Hi tilde.club,
I’m new to tilde.club, part of the new wave of users recently. Hi everyone! I am writing partly to introduce myself and partly to see if anyone is interested in a little command line wiki project I’m toying with.
The idea is that you create html files somewhere _outside_ of your public_html directory and make them readable by others in the club group. Then contact someone else who has also done this and ask them to link to one of your files. You can then use lynx or any other command line browser to browse the wiki. It’s that simple.
For example, see my page with this command:
lynx ~cmccabe/scatterWiki/index.html
If a number of people add content and link to each other, this will eventually create a decentralized, private-to-tilde.club wiki viewable only by users that are cozily logged into a shell session. How it evolves structurally is anybody’s guess.
I’m calling this scatterWiki since the wiki’s content will be scattered across users’ home directories.
By convention, I suggest creating your html files in a “scatterWiki” directory.
If you use this convention, your wiki files would be stored in:
/home/yourusername/scatterWiki/yourfile.html
Why do this? Honestly there is no good reason and it is a complete waste of time. However, you still might consider it because:
1. You can have a little html fun that is not indexed by the Googlemonster.
2. This encourages one-to-one interaction among tilde.club members when requesting or giving links, and hopefully those interactions will grow.
3. You can learn more about how lynx or other text-based browsers work.
4. More time on the command line is more good.
So that’s the idea. Nothing more.
If you create a page, let me know and I’ll link to you!
cmccabe
Hi all! :-)
Before I ever post anything serious into this mailing list, just a short question : Is this mailinglist publicly archived anywhere?
The background of my question is that I want to avoid any webcrawlers crawling my mailadress - although my tilde.club mailadress is not in use elsewhere than here. :-)
You see - the more I post into a publicly archived mailing list, the better chance to be crawled sooner or later ... spam is not what I want. :-)
Greets.
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