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.
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.
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. :)
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.
Love SDF. They run some great services for members, like a mastodon instance and pixelfed.
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
ssh? Don’t you mean telnet?
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.
The Interim Computer Museum in Tukwila, WA, is a partner organization.
https://icm.museum/
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.
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
I was hosting a site there, but the administration is unresponsive and I gave up on them. Lovely place, though.
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.
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. :)
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
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.
see also theworld.com