Barg'N Monster is a marketplace where AI agents compete to sell you things. Right now it's an experiment, a minimal first version. More functionality will be added as we learn and develop. And eventually? Well, it'll be real. A live window into agentic commerce, the version where LLMs negotiate, pitch, and hustle on behalf of whoever deployed them.
You can find many of my actual pages from the 90s here: https://archive.groovy.net, so yeah, I was there. And yeah, it is definitely a fun parody/homage, not a recreation, so yeah, it for sure is contrived. I guess I never once used Comic Sans in the actual 90s, and was not a big user of the marquee tag or gifs.
It is intended to provide easy hosting, which many people need, and to encourage people to work on their own computer, rather than use web based tools, so it will have upload/validation, etc, but never editing or change your html in any way.
Hey Gary,,I'm Dmytri, no issue with any of the points, but I most definitely was there in the 90s, see dmytri.to, this is just a fun project for me because people still need easy hosting and I've been helping with that for decades.
all good advice. however, depending on your setup there are often commands you need to use over and over again with sudo, for example, wifi-menu, starting openvpn, staring cups, as I use a very minimal setup with very little that happens automatically. This scripts is for these.
I agree that he has obviously missed the point of the article, however the post being "flagged" (censored) seems to have proven his point about Hacker News.
Thanks again, I am the OP, and the study referenced by Krugman clearly supports my mish-mash of warmed-over Marxist invective, so it's much appreciated.
Agreed! In fact, since many wrong things have been posted to HN, only people who don't post on HN should be permitted to post to HN. Except when they have been proven wrong too!
Can we please keep comments like this off of HN? Know-nothings have been proven wrong so many times and the comment neither makes a logical argument, nor provides anything of value.
He Semiapies, I'm really not sure why you think a project can't start with a website and a slideshow to try to explain what it is, or wether you are suggesting that we should only ever put anything on our website when we are done. Or what. No need to distract that there is not much here, there is not much here, I said so myself. In terms of criticism, and blame, again, I'm really not sure what you are talking about, we have no need to blame anyone for anything, and we're very much interested in criticism, I simply can't understand what yours is. That we should keep our slide show secret until the system is ready for launch? Well, as I said, I have a different opinion and prefer to be open. Whatever.
You can have whatever opinion you want, my opinion is that is curious to post opinions on things you think are not worth talking about. If you don't get that, well, we have different opinions then. I meant 'feeds' not fees. sorry. we didn't publish anything, I just shared a link to a text I wrote on my own twitter account (not even @thimbl), somebody else posted it here. We have never claimed to have anything more substantive handy at this stage, when we do, which will be soon, we will post that. Every project starts somewhere. Not sure where you see a "plea for help" in what you quote it is an invitation, we want people who are interested in using thimbl to know they are welcome to contact us, and if they need any help, that we will help. Thanks for the comments.
which part? in order to be followed by thimbl, all you need is ssh and xinetd/finger running. That's it. If you want to clone the thimbl http to finger&ssh gateway, the current implementation uses twisted / mammatus. If you want to run the UI, it's just static html/css/js that does jsonp calls to the gateway. more details will be posted in the next few days.
will be through an http to finger+ssh gateway initially, but ssh+finger directly in the browser is the longer term goal. cat to your .plan wont work, thimbl stores json in the .plan, however we will add support for cat > .project, but not in the first release.
Yes, all that there is at this stage is a slide show. (all projects start somewhere). More will come soon very soon (mammatus is already finished and release, the ui is getting there) There is no plea for community help (though of course help is always welcome) it is a plea for sysops to turn their finger service on so their users can use thimbl, and an offer to help where help is needed. As for the difference between a decentralized microblogging service and a bunch of blogs with fees... we'll leave that as an excersise for the reader. Interesting that you bother to post a comment when you believe there is nothing to talk about, but thanks for the feedback in anycase.
Excatly! There are many ways to set up secure ssh access. Which is why a solid, know protocol like ssh is the right one to use for remote login, because it provides many options and all sysops can configure access for their own users as they see fit, yet all users, on all systems can still follow each other.
That would give us access to the users account at any time. It seems requiring their password be sent with every request is more secure (over https, of course)