#UUCP

[xxxfizzarollixxx]

Since I'm not physically capable of making decisions, yall can pick for me :3

1= cyn :D

2= theses :D

Thank you :D

[spokanefavs]

Letter to the Editor: We Will Advocate for the Right to Reproductive Healthcare, Freedom

Community Congregational United Church of Christ

Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse - UUCP

#idaho abortion ban#reproductive rights#abortion

#pro-choice#Idaho

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The internet didn’t enshittify because the honorable UUCP Monks who served as the internet’s patrician guardians were replaced by venal tech bros out to make a quick buck. The moneygrubbers were always there (as were those selfless guardians).

The internet enshittified because we dismantled the anti-enshittification systems that kept the internet good: the antitrust laws that ensured that big, ossified companies couldn’t maintain their dominance by spending their way to glory.

We ended the cycle of renewal. Once, when a company grew so big thatit became a threat to our future, it collapsed under its own weight. Once, honorable hackers wielded interoperability, that elegant weapon from a more civilized age, to fell the giants who claimed dominion over our digital lives — only to be felled themselves, when they forgot their humble origins and took up the wicked practices of the giants they had helped to slay.

The internet didn’t enshittify because we got the wrong people. The old, good internet had lots of companies founded by mediocre cowards who would have bought out their competitors or dirty-tricked them out of existence in a heartbeat.

The internet didn’t enshittify because we got the wrong technology. The old, good internet had plenty of sticky traps and walled gardens.

The internet enshittified because we got the wrong rules.

-Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet

[frenzyarts]

idk if u ever wondered this but i wonder why whenever people talk abt au characters there’s like an exclamation point in the middle. like example yandere!sans like what was up with that

Reddit has the answer :D from this Reddit post (copy and pasted here for your convenience)

“"! = The Exclamation Mark or 'Bang' Symbol -- refers to a short form for expressing the presence of a particular trait or defining quality of a character in a story. One which is usually not part of the original canon characterization, or is at least an extreme interpretation of the canon characterization. Most often written in the format of trait first and character's name last, with the symbol in between. (For example: "Smart!Jack" in Stargate: SG-1, indicating that the character of Jack O'Neill is secretly smarter than he pretends to be.) The compact format of [trait]![character's name] manages to quickly and clearly describe to the reader an accurate depiction of the author's choice in characterization before they even read the story."

http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/moonbeam/terms.html

EDIT: found some more

"Fan Fic communities will often have tags specific to their fandoms that they use to describe tropes that occur with some regularity (Slytherin!Harry, Future!Hiro, or Vamp!Willow, for example). The title of a given Fan Fic 'verse, or an abbreviation thereof, can also be used to indicate the version of a character from that setting, particularly when there have been major changes to them: UF!Utena, SME!Jadeite. Because this kind of tagging is ad hoc and in no way formalized, it's common to see unusual and/or idiosyncratic tags that indicate some truly wild variants, such as Cyborg!Xander or Amberite!Xena. The practice is starting to seep out from fanfiction, though, and can also be used when talking about similar things in the source material, such as, for example, Future!Hiro, Vamp!Willow, or Brainwashed!Undead!Starscream (Energon!Starscream for short). It's also used in a more tongue-in-cheek manner to categorize examples of the Mary Sue in a quick, concise form. It can also be used to identify a specific version of a character or work when it had been done by different people and/or in different media since those can vary wildly from the source material. Sometimes this uses the name of the specific author or simply the form of the work (Manga!Pride, Anime!Greed, Leroux!Erik, or Movie!Phantom) These tags are also occasionally used when dealing with customizable characters in computer games. In addition, tags like this are used in spreadsheet programs to denote what sheet the cell in question is on if it's not on the same sheet as the cell you're typing in. Bang paths were used in early e-mail to specify a UUCP route to a given user, and they're still part of the return path in Usenet"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterizationTags

EDIT AGAIN: Found even more. There seem to be conflicted views on the origins of this, but this one at least explicitly addresses them:

"Origins The adj!noun format is purported to have started in X-Files fandom. Good examples for this are Wombat's Spotter's Guide to the Common Krycek and the accompanying Spotter's Guide to the Common Mulder where several Krycek sub-species such as Bad to the Bone!Krycek, Bad but Lovin'!Krycek, Hot'n'dirty!Krycek or Misunderstood!Krycek and Mulder sub-subspecies such as Angst!Mulder, Basketcase!Mulder, HappySlut!Mulder, Sensitive!Mulder and WellAdjusted!Mulder are described. The first usage was Action!Mulder, referring to canon scenes where Mulder suddenly went all actiony (instead of talky), followed by Saint!Scully. Eventually they lost the initial capitals and the canon connections; by the time it hit other fandoms, it was being used to describe fannish things.[1] Some believe that the use of the exclamation mark came originally from coding, particularly javascript, where it has the meaning of "not". Thus, Saint!Scully would essentially mean, a characterization (in fanworks) of Scully as a saint which diverges from who Scully really is in the show. This possible origin remains obscure, though, and this belief about the bang appears nowadays quite rare."

http://fanlore.org/wiki/!

