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    From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 14 13:53:03 2023
    Hello,
    Any recomendation for Android usenet/nttp clients? for text only.
    If possible that does not truck you.. I was looking on fdroid was not
    able to find anything so far. :(

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  • From Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=E4uerle?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 14 16:43:02 2023
    rek2 hispagatos wrote:

    Hello,
    Any recomendation for Android usenet/nttp clients? for text only.
    If possible that does not truck you.. I was looking on fdroid was not
    able to find anything so far. :(

    You can search for:
    - PhoNews
    - Piao Hong
    - Groundhog

    But expect some unmaintained and/or broken piece of software.

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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de on Fri Jul 14 18:51:27 2023
    On 2023-07-14, Michael Bäuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> wrote:
    rek2 hispagatos wrote:

    Hello,
    Any recomendation for Android usenet/nttp clients? for text only.
    If possible that does not truck you.. I was looking on fdroid was not
    able to find anything so far. :(

    You can search for:
    - PhoNews
    - Piao Hong
    - Groundhog

    But expect some unmaintained and/or broken piece of software.

    Thanks, I will try to look for those, and go from there.

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    https://hispagatos.space/@rek2

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  • From issdr@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 14 21:15:01 2023
    rek2 hispagatos wrote:

    Hello,
    Any recomendation for Android usenet/nttp clients? for text only.
    If possible that does not truck you.. I was looking on fdroid was not
    able to find anything so far. :(

    slrn? do you have a shell account somewhere? or an always on device? (a
    linux based nas, or a RPi). put a ssh client on your phone... i suggest
    using screen when you connect, it circumvents several issues you might
    have.

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it on Fri Jul 14 19:58:52 2023
    In news.software.readers, issdr <p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it> wrote:
    rek2 hispagatos wrote:
    Any recomendation for Android usenet/nttp clients? for text only.

    Install Termux from Fdroid, compile and run newsreader of choice. Or
    maybe it's already in the Termux package repos.

    I compiled trn4 from source on my phone, and the hardest part was sh is
    not in /bin/, so lots of build scripts needed fixing.

    But, much as I love trn, it's old and has UTF-8 issues unless you work
    really hard. I did it as proof-of-concept rather than to actually use regularly.

    OTOH, trn works really well for reading news in terminals that are
    narrower than 80 columns or otherwise quirky. I find myself able to cope
    with Usenet in 57x15 on a 3" diagonal screen where half the display
    (hence that "15") is lost to the keyboard.

    slrn? do you have a shell account somewhere? or an always on device?
    (a linux based nas, or a RPi). put a ssh client on your phone... i
    suggest using screen when you connect, it circumvents several issues
    you might have.

    That's basically my method. ssh from Termux to shell host with trn. But
    I find tmux much better than screen.

    Elijah
    ------
    Termux has features to add special keys like ESC and CTRL

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  • From Ralph Fox@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 15 09:00:39 2023
    On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:53:03 -0000 (UTC), rek2 hispagatos wrote:

    Hello,
    Any recomendation for Android usenet/nttp clients? for text only.

    I am using PiaoHong's NewsGroup Reader <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.piaohong.newsgroup>

    I was looking on fdroid was not
    able to find anything so far. :(

    Free Usenet/NNTP clients include:

    * PiaoHong's NewsGroup Reader <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.piaohong.newsgroup>
    * PhoNews <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.cmg.android.phonews>
    * Usenet Reader for Android DEMO <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ken.android.nntpreader>

    Paid Usenet/NNTP clients include:

    * Usenet NewsReader <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.piaohong.NewsReader>
    * NewsTap <https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/newstap-usenet-newsreader/id292410356>
    * Usenet Reader for Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ken.android.nntpreader.pro>
    * PhoNews Pro Newsgroup Client <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cmgapps.android.phonewspro>

    F-Droid only carries open-source applications.
    Was open-source also one of your conditions?


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    Ralph
    🦊

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  • From issdr@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Sat Jul 15 00:01:11 2023
    Eli the Bearded wrote:

    slrn? do you have a shell account somewhere? or an always on device?
    (a linux based nas, or a RPi). put a ssh client on your phone... i
    suggest using screen when you connect, it circumvents several issues
    you might have.

