On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:04:14 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> I am on forums but tend to stay away from them unless I absolutely have
> to. I like newsgroups as they are - though I have noticed a massive drop
> in users ever since Google dropped their groups service. I also saw a
> minor drop in spam.
Abso
On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:15:37 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> Lesser used protocols not known by many in the mainstream. Such as:
>
> gopher, gemini, finger, spartan, titan, etc.
>
> An example of use, here's a weather service tied to a finger. Put your
> city name as the user. This isn't mine, but it is
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:43:59 +1200, dn wrote:
> The OpSys on this machine no longer features finger (available for
> installation as an 'extra').
My Ubuntu 22.04 box has it, the Fedora 40 one doesn't. Ubuntu offers to
install gopher, Fedora doesn't. Go figure.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailma
rbowman writes:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:15:37 +0100, Daniel wrote:
>
>> Lesser used protocols not known by many in the mainstream. Such as:
>>
>> gopher, gemini, finger, spartan, titan, etc.
>>
>> An example of use, here's a weather service tied to a finger. Put your
>> city name as the user.
Jason Friedman writes:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 4:04 PM Daniel via Python-list <
> python-list@python.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> An example of use, here's a weather service tied to a finger. Put your
>> city name as the user. This isn't mine, but it is inspiring. Example:
>>
>> finger mi...@graph.no
>>
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:40:52 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> The Pico uses MicroPython which is stuck on an old version of Python,
> unfortunately.
I think it's up to 3.4 in general and erratic past that. It doesn't have
the match from 3.10. I don't think it has f-strings though it may have
the wal
After looking at what is going on in the other area, I am convinced that we
need multiple boards with different ideas of what should be moderated or
even ones where only very egregious behavior gets you banned. There is
serious debate there about whether the group of people in charge of a more
focu
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:10:00 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> If you have lynx, you can visit this gopher interface to Wikipedia:
>
> gopher://gopherpedia.com
Yeah, that works and I could find Hillbilly Elegy (film). The text was
fine but the 'Accolades' table was garbled. It came up on the Netflix
reco
On 23/08/24 07:49, rbowman via Python-list wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:40:52 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
The Pico uses MicroPython which is stuck on an old version of Python,
unfortunately.
How did this enter the conversation/thread?
Paul's 'contribution' does not even appear on the Archive..
On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:36:02 +1200, dn wrote:
> On 23/08/24 07:49, rbowman via Python-list wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:40:52 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
>>
>>> The Pico uses MicroPython which is stuck on an old version of Python,
>>> unfortunately.
>
> How did this enter the conversation/threa
On 23/08/24 15:43, rbowman via Python-list wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:36:02 +1200, dn wrote:
On 23/08/24 07:49, rbowman via Python-list wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:40:52 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
The Pico uses MicroPython which is stuck on an old version of Python,
unfortunately.
How di
11 matches
Mail list logo
