Subj : Re: Blogging like it's 1999
To   : Hustler
From : tenser
Date : Thu Jul 06 2023 09:30 am

On 05 Jul 2023 at 12:22p, Hustler pondered and said...
 
 Hu>  > I've been playing with tildes for a while - they're community-based *ni
 Hu>  > systems where people can play with shell utilities, create home pages,
 Hu>   I've had a shell account at SDF for years yet can't get one on tilde.
 Hu> If I remember correctly you have to hang out in IRC and kiss somebody's
 Hu> ass get in? In this day and age I can't see people knockin down doors to
 Hu> get a shell account. Maybe you could suggest a better way? I don't see
 Hu> SDF going anywhere soon but a back up would be nice. Do they offer email
 Hu> with their shell accounts at tilde? I love my email at SDF. No BS. Just
 Hu> fast easy to use text alpine.

Huh, I've had an account on both or a few years, but I don't
recall any specific difficulty with signing up.   Truthfully,
I don't remember what I did....

I guess a different is Linux vs NetBSD.  The tilde thing I'm
logged into at the moment is remarkably modest: 6 cores and
16 GiB of RAM; about 1 TB of storage.

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