FINAL EDIT:

Thanks this was actually an interesting little side-trip into something I didn't previously know about.”

Also this:

“Thank you so much! This was exactly what I was after. :)

EDIT: I just found this additional explanation from a Tumblr post, makes sense!

It’s originally from C/C++ code. If you have a boolean variable that’s true or false and you put a ! in front of it, it just flips the value. If the variable is X and X is true, then !X is false. So it’s basically saying the character is the variable, ! activates a different version of the variable, and the identifier at the front tells you what version of the variable it is.”

I had wondered if it had something to do with programming, I’ve worked with C++ and javascript in the past 🤔 thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole anon!!

[popeyeotaku]

So fun thing about USENET: it grew out of the printer spooler

Unix was first developed internally at Bell Labs, which had a wide array of computer systems (Unix happened cuz they used the tiny PDP-11, originally PDP-7, that Bell didn't care what they did with).

Anyway, they wanted to be able to print on the really nice line printer on a Bell mainframe. Their solution was to let the printer spooler connect to this other system like a normal user at a terminal, log-in to an account, copy the text of the print into a file, issue the print command, and then delete the remote file when it was done.

As the number of Unix systems increased thruought the '70's, this was generalized into the "Unix-to-Unix Copy Program" -- the awfully named UUCP. It worked the same way -- login to another unix system with a special account that only had permissions to its own folder + a couple programs, upload files, and run a remote command on them -- such as printing.

But you could also extend this with email capability! They already had a dirt-simple mail program that cud write to users on the local system (lookup their home directory and prepend the message to a ".mbox" file there, that was pretty much it). Modifying this to UUCP the message and running mail on the remote the machine was easy as pie.

And you could go further! UUCP let you chain a file to get set to a remote computer several computers away, copying it down the chain until it got to the destination you wanted to run the command on. So you might have a home machine that connected to your local office that connected to a local university that connected to a bigger university, etc etc.

And USENET was built on top of this! Your local USENET system would "subscribe" to several channels, and then it would use UUCP to sync any posts on those channels -- downloading what they had that you didn't, and uploading the reverse.

They got this more or less for free. Obviously it wasn't very secure. But it had the bonus of making every USENET server carry around a complete archive of its channels, which is why USENET is so well preserved.

Rool

[masinat]

Hi everyone! My short film Masked Out was selected by UUCP Film Fest in Dumaguete, The Phillipines and will screen at 12th of January 2025.

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

UUCP? You can tell how old this is.

UNIX Magic by Gary Overacre (1986)

[randy-jade-4ever]

Excuse me?? Crawled out of hello???

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UPDATE: Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse - UUCP will transform its location into a warming shelter in the evenings.

They will be open nightly from Saturday, 7 p.m. to 8 a.m., through Wednesday, at 8 a.m., Jan. 17.

Anyone who wishes to volunteer can contact the Unitarian Universalist Church

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Enshitternet

Going to Burning Man? Catch me on Tuesday at 2:40pm on the Center Camp Stage for a talk about enshittification and how to reverse it; on Wednesday at noon, I'm hosting Dr Patrick Ball at Liminal Labs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

On September 6 at 7pm, I'll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

This week on my podcast, I read "Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet," my recent Medium column about building a better internet:

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

As John @hodgman is fond of reminding us, "nostalgia is a toxic impulse." It is easy for an old net.hand like me to fall into the trap of shaking his fist at the cloud. Having been on the other side of that dynamic, I can tell you it's no fun.

