There's a shell provider out there named "Silence is

There's a shell provider out there named "Silence is
Defeat"[1]. They've been around, it appears, since 2000;
about 18 years. Even though their website looks entirely
dormant, you can still get an account there.

When you login to SD, as of 1/23/2018, you get a the
following welcome message:

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OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC.MP) #58: Tue Mar 12 18:43:53 MDT 2013

_ __ welcome to _ __ ____ __
_____(_) /__ ____ ________ (_)________/ /__ / __/__ ____ _/ /_
/ ___/ / / _ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ / ___/ __ / _ \/ /_/ _ \/ __ `/ __/
(__ ) / / __/ / / / /__/ __/ (__ ) /_/ / __/ __/ __/ /_/ / /_
/____/_/_/\___/_/ /_/\___/\___/_/____/\__,_/\___/_/ \___/\__,_/\__/
for support visit http://silenceisdefeat.com/support

Come idle with us on irc.oftc.net's #sd!

2014-09-26

'bash' is now actually ksh, until shellshock is
fixed. drop by IRC on irc.oftc.net #sd if you have
problems logging in.

2013-07-04

Upgraded to 5.3
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If you try out 'who' you'll find a handful of users
regularly connected. If you look at the output of 'ps'
you'll see lots of instances of irssi and a few other
things of little interest.

I generally login and post some nonsense to an ongoing
html file that shows that I exist and am active. But I'd
like to do more to help the server. I'm not sure what that
would be.

Unfortunately, the only real thing going on that I can see
is irc. Many people seem to love irc, but I'm just not a
fan. It's a communication style that requires that you
either be present, or leave something running that makes
it appear as if you're present, in order to participate.
I like it even less than texting or phone calls.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I want to see public unix systems
stick around, especially the ones that have been surviving
for a while. I'm not sure exactly what that looks like,
beyond people simply using the services. SD needs some
life breathed into it... but even the admins don't
*appear* to be trying. It might just be that they're
done, and life has to go on with other things now, I
don't know. I guess nothing lasts forever.

[1] http://silenceisdefeat.com/