Cleaned up a bit, with installation instructions for Plan 9 and p9p, tiny character tweaks, and a change log.

Potentially. What environment/language(s) are you working in? I'd dump fuse for 9p, personally :-)

Yeah, what'd you have in mind?

Honestly, probably not directly, but that's mostly because of my weird environment. I'd love to see it as a reference!

i'm not really advocating that anybody should be on more networks, but FWIW libera.chat has been very nice, the staff has been doing a great job, and it's the nearest "spiritual successor" to what we all liked about Freenode.

Yes, this all matches my experience as someone connected to "classic" Freenode, right up until they killed the server (after the last step that page describes).

You've basically already left, whether you know it or not. Yesterday they nuked their services database. I'd been there ~20 years, but it's dead. Libera.chat has been lovely.

Entirely sensible, & no reason for file storage to match the wire format. I'm just really curious what's going on on macOS! I can test on hfs+ later.

macOS doesn't care, at least on apfs; just tested. How are you hitting this?

Why can't you have : in file names? What file system is this?

Indeed! I think the first "network protocol client" I ever wrote was something that just did the PING/PONG part and passed everything else raw.

Unrelated: my first response shows a rendering bug on your site: it's dropping a backslash. Hard to mix markdown and genuine plain text.

For sure. The pi progresses normally until it prints that it's initializing the keyboard, at which point the keyboard spends ~30 seconds beeping.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ It's a funky mechanical thing running QMK, but I have two others that fit that description which don't behave like this.

Then finger is for the straight-up shut-ins.

Or maybe that's old-school twtxt, and twtxt.net is those people who're constantly trying to coax the introverts out. ;-)

Good idea. Plan 9 sets $NPROC on boot to the number of cores, so other things can use it. mk will dispatch things in just that way.

Think of it like buying a signed print of a photo, instead of the photo itself, but the "signature" is an entry in a database and that's all you get. Still dumb.

Nobody's saying he can't write code any more (I mean, I think his code is crap and wish he'd stop, but that's another issue). But he should not be on any board, should not be in any leadership position, should not be held up as a role model or even vaguely okay.

I can't believe it's controversial to say "somebody with a 30+ year history making women uncomfortable shouldn't be in a leadership position". That's not "cancel culture", it's just friggin' obvious.

What a terrible video. "Cancel culture" is not a thing, and when you hear someone complaining about it, 99% of the time they just don't want consequences for bad behavior.

Sure. I think search, if it's going to exist, should be the client's responsibility. But I also value the readability of the raw twtxt file a lot more than y'all do.

He's fine with gender-neutral pronouns when he gets to pick them, but insists on policing others'. The open letter calling for his removal has references.

I actually haven't yet, it's just easy enough to manually prepend the subject for now, if I skip the search URL. 🤣 I'll do it properly eventually.

This is an awful take. The issue isn't that he's cantankerous and rigid; it's that he's sexist, misogynistic, ableist, transphobic, and has a decades-long history of making women feel unsafe. This isn't "cancel culture", it's "consequences" (as is usually the case with that term).

Not even a little. So pumped. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf20bce89ef96d4b6-M63f81768e4ffdfa4df402ec5/transfer-of-plan-9-to-the-plan-9-foundation

We welcome prospective students to submit their own ideas, but we've got a page full of suggestions: http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html

@adi I am not. :-)

I've got it running on a pair of commercial kvm providers right now (vultr and ramnode). It works on many, but edge cases can cause some issues.

Oh no, so much better than that. Worth checking out.

Hrm, that would've been csh probably, or tcsh if you were lucky. But Plan 9 uses rc, which is so lovely I use it everywhere.

Hey, from my perspective on Plan 9, all these linuxes are the same junk.

Thanks! According to /etc/os-releases, it's Fedora 32.

uname; I have an account. I just don't know how to differentiate linux especially.

@adi Some linux; how does one tell which?

Plan 9 doesn't really do text-mode pseudo-graphics at all, or even cursor addressing, on philosophical grounds.

Yup, 1997 to... 2000 or 2001.

Huh. In my feed, there is (correctly) a backslash before that . in the sed command, but twtxt.net is stripping it.

Ah, no; and there we have a good example of finger's poor discoverability! It matches my email address, though: echo a.9srv.net | sed 's/./@/'

I don't think the pod would have to be large. Even on tilde.club and the like, with a few dozen active users, it adds to the fun.

No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it'd be fun to add, but doesn't replace anything you're doing.

I like finger, but outside of a shared system, the complete lack of discoverability is pretty fatal.

With the finger server specifically? No idea, it's a toy. I'd honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.

This was macOS. I don't really use gnu. Of course, it's also not on Plan 9, the system I know best.

I was reading dd(1), where it is mentioned in passing, obliquely. Then stty(1) has more info.

I agree clients should present things better (part of why I'm writing one!). But that should be additive. There's a reason we're not passing json around.

@prologic Exactly, but that reduces the argument for URLs in the post. The client should figure out how to search based on the hashtag.

@bml Yup, several. My favorite is RFC 1149, another that's since been implemented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments

@prologic You may be interested in https://github.com/u-root/u-root (I work with a contributor).

@https://twtxt.net/user/bml/twtxt.txt It was totally an April Fools' joke; the IETF has a bunch of those. But! It has also been implemented. And 418 is my favorite error code.