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SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

(sdf.org)

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by kmstout7 hours ago |
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upvoteby chancitag5 hours ago|
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Love SDF. They run some great services for members, like a mastodon instance and pixelfed.
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upvoteby wrxd4 hours ago|
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These are really cool services but to have a proper blast from the past you need to ssh in and join the chat on com or the discussions on bboard
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upvoteby TedDoesntTalk54 minutes ago|
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ssh? Don’t you mean telnet?
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upvoteby jmclnx1 hours ago|
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Plus you can easily setup your own Gopher and/or Gemini site and you can have your WEB site there too.

FWIW, I migrated my WEB Site to Gemini with Gopher as a mirror. Maintaining those on SDF is far easier than maintaining via *panels.

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upvoteby naggie42 minutes ago|
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See also www.polarhome.com which has sadly closed shell accounts and shutdown machines.

Discovering SSH, bash, linux etc in 2004 was magical for me. I always liked the idea of SDF and polarhome and did a similar thing with a few friends for a while, albeit with limited success. Proper internet.

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upvoteby emigre1 hours ago|
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The Interim Computer Museum in Tukwila, WA, is a partner organization.

https://icm.museum/

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upvoteby moecables3 hours ago|
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I have an SDF login still and I go in there every once in awhile but don't really know what others use it for
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upvoteby emigre1 hours ago|
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I was hosting a site there, but the administration is unresponsive and I gave up on them. Lovely place, though.
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upvoteby user39393821 hours ago|
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It’s great when you want to check on a server or IP from an outside network. You can do that from a phone but with SDF you have your full desktop terminal if you like and a clean cache.
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upvoteby binaryturtle38 minutes ago|
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They allow port scans?

I did use nmap on a Linux VM going over the free ProtonVPN for this purpose, but at some point Proton broke something (it may be related to their VPN accelerator feature) and checking any port always reports "Open" (even if it's not), so sadly that made this cool use case entirely useless for me. It definitely was nice to know you had no open ports other than the ones you purposefully opened. :)

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upvoteby ChrisArchitect4 hours ago|
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Some previous discussions:

April https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819410

2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31076886

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14940790

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14134798

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upvoteby user39393821 hours ago|
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They also have their own streaming radio. Awesome list of tools. One of the few remaining shining lights of our original hacker culture, in the sense of the term from this forum’s name. Absolutely love SDF.
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upvoteby mac3n3 hours ago|
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see also theworld.com
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