tilde.institute
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tilde.institute Compute
caveatemailno cardDwrite-gated
| Free tier | A free OpenBSD shell account on a pubnix: SSH, a home directory served over HTTP at tilde.institute/~user, mail in maildir, IRC clients, and a wiki. No disk quota, RAM figure or traffic allowance is published on the home page, the FAQ or the signup page. unit none; metered on none; no quota of any kind is stated on the pages read; that is a documented absence, not a documented limit |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a home directory, not an object |
| Retention | not stated: no inactivity clock or deletion policy appears on the news page, the FAQ or the signup page |
| Egress | not stated: no traffic volume or bandwidth figure appears on any page read free_allowance: unstated |
| Identity | email No card, no hold, no phone, no document. Joining is an IRC conversation: 'Please join the IRC network and hang out for a while. You'll be able to request an account from there. Connection details: institute.tilde.chat, Port 6697, TLS required.' There is no signup form to read, so what the account request itself asks for is not established. |
| Limits | |
| Binding | write-gated the account is granted by an admin on IRC after the applicant has spent time in the channel, and no quota is published to plan against even once granted |
| Interface | ssh SSH on the default port to an OpenBSD host; web space at https://tilde.institute/~user; git hosting at git.tilde.institute from the home directory; mail in maildir; IRC via the tilde.chat network |
| Tooling | any SSH client; a shell on OpenBSD; the site's wiki |
| Composes with | a free OpenBSD shell with a web directory and mail, which is a place to run a small script or publish a page, and is currently at risk of losing SSH access |
| Reliability | the operator's news of 2026-10-22 states: 'PHP has been removed entirely. I will either be setting aside time to rebuild this whole thing on OpenBSD 8.0 soon, or I will need to turn off SSH access until I can make time.' That is a live statement that SSH access may be switched off |
| Notes | Not in dossier/compute before this record. The caveat is two-fold: no quota is published, and the service is at risk. What could not be established: the disk and memory limits, whether the IRC request is granted readily, and whether the OpenBSD 8.0 rebuild has happened. What would reopen it as a clean qualify: a news post saying the rebuild is complete and SSH is on. |
| Evidence rung | documented the joining procedure, the services and the at-risk notice are quoted from first-party pages read today; the quota is a documented absence; no account was requested |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
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Evidence (8)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | tilde.institute/signup | quoted: 'Please join the IRC network and hang out for a while. You'll be able to request an account from there.' with 'institute.tilde.chat', 'Port 6697', 'TLS required' |
| 2026-10-24 | tilde.institute/ | quoted, dated 2026 October 22: 'PHP has been removed entirely. I will either be setting aside time to rebuild this whole thing on OpenBSD 8.0 soon, or I will need to turn off SSH access until I can make time.' |
| 2026-10-24 | tilde.institute/ | quoted, dated 2023 April 03: 'Also, re-enabled the signup form.' - the signup form was a thing that existed and was later replaced by the IRC procedure now on /signup |
| 2026-10-24 | tilde.institute/faq | the FAQ answers shell changes, site index pages and similar operational questions; it states no quota, no retention rule and no traffic allowance |
| 2026-10-24 | list.tilde.link/ | tilde.institute is listed as a member tilde of the tildeverse, alongside blinkenshell, ctrl-c.club, envs.net, sdf.org and others |
| 2026-10-24 | tildeverse.org/members/ | quoted: '### tilde.institute - A public-access UNIX system running OpenBSD - sysadmins: gbmor, kneezle - os: openbsd - channel: #institute - created: Thu Nov 22nd, 2018' |
| 2026-10-24 | tilde.institute/ | quoted, dated 2023 April 03: 'Also, re-enabled the signup form.' — the signup form was a thing that existed and was later replaced by the IRC procedure now on /signup |
| 2026-10-24 | tildeverse.org/members/ | quoted: '### tilde.institute — A public-access UNIX system running OpenBSD — sysadmins: gbmor, kneezle — os: openbsd — channel: #institute — created: Thu Nov 22nd, 2018' |
More fields (11)
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}Unknown or withheld values (1)
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