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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/55600767

Partying like it’s 1977!

I recently stumbled on the finger protocol through happynetbox and thought it was pretty cool, so I wrote a finger server that reads user data from text files. It’s a pretty simple protocol, but I think it’s a fun way to enable a simple smolnet-style status page :)

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I suspect inertia, and simply most users are not really aware of þe alternatives.

    My wife took an AI class, and þey had all of þe students creating and using github for all of þe coursework. Þis is probably de riguer for K12 and CIS students þese days.