert t
It does when you're validating with Let's Encrypt.
Andre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
DNS doesn't have anything to do with certs. Wildcard certs are just a
cert that is valid for any subdomain on the certs your domain. It's handled by the web server (or whatever is accepting the web
connection).
Andre wrote to Belly <=-
It does when you're validating with Let's Encrypt.
Doing all that convoluted nonsense with a proxy server just to avoid learning how to add a single TXT record. :-/
The proxying is helpful when you have one IP address, like I do, with a homelab behind it that you'd like to have exposed to the internet - and I'm working with NGINX and proxying at work, so it was a nice transition.
NGINX Proxy Manager is a nice graphical tool for administering a reverse proxy - and with a single LE cert with multiple hostnames attached, it could encrypt all the traffic coming in, then pass off to an internal host on HTTP or an unsigned cert you don't want to expose to the outside world.
Re: Re: Hello
By: Moondog to MRO on Thu Jun 02 2022 01:38 am
i just want a cellphone that txts and makes calls and runs linux.
I'm not sure if we have anything decent right now for doing that yet.
Tracfone still offers basic flip phones that text and take pictures.
i'd rather have a smart phone.
i'd rather have a smart phone.
My father is a Luddite and is 80 years old. It was a pain to get him to carry a flip phone, and now it's like pulling teeth to get him to use his smart phone. He has committred to learn the phone, but if I knew it would've been this much hassle, I would've kept him using an LTE capable flip phone.
The early 2000's was indeed good for communcations. We had IRC, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo messenger, good forums and blog, websites. It's wierd, back them I could have people message me on my PC and start a conversation. That doesn't happen now! People use Facebook for that, sort of, but it sucks to have to log into Facebook and have that account to do that.
Sure, we have Matrix, but back in the MSN Messenger days, everyone was using that or Yahoo. Now its disparate programs for Mobile, like WhatsApp, and they're problematic to say the least.
I miss having a rather lightweight chat client running in the background.
Of course, I have it disabled and reverted to Windows 10 in order
to keep using mostly Linux. Windows is for some work projects
where absolutely needed at this point.
Yes, windows is hard to avoid, That's why I still have an Intel mac
so I can run windows with parallels.
Personal and Work laptops are both M1 Macs (air and maxetc) has be "fun".
respectively). Of course early adopter at work for M1 has made
building some projects (requiring updates to code, libraries,
Oddly I'm still waiting. I got bit a few times being an early
adopter and getting Gen 1 stuff, this time I'll wait to see an
eventual M2. I'll see what they'll show at WWDC this June to make
up my mind.
My general rule is, don't trust Big Tech, don't trust Californians or
Americans, and especially don't trust people who have "values".
Californians are Americans.. ;)
So yeah the near future will come with TLS enforced. Which kind of
sucks because it will give so much power to certificate authorities
to decide which websites are acceptable and which websites won't be accessible without the user having to wade through dire brower
warnings.
Free certs still require the certificate authority to be on board. Nowadays I don't put it bellow the woke brigade to pest certificate authorities to revoke
the certificates of websites they want to cancel. Free certificate authorities
are not free from this. There is a number of reasons why pestering certificate
authorities is less effective than trying to cajole ISPs but still I think it is dangerous to require people to get the aproval of a CA in order to have a website.
Cloudflare, see above. Besides, I don't like the fact CLoudflare gets to see, analyze and correlate so much Internet traffic. They are a Google-grade threat
for privacy.
Browsers are generally the single biggest vector for attack of a given computer. Over HTTP (Non-S) anyone with control over any routingWeb sites can use either HTTP or HTTPS. They aren't forced to use HTTPS, so I
not sure I see the problem.
Some of them force HTTPS when they don't need to.
The proxying is helpful when you have one IP address, like I do, with a homelab behind it that you'd like to have exposed to the internet - and I'm working with NGINX and proxying at work, so it was a nice transition.
NGINX Proxy Manager is a nice graphical tool for administering a reverse proxy - and with a single LE cert with multiple hostnames attached, it could encrypt all the traffic coming in, then pass off to an internal host on HTTP or an unsigned cert you don't want to expose to the outside world.
i just want a cellphone that txts and makes calls and runs linux.
