Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:09:22 +0200 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <840c5a45-e7db-ffb5-2cff-6ecbab29a281@example.net> References: <87ikvlpoxb.fsf@tudado.org> <5fa11677-a6c6-33e3-195b-6a24194eee0c@example.net> <871q25d68w.fsf@tudado.org> <6207141d-f3e6-97e0-7f63-80ddec5fb008@example.net> <87jzfwbtja.fsf@tudado.org> <714217ec-f259-51cb-3328-9994fdcfb3f9@example.net> <87cylm3jqt.fsf@tudado.org> <87y14at9ff.fsf@tudado.org> <87a5gpu7a2.fsf@tudado.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="686037"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:25701 On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Stefan Ram wrote: > Johanne Fairchild wrote or quoted: >> You offer a shell account to a ``tweenager'' and they decline---thanks, >> but no, thanks. ``I have my own system.'' They see no fun in sharing >> in a UNIX system. > > On some shell accounts here, "social commands" (like "finger", > "who", etc.) have been disabled. It might have something to > do with the "Datenschutz" ("privacy") laws. > > The admins also do not seem to use "motd" anymore, instead > system information seems to be published on some web page. > > I had one free shell account about 20 years on a system where > you could log in and play nethack. I think the highscore list > was shared. > Nethack... now there's a game I haven't heard about in ages! I know for a time, it was quite popular among my circle of acquaintances but it must have been around the 90s somewhere.