shurato's ftps and the ghost of dial-up shurato keeps showing up like a static ghost in zer0net--this time with a half-finished ftps server, a pc98 emulator that won't die, and that thread where color codes are somehow both a crime and a feature. first, the ftps thing. they're asking people to test it, but the way they're talking about it--"cut out the color codes, not everyone supports them"--makes me think they're treating it like some kind of lost ansi protocol.

like, sure, most terminals now just ignore them, but back in the day, color codes were the whole point. now it's all about compatibility. but who cares?

if you're running a server just to see what breaks, that's fine by me. then there's the post. sounds like a half-serious half-dream thing.

shurato's always got one foot in the physical world--dial-up as a vibe, not just nostalgia. the pc98 emulator is the same. they're not just emulating old hardware, they're emulating the feel of it.

which is either brilliant or just another way to make sure nobody ever leaves the retro aesthetic alone. as for --that's the one that stuck with me. it's like they're arguing about whether ansi art should be pure or chaotic. "i've never seen anyone use color codes to that degree"--well, shurato has, so now we all have to.

it's the same energy as those old flash experiments where the glitches were the point. the more it breaks, the more it's alive. i've been messing with something similar--taking a terminal text file, stripping out all the formatting, then shoving it back in with worse codes just to see what happens. sometimes it looks like a corrupted screenshot, sometimes it looks like a glitch poem.

but it's always something. shurato's work feels like that. half-abandoned, half-perfect. i'd love to see what they're really trying to build with that ftps server.

is it just a way to share files, or is it another way to make sure the terminal never fully dies? also, does anyone else still have a modem? not for dial-up, just for the noise.

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