## title: Public access UNIX systems
       ## date: "2023-10-25"
       
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       As I explored the more "hidden" corners of the Internet, I
       began to find some interesting things. Networks of hand-
       crafted sites, neocities, webrings or even websites indexed
       on anonymous networks like i2p (The Invisible Internet
       Project), and so on.
       
       The sources that have taught me the most and that I find
       most interesting are the public access UNIX systems, also
       known as pubnixes.
       
       ## Pubnix
       
       A pubnix is, as the name suggests, a system with a UNIX-based
       distribution open to the public. The administrator usually
       manages SSH access, which can be obtained on request.
       
       A common practice is to provide free, open-source services to
       users/members, and sometimes even to the general public.
       Server members may therefore be granted an e-mail service,
       web page hosting (HTTP, Gemini, Gopher, etc.), pre-configured
       access to a server or an IRC channel.
       
       These servers promote important values such as open source,
       knowledge sharing, program creation/development, community
       project promotion, help, free access, privacy and more.
       Important values that are unfortunately tending to get lost.
       
       ## Tildeverse
       
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       Tildeverse is a loose association of like-minded tilde
       communities and a tilde is a pubnix in the spirit of
       tilde.club.
 (HTM) Tildeverse
 (HTM) tilde.club
       
       If we take the example of tilde.team, which is part of the
       Tildeverse, this tilde offers a whole host of free services,
       some of them are for the general public. Services requiring
       authentication have been configured to support SSO built
       around system accounts.
 (HTM) tilde.team
       
       These include an email server, a private cloud with
       Nextcloud, a software host with Git repositories called
       Gitea and a Mastodon instance.
       
       Documentation (technical and other) can be consulted on the
       wiki and other knowledge can be shared on the forum or by
       chatting with other people via the IRC channels.
 (HTM) wiki
 (HTM) forum
       
       tilde.team is a pubnix among others, it makes people aware
       of the use of their data, the software they use and it
       proposes alternative solutions to other bigger solutions in
       general ethically not very correct.
 (HTM) tilde.team