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
So DokuWiki is apparently very buggy and hasn't been playing
nice. I'm working on a new wiki to replace it. It will be
something DIY that users can contribute to via pull requests
at our git repo. More details to come.
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
We now have a console bulletin board available!
To access it, simply run 'bbj'. You may post
anonymously or choose to register a username.
The software was written by desvox over at
tilde.town, so props to desvox for making a cool little
bulletin board.
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
I have installed bat into /usr/local/bin/bat
If you aren't familiar, it is a cat replacement that features
syntax highlighting, themes, and built-in paging. It is much
more pleasant and much easier on the eyes than reading a file
by using less /path/to/file.txt or cat /path/to/file.txt.
Enjoy
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
I've run into, and solved, a small issue related to using GnuPG
with mutt/neomutt. This has been fixed for future users, however,
if any current users would like to use GnuPG to sign their mail
via mutt or neomutt, they will need to add the following line
to their ~/.muttrc or ~/.neomuttrc for it to work:
source /usr/local/etc/muttgpg.rc
Otherwise you'll encounter miscellaneous errors related to
mutt being unable to communicate with GnuPG.
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to put out a welcome to all the new folks who
have joined us over the last 36 hours. Feel free to use the
mailing list for any purpose, it's not *only* for official
communication, and don't forget to join us in the tildeverse
IRC network via the "chat" command!
But most importantly: have fun, experiment, learn, and
if you'd like, share what you've learned or cool things to do
via the wiki on https://tilde.institute!
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
I've installed Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. If you've not
played it before, it's a well-designed roguelike game.
It's super fun, so give the Orb of Zot a run for its
money! The command is "crawl-ss" or "dcss".
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Hello everyone!
I'm looking to add more technologically or historically significant
quotes to add to the bottom of the motd randomly.
If you would like to add a quote, please submit a pull request to
the motdrotate.py script here:
https://tildegit.org/ahriman/tilde.institute-backend
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