Welcome to tilde.institute! This is an public-access machine in the tildeverse whose purpose is to provide a space for people to experiment with the OpenBSD operating system. A variety of editors, shells, and compilers are installed to allow for development in a native OpenBSD environment. OpenBSD's httpd(8) is configured with slowcgi(8) as the fastcgi provider and sqlite3 is available.

User sites are accessible via https://<user>.tilde.institute

A list of user gopher sites is available at gopher://tilde.institute

The mailing list will be the primary means of communication between tilde.institute admins and users regarding announcements and critical issues. Web archive and subscribing information available here.

The list of compilers and interpreters available are as follows:

Your interactive shell can be changed with the chsh command. The shells available:

The IRC clients available by default are:

Feel free to contact the admins via admins@tilde.institute or on IRC in #institute if you need another package installed, or if you would like your homepage's index changed from index.html to something else (index.cgi, index.php, etc).

News & Updates

2020 April 17

Some ssh host heys were regenerated and I also deployed SSHFP records. If you receive an error related to this when connecting, remove the old host key fingerprint:

ssh-keygen -R tilde.institute

Then connect and tell ssh to check the sshfp records:

ssh -o "VerifyHostKeyDNS ask" <user>@tilde.institute


2020 April 14

Upgraded to OpenBSD 6.6. Everything went smoothly. Enjoy!

2019 July 30

The server migration happened over the weekend, and there were very few issues resulting from the migration. Success!

2019 July 04

We'll be moving to a much larger and more powerful server soon! Currently building it. We're hoping to have everything ready for next week.

2019 June 06

Wow, we've hit 150 users! Also, we'll be upgrading to OpenBSD 6.5 on Monday evening around 10:00 PM US Eastern Time, or 2:00 AM UTC (Tuesday).

2019 March 14

Welcome to the team, Kneezle!