MOVE ABORTED

So the Tilde.club membership did eventually come through on 
Tuesday, a couple of days before my deadline for trying somewhere 
else. Although as it happens Tuesday night I was upgrading the OS 
on my internet client system by my usual method of making a copy of 
the SD card and testing things out first on that. I forgot to 
disable the automatic fetching of emails from my "Free Thoughts" 
email addresses, so the Tilde.club acceptance email ended up on 
there, where I didn't discover it until Thursday. Also with it 
(typical that the only emails I got to either address in over a 
month both came that afternoon) was a response from Solderpunk 
kindly offering me a place on his server after I answered his open 
question about what happened to Aussies.space:
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/phlog/aussies-space-gopher-server.txt

But as it happens Fosslinux also sent me an email Thursday 
announcing that he's got the Gopher server running again on 
Aussies.space (with SFTP connections also working again after a 
little hickup), so I don't need to move after all, and my combined 
excessive patience and email ineptitude has actually been to my 
advantage.

Firetext and the currency converter aren't working yet, and the 
latter looks like it might be a bit tricky to bring to life again 
in the new containerised form of Aussies.space, but anyway it's a 
great start. Also the Tilde.club SSH server is having a weird 
disagreement with PuTTY regarding my SSH key. I'm set up there with 
the same username and public key that I signed up for Aussies.space 
using, but after copying the same configuration and switching the 
hostname to "tilde.club", it rejects my key when I try to log in.

At first I thought that the account creation got stuffed up, but 
later I tried the same thing with OpenSSH via my internet client 
(not used on my old computers anymore, as complained about here 
previously (see paragraphs five and six of 
2020-08-16An_Xcellent_Idea.txt, etc.)), and the log-in went through 
fine. Both SSH clients work with Aussies.space now, so the 
Aussies.space SSH server thinks the keys are the same, but the 
Tilde.club server doesn't! How strange. Yes I tried re-doing the 
PuTTY config copy/change in case I made some mistake that I'm not 
seeing, same result, and it's basically the same as changing the 
Aussies.space host from "aussies.space" to "admin.aussies.space", 
which I had to do for that configuration. It does _connect_ OK to 
tilde.club, so it's not that the PuTTY version is too old for their 
encryption requirements, it just fails the public key auth 
afterwards. They do have a notice on the homepage about client 
troubles with RSA public keys, which is what I used, so actually 
that's probably the issue.

That would have been a major inconvenience for uploading things 
there via psftp (PuTTY's somewhat half-baked SFTP client), but it 
doesn't matter now anyway. Now I've just got to go through and 
wrap+upload all the posts that have been waiting here in limbo for 
almost three months, 19 total, including this and the one that I 
left on the old 486 laptop that I keep in my bedroom because I 
couldn't find my Compact Flash card to PCMCIA adapter (that one 
might have to wait a little longer). OK, let's see how much of a 
mess I can make with some for-loop shell one-liners...

 - The Free Thinker.