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a digital community for socializing, learning, and making cool stuff

tilde.team is a shared system that provides an inclusive, non-commercial space for teaching, learning, practicing and enjoying the social medium of unix.

i created this tilde after hearing about paul ford's tilde.club. when i was unable to join due to the waitlist, i decided to create my own tilde.

thanks for stopping by!

tilde.team is a founding member of tildeverse.org, which is a collaborative effort among several other tilde servers.

hosting and domains are paid out-of-pocket. tilde.team will always be free to use. however, if you are able and willing to pitch in, you can donate here.

~ben


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tilde.team services

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~news~

August 2026 Downtime

aug 2026ben

tilde.team got hacked. Someone was able to gain a root shell and ran rm -rf /. There's very little left to track down what happened or who did it. I take daily backups of the VM it's on so we lost at most a couple hours of files.

I'm currently working on restoring services that ran on the same host that users log in to. ssh access is currently disabled in the meantime. The plan is to move all services that are able to run elsewhere to the new VM I've created for those services. The mailserver is currently back up and running and you should be able to resume using IMAP/SMTP as usual.

Some of the services and sites I've already moved are:

  • tildegit.org
  • tilde.news
  • gopher.tildeverse.org
  • bbj.tildeverse.org
  • write.tildeverse.org
  • zine.tildeverse.org

I'm still evaluating what to do with IRC, XMPP, email, nextcloud, and a few others.

I'll post another update here when shell access is re-enabled.

~ben

happy 7th birthday, tilde.team!

may 30 2024ben

my, how time flies!

somehow seven years have passed since i set up tilde.team.

life has been a bit busy lately and i haven't had as much time as i would like to spend on tilde stuff. luckily, most things seem to keep running with little interference and folks keep making cool stuff and building community.

if you haven't been around in a while, stop by! ssh in, update your homepage, and maybe even pop in to irc to say hi :)

happy birthday tilde.team!

see ya around the interwebs, ~ben

ubuntu 22.04 upgrades

september 25 2022ben

i completed the upgrade to ubuntu 22.04 today!

this one was relatively easy, only a couple things to sort out.

got all kinds of new software with this one, including stuff like ruby 3, php 8.1, and python 3.10.

it's likely that you will have to recreate any python virtualenvs or any similar locally-downloaded deps.

holler if you notice anything amiss on irc or the mailing list!

~projects~

site

https://tilde.team


site, wiki, and css theme

tilde.club


fork of tilde.club infra/conf

tilde-launcher


Tilde program launcher

bashblog

https://tilde.team/wiki/tildeblogs


tilde.team customized fork of bashblog

skel


template home directory for new users

makeuser

https://tilde.team/signup/


A script that allows admins of tilde.team to make user accounts easily.

burrow


gopherhole tool

botany


command line virtual plant buddy

tildewiki

https://tilde.team/wiki/


some markdown extensions for php wikis

ttbp

https://tilde.team/wiki/ttbp


tilde.team blogging platform

welcome


a little script that runs on first login to tilde.team to help get users up and running.

geminipage


tilde.team's home in the geminiverse


~user spotlight~

  • ~gtlsgamr has made a page to show tilde.team's top nethack scorers!
  • For the text-only enthusiasts, ~soxfox has also made a gemini page to show nethack scorers.

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