I'm not sure if we have anything decent right now for doing that yet.
Tracfone still offers basic flip phones that text and take pictures.
Re: Re: Hello
By: Moondog to MRO on Thu Jun 02 2022 01:38 am
i just want a cellphone that txts and makes calls and runs linux.
I'm not sure if we have anything decent right now for doing that yet.
Tracfone still offers basic flip phones that text and take pictures.
Actually too bad it takes photos... would have been nice for high security facilties that don't care that you have a comm device, but don't want you haveing a camera.
Tracfone still offers basic flip phones that text and take pictures.
Re: Re: Hello
By: Moondog to MRO on Thu Jun 02 2022 01:38 am
i just want a cellphone that txts and makes calls and runs linux.
I'm not sure if we have anything decent right now for doing that yet.
Tracfone still offers basic flip phones that text and take pictures.
Actually too bad it takes photos... would have been nice for high security f
Moondog wrote to nostalia <=-
Regarding flip phones, I know companies such as Nokia made retro
re-issues of older phones with newer technology.
They're not the ones that care about tracking us, they care about making t most money with the least spend. We were already tracked well enough on 2g/3g anyways. :)
By retiring the older networks they get to re-use tower space, saving cost They get to force people to buy new phones, increasing revenue. They have more opportunity to charge outrageous overage charges with little or no warning, which increases their revenues.
And, they all know they need to be competitive.
That being said, I wonder what sort of market would be available to T-mobi or another provider if they committed to keeping their legacy networks around? Would there be enough people with flip phones and 3G iphones to ma it a selling point?
Re: Re: Forced Upgrade
By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Thu May 12 2022 08:24 am
Re: Re: Forced Upgrade
By: Boraxman to Dr. What on Thu May 12 2022 08:55 pm
Windows 98 did it for me. It wasn't that bad, but I hated reinstalling because the OS was broken again.
Seeing MS remove DOS mode, moving towards a more 'closed' system, dumbed down, I decided it wasn't a future I wanted to be a part of, so I jumped ship.
Windows 98 still had DOS mode..?
i think you could reboot to dos.Actually yeah! Last one to ship whas Me, but it was hidden. In 98se you still could press F8 at boot to acces DOS mode and skip autoexec.bat, or you could just "Reboot into DOS". Its boot floppies where also very useful, because it was DOS with CDROM drivers included.
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þ Synchronet þ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
Hello, I am new. I set up a small BBS on my old RPi as a small project. I actually haven't used BBSes so much before, so I'm a bit unfamiliar with the culture.
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þ Synchronet þ My Brand-New BBS
The culture is .... varied.
First, there's a bunch of grumpy, angry old men that scream "GET OFF MY LAWN"! Of course, first they need to document the process of screaming, how the scream should be done, who should be able to hear it, etc. They are all part of FidoNet. You can ignore them for the most part.
Hello, I am new. I set up a small BBS on my old RPi as a small project. I actually haven't used BBSes so much before, so I'm a bit unfamiliar with the culture.
Second, like most places on the internet, there's a few trolls. Some are
Hello, I am new. I set up a small BBS on my old RPi as a small project. I actually haven't used BBSes so much before, so I'm a bit unfamiliar with the culture.
Second, like most places on the internet, there's a few trolls. Some are
That reminds me, what ever happend to The Millionaire? I enjoyed seeing his... special way of ticking people off.
Hello, I am new. I set up a small BBS on my old RPi as a small project. I actually haven't used BBSes so much before, so I'm a bit unfamiliar with the culture.
I don't know if he was trying to tick people off.
I've wondered if he may have passed away. A while ago, I saw a couple posts from him on FSX-Net that he was having some health issues.
That reminds me, what ever happend to The Millionaire? I enjoyed seeing his... special way of ticking people off.
I don't know if he was trying to tick people off.
I've wondered if he may have passed away. A while ago, I saw a couple posts from him on FSX-Net that he was having some health issues.
