Hello everyone,
tilde.news is a link and news aggregation site in the
tildeverse. It's a fun, local alternative to lobste.rs
and Hacker News.
Account invitations can be requested via tildeverse IRC.
Just pop into #meta and ask, someone will reply shortly.
Join up, contribute, and help us make the tildeverse
a fun, active place :)
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~ahriman / Ben Morrison
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Hello everyone,
In light of the recently-published TLS attacks,
I wanted to assure everyone here that OpenBSD's httpd
enforces strict TLS1.2 and only uses secure ciphers.
We're good :)
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~ahriman / Ben Morrison
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Hey everyone,
~troido has set up asciifarm here at tilde.institute!
It's a multiuser social-farming game with a persistent world.
Give it a try by running 'asciifarm'!
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~ahriman / Ben Morrison
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Hello everyone,
A few people have voiced concern regarding fingerd
exposing IP addresses publicly. I decided to nix the default
OpenBSD finger daemon. Instead, I've compiled efingerd, a
replacement finger daemon that allows users to completely
control what information is exposed via remote finger queries.
Have fun!
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
The elvish shell is now available for users to experiment
with. For more information on what makes elvish different,
check out their web site:
https://elv.sh/
It's located at /usr/local/bin/elvish
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
There was an issue with the certificate used to connect
to institute.tilde.chat externally (eg, not from ~institute
directly). The certificate did not match the hostname.
However, this has been resolved. I apologize if this caused
any issues.
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
Something we've been working on across the tildeverse is
the concept of finger as a rudimentary social network.
Well, as of tonight, tilde.institute now features a working
finger daemon.
The OpenBSD finger daemon will support two
files that can be relayed when a finger query is received:
~/.plan and ~/.project. What you write in these files is
totally up to you. For an example of what the output will
look like, feel free to "finger ahriman" here on ~institute.
Earlier today I submitted a page on finger to the
tilde.team wiki. I will soon be putting the same information
in the wiki here at ~institute.
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
The new wiki is completed. As I mentioned before, I ditched
dokuwiki in favor of a static wiki that users can contribute
to via the tilde.institute tildegit repo for the web site:
https://tildegit.org/institute/site
Click on the wikipages directory for a listing of pages.
There are brief instructions if you aren't familiar with the
standard git workflow.
I've gone ahead and added the information xvetrd shared in
the mailing list as a wiki page. This is much simpler than
a full wiki solution, and something that matches the tildeverse
ethos a bit better, so we won't have any problems with it
like with a pre-packaged solution.
Thanks to tilde.team for the inspiration and like two lines
of code that I used from their wiki.
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~ahriman / Ben Morrison
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Hey all on the institute.
I realized today I wasn't getting mail notifications, and I hadn't
set them up on this shell. So here are some things I do on my
local machine that work here:
To get the shell to tell you when you have new mail, after command
executions, add this to your .profile
export MAILCHECK=0
And, if you want, you can have a persistent notification when you
have un-incorporated mail, or more specifically, when your
/var/mail/<username> isn't empty.
PS1="\$([-s /var/mail/`whoami` ] && echo '* ')$PS1"
This works in /bin/ksh, I can't speak for other shells.
If anybody else has some quick tips they would like to share, I
encorage them to reply to this thread.
Happy Unixing!
~xvetrd
