Tell HN: Bash.org is no more • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by bayindirh » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

michaelcampbell wrote: post #22

eugenekolo wrote: post #11

Always surprised when some of these sites shut down. The operating cost seems low and putting on a few ads (ethical, non-intrusive, etc.) can net you passive $100+/mo.

It's more than money, they still require care and feeding. At some age (and I'm getting to that), you just tire of being a sysadm, esp. for "home"/hobby stuff.

Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions.

This is why I'm scaling down my home infrastructure to SBCs and run everything on Debian with stock package repositories. It reduces tons of burden to something very manageable.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by kqr » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

poisonborz wrote: post #36

There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still online. Would love to have a collection, there is far too little sociological/folklore research about the net.

https://warpdrive.se/ is a Swedish variant.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by viraptor » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

hn92726819 wrote: post #35

ricardo81 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

far better off as an independent entity beyond those centralised place's ever changing rules.

Is it? It was its own private entity and now it's offline probably forever. Edit: I think it'd be far better off on Wikipedia than Twitter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950912

Mirrors still exist

(Also, Twitter already deleted old data, so these quotes wouldn't be much safer there)

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by tomrod » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:34 PM UTC

notarget137 wrote: post #17

miroljub wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because of the HN security. It prints all passwords as stars. You can try putting your HN password in a comment, it would be visible only by you, and the others will not see it.

How about ****** Did it work?

Oh wow, you kiss your mother with that mouth?

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by shawabawa3 » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:34 PM UTC

cqqxo4zV46cp wrote: post #10

h2odragon wrote: post #2

Thanks to the folk who put it together and ran it nearly 20 years. I wonder how much the whole thing cost? Kind of thing that gets put together as a "hey this is cool" project, it runs and people use it, so we'll just leave it up... months later its more popular, the original authors of the system moved on, but no one can just pull the plug now. this is a public resource , so we'll just keep feeding it. Years later,…

I’d feel kinda sad if bash.org wasn’t using Perl or something.

surely it should have been written in bash

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by bayindirh » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:35 PM UTC

pmlnr wrote: post #29

My all time favourite: HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!! try pressing the the Caps Lock key O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!! fuck me https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bash.org/?835030

This is my favorite "brain brown-out" moment:

     d-_-b
     how u make that inverted b?
     wait
     never mind

https://web.archive.org/web/20230709002522/http://bash.org/?...

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by MOARDONGZPLZ » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:36 PM UTC

LeonM wrote: post #27

Oh man, that is so sad to hear. bash.org has given me endless laughs. It always cheered me up. Its too bad the the top 100/200 hadn't changed in years. I guess that's because IRC has been mostly dead for a while now (no more new submission) and that the voting algorithm favored a self-feeding feedback loop. Nonetheless, it was fun to come back once every few years and re-read the top quotes. Hopefully someone revives…

> Its too bad the the top 100/200 hadn't changed in years.

I checked it every couple years or so when I remembered some part of some top quote and wanted to get the full thing. I always saw the top quotes never changed, so I just assumed the entire site wasn’t really updated.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by PcChip » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

bayindirh wrote: post #39

raverbashing wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're saying the server pings but nobody knows where it's at?

Host resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything. The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too. So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side. Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the…

Whoosh

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by tomrod » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

bayindirh wrote: post #41

michaelcampbell wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more than money, they still require care and feeding. At some age (and I'm getting to that), you just tire of being a sysadm, esp. for "home"/hobby stuff.

Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions. This is why I'm scaling down my home infrastructure to SBCs and run everything on Debian with stock package repositories. It reduces tons of burden to something very manageable.

Non-sysadmin here. For static HTML, why is server patching/OS needed if things are locked down?

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by 6510 » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

I remember first being pointed to the site for having said: Wanting a man who doesn't smell is like wanting a woman who doesn't talk.

Its importance was immediately obvious.