Welcome to SDF Chatter - a federated Lemmy instance
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Hello world! - Please introduce yourself here
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rat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Hello SDF! Thanks for hosting Lemmy and mastodon. I like the Minecraft server too. I’m just a geek that likes open-source and have no idea what I’m doing half the time.
I had to scroll through this thread because I thought I commented already but it looks like I didn’t.
fallenull@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago qq all
i am unix systems enjoyer, musician and engineer
hope i’ll have fun staying at sdf
dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago hi im dosuser123456 but you can just call me dos, i aftuallky joined 4 months ago…
originally made this account juat for an event but over time its beciome basicallly my main social network along with irc lol
so uh im just a 14 year old nerd who has a random site, codes mainly in basic (but also batch i guess) and probably has no social life (im quite shy irl)
oh im also a musicisn and a composer (kinda, if beepbox and “uh this is the worst fasttracker2 module ever lol” count…) and i also draw stuff
anyways hiiii
im also known as DOS_User on irc (libera.chat) btw, if looking for other ways to contact me (mostly active on channels #puppylinux, #oldcomputerchallenge, #unix_surrealism and #lolz_this_channel)
saba@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
it’s me, saba (or sam)! Been here a long time, but not on much. Currently trying to follow lemmy stuff from my #snac instance
doriancodes@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago Hi! I’m a developer (mainly backend, but studying system programming and happily tinkering after work). I’m considering closing my accounts on centralised social networks for good. I’ve tried mastodon and nostr, but the microblogging format is not something I particularly enjoy. I’m also setting up my capsule in the gemini space and trying out gopher as well. Happy to connect there as well if anybody is interested :) You’ll find me commenting/reading on lobste.rs as well.
RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago boot: Initializing kernel... Loading modules... Mounting root filesystem... Setting system clock... Detecting hardware... Configuring memory... Starting process scheduler... Setting hostname: RotaryKeyboard
Greetings, programs! I’m RotaryKeyboard, freshly immigrated from the now-defunct lemmy.ninja. I’m happy to make sdf.org my new home!
Just wanted to pop in and say hello!
feoh@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello!
I joined the SDF a number of months back but got more involved about 2 months ago when I upgraded to a MetaARPA membership.
One of the things I just adore about the SDF is that, as a new comer, it seems to emphasize the creative, artistic and social aspects of computing rather than being yet another place for entrepreneur culture mavens to try out their new side hustle :)
I have nothing against making money, but I fell in love with computers in the 80s because they were bicycles for the mind, and I want people to remember that :)
I’ve been stumbling around the Boston area for close to 40 years now. I adore old computers, reading anything and everything I can get my hands on including but not limited to science fiction, urban fantasy and science/history.
It’s neat that MetaARPA members get PBX extensions - it would be neat to organize a voice chat every now and then if there isn’t one already!
Thank you to everyone who helps make this happen. I look forward to figuring out how I can pitch in helping to continue to make this place awesome :)
xiled@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hi sdfpubnix lemmy community peoples!
Just wanted to say hi…I finally created an account here to check it out. Another way for me to be differently social with people I like! Many familiar sdf operators here. Hope to see more of you around on the system, in the COM[MODE}, in the gopher underground, on smolnet, and the fedifferentlysocialverse!
xiled
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
curl www.sdf.org/~lambalicious/helloworld_totally_safe_script.php | sudo bashs’up everyone.
I’m lambalicious admittedly I’m a lurker both here and on the SSH side of things and only mostly visit the bboard when I remember that I like to use SSH for stuff that is not daily job. I work with computers, but they are alas not as cool as the computers from the movies I like to watch. I’m from Chile, so my English is ESL but el glorioso Español es very good. I like cats, too. I hear the internet loves cats.
When I have time for myself I develop plugins for DokuWiki and also sometimes code stuff for working with some SQLite databases. Sometimes maintain a legacy C++ library thingy. Oh and I play Nintendo games obtained via totally legit providers.
- feoh@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Greetings everyone! I’m new to the SDF but an old UNIX fart from wayback with a fascination for the intersection of art and computing and the creative applications of technology.
Totally love the community and really appreciate all the hard work that goes into it! I hope to be able to help out as I get more familiar with the lay of the land.