    That's basically my method. ssh from Termux to shell host with trn. But
    I find tmux much better than screen.

    i'll give tmux a shot, thanks.

    actually i connect from ios, don't know much about ssh clients on
    android. i saw JuiceSSH, seems nice, and it features mosh compatibility,
    and mosh is way cool

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it on Sat Jul 15 03:49:45 2023
    In news.software.readers, issdr <p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it> wrote:
    Eli the Bearded wrote:
    That's basically my method. ssh from Termux to shell host with trn. But
    I find tmux much better than screen.
    i'll give tmux a shot, thanks.
    actually i connect from ios, don't know much about ssh clients on
    android.

    Termux is a complete Linux shell. Busybox or bash. Compilers like gcc,
    flex, bison, interpreters like python, ruby, perl. You can run ssh just
    fine from Termux.

    You can run tmux on Termux, ssh to somewhere else in one of the
    terminals, and then run tmux again at the far end. (But you may not
    want to run it locally. Termux can run multiple sessions on it's own.)

    I gather people with Android tablets run X11 from Termux. I have not
    tried that.

    Elijah
    ------
    runs lynx and vi locally via Termux on a cellphone

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  • From issdr@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Sat Jul 15 10:20:41 2023
    Eli the Bearded wrote:

    I gather people with Android tablets run X11 from Termux. I have not
    tried that.

    sounds amazing, but no way i can get anything even close without
    jailbraking... it doesn't seem to support mosh though, but maybe that's
    no biggie when you can compile/run so much locally.

    how does it handle going on the bg while on a ssh session? my former
    apps on iphone would all lose connection.

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it on Sun Jul 16 18:24:10 2023
    In news.software.readers, issdr <p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it> wrote:
    Eli the Bearded wrote:
    I gather people with Android tablets run X11 from Termux. I have not
    tried that.
    how does it handle going on the bg while on a ssh session? my former
    apps on iphone would all lose connection.

    This varies device to device with how much control over background usage
    is allowed. The aptly named "Don't Kill My App" website at dontkillmyapp.com has device by device ratings and directions for disabling background app killing.

    My current device is a two thumbs down one, with terrible out-of-the-box settings (very aggressive app killing) but easy access to change those
    settings (which I have done).

    So know ssh sessions are at the whims of network connectivity instead of
    app foreground / background actions. Switching from cellular to wifi or
    back will drop the connections, since the phone doesn't keep both going
    at once.

    comp.mobile.android or XDA forums (forum.xda-developers.com) is probably
    better for more detailed answers.

    Elijah
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    people at XDA know a lot, but don't answer much, c.m.a is the opposite

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  • From issdr@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Mon Jul 17 10:47:13 2023
    Eli the Bearded wrote:

    So know ssh sessions are at the whims of network connectivity instead of
    app foreground / background actions. Switching from cellular to wifi or
    back will drop the connections, since the phone doesn't keep both going
    at once.

    oh boy, i know that. that's where mosh enters: i seemlessly pass from
    wi-fi to 5g and back without losing connection. that works on pcs too:
    my linux terminal is instantly resumed with its ssh connection on when
    exiting windows' sleep state

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  • From fratermus@21:1/5 to issdr on Wed Jul 19 20:44:51 2023
    On 2023-07-17, issdr <p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it> wrote:


    oh boy, i know that. that's where mosh enters: i seemlessly pass from
    wi-fi to 5g and back without losing connection. that works on pcs too:

    I often have unstable net connection and mosh is a lifesaver. Before
    mosh I used autossh; it would reconnect but take longer and not give
    the visual feedback.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+MiPCfkpDwn4y78J+MuvCfj@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 24 10:13:01 2023
    On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:53:03 -0000 (UTC), LO AND BEHOLD; rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> determined that the following was of
    great importance and subsequently decided to freely share it with us in <u8rjvv$291d$1@matrix.hispagatos.org>:

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    Write yourself a web-based reader in PHP.

    HTH

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