DaiTengu wrote to Kyonshi <=-
they say. Third, there's a bunch of really great helpful people of
varying ages that love it when new people show up! They're happy to answer questions, even if they've been asked 100 times before.
(Oftentimes questions often have answers in documentation, so look
there first!) Most have been part of this world for decades, and have
lots of knowlege to share.
Margaerynne wrote to Kyonshi <=-
lots of people with experience in the weirdest fields, and all the
perks of any gathering of people that spend their time on niche boards.
I don't know if he was trying to tick people off.
I've wondered if he may have passed away. A while ago, I saw a couple posts from him on FSX-Net that he was having some health issues.
Yeah, certainly didn't seem intentional -- it was just oddly amusing how it happened. Rather liked the guy.
Him passing is, of course, what I wonder about. Certainly would hope nothing has happened but sadly you never know... :(
you might need to have your head examined.
i killed him.
Wait, which group are you? :)
That reminds me, what ever happend to The Millionaire? I enjoyed seeing his... special way of ticking people off.
I don't know if he was trying to tick people off.
I've wondered if he may have passed away. A while ago, I saw a couple posts f
m him on FSX-Net that he was having some health issues.
Dumas Walker wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-f
That reminds me, what ever happend to The Millionaire? I enjoyed seeing his... special way of ticking people off.
I don't know if he was trying to tick people off.
I've wondered if he may have passed away. A while ago, I saw a couple posts
m him on FSX-Net that he was having some health issues.
I think someone had is supposedly real name and tried to find out
if anything happened to him, without success. I got the
impression that he was very mobility restricted. :(
He also ran into some issues when his favorite system to call switched from Synchronet to something else. That was his reason given for ceasing to moderate the MOBILE echo.
I think someone had is supposedly real name and tried to find out if anything happened to him, without success. I got the impression that he
was very mobility restricted. :(
I do think he has passed away, as he often talked about his health
problems (not specifics, but just that he had issues), and I believe he
was last known to be living in a nursing home. Somewhere in Canada as I recall.
That reminds me, what ever happend to The Millionaire? I enjoyed seeing his... special way of ticking people off.
That reminds me, what ever happend to The Millionaire? I enjoyed seeing his... special way of ticking people off.
I suspect that he (Erich Bublitz of Surrey, B.C.) may no longer with be us. He was having failing health and we have heard from him since June of 2022, so ... RIP TM?
I suspect that he (Erich Bublitz of Surrey, B.C.) may no longer with be us. He was having failing health and we have heard from him since June of 2022, so ... RIP TM?
The other day I took a shot with trying to get in contact with a former co sysop of his to see what info they may be able to share, but I've not pushed further. Just waiting for a possible reply that may never come.
Don't know why this kind of bothers me a bit, but it does. Guess it's just in my nature. :\
I suspect that he (Erich Bublitz of Surrey, B.C.) may no longer with be us. He was having failing health and we have heard from him since June of 2022, so ... RIP TM?
Wait, was he for real or an actual troll? Because if the latter, genius
Sad if it's RIP either way...
I suspect that he (Erich Bublitz of Surrey, B.C.) may no longer with be us.
He was having failing health and we have heard from him since June of 2022,
so ... RIP TM?
It's sadly the most reasonable conclusion.
The other day I took a shot with trying to get in contact with a former co sysop of his to see what info they may be able to share, but I've not pushed further. Just waiting for a possible reply that may never come.
Don't know why this kind of bothers me a bit, but it does. Guess it's just in my nature. :\
People have done stuff like that before.
remember we have a guy who claims to be god who pops in and out. he's god yet
e can't pay his electricity bill.
Dumas Walker wrote to MRO <=-yet
People have done stuff like that before.
remember we have a guy who claims to be god who pops in and out. he's god
he can't pay his electricity bill.
Why would he need a bill? He should be able to make his own
electricity, right?
I suspect that he (Erich Bublitz of Surrey, B.C.) may no longer with be us. He was having failing health and we have heard from him since June of 2022, so ... RIP TM?
