Miakoda Oct 20

This SDF.org thing I've come across is absolutely fucking WILD! This is just a goldmine of nerd exploration dopamine! I don't fully understand what I can do with this yet. There's SIP (with or without access to the outside phone system), and messaging other users, and gopher, and web hosting, and a guestbook...
Most of this is accessed via ssh!
Apparently, they've been around since before "the web"

If you want to explore this, sign up is
$ ssh [email protected]

(See more below please!)

Show threadMiakoda Oct 20
Don't consider this a recommendation! I posted it so you can explore. I know NOTHING of their security or safety yet! I have absolutely no idea if playing with this is even a good idea, however I don't see any signs that would make me nervous. I'm just saying, assess that for yourself.
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@hellomiakoda It should wholeheartedly be considered a recommendation. SDF.org is as based as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, etc.
Show threadMiakoda Oct 20

@kenjen You are familiar with SDF? Please, info dump! I know so little!

(Note - my "this isn't a recommendation" is just cause I don't know shit about shit with it yet and didn't want to take chances giving people a false sense that I knew what I was talking about and they'd be safe. I have not seen any reason to distrust SDF.)

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@hellomiakoda Masto has a char limit for posts & I won't be telling you anything you cannae find on Wikipedia / SDF.org...

Except to say that, like OSU-OSL, they've been an integral, yet silent, part of the open source community for decades. I've never personally used their services, but if they were ever going down / failing to serve the community, you'd see open source projects calling out for support &/ lamenting the situation as they did during the OSU-OSL funding crisis earlier this year.

Show threadMiakoda Oct 20
@kenjen I don't recall hearing about OSU-OSL, but that might be because I'm unfamiliar with the abbreviation, which would make remembering I saw it unlikely.
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@hellomiakoda Oregon State University Open Source Lab... there used to be a time where they were one of 10 mirrors in the entire country hosting images and repositories for the majority of Linux distributions.
Oct 20 at 11:55pmWeb
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@hellomiakoda I honestly didn't know what it meant till this year. I just remember going to mirror lists as a wee bairn and choosing that mirror to download RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, and Fedora from... and running "yum update -y" in Fedora and watching the screen fill with "Downloading package... from {ht/f}tp://mirrors.osuosl.org/.../…/ at ###.#kbps"