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Welcome to my little corner of the geminisphere. Here you will find a gemini version of my blog, my blog archives, books, and Usenet articles that I find are important, interesting, or otherwise notable.
OS: openSUSE 15.3
Software:
inn: 2.6.2 (Usenet server not public)
First of all, I am running two instances of molly brown. The first instance is
running on the standard port 1965 and is set up as a systemd service that I
call molly-brown.service.
The second service is molly-brown-tor.service and it is running on port
1966. The services are almost completely the same except the the tor service
is pointing to a different configuration file. The /etc/molly-tor.conf file
begins like this:
## Basic settings # Port = 1966 Hostname = "woeu6k57svt4t5mipf6w4lcdk4w3awdhnv7kqe6ooamtbxvnoo7oe7yd.onion" CertPath = "/cert/tor/cert.pem" KeyPath = "/cert/tor/key.pem" DocBase = "/srv/gemini/" #HomeDocBase = "users" #GeminiExt = "gmi"HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80 HiddenServicePort 1965 127.0.0.1:1966 #DefaultLang = "fi" AccessLog = "/var/log/molly/access.log" ErrorLog = "/var/log/molly/error.log"
This is a different service, hostname, and certificate/key combination than
what I have in the original config file. You might ask, shouldn't this then be
listening on port 1966 instead of 1965? Thats's where the magic of Tor comes
in. Tor will listen on
woeu6k57svt4t5mipf6w4lcdk4w3awdhnv7kqe6ooamtbxvnoo7oe7yd.onion port 1965 but
it will direct traffic internall to port 1965. Think of the external tor port
as being a virtual port. It doesn't have to be the same as the internal
port. This is what it looks like in my /etc/tor/torrc file:
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ HiddenServicePort 1965 127.0.0.1:1966
The first port number is what will be listening externally. The second port
number is where traffic will be sent internally.
A while back, I grabbed a copy of Jason Scott's textfiles.com because I am an unashamed digital hoarder. Now I present it to you.
Read the disclaimer. Some of this stuff is highly dangerous (think, anarchist cookbook). Much of it is outdated like phone phreaking, and also much of it is offensive to all walks of life. Most of this was written and disseminated in the 80's and 90's through BBSs, though some of it is from the Usenet and other places.
Update: I've converted all of the index.html files to index.gmi for my Gemini server. Their still kind of iffy because they don't exactly follow good gemtext formatting, but everything works. I spent a couple of hours searching for sed commands to get them to the current status en masse because I don't have the time to edit them one at a time.
If you do something stupid with anything you read here, it's your own fault. Read at your own risk.
The CypherPunks are an interesting group of people. Most of them are vaguely Libertarian or anarchist. From this group you get people like Julian Assange and the founders of the EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation). Their heirs include the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto and Edward Snowden. Reading through these archives, you will see some famous names and a lot of trash. However, for the history lover, it's gold. What's the different between a Cyberpunk and a Cypherpunk? Cyberpunks cosplay. Cypherpunks write code.
Cypherpunks Write Code (Documentary Series)
From Wikipedia:
"In mid-December 2001, Google unveiled its improved Usenet archives, which now go more than a decade deeper into the Internet's past than did the millions of posts that the company had originally acquired when it bought an existing archive called Deja News.
Between 1981 and 1991, while running the zoology department's computer system at the University of Toronto, Spencer copied more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The 141 tapes wound up at the University of Western Ontario, where Google's Michael Schmidt tracked them down and, with the help of David Wiseman and others, got them transferred onto disks and into Google's archives."
Here is a local copy of the UTZOO tapes compressed and in tgz format.
An Introduction to the UTZOO Tapes
A map of the UTZOO files after decompressing.
Converting UTZOO-Wiseman Usenet Tapes
Megalexoria archive in html format (web)
Search the UTZOO tapes (edited to remove personal info)