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Mare Crisium Soviet Socialist Regency |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
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Q1: What is this place? |
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Q2: What services do you provide? |
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Q3: What services you do not provide? |
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Q4: Do you require a payment of a fee? |
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Q5: How do I sign up? |
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Q6: What can I do on the system? |
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Q7: What I cannot do on the system? |
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Q8: Can you please install $progam on the system? |
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Q9: How many accounts are there? How many do you plan to have? |
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Q10: Why putting a cap on the number of accounts? |
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Q11: OK, but why exactly 48 then? |
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Q12: Why this name? |
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Q13: What is the "civil right"? |
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Q14: How long do I retain my account? |
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Q98: Are you a Bolshevik spy? |
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Q99: Why do you sun this server? |
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Q1: What is this place? |
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This is a public-access Unix system (pubnix). |
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Read about the history of pubnix systems (rawtext.club) |
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Q2: What services do you provide? |
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We provide shell access via SSH to a full-featured text-only Unix |
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environment. Users can publish stuff via gopher or gemini. |
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Q3: What services you do not provide? |
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We do not provide web hosting. If you are looking for a place to host |
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your website, please look elsewhere. |
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Q4: Do you require a payment of a fee? |
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Nope. The service is and will remain free of charge for all its members. |
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Q5: How do I sign up? |
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You have to send an email with your SSH public key attached. |
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Click here for detailed information about the sign-up procedure |
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Q6: What can I do on the system? |
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You can do whatever your user can do on the system. This includes |
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executing any program for which you (or the group "sundogs") have "x" |
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(execute) permission, reading or writing any file for which you have |
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"r" or "w" permission, navigate via gopher, gemini, http, https, and |
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a handful of other protocols, mainly to other pubnix systems, sending |
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email to users in the circumlunar.space colonies, accessing the |
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federated circumlunar.space IRC network and text-based BBS, |
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collaborate with other users on the development of software, |
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documentation, and other shared resources, etc. |
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Q7: What I cannot do on the system? |
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You cannot send spam, feed torrents, port-scan other machines, mine |
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crypto-currencies, publish illegal, violent or offensive material, harass |
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other users, waste system resources, etc. You cannot run your own daemon |
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or listen for connections on whatever port. You cannot treat other users |
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in a disrespectful manner, hinder their own activities on the server, or |
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mess up with their data. In a word: you cannot be an asshole. And if you |
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behave like one, rest assured you will be kicked out. |
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Q8: Can you please install $progam on the system? |
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The answer is most probably "yes". Just post a request in the REQUESTS |
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board on the BBS, or email union@soviet.circumlunar.space. |
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Q9: How many accounts are there? How many do you plan to have? |
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The number of user accounts on the server is capped at 48. This limit |
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does not include a couple of accounts needed for server maintenance. |
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The current number of accounts on the server is visible in the: |
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server status page |
text/plain |
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Q10: Why putting a cap on the number of accounts? |
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Because we want this server and the circumlunar.space universe to be |
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a tightly-knit community, and there is no way to tightly-knit together |
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thousands of people. |
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Q11: OK, but why exactly 48 then? |
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This has something to do with the mythical "Dunbar's number" |
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Read about the Dunbar's number on Gopherpedia (gopherpedia.com) |
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In practice, the idea is that each person can only maintain, at any |
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given time, a limited number of meaningful social contacts, due to |
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obvious limits on energy and time. Historically, this number was "set" |
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to something around 150, but there is a lot of disagreement about the |
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"correct" value. Anyhow, we want the circumlunar.space universe to |
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not grow larger than 150 users in total. Zaibatsu is capped at 32. |
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The Republic is capped at 64. The Soviet has intermediate resources |
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between Zaibatsu and Republic, and is capped at 48, which is a 32 plus |
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additional 16. The total is 144. End of story. |
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Q12: Why this name? |
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The colonies in the circumlunar.space universe share a back-story |
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inspired by the novel "Schismatrix" by Bruce Sterling. In the novel |
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there are explicit references to "ten circumlunar colonies", each of |
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them named after the lunar mare or crater from which the materials |
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needed to construct the colony were extracted. Only two colonies are |
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named in full in the book, namely "The Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar |
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Corporate Republic" and "The Mare Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar |
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Zaibatsu". The name of a couple of more colonies is hinted to by |
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Ryumin upon meeting Lindsay: "What's your home world? Crisium S.S.R.? |
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Copernican Commonwealth?". Crisium is in fact a lunar mare. What |
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Stirling had in mind by "S.S.R." is not known, but something like a |
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"Soviet Socialist Regency" does not sound totally unreasonable in the |
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Schismatrix universe. And I went for that one. |
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Q13: What is the "civil right"? |
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All Soviet members have the right of having their account terminated |
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and all the content permanently removed at any time. This is what we |
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call the sundog's "civil right". |
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To claim your civil right, create a file with the filename |
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i-claim-my-civil-right in the top level of your home directory, with |
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the content "I claim my civil right." |
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Once you claim your civil right, your account will be deactivated |
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within one hour, and then it will totally and permanently removed |
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within one day of your request. The Union take seiousrly into account |
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the intentions of the Soviet members. The Union will not seek any |
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confirmation or approval before proceeding to remove your account |
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if you claim your civil right as explained above. Do not claim |
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your civil right lightly. |
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Q14: How long do I retain my account? |
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Your account had indefinite validity, and you can keep it for as long |
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as you want. However, the Soviet is focused around participation and |
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collaboration, particularly regarding gopher/gemini content, |
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documentation/software, and active involvement in the circumlunar |
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universe. |
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The number of accounts at The Soviet is capped to 48 (see Q9), so we |
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will deactivate your account if it is left unused for more than one |
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year (365 days). By "unused" we mean an account to which you have not |
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logged in, or from which you have not published any content for more |
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than one year. The gopher/gemini content published