tl;dr; We started an NYC list. You can, too. Also, my intro.
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Hi all,
Our NYC meetup was fun, and we want to do more without annoying everyone
else.
So: we made a list for New Yorkers to make plans and complain about stuff.
Sign up here:
https://lists.tildeverse.org/postorius/lists/nyc.lists.tildeverse.org/
To start your own local tilde list, email benharri(a)tilde.club and be ready
to moderate.
In other news, I owe you an intro, so
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Hello /~everyone!
I'm Ben.
You might remember me from:
- The mobile team at Vice, which I hired and managed
- The iOS readers at the New York Times
- The Longform dot org iPhone and iPad apps
- A desktop blog editor for the Mac called "Blogo" back in the aughties
- The Shame Eraser, which AFAIK was the first open-source tweet-deleter
- Any of the other articles I did for ~jwherrman before ~mat took over BF
tech
My relationship with the tilde is complicated. I never wanted to work as a
programmer. (Engineering wasn't "cool" before the App Store.) But my gramps
gave me a Mac in '91, my school taught BASIC and when I graduated it paid
well and came easily.
Now I work on all the cool parts of HR: interviewing employees and
designing infrastructure like hiring and onboarding plans to maintain a
healthy culture. It's like product design, but the "customers" spend
8-14h/day in the product, which I'm sure no one here does with any app.
My tilde is ~bj, but there's nothing there, so please accept this modern,
pink website in its place:
https://ftw.nyc
(Your data will be encrypted with secure socket layer technology)
See you all around,
Ben
P.S. If you identify with an underrepresented group in tech and need advice
on your career, or the company you run, or anything really, I have office
hours at https://ftw.nyc/office-hours and you should book a slot.
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Ben Jackson
bhjackson(a)gmail.com
@benjaminjackson
http://90wpm.com/about
I typed "ssh mpnordland(a)tilde.club" into my terminal.
What followed was not quite what I had expected...
The MOTD was spouting some nonsense about "Ac1d1c5" owning the box.
Tildizens,
I’ve waited since 2014 for my tilde account and have had a lot of fun the past couple of days.
I noticed you are all a bunch of creative people with a knack for writing terribly crafted html that looks awesome.
I also noticed that we are a community. So what good is a community if we cannot work on something together?
Now while you guys were living under a rock writing goofy shell scripts and honing your html 3.2 skills something terrible happened. It was called web 2.0 and it made everything go south very quickly.
So I’m thinking how about we collectively go south the tilde way and do some of that user generated co creation nonsense that in the outside world ended with the russians tipping the US presidential elections?
So, here’s what I did.
I created an empty html file and made it world writeable. You can find it here:
cd /home/martijn/public_html/thepage/
and in your browser obviously:
https://tilde.club/~martijn/thepage/
All I am asking of you is to please edit that file and leave something there. A text, an image, a gif, a piece of javascript, an invisible html comment, a story, whatever. If you stumble upon something someone else did, you may rearange, enhance or add to it, as long as you do not remove it. If you find something offensive, please do remove it. Aside from that all standard ~ rules apply.
Still with me? Good! There’s one more thing:
To prevent people overwriting eachothers edits, I’ve created a locking system.
Before you edit this file, please execute
ls -lt
in the thepage directory:
total 0
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:38 index.html
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:35 index.lock
If the output looks like the above, where index.html is above index.lock because it’s modification time was more recent, there is no lock on the file and you can proceed to lock it by touching the index.lock file.
touch index.lock
Now if you ls -lt that directory again:
ls -lt
total 0
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:41 index.lock
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:38 index.html
You’ll see that you have successfully placed a lock. You can proceed to edit index.html. Once you are done and you save your changes, the modification date of index.html will be updated and the lock will be lifted automagically.
If you find index.html to be locked, don’t touch it and wait for it to be released, unless the lock is more than 20 minutes old. In that case, by all means ravage whatever the person who locked you out for too long was trying to do.
So, I’m in europe and if you are not, it’s highly likely that I will be asleep when you are reading this. The last thing I want is to wake up tomorow morning and find the same blank canvas I am leaving you now. I want to wake up and see something special, so please don’t disappoint me.
Also: I am open to discussions and suggestions as far as what thepage can be and what it should mean, but I would appreciate if we could find a place for these discussions on thepage itself. That is to say: we do not discuss thepage outside of thepage.
So unless I goofed up and you guys are totally unable to edit these files, don’t let me know if you have any questions, ask thepage. Also, if you enjoy this kind of thing please feel free to come back ocasionally and do some rearranging of whatever state thepage is in. I envision an ever growing and improving library of god knows what all crammed into the confines of a single html file.Help me see what that could look like.
Cheers!
~martijn
Someone turned me onto a Humble Bundle of O'Reilly Linux/Unix books. $15
gets you 15 books.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-unix-oreilly-books
Here is the list of filenames, not titles, but I'm sure you can sort it
all out.
- bashcookbook
- classicshellscripting
- effectiveawk
- greppocketref
- introducingregularexpressions
- learninggnuemacs_3rdedition
- learningthebashshell_3rdedition
- learningtheviandvimeditors_7thedition
- linuxdevicedrivers
- linuxinanutshell
- linuxpocketguide_3rdedition
- linuxsystemprogramming
- masteringregularexpressions
- sedandawk
- unixpowertools
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~elb
I wrote about this on my tilde page, so more information is there: https://tilde.club/~audiodude/ (https://tilde.club/~audiodude/)
The idea is to set up a Factorio multiplayer server for members of the tildeverse. It would follow the code of conduct of tilde.club, and I would donate the AWS resources necessary.
The post has some links about Factorio if you haven't heard of it. If you have heard of it, you're probably already a fan. I just registered a domain for this so the server would be at tilde.assembly.monster
We could start a new game from scratch or load up someone's save, or whatever. Server settings and map seeds are all up for debate and consensus.
Let me know if there's interest!
-Travis
~audiodude
When I just logged out of my SSH-access to tilde.club,
it said:
[freespeech@tilde etc]$ Abgemeldet
lp1 on fire
(One of the more obfuscated kernel messages)
Is this a text coming from "fortune" or did I now do anything wrong?
I am a bit confused ...
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.
freespeech
Ira Glass once said “Life is short, and anything that gives pleasure is good.”
What’s some media you’ve been enjoying lately? Don’t worry if it’s mainstream or lowbrow or a guilty pleasure. Anything’s fine. What are you enjoying?