Wait, was he for real or an actual troll? Because if the latter, genius
Honestly it bugs me a bit too. TM seemed to like conversing with people on BBSes (when people were being friendly), and he often talked about running a BBS. I don't think he was running one of his own though, as he only mentioned having an iPad. He had talked about possibly getting a Microsoft Surface tablet to run a BBS on, but I don't think he ever did. Also, he said he was living in a (elderly?) care facility, and I wondered if it would be difficult to run a BBS in a place like that, as you probably wouldn't be able to get ports forwarded to your computer. I think at one point he had mentioned possibly running a BBS in the cloud somewhere so that it would be accessible online.
People have done stuff like that before.
remember we have a guy who claims to be god who pops in and out. he's god yet
e can't pay his electricity bill.
Why would he need a bill? He should be able to make his own electricity, right?
June of 2022, so ... RIP TM?
Wait, was he for real or an actual troll? Because if the latter, genius
Oh, he is/was for real all right.
I think he could have got a bbs to run through marisag but I'm not sure if he followed through or even tried.
Like I said, there's no death notice and that's extremely rare.
I suspect that he (Erich Bublitz of Surrey, B.C.) may no
longer with be us.
Wait, was he for real or an actual troll? Because if the latter, genius
Oh, he is/was for real all right.
Hello DM!
** On Tuesday 09.01.24 - 01:26, Digital Man wrote to j0HNNY a1PHA:
I suspect that he (Erich Bublitz of Surrey, B.C.) may no
longer with be us.
Wait, was he for real or an actual troll? Because if the latter, genius
Oh, he is/was for real all right.
The last message I still have in my system from him is Jun 4
2022.
Oh, he is/was for real all right.
well that's the part of being an epic troll. people won't believe it was fake.
seem to recall he did run a (Synchronet) BBS at some time or other and was a
The last message I still have in my system from him is Jun 4
2022.
since you are canandian, do you know any good way of looking up death notices? -+-
There ought to be a general/publicly accessible list of obits.
My understanding is that most of the funeral homes tap into it
and submit info. But I am not aware of any overall obit
registry.
so as a freaking canadian, what would you use without being so general
so as a freaking canadian, what would you use without being so general
I'm saying I don't know of a tried and true reporting system.
My guess would be to check each funeral home in the area and
see if there is a listing.
I seems that once one funeral home posts a listing, the general
internet scrubbing tools pick them up and re-list them into
their own obit sites - filled with ads ofcourse - so that you
I have a friend doing some research looking for Erich. If he
has died, and there is a probated will, then that should also
be publicly available.
I'm saying I don't know of a tried and true reporting system.
My guess would be to check each funeral home in the area and
see if there is a listing.
I seems that once one funeral home posts a listing, the general
internet scrubbing tools pick them up and re-list them into
their own obit sites - filled with ads ofcourse - so that you
okay captain hypothetical!
It sounds like he's not giving you a straight answer because he does not have one. If the role was reversed and he was asking me for an American
have one. If the role was reversed and he was asking me for an American reporting system, I would say "check google?" because I really don't know
of a good reporting system here, either.
I have a user who posted nearly every day from here that disappeared a
while back. He'd been a user for 20 or so years, and was older. I never could find anything about him.
It sounds like he's not giving you a straight answer because he does not
have one. If the role was reversed and he was asking me for an American
he should just say it.
Re: Hello
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Tue Jan 16 2024 06:59 pm
It sounds like he's not giving you a straight answer because he does not
have one. If the role was reversed and he was asking me for an American
he should just say it.
I think he basically did, didn't he? In an earlier message, he mentioned something about possibly being a publicly accessible list of obits but he isn't aware of an overall obit registry.
while back. He'd been a user for 20 or so years, and was older. I never could find anything about him.
don't you think that's pretty weird to be an adult and not know how to look up obituaries in your own country.
I have a user who posted nearly every day from here that disappeared a while back. He'd been a user for 20 or so years, and was older. I never could find anything about him.
he probably used a fake name.
while back. He'd been a user for 20 or so years, and was older. I never could find anything about him.
