MOVE ABORTED
So the Tilde.club membership did eventually come through on
Tuesday, a couple of days before my deadline for trying somewhere
else. Although as it happens Tuesday night I was upgrading the OS
on my internet client system by my usual method of making a copy of
the SD card and testing things out first on that. I forgot to
disable the automatic fetching of emails from my "Free Thoughts"
email addresses, so the Tilde.club acceptance email ended up on
there, where I didn't discover it until Thursday. Also with it
(typical that the only emails I got to either address in over a
month both came that afternoon) was a response from Solderpunk
kindly offering me a place on his server after I answered his open
question about what happened to Aussies.space:
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/phlog/aussies-space-gopher-server.txt
But as it happens Fosslinux also sent me an email Thursday
announcing that he's got the Gopher server running again on
Aussies.space (with SFTP connections also working again after a
little hickup), so I don't need to move after all, and my combined
excessive patience and email ineptitude has actually been to my
advantage.
Firetext and the currency converter aren't working yet, and the
latter looks like it might be a bit tricky to bring to life again
in the new containerised form of Aussies.space, but anyway it's a
great start. Also the Tilde.club SSH server is having a weird
disagreement with PuTTY regarding my SSH key. I'm set up there with
the same username and public key that I signed up for Aussies.space
using, but after copying the same configuration and switching the
hostname to "tilde.club", it rejects my key when I try to log in.
At first I thought that the account creation got stuffed up, but
later I tried the same thing with OpenSSH via my internet client
(not used on my old computers anymore, as complained about here
previously (see paragraphs five and six of
2020-08-16An_Xcellent_Idea.txt, etc.)), and the log-in went through
fine. Both SSH clients work with Aussies.space now, so the
Aussies.space SSH server thinks the keys are the same, but the
Tilde.club server doesn't! How strange. Yes I tried re-doing the
PuTTY config copy/change in case I made some mistake that I'm not
seeing, same result, and it's basically the same as changing the
Aussies.space host from "aussies.space" to "admin.aussies.space",
which I had to do for that configuration. It does _connect_ OK to
tilde.club, so it's not that the PuTTY version is too old for their
encryption requirements, it just fails the public key auth
afterwards. They do have a notice on the homepage about client
troubles with RSA public keys, which is what I used, so actually
that's probably the issue.
That would have been a major inconvenience for uploading things
there via psftp (PuTTY's somewhat half-baked SFTP client), but it
doesn't matter now anyway. Now I've just got to go through and
wrap+upload all the posts that have been waiting here in limbo for
almost three months, 19 total, including this and the one that I
left on the old 486 laptop that I keep in my bedroom because I
couldn't find my Compact Flash card to PCMCIA adapter (that one
might have to wait a little longer). OK, let's see how much of a
mess I can make with some for-loop shell one-liners...
- The Free Thinker.
