tilde.town: A social network over SSH

Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH by puzzlingcaptcha on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:03AM (#24303183)

Bah, back in my day you had to send the sysadmin a postcard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#Postcardware) to get your account approved ;)

The picture database of all the postcards is still around [https://freeshell.de/postcards/] .

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Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH by GekkePrutser on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:54AM (#24306380)

What's this 'postcard' thing you speak of? I've heard a rumor people used to have slices of dead trees lugged around the world. But the latency would be enormous!!

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Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH by detaro on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:56AM (#24306395)

The trick is to glue in some microSD cards. Trades bandwidth for latency.

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