💾 Archived View for midnight.pub › replies › 5293 captured on 2023-11-14 at 10:25:12. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

~impulse

Thanks, that takes a bit of stress off, actually.

That reminds me, I do have a couple questions regarding the pub. Do you think you could tell me why when referring to users, we use a "~" instead of a "@" like in the regular web? I'm just curious, as I'm not used to it.

Also, I assume Smudge is a cat.

Write a reply

Replies

~ew wrote (thread):

Howdy ~impulse. That '~' is probably my fault. If you look via Webbrowser, then the top entry of everyone is ~NAME, which is probably just a leftover of the Shell notion ~name translating into /home/name (or whatever is listed in /etc/passwd).

Plus I just like ~impulse better than @impulse.

~bartender? One of those large lemonades please, and whatever the newcomers fancy, it's on me.

Cheers!

~ew

~contrarian wrote (thread):

I'm going to guess it's a *nix thing off the top of my head.