Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde communities

Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by dusted on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:51AM (#29470719)

The "tilde" part of the name comes from the ~ character, traditionally used to indicate a users public HTML directory.

For instance, if you were a user "dannyboy" on example.com you might host a website in /home/dannyboy/public_html and it'd be exposed via example.com/~dannoyboy

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by s_dev on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:32AM (#29470973)

Origins of Tilde Club: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by scrollaway on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @09:19AM (#29472697)

Similarly used by https://tildes.net (invites available if you email me).

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by joshu on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:55AM (#29470740)

and unix shell expansion before that

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by thewakalix on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @07:38AM (#29471749)

As they say, $HOME is where the tilde is.

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by bitwize on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @09:43AM (#29472904)

And it came to Unix because "HOME" was printed on the tilde key of the ADM3A terminal.

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by joshu on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:10PM (#29621178)

i did not know this! so what was more influential, adm3a or vt100?

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by dusted on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:40AM (#29471030)

oh yes, of course, I used to type cd ~ instead of just cd. Totally forgot that

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by JoBrad on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @07:42AM (#29471790)

My top 2 aliases (after ll):

    alias ~="cd ~"
    alias ..="cd .."

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by ksherlock on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:27AM (#29472200)

As of bash 4, `shopt -s autocd` will automatically do that (and more).

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by JoBrad on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:03PM (#29480206)

TIL - thanks!

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Re:Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde ... by notinty on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:33AM (#29471351)

  cd ~dusted

is the lesser-known expansion

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