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Dendrobatus Azureus

One thing I like about that period in which the System Operator could literally see what you typed; the Age of UUCP and Usenet, way before www, is that there was something on those federated networks that we shall not easily get nor easily gain again;

**TRUST**

Inherited Trust of the period was so beautiful. All the Networks are open and there were no trolls that could do any real damage.

Many decades have gone by, but I've now finally had contact with an actual Operator of a Usenet node. Thank you for your reaction

@DianeBruce
@stefano

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #sockets #Linux #POSIX #NIC #DNS #relay #Usenet #networking #programming #freeBSD  #Fediverse

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Dendrobatus Azureus

In order to better understand federated networks you should keep in min the following exerpt from the article

Excerpt: An ActivityPub relay acts as a middleman, **bridging multiple servers** to facilitate broader content sharing.

**Without a relay, communication across instances relies entirely on direct relationships between servers**

This was also the case with classic news servers and SMTP mail servers.

In my country I was one of the three people who brought the internet in fruition. Explicit detail is on my github {message me for details}
When we dailed from 454074 to upr2.clu.net we spoke UUCP with that big server in Puerto Rico. Our mail could only reach the rest of the world when upr2.clu.net pushed them to the upstream servers.

Upstream pushing could take days.

Relays simply tell the network that your server can send the traffic and they relay them to others, working like a classic network hub

BTW upr2.clu.net still runs, incarnated in a modern form (screencap included)

Go read about how it works on this Federation and learn

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🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #sockets #Linux #POSIX #NIC #DNS #relay #networking #programming #freeBSD #Fediverse de

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Radio Azureus

@RL_Dane @Timpostma

It is unthinkable but this internet provider refuses blatantly to provide us with a bill, when we have paid them the requested fees, for the exorbitant amount of money, in relation to the low bandwidth given.

This is a violation of commerce Law

They provide a PDF file which just says **you've paid us**

That PDF is sometimes mailed to you
I only received 3 and then The System crashed.

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #sockets #Linux #POSIX #NIC

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#AMD unveils industry's first #UltraEthernet ready #network card for #AI and #HPC
Even though the final UEC 1.0 specification is due in Q1 2025. The AMD #Pensando #Pollara400 is a #400GbE Ultra #Ethernet card based on a processor designed by the company's Pensando unit. The #NIC will sample in the fourth quarter and will be commercially available in the first half of 2025, just after the Ultra Ethernet Consortium formally publishes the UEC 1.0 specification.
tomshardware.com/networking/am

Rendering of AMD Ultra Ethernet Card
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