Subj : Re: Long Day
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Tue Jan 25 2022 03:04:33

On 24 Jan 2022 at 07:11p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo> There are other ways to achieve the same thing, or something similar. 
 bo> Such as Matrix, which it seems you can create your own private set up,
 bo> though I'm not too keen on an Electron based client and I'm not quite
 bo> sure how you can federate with others, while keeping that federation
 bo> itself quarantined.  FTN networks can do this (provided people
 bo> cooperate).  It does appear that Mystic is easier to get up and running.

I trust the security of Element a lot more than I trust the
security of Mystic, but anyway, there are command-line Matrix
clients; why not use one of them?  Or even a private IRC server
for that matter?  IRC over TLS has pretty decent support.

For kids, a private timesharing Unix machine would be a lot
more interesting than a BBS: you can provide all the traditional
BBS functionality but a whole lot more, too.  And with a modern
Unix variant, it can be approximately as secure as anything else
out there.

We've got a "family" timesharing box down in the basement; it's
a SiFive unmatched board running OpenBSD-current.  The kids like
to login and play "robots" and "rogue".

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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