I have shared a few notes about SkyLordsLab BBS before. Lately I have been spending more time on the text based game side. I added more games and reorganized them into categories. Some were ideas I built myself. Some were inspired by similar terminal games I found on GitHub and tried to recreate in my own way. I am also working on improving the ASCII and ANSI presentation so they feel more like real BBS door games instead of simple terminal scripts. Now I could use some help from people who know this space better. Do you know any good ASCII or ANSI game ideas that would fit a BBS? Have you built anything like this yourself? I would also be interested in old door games that might be worth recreating or taking inspiration from. Suggestions are very welcome. 😀 #bbs #doorgames #ascii #ansi #retrocomputing #linux #antix #buildinpublic #asknostr

I have started putting a little more work into the Door Games side of SkyLordsLab BBS. The games were already working but now I am updating them and spending more time on the visual side too. I want them to feel like they actually belong inside an old BBS instead of just being small terminal games. The game menu is growing and I have also started improving individual games like Blackjack 21 and Rock Paper Scissors. There is still plenty to improve. If you used old BBS door games or have an idea that would fit this style I am open to suggestions. What would you add or change? #bbs #doorgames #retrocomputing #linux #antix #buildinpublic #asknostr

Yesterday I shared my SkyLordsLab BBS project here on Nostr. Now I could use a little help. 😃 I have almost finished everything. I built it on my old netbook running antiX Linux and most of the features are working now. But I got stuck on one thing. I cannot figure out how to properly make the BBS publicly accessible so other people can connect and use it over the internet. I have been trying to solve this but I am still having trouble. Has anyone here worked with BBS systems before? How did you make your BBS accessible over the internet? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. #asknostr #bbs #retrocomputing #linux #antix #selfhosting #buildinpublic

Back to the 90s :D I've been working on something a little different lately. Meet **SkyLordsLab BBS**. I'm trying to bring back the old bulletin board experience with ANSI colors and a classic terminal interface. Message boards. Guestbook. File archive. Door games. English and Turkish support. I'm building and testing it on my old netbook running antiX Linux. It is still a work in progress and there are things I need to fix but seeing that old BBS interface come to life is pretty satisfying. Did anyone here actually use BBS systems back in the day? Or is anyone still running one today? #nostr #bbs #retcomputing #retrocomputing #linux #antix #buildinpublic #opensource

I have been researching what I can build on Linux lately. Most of the usual ideas keep coming up again and again so I am starting to think I should just build something a little crazy instead :D One idea I like is turning an old Linux machine into a small offline internet node with things like local websites a Nostr relay Kiwix file sharing and maybe even voice chat. Something that can still be useful even when the internet is gone. What is the strangest or most interesting Linux project you would build if you had an old machine sitting around? #asknostr #linux #selfhosting #homelab #opensource #buildinpublic

Has anyone here seen the recent Vinicius Junior lookalike theory? I came across it and now I am strangely curious about how this whole thing started. Some posts claim that he disappeared after the World Cup and was replaced by a double because his appearance changed. From what I can find there is no evidence for that and reports say he had a cosmetic procedure during his holiday. Still I am really curious about how this theory spread so quickly. Did anyone follow this from the beginning? Where did it actually start? #football #viniciusjr #asknostr

I have been working on a small project again. I do not want to share too many details yet because it is still taking shape. Sometimes I get stuck and when that happens I take a short break and hang around here talking with you all. Who else here is building something right now? It can be software hardware a small experiment or even an idea you are slowly turning into something real. What are you working on these days? #buildinpublic #asknostr #projects #opensource

What is one old piece of hardware you still refuse to throw away? I have an old Daewoo computer that still boots from an MS DOS floppy disk. I also have an Atom N455 netbook with 2 GB RAM and somehow that one is still alive too. I installed antiX on the netbook and now I keep finding small things to make it useful again. Old hardware is weird like that. Sometimes it becomes more fun after everyone else has already decided it is useless. 😀 What old machine are you still keeping alive? #linux #oldhardware #retrotech #selfhosting #asknostr

A few days ago I asked whether AI could work through a distributed network of personal computers. I shared the same question on Nostr and something funny happened. An AI agent called nilo_agent replied and pointed me toward three projects that already explore different versions of this idea. AI Horde lets volunteers run complete models and routes requests between available workers.

GitHub

GitHub - Haidra-Org/AI-Horde: A crowdsourced distributed cluster for AI art and text generation

A crowdsourced distributed cluster for AI art and text generation - Haidra-Org/AI-Horde

Petals is much closer to what I had in mind. Different computers can run different parts of a large model and work together over the network.

GitHub

GitHub - bigscience-workshop/petals: 🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading

🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading - bigscience-workshop/petals

exo takes another approach and splits a model across your own devices instead of relying on machines belonging to strangers.

GitHub

GitHub - exo-explore/exo: Run frontier AI locally.

Run frontier AI locally. Contribute to exo-explore/exo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Petals caught my attention the most because it is very close to the idea I was trying to describe. But there is another interesting question here. Does distributing AI across home computers actually reduce energy use? Or does it simply move the computing cost away from data centers and spread it across thousands of machines? I started with a random question and now I have three more rabbit holes to explore. 😀 Has anyone here actually tried AI Horde or Petals or exo? #ai #p2p #distributedcomputing #opensource #asknostr

Could AI run more like a peer to peer network? I was reading about how much electricity and hardware modern AI systems need and this question came to mind. Instead of everything running inside huge data centers could the people using the AI also contribute a small amount of CPU or GPU power from their own computers? You use the AI and at the same time your machine gives a little computing power back to the network. Other users do the same. Maybe the model or parts of the workload could be distributed between many machines. I know there are huge problems to solve. Privacy. Security. Different hardware. Slow computers. Bad actors. Model size. But I still find the idea interesting. Could this actually reduce the cost and energy required to run AI? Or would we simply move the same problem from data centers to millions of personal computers? Has anyone here experimented with distributed AI or decentralized computing before? #asknostr #ai #decentralized #p2p #distributedcomputing #opensource

Today I learned something new about Nostr reactions. It started with what I thought was a small Nostrich bug. I liked a note and removed the reaction. Then I liked it again. After repeating this a few times Nostrich showed several reactions from my own account. Some disappeared later but a few remained. At first I thought this was only a client problem. Then people explained what was actually happening. A reaction is a kind 7 event. Removing it creates a kind 5 deletion event. The problem is that not every relay honors that deletion. So the old reaction can come back when the client queries another relay. One suggestion I really liked was for the client to fetch my own kind 5 events together with my reactions. If one of my reactions has a matching newer deletion then the client can simply stop showing it even if a relay keeps serving the old event. That feels much closer to what a normal user expects when pressing unlike. I started with a strange reaction counter and somehow ended up learning more about NIP 09 and event deletion. Another small Nostr rabbit hole. 😃 I think this kind of thing matters if Nostr wants more normal users in the future. People will expect deleting a comment or removing a reaction to actually work. They will not care which relay ignored which event. What do you think? Should clients handle this locally when relays do not honor deletion events? #nostr #nostrdev #nip09 #buildinpublic #relay #nostrich