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vga256<a href="https://floss.social/@fast_code_r_us" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fast_code_r_us</a> thanks for pointing out the NLnet grants. hadn’t heard of them before, and they might be a sensible funding stream for <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a>.

vga256new tomo devlog post: how do you deal with shitty people behaviour?<a href="https://tomo.city/#2025-01-22" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomo.city/#2025-01-22</a>excerpt:after posting that "Eris-Free Net" wikipedia article the other day, it made me think about how to deal with misbehaving shards on tomoNet, and how governance works on decentralized networks.when i started thinking about creating something like tomo years ago, i often thought about Ultima Online as - not so much a model for - but an example of a network of online communities that was always interesting and sometimes frustrating to deal within-game, for several years, UO really was the "wild west" of online communities - so much was left up to players to figure out. for a long time, there were no game mechanics that enabled players to enact governance of their own (e.g. creating towns, villages, provinces and local laws). the outcome of this was that most often a kind of hillbilly/frontier justice, or outright dog-eat-dog existence, became the norm.this was great for player-killers and people who loved strife. it added some intensity to the game that no other game had, or in my view has ever had since. (WoW/EQ/etc all elected to bolt everything down and render the world in nerf)....BBSes also had governance-by-sysop/god, FidoNet with network coordinators, and USENET with its backbone cabal.tomoNet - a network of tomo shards that agree to all swap groups/posts with one another - is going to have to deal with the question of (self-) governance sooner or later. at the moment, tomoBBS has no specific controls for managing defederation and it does *not* use the ActivityPub protocol. it needs some, and i need help thinking through what the options are, for a network based on NNTP....if you've got thoughts on how your online social community was governed (or failed to be governed) by its users, i'd love to hear about it. it's a wide open topic for debate, and there are no wrong answers at the moment.<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ultima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ultima</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a>

vga256<a href="https://teh.entar.net/@Screwtapello" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Screwtapello</a> <a href="https://yeg.bike/@Daveography" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Daveography</a> you wouldn't believe how many days it took to get that exact kind of terminal styling (fixed titlebar, fixed bottombar, scrolling middle content) for tomo. 😓 simple, clean, interface design is harder today than it was with a 132 column terminal!<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a>

vga256new tomo devlog post: the alleyways of kyototoday i'm thinking about alleyways as something more than mere urban connective tissue. in kyoto, they were something special. the alley that led to Uno House was itself a special place of its own: where walking from one end to the other, a dozen residents' families might have known one another for a century. it's a place where a local izakaya might be simultaneously frequented by generations of the same families, yet still welcome in strangers and curious tourists from the alleyway.how can I facilitate that experience in tomo? i'm thinking about that today, and i'd love to hear your thoughts on it.for instance: tomoBBS currently uses slash notation to organize its tomos: /pets/cats/black and /pets/cats/tabby both are found in the /pets/cats/ hierarchy. how could the slash notation be treated as a kind of alleyway or invitation to explore the rest of the hierarchy?a hierarchy always visually and mathematically implies a tree-like structure. but is it possible to re-imagine that as a grid system instead?i chose the domain tomo.city because it felt right. how could each tomo be understood as place in a city of little places with interconnected alleys?<a href="https://tomo.city/#2025-01-17" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomo.city/#2025-01-17</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a>

vga256<a href="https://masto.nyc/@jtbnyc69" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jtbnyc69</a> in response to your DM about tomo's source code: no, it's not publicly available at the moment. i haven't decided on a license yet, as i'm 100% focused on building out functionality before any decisions are made about open sourcing<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a>

vga256i've been having fun creating a DEC VT-320 styled interface for <a href="https://tomo.city" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomo.city</a> which led me to rediscovering the Dynix unix system that powered many of our public libraries' catalogue searches in the 80s and 90s.just found out that until at least 2013, there were still telnettable dynix catalogues out there. sadly, the IPs I tried are all vacant. some of those systems were replaced.has anyone tried discovering ancient telnettable library catalogues via shodan? share your results!photo credit @skylarstrickland <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dynix-Author-Search.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dynix-Author-Search.jpg</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a>

vga256devlog post: tomoBBS back in full development!the most important part of this post is that i defined, conceptually, what tomo *is* and how the "tomo" or forum hierarchy works.going to /animals/pets/cats/tabby shows you the tabby tomo, but going to /animals/pets/cats/ shows you *all posts* in the tomos below that level of the hierarchy, like tabby, void, siamese, stupid and nutsyand of course, because i'm still in love with a Datatrain amber monochrome CRT that my aunt owned in 1988 (and i used to play Gorillas.bas on it), the entire interface has been reskinned to look like you're visiting a public library terminal in the 80s. 😅 all the specifics here: <a href="https://tomo.city/#2025-01-12" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomo.city/#2025-01-12</a>(and - yes, tomo will go into a private alpha in about a month - don't worry, i'll be asking everyone to join in and beat up the poor shard soon).<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a>

vga256new eXiGY devlog post: A drunken walk roadmap for the next couple of months<a href="https://www.exigy.org/plan?sort=new#2025-01-04" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.exigy.org/plan?sort=new#2025-01-04</a>one question I continue to get almost daily is: when can we start goofing around with eXiGY? The first 9 months of the project involved roughing out all of the basic functions a 2D game making toolkit would require. I managed to get some basic saving and loading (aka. serialization) set up a few weeks ago, and while it requires some re-tuning, it's in there and working.In anticipating of a pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha coming soon, I'm spinning up a tomo shard to facilitate tester feedback, bug reports and creating a little eXiGY community. If you've never heard of tomo, I don't blame you! :) I've been pretty quiet about tomo's development over the past year, as all of my development time has been laser-focussed on eXiGY. The short of it is: tomo is a public forum/discussion system that runs on NNTP (the protocol that powers USENET). i realized a few weeks ago that it would be the perfect platform to use as eXiGY's home for discussions about the project, get some ideas and responses on the design of the program, and so on. if you want to read more about tomo, head over to tomo's project page here for a very quick overview: <a href="https://tomo.city/project" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomo.city/project</a>so for the next couple of weeks, eXiGY will be on pause while I rebuild tomo to support posting, user profiles, avatars, bug reports, attachments so you can share your XGY projects, and all the fun stuff we'll need for some old fashioned bug huntin'. (tomo is brand spankin' new software too. so that means we'll be doing two pre-alphas in one!)<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/exigy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#exigy</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/indiegamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiegamedev</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a>

vga256a year and a half later, finally an update on tomo: sometimes it takes a year to think through a design problem, because it's a life problem<a href="https://tomo.city/#2025-01-02" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomo.city/#2025-01-02</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a>

SharkeyIn preparation of getting Sharkey ready for Web3 and the blockchain, we introduce: Sharkey X TOMO That's right! We're adding TOMOCOIN :patsTomo: integration. Directly into Sharkey. We hope this gets our users excited that we're now entering a NEW ERA of Sharkey. Users will be able to exchange and earn TOMOCOINs whenever they post or :neocat_heart: react a random post tastelessly. This can be used for things such as: - Buying rizz - Downloading games on Steam - Gay sex This change will be implemented into the next release. Stay tuned! <a href="https://lea.pet/tags/TOMOCOIN" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TOMOCOIN</a> <a href="https://lea.pet/tags/TOMO" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TOMO</a> 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

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