When I got on BBSes in the early 1980s, there was an omnipresent chorus of grumps insisting that the move from honest acoustic couplers to decadent modems was the end of the Golden Age of telecommunications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler

When I got on Usenet shortly thereafter, the Unix Greybeard set never passed up an opportunity to tell us newcomers that the Fidonet-Usenet bridge allowed the barbarian hordes to overwhelm their Athenian marketplace of ideas:

https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/

When I joined The WELL in the late 1980s, I was repeatedly assured that the good times were over, and that we would never see their like again:

https://www.well.com/

Now that I'm 52, I've learned to recognize this dynamic, from the Eternal September:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

to the moral panic over menuing systems replacing CLIs:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses

to the culture wars over what would happen when the net got a normie-friendly GUI:

https://www.dejavu.org/1993win.htm

And yeah, I've done it too, explaining "Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either)":

https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

But there's a key difference between my own warnings about the enshittification that new "user friendly" technologies would engender and all those other AARP members' complaints: they were wrong, and I was right.

As Tom Eastman reminded us, the internet really was better, back before it became "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text of the other four":

https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040

The underlying pathology of that enshittification wasn't the UI, or whether it involved an app store. As the Luddites knew, the important thing about a technology isn't what it does, but who it does it for and who it does it to:

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/

The problem wasn't which technology we used. There is nothing inherent about touchscreens that makes them into prisons that trap users, rather than walled gardens that protect them.

Likewise, the problem wasn't who made that technology. We didn't swap wise UUCP Monks for venal tech bros. The early tech world was full of public-spirited sysops, but it was also full of would-be monopolists who tried – and failed – to get us to "stop talking to each other and start buying things":

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

If it wasn't the technology that killed the old, good internet, and if it wasn't the people who killed the old, good internet, where did the enshitternet come from?

It wasn't the wrong tech, it wasn't the wrong people: it was the wrong rules. After all, the Apple ][+ went on sale the year Ronald Reagan hit the campaign trail. Consumer tech was the first industry born after antitrust was dismantled, and it created the modern monopoly playbook: buying and merging with competitors. The resulting unity of purpose and anticompetitive profit margins allowed tech to capture its regulators and secure favorable court and legislative outcomes.

The simultaneous drawdown of antitrust enforcement and growth of tech meant that tech's long-standing cycle of renewal was ended. Tech companies that owed their existence to their ability to reverse-engineer incumbent companies' products and make interoperable replacements and add-ons were able to ban anyone else from doing unto them as they did unto the giants that came before them:

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

The pirates became admirals, and set about creating a "felony contempt of business model":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/#law-of-intended-consequences

They changed the rules to ensure that they could "disrupt" anyone they chose, but could themselves mobilize the full might of the US government to prevent anyone from disrupting them:

https://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/

The old, good internet was the internet we we able to make while tech was still realizing the new anticompetitive powers it had at its disposal, and it disappeared because every administration, R and D, from Reagan to Trump, yanked more and more Jenga blocks out of the antitrust tower.

In other words: the old, good internet was always doomed, because it was being frantically built in an ever-contracting zone of freedom to tinker, where technologies could be operated by and for the people who used them.

Today, the Biden administration has ushered in a new era of antitrust renewal, planting the seeds of a disenshittification movement that will tame corporate power rather than nurturing it:

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby

In other words, we are living in the first days of a better nation.

In other words, rather than restoring the old, good internet, we should build a new, good internet.

What is a new, good internet? It's an internet where it's legal to:

reverse-engineer the products and services you use, to add interoperability to them so you can leave a social network without leaving your friends:

https://www.eff.org/interoperablefacebook

jailbreak devices to remove antifeatures, like surveillance, ink-locking, or repair-blocking:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/17/have-you-tried-not-spying/#coppa

move your media files and apps from any platform to any device or service, even if the company that sold them to you objects:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audiblegate

A new, good internet gives powers to users, and takes power away from corporations:

https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6

On a new, good internet, companies can't practice algorithmic wage discrimination:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

They can't turn search into an auction between companies that match your query and companies that want to sell you fakes and knockoffs:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/#relentless-payola

They can't charge rent to the people whose feeds you asked to read for the privilege of reaching you:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen

In fact, a new, good internet is one where we euthanize rentiers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

On the new good internet, your boss can't use bossware to turn "work from home" into "live at work":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

And on top of that, you have the right to hack that bossware to undetectably disable it (and hackers have the right to sell or give you that hack):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/tech-rights-are-workers-rights-doordash-edition

On the new, good internet, we stop pretending that tech is stealing content from news companies, and focus on how tech steals money from the news, with app taxes, rigged ad markets, surveillance ads, and payola:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

The new, good internet is an internet where we seize the means of computation. It's an internet operated by and for the people who use it.