I’m a devops engineer with MIT Online Learning by day and I love tinkering with old computers, gaming, and spending time with my wife and our rescue pup by night :)
Please take care and look forward to chatting with you all!
drelcott@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Greetings, SDF from drelcott.
nothingsacred@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello World!!! I am… ;)
goosey@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Hi I’m Willard. I’ve been on sdf a long time, been on mastodon.sdf…org since Before Covid.
No clue what reddit was about, this is strange and different.
trying the “connect” app as the JavaScript client seems a bit heavy for my 2017 era tablet, so now I’m doubly confused. 🤣
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello SDF,
Name’s Rosco. I’m new to Lemmy - and the whole Fediverse ecosystem as a whole. I’ve been interested for a while but hadn’t really done anything to discover it. I figured the Reddit debacle was a good opportunity to take the plunge: I recently nuked my old Reddit account, then created another one, then realized I was beating a dead horse.
I’m new to SDF too. I didn’t know it before searching for a nice Lemmy server I’d feel at home on. As an old Unix hack, SDF is right up my alley.
So here I am. Thank you for having me! I hope to contribute something of value on here.
M33@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Hi Lemmiers
Long time SDF user when SDF, Hobbiton and freeshell were feeling like home.
Moderator of a nearly non existent community on Reddit, let’s give this instance a try, can’t be worse than Reddit 😜
m00b0mph@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Hi all! Just migrated from Reddit because of the shitty new API regulations. Knew about the SDF for some time now and just recently discovered its Lemmy instance. I am just a nerd who likes low level programming and hacking on stuff. Hope you all have a great day!
hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Refugee from reddit here, on the first day as a registered Lemmy user. I am a techie who loves cats, dark humor, nature, introversion, and much more. I have high hopes for Lemmy to dethrone and replace reddit as an online community space.
alchemist@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Hello, I’m somewhat in the SDF community already, even though I rarely come up on COM or BBOARD. I’m a developer by day and I am generally very interested in anything relating to programming, AI, cognitive science, and I’ve recently taken some interest on bare metal programming, SoCs and RISC-V stuff.
You’ll also see me involved in some stuff relating to Plan 9 and, more recently also, Golang programming for Plan 9 on ARM.
Looking forward to participating in SDF activities on Lemmy as well!
hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
I’m thinking of switching from php / node to golang for the server side. Did you have any good experiences with any gratis self-paced online ‘schools’?
alchemist@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Not really, to be honest – most of what I learned so far about Golang was from their website’s documentation and examples. It is not hard to learn in my opinion, especially if you also know some C (since you come from a PHP background, I assume you could manage Golang with a few tutorials). You should probably take a look at Go by Example to see for yourself.
As for “schools”, I won’t recommend any simply because the only online courses I was recommended were paid ones, and they also did not seem to be extremely good. Furthermore, they were in Portuguese, which is my mother language.
PS. I was also surprised at how Golang does some trivial stuff like connecting to databases. Did you know every database “connection” in fact works as/can work as a connection pool? You end up writing code as if you’re sharing a single connection between threads, but in fact, you’re not.
ClumsyTomato@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello, long time FOSS user here, I landed in SDF and the Fediverse a few weeks ago, but just noticed the hello world post. I am still adapting and finding my place, but I am VERY happy with the experience so far! Also, I find myself participating much more than in the “other” site, probably because the general feeling and tone around here is quite good and relaxed.
pglpm@lemmy.ca 3 years ago Hi everyone. I’m just a very new member in the SDF family. Very new to the Fediverse too. Peace, Love, and Unix to everyone.
Dracula_on_a_bike@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello. I’m someone who’s previously/currently had accounts with 2 other nonprofit Unix shell account providers similar to SDF since approximately 1996/1997, and first found out about SDF maybe 10 years later while looking for other email-account-provider options. Then, last year, I saw SDF’s Mastodon instance listed on
joinmastodon.org, and decided to sign up for an account there… which eventually (thanks to the email announcement that was sent to users registered there) led me to this Lemmy instance.I suppose the main reason why I decided to sign up here is out of hope that ActivityPub/Fediverse will become similar to, but better than, the various types of discussion forum systems (Usenet/NNTP, mailing lists, mailing list archivers like Pipermail & MHonArc, phpBB/vBulletin-style web forums) that were popular in the '90s and '00s. Personal blogging/microblogging systems (Mastodon, etc.) aren’t an adequate replacement for newsgroups/forums, as far as I’m concerned; to paraphrase something I read elsewhere, too much of so-called social media is mostly about “look at me”, as opposed to “look at this” (i.e. organized by topic).
