It’s more old school yahoo from what I remember

Yeah a shell account is a standard term for getting a terminal access in a shared system going all the way back to mainframes.

Most universities at least in the US had a thing called a Sunsite that came with shell access sometimes.

Yeah they do

If you are planning on running an open shell account server. I would look up joining the tildeverse as a member server.

That’s the one thing idiocracy got wrong it wouldn’t be Costco it would be Rent-A-Center

Yeah offline means off cloud at this point

They forgot “Ministry of Truth”

Yeah I use debian + kde for decades. Debian will install your pick of DEs at install.

Debian it’s a rock solid base that can be updated automatically with minimal user oversight

Yeah that is his point he is trying to make at some point you just have to come to terms with that trust since you are right it’s not feasible to build your own hardware.

No worries , but i think I’m not being clear if you build it from scratch. how are you going you going to compile it ?

Your welcome but that’s the point he was making even if you build everything on your own. The backdoor would be in the compiler. So even if you built /bin/login for example he would just inject it at compile time when compiling your code. But then you asked I will just compile the compiler but you have to compile it at some point and he can inject the code back into the compiler at that point.

If you read this you will never trust anything again. If you aee not familiar with him that is Ken Thompson one of the father’s of Unix.

Your domain need to be tied to cloudflare you don’t need to buy one from them. I just moved mine to them didn’t pay them a dime

You realize they have an election when they are supposed to in Russia. The rebellion should have been in 2024.

Nextcloud and OpenStack if you are looking to run your own cloud like deployments

Ah I misunderstood i thought you were only using it for Auth not the other blog features and pages.

That’s all good and all but it all you want to do is look at the stream a single html and a htacess page should do the trick

Why Wordpress seems like a heavy solution for a basic web page and lots of maintenance and security vulnerabilities.

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine would be an option if you don’t need a web UI