This is how I want to go out.
don't you think that's pretty weird to be an adult and not know how to look up >bituaries in your own country.
don't you think that's pretty weird to be an adult and not know how to look
up bituaries in your own country.
Especially with social media these days, I feel like if it is someone I am close enough to that I really want to know about it, I am going to find out about it through family, friends, a FB post, or sometimes a BBS network post.
don't you think that's pretty weird to be an adult and not know how to look up obituaries in your own country.
Re: Hello
By: MRO to Nightfox on Tue Jan 16 2024 08:59 pm
don't you think that's pretty weird to be an adult and not know how to look up obituaries in your own country.
Honestly I'm not sure where I'd look up obituaries here.. I'd probably have to Google it.
I have a user who posted nearly every day from here that disappeared a while back. He'd been a user for 20 or so years, and was older. I never could find anything about him.
he probably used a fake name.
That is what I suspect now.
don't you think that's pretty weird to be an adult and not know how to look up >bituaries in your own country.
Especially with social media these days, I feel like if it is someone I
am
close enough to that I really want to know about it, I am going to find out about it through family, friends, a FB post, or sometimes a BBS network post.
I do run into the rare occassion, like with the missing BBS user, that I don't really know about. Otherwise, I usually find out about deaths
through the above mentioned places.
Especially with social media these days, I feel like if it is someone I am close enough to that I really want to know about it, I am going to find out about it through family, friends, a FB post, or sometimes a BBS network post.
That's my case too. For someone I'm close to, I've always found out through family or friends, via a phone call, text, or social media.
Honestly I'm not sure where I'd look up obituaries here.. I'd probably
have to Google it.
that's pretty bad dude. didn't you ever have a family member die?
That's my case too. For someone I'm close to, I've always found out
through family or friends, via a phone call, text, or social media.
no no no. i don't think ANYBODY found out about the death of a close person, family or friend via obituary. that's just backwards thinking.
i'm thinking former teacher, former coworker, people you knew in highschool, etc.
Re: Hello
By: MRO to Nightfox on Thu Jan 18 2024 04:54 am
Honestly I'm not sure where I'd look up obituaries here.. I'd probably
have to Google it.
that's pretty bad dude. didn't you ever have a family member die?
If a family member dies, I'm going to hear about it personally from family. Same with a friend, I'm going to hear about it through other friends.
That's my case too. For someone I'm close to, I've always found out
through family or friends, via a phone call, text, or social media.
no no no. i don't think ANYBODY found out about the death of a
close
person, family or friend via obituary. that's just backwards thinking.
Regarding this, you just wrote to me in another message "haven't you had
a
family member die?"
i assumed people looked at the obit to make sure the info was correct. apparently i have unearthed something.
Again, I could do a Google search to find obituaries. I don't know of a central repository of obituaries.. And even then, sometimes I've heard of people like that passing away through other friends.
I just look on my local newspaper's website for obits.
I have a user who posted nearly every day from here that disappeared a
while back. He'd been a user for 20 or so years, and was older. I never could find anything about him.
he probably used a fake name.
That is what I suspect now.
i miss my one user lenny of repan, real name charles knaper. I think he passed
way. he was crazy about usurper and provided jakob with many ideas.
he was pretty much the life of usurper.
havent you had other jobs? havent you wondered what happened to people in highschool? obits are a good way to see if they are dead.
i'm just suprised you grown men don't know how to look up obituaries. you know you are old and people are dying.
Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-
Re: Hello
By: MRO to Nightfox on Thu Jan 18 2024 12:00 pm
havent you had other jobs? havent you wondered what happened to people in highschool? obits are a good way to see if they are dead.
Normally I search their name online and on social media first.
But "maybe they're dead" isn't a thought I've often had..
I just look on my local newspaper's website for obits.
That would help for local persons, but few of my users are local enough
to find them there, and none of my family is (unless I were to list it there). My local paper does list some surrounding areas that are even more rural, but I don't think they usually list ones from too far away unless it is someone noteworthy.