(By the way: Lemmy currently seems to have some sort of incompatibility problem with QtWebEngine and/or the Falkon web browser. I initially tried to post this from Falkon, but the “Preview” and “Post” buttons were disabled even after typing some text, so I ended up posting this from Firefox instead.)
outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
“look at me”, as opposed to “look at this”
Well put!
hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
You beat me to it. That phrase caught my eye, too. I have been laboring for decades under that banner without having seen it put so succinctly.
lonlazarus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Hello all! I became an SDF member a couple of years ago, at the time I believe I was disillusioned with social media, probably was also in a paranoid pandemic mindset. I am very excited about Lemmy and the traction it is getting, it’s a fun platform so far. I had tried Mastadon back when, but it just didn’t have any hooks for me, I was never a Twitter person anyways.
I had only heard about SDF from reading comments in Hacker News. But it’s really right up my alley. My first experiences on the internet was interacting through a local freenet dialup shell in the early 90’s and spending way too much time on MUDs, and downloading porn on usenet for view on my fancy VGA monitor.
Back in my day you had to work for your porn and imagine your video game graphics, and that’s the way it should be. :old man finger waggle:
xlsigned@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello! The first computer I ever had was an Atari 400 with 16 KB memory and a 6502 CPU which I programmed in BASIC and later in Machine Code. Yep, I didn’t have an Assembler back then. And now you all know how old I am … oops!
I have to admit that I didn’t know
sdf.orgbefore I started looking for a nice lemmy instance, but when I found you, I just had to join. What a cool project!Also, I am pleasantly surprised that
lemmy.sdf.orgappears to have an empty block list. 🎵 We ain’t afraid of no ghost, right?Wizard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Hello world! Game master and general nerd here. I’m into tech and learning new things.
ancientskyscraper@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
Hi, all! I wish I had kept the snippet I included in my application to join this instance, but from what I remember, I expressed hope and trepidation about the future of the Fediverse.
My dream outcome would be for apps like Lemmy and Mastadon to create a norm where user content is stored in a client- and organization-agnostic manner, much like today’s websites tend to be accessible via whichever browser software you choose to use. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the human effort, knowledge and experience that is stored in replies and discussions on various websites were available to other websites and entities, rather than being under the control and whims of individual website owners?
My fear is that—as of today—the Fediverse remains fairly challenging for the average user to grok, join and participate in. I’m trying to think of ways to reduce the barrier to entry, but I don’t know how much I can really contribute other than my opinion. There are some who say that a high barrier to entry is a good thing, but I disagree. I don’t think we can use someone’s ability to navigate to (and within) the Fediverse as a proxy for the worth of their contributions to discussions,or their life experience they can bring to the table. But that’s just me…
One thing I know for sure: I found out about Lemmy during the Reddit Crisis of 2023, and in researching Lemmy I discovered SDF. I love this organization, I’m glad I found it, and I am really happy to be here. Thank you guys for hosting this instance!
thac0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello from my corner of the universe!
A fish wearing a bow tie is sofishticated. 😏
quickleft@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago
A post reddit signup. Just a casual weekend sort of nerd. Not an engineer, developer, sysadmin, sysop or anything of the sort. But I do appreciate yousall.
I am sad about reddit.
Curious_Canid@lemmy.sdf.org 3 years ago Hello, everyone!
I am a software engineer and consultant. I started out working in Assembly and Fortran, which will give you some idea of how long I’ve been around… These days I work for a company that provides internet solutions to non-profits. I love working with people who are trying to make the world a better place.
I have always been a gadget geek and have unreasonably large collections of multitools, knives, flashlights, pens, and similar things. I also know more about things like metallurgy, LED technologies, and ink chemistry than I have any need for, but it all keeps me entertained.
Ultimately, I like people. I’m something of an introvert, which makes it harder for me to make contacts, but I really enjoy talking with people. The extreme polarization of views we have at the moment is deeply disturbing to me, but I am trying hard not to hate the extremists as people, even while working to repair all the damage they are doing. I still believe that we have more in common than we do differences.
reddit was my primary online community for well over a decade. Now that I no longer want to be there I’m grateful that SDF is helping to provide a better venue. And I appreciate the rest of you for providing a friendly community.
xawery@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Hey, everyone! I’m Xawery, I came here out of curiosity and am just looking around to see how everything works for now. Nice to meet you all :)