Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>

Now... do you seriously think anyone would ever be interested in that? ;)

>
LOL!  It turns out I'm *highly* interested in your leafnode.  Please,
can you put a package somewhere and let me look at it, try it out et
cetera?  I've been thinking about doing something like that myself.  I
can probably just live with your changes.

>
Of course!
>
Please grab a copy here:
https://send.vis.ee/download/749384a5de2f4f33/#6ZgrL_j_qwmhqBNuXenoJA

Thanks!  Got the package and unpacked it fine.  By the way, fdm is
already pulling my mail and I know it's able to download NNTP articles
too, so chances are it can do what leafnode has been doing for you.
I'll keep you posted.  Thanks very much for providing the package.

I think I once packaged noffle (and not leafnode) for myself, but I
think I stopped using noffle for a news server, too.  I think I use
leafnode now, but I use it only as a local news server.  I'd like to
have an NNTP server that's simple to use, easily hosts local news server
and also easily peers with a USENET server for just a non-huge list of
groups.  I actually would like to write this server myself.

>
Why did you not use noffle in the end? Never heard of it before, but seems to be
similar perhaps to leafnode.

When I used noffle I didn't know leafnode. :) I got to know leafnode
because I started asking people for something more my way than noffle.
I complained that I preferred articles written on the file system than
stored in a database, so someone pointed out leafnode.  Let me see which
I'm still running.  It's leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20140727b.  So I must have
really stopped noffle.  But I did not package leafnode with my
customizations---that I did to noffle only.

And by now I am willing to write a new one from scratch, so I intend to
make leafnode obsolete as well.