Normally I search their name online and on social media first. But "maybe they're dead" isn't a thought I've often had..
i'm just suprised you grown men don't know how to look up obituaries. you know you are old and people are dying.
I'm 43, and I didn't think that was very old yet.. I just haven't been in
the habit of looking up obituaries, or even wondering if my friends or people I've known are dead. And if an acquaintenance of mine is someone I haven't even been in contact with for 20+ years, it's probably not going to make much difference to me anyway. It has been a rare case like this where
And I wouldn't say I don't know how to look up obituaries. As I've stated already, I could Google it and find out.
while back. He'd been a user for 20 or so years, and was older. I never could find anything about him.
This is how I want to go out.
i'm just suprised you grown men don't know how to look up obituaries.
you know you are old and people are dying.
Normally I search their name online and on social media first.
But "maybe they're dead" isn't a thought I've often had..
Nor has any other normal person.
Don't forget who you're having this conversation with. That should
explain most of it...
i'm just suprised you grown men don't know how to look up obituaries.
you know you are old and people are dying.
Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-
Normally I search their name online and on social media first.
But "maybe they're dead" isn't a thought I've often had..
Nor has any other normal person.
Don't forget who you're having this conversation with. That should
explain most of it...
While that is not the immediate reaction to a lot of people
disappearing, I can understand it being one when the person in
question complained about their health as The Millionaire did.
While not true of all sysops, many are older and/or not very
physically active, so that might make it a more-likely conclusion
to jump to in our case. ;)
i'm just suprised you grown men don't know how to look up obituaries.
you know you are old and people are dying.
I think we know how... google them... but don't really know what to do if
we don't find any results.
Re: Hello
By: MRO to Nightfox on Thu Jan 18 2024 12:01 pm
i'm just suprised you grown men don't know how to look up obituaries.
you know you are old and people are dying.
This reminded me of a point that I'm surprised needs to regularly be made about information hunting on the internet:
I know most of us here understand that concept, but it is worth a refresher that not everything is put online, let alone in a searchable format that's
Re: Hello
What I'm getting at is the fact that a blanket thought of just searching obits = absolute knowledge on the living or dead status of a person isn't the best methodology...
everything is fucking put online.
Nopants will be a tough obit search.
just searching obits absolute knowledge on the living or dead status of a person isn't the best methodology...
While not true of all sysops, many are older and/or not very
physically active, so that might make it a more-likely conclusion
to jump to in our case. ;)
Probably very correct.
just searching obits absolute knowledge on the living or dead status of a
person isn't the best methodology...
That's why I recommended a chant that goes "Hands vermillion, start of five. Bright cotillion, raven's dive. Nightshade's promise, spirits strive. To the living let now the dead come alive."
Nopants wrote to Gamgee <=-
Oh man. I always assumed Sysops to be sexy MF smart-throbs, no? Image ruined.
Nightfox wrote to Nopants <=-
#beetlejuice
#beetlejuice
#beetlejuice
Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Jan 21 2024 10:07 am
#beetlejuice
#beetlejuice
#beetlejuice
#beetlejuice
#beetlejuice
#beetlejuice
ruined.
I have my BBS mounted above my weight bench, assumed others did as
well?
Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nopants on Sun Jan 21 2024 10:07 am
ruined.
I have my BBS mounted above my weight bench, assumed others did as
well?
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
I have my BBS mounted above my weight bench, assumed others did as well?
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
I have my BBS mounted above my weight bench, assumed others did as well?
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
not surprised considering the source.
Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Nightfox on Mon Jan 29 2024 07:34 am
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
not surprised considering the source.
Why are you responding to me? I didn't write what you quoted.
I have my BBS mounted above my weight bench, assumed others did as well?
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
That doesn't look like a valid URL to me..?
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
not surprised considering the source.
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
You know I used the copy url link in imgur and didn't even look at it lol.
I asked again and the results were not as great -
https://imgur.com/g0CJHgH
Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Nightfox on Mon Jan 29 2024 07:34 am
I asked AI to generate your rig. Is this accurate?
https://imgur.com/undefined
not surprised considering the source.
It's all the vaccines I've taken eating my brain.
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