There are lots of places online that will give free UNIX shell accounts: http://shells.red-pill.eu/ I used to have one on rootshell.be many years ago.
What's the difference between those and tilde.club?
Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
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#152But ~ doesn't mean person. It means 'home'. Hence, 'ls ~' lists the contents of your home directory and 'cd ~root' takes you to home directory of root.
In web context ~user translated to 'home of user' which was fitting in most cases.
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#153Am I missing something here or did the guy just used "~" to make it look like he was singing?
I feel like the guy that didn't get the joke.
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#154This article makes it seem like writing code over a shell is some ancient mystery. Am I really the only person that still codes everyday all day like this?
You're not :)
I am a scumlord though cause I do it in nano
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#155I'm accepting pull requests for my tilde.club page (http://tilde.club/~urschrei) at https://github.com/urschrei/edit_my_tilde, if anyone wants to put some of their own content / JS /CSS / images up.
A merged request triggers a web hook that pings a heroku app that performs a git pull on tilde.club using Fabric
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#156So, there's a lot of good reasons why nobody runs shell servers anymore. One reason is that the FBI may one day knock on your door with a letter that says they're going to need access to all your user's accounts, and that you can't tell them or anyone else, and if you do you're going to jail for a felony. If you're lucky you'll be able to tell your users about 6 months later. Other things that happen is you become a…
How is this any different than the situation for anyone running any kind of web service anymore?
Almost everyone running a 'real' web service puts in place limits to prevent this kind of abuse or isolate their customers from it. Gone are the days of running eggdrops from $1/month php hosters and hosting warez on Geocities. And most of the time these providers have an abuse reporting system with forms that allows for efficient review and process of complaints.
The combination of 'unlimited' access of a shell along with the shared nature of the host causes shells to be targets of more nefarious activity. Due to the personal nature of the account, people often host more personal information on a shell. So when it comes time to fork over account access, people are at more risk than just a web site host.
I understand the nostalgia of having a place for shared accounts. I have friends who host shells for their friends; a throwback to the days where it cost real money to colo a dual pentium machine with a SCSI RAID array on a 10mbit connection. But the world isn't a safe place anymore, and the feds don't just ignore cybercrime like they used to. They could probably trump up a charge of 'accomplice' just for having an account on a box that had some crime associated with it. I feel much better paying a few bucks a year for my own VPS.
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#158This is definitely going to become a thing. I want one!
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#159Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
#160But ~ doesn't mean person. It means 'home'. Hence, 'ls ~' lists the contents of your home directory and 'cd ~root' takes you to home directory of root. In web context ~user translated to 'home of user' which was fitting in most cases.
Also: "home page".