Hello ~teammates,
A couple updates:
Things have been moving along as per usual, and irc has been rather busy
now that we're all mostly stuck indoors. I hope everyone is doing well
and staying as healthy as possible :)
I've fixed up our gemini support! We're live on gemini://tilde.team
If you're not familiar with gemini, you can check out the project page
at https://gemini.circumlunar.space. It's a new protocol that aims to be
more flexible than gopher and less crazy than the web. Also feel free to
stop by #gemini on irc to chat about it!
To show up on our main gemini page, mkdir ~/public_gemini and create an
index.gmi in there.
The other big news is that tilde.team turns 3 on May 30th!
I had forgotten when I originally registered the domain, but it turns
out you can check when it was first registered with the whois tool:
whois tilde.team | grep -i creat
Creation Date: 2017-05-30T20:25:48Z
So we've been up for 3 years now!
Cheers and hope to see you around!
~ben
I hope everybody is faring well through the uncertainty of this COVID-19
pandemic. If you're stuck at home and looking for something fun and new
to do, try out the new tildeverse space we set up on yourworldoftext.com:
https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~tildeverse/
As with all things in the tildeverse, keep it positive!
cmccabe
hello tilde friends!
i'm planning another move of the tilde.team vm (again, sorry) to a new
server that i'm renting at OVH. i'm not 100% sure what day i'll be doing
it, but it will need to happen before january 29 when the current
server lease expires.
i'm expecting the migration to go much smoother than before, as
everything now lives inside a vm that can easily be transferred as a
single-file backup archive, but it will still likely take a couple hours
since i'll need to first shut down the vm to ensure backup consistency,
then transfer it over. besides moving the vm itself, the ipv4 addresses
will also need to be transferred over to the new server and i'm not sure
how long that will take.
affected services will include:
- tilde.team shell accounts, email, websites
- tildeverse.org site and services
- tilde.zone (and pleroma)
- these mailing lists
(don't worry, pending mail will get delivered once we're back up)
the earliest i'll be doing this migration is this weekend and i'll send
a follow-up message to this thread and on irc before taking the vm down.
cheers and happy holidays!
~ben
Hi!
I am not able to use znc.tilde.team, it keeps saying invalid login. I am
able to use the webmail though. My password is a long alphanumeric
string. Is it broken?
Hello all,
I've had an account at tildecow.com server, which is at pfhawkins' list.
The server is down since Sunday 19/10/27. Do you have any information about
the status (down for a certain time frame/forever), as admin/owner
Chickenbaconranch(a)protonmail.com does not
respond to my e-mails (but e-mails to this address are not bounced)?
Best regards and thanks,
~avalyn
hello ~teammates,
it was discovered today that the apply_corrections.py weechat script
is a denial of service attack vector via a naive regex implementation.
cpu load spiked as everyone's weechat instance choked on a massive
regex. i intervened by killing all affected weechat instances.
if your weechat died, this is why.
i've also removed apply_corrections.py from the new user configs.
please remove apply_corrections.py when you log in and start weechat
back up. to do this, you can remove the script itself from
~/.weechat/python or run /script remove apply_corrections.py directly
inside weechat.
thanks,
~ben
Hi tildefriends!
In the continuous search for the freeedom at any technology I use, I'm
searching for mobile alternatives for Android (+google).
During this search I've known SailfishOS [1] and e.foundation[2]. The
leader is meego based, but has apk support. The latter is android
derivative with gapps replaced by the services of e.foundation.
Since both seem a reasonable alternative, I was wondering if anyone here
has experience with any of these, and could share his/hers opinions.
Any guidance also in the process of creating a dual boot to a cellular
is more than welcome. I'm seriously thinking in buying an Xperia XA2 as
it's supported by both OSs
Thanks in advance, and have a nice day :)
[1]: https://sailfishos.org/
[2]: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/wiki/en/wikis/devices-list
hey ~teammates!
it's been a while since i posted any updates to this mailing list, so
here's a few news updates for those who don't frequent irc :)
in no particular order:
* feels has been updated from upstream and re-patched for some tilde.team
customizations. info at:
- https://tilde.team/ttbp/
- https://tildegit.org/team/ttbp
* our wiki has some new features now
- linkable headers (like this
https://tilde.team/wiki/ssh#how-to-make-an-ssh-key)
- pretty urls (now without the ?page= query parameter)
* weechat relays over unix sockets: weechat added support for using unix
sockets for the relay plugin in version 2.5. i've configured nginx to
proxy your relay connection (so you don't have to use an ssh tunnel)
to your local relay socket. see
https://tilde.team/wiki/irc#weechat-relays for more info. holler on
irc or here on the mailing list if you need help setting this up!
* cgi-bin on user pages: inspired by envs.net (a new tilde created by
~creme). i've added support for cgi-bin in your ~/public_html dirs.
create an executable script in ~/public_html/cgi-bin/ and try it out!
hope you're all having a great summer and staying cool in this heat!
cheers,
~ben
Hi folks !
I was thinking about writing some documentation about email (and maybe
more) encryption using GnuPG. The target would be not-so-techy tilde
users. And the objective would be that anybody can use public key
encryption if they want to with minimal hassle.
I would like to know what people use for handling email, as I've been
using mutt for so long I don't really know what other folks do.
Please answer to this post (I'll publish it also on bbj and maybe
tilde.news) with your combo of OS/email agent or simply with a "not
interested".
That way I'll have an idea of what config examples to include on the
docs or that perhaps there's no interest at all in this and I can use my
time on other stuff ...
That's it, please take a couple of minutes to answer this ;-)
Have a nice day !
--
Paco Esteban.
GnuPG key: https://onna.be/44CA735E.asc
