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People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers

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90 points sugarpimpdorsey | 5 comments | 30 Jul 25 23:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.862s | source
1. nickdothutton ◴[03 Aug 25 12:42 UTC] No.44776166[source]▶
This is why I’m setting up a modern shell host community for like minded individuals. Think of it as a high trust social network niche.
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2. rwmj ◴[03 Aug 25 13:25 UTC] No.44776440[source]▶
Back in the day, Stallman ran a bunch of public servers without any passwords. High trust indeed. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2295/why-did-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2519009
3. JdeBP ◴[03 Aug 25 15:31 UTC] No.44777256[source]▶
Competing with sdf.org, eh? (-:
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4. nickdothutton ◴[03 Aug 25 16:44 UTC] No.44777830[source]▶
In some sense perhaps, although I doubt there will ever be more than a couple of thousand members.
5. lrvick ◴[04 Aug 25 07:19 UTC] No.44782894[source]▶
Feel free to help further modernize ours running 20+ years!

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