Hodgman is right. Nostalgia is a toxic impulse. The point of making a new, good internet isn't to revive the old, good internet. There were plenty of problems with the old, good internet. The point is to make a new, good internet that is the worthy successor to the old, good internet – and to consign the enshitternet to the scrapheap of history, an unfortunate transitional stage between one good internet and another.

Here's a link to the podcast episode:

https://craphound.com/news/2023/08/21/enshitternet-the-old-good-internet-deserves-a-new-good-internet/

and here's a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the Internet Archive; they'll host your stuff for free, forever):

https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_448/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_448_-_Enshitternet.mp3

and here's a link to my podcast's RSS feed:

https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/22/the-new-good-internet/#the-old-good-internet

Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

[bkrsszlrd]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... I have simulated CGA on Hercules graphics... I have seen Kermit protocol used in lieu of TCP/IP..., UUCP downloading future presidential speeches from the White House... Downloading literature over X.25 from a library on the other side of the world using a CALTECH student account... Transmitting punchcard codes over goffer... All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... 

[techniktagebuch]

8. Mai 1987

Deine Mailadresse ist zu teuer

Diese Mail befindet sich in meinem bis 1985 zurückreichenden Archiv mit allen ca. 140.000 zwischen damals und 2021 gesendeten oder empfangenen Mails.

Die 1987 noch verbreiteten Mailadressen mit den Ausrufezeichen enthielten quasi den Pfad von einem bekannten Rechner (hier z.B. der zentralen „mcvax“ in Amsterdam) zum Zielsystem, also zum Rechner der adressierten Person.

Je nachdem mit welcher Netz-Technologie der jeweils nächstliegende Knoten in einem solchen Mailadressen-Pfad angebunden war, konnte die Benutzung teuer oder weniger teuer sein.

Unser Mailsystem „tub“ der TU-Berlin war über eine Telefon-Modem-Wählverbindung zu „unido“ und über eine Datex-P-Verbindung zu „pyramid“ angebunden. Ersteres war ein (damals noch teures) Telefon-Ferngespräch, während wir für Datex-P eine Pauschale zahlten, so dass für die Übertragung einer Mail keine zusätzlichen Kosten entstanden.

Ich bat als Betreiber des Mailservers daher die angeschriebene Person, die „teure Mailadresse“ nicht länger zu nutzen.

(Oliver Laumann)

[kevinalanmann]

#uuchurchofthephilippines #UUCP #Philippines #unitarianuniversalist (at Dumaguete City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDwc-3whZyc/?igshid=7wy2erswlaid

[fullformworld]

UUCP Full Form:What is UUCP?

UUCP Full Form:What is UUCP?

UUCP Full Form UUCP Full Form-What Is UUCP? And How Does It Work: UUCP is a term generally refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands. UUCP Full Form Unix-to-Unix Copy What is UUCP UUCP allows you to connect to a host computer and execute command lines. It’s not a full operating system, but a basic way to automate the execution of a subset of…

[peridotglimmer]

Anon, it's called a bang path, and it's been around since 1979.

It's from when emails used the UUCP protocol, and the bang path would tell your message where to go. It was your email address.

My name is Belle, let's say I work in accounting at Microsoft (I don't). If someone from my department wanted to reach me, they could just sent the message locally to "belle". But what if they wanted to reach Tom who works in marketing? They'd have to specify that they want it to reach "marketing!tom", so that the message first goes to the marketing department, and then to Tom who works there. And if they wanted to reach Steve, who works in marketing, but at Apple? Then they'd have to send it to "apple!marketing!steve".

Bang paths could get very long, as this business card demonstrates:

Because bang paths were a very common way to specify who you wanted to reach, when fandom members of yore wanted to specify who they were talking about, they'd use them as well. I'm suspecting the Star Trek fandom here, but it could be something else.

tl;dr: it's an old email address style of writing something down, and it's probably older than you are.

it makes me so unexplainably mad when people use the ! to specify a character (like x!streamer for example)

i don’t know why i hate it so much. it’s just so weird. why an exclamation mark? who started this? why? why? please someone explain i am so confused

it breaks the word into 2 which makes it easier to read

[mitchipedia]

I found this 30-year-old stack of business cards while clearing out my home office.

Hey, nerds—check out the bangpath UUCP email address!

Original: https://mitchwagner.blog/2021/11/24/i-found-this-30-year-old-stack-of-business-cards-while-clearing-out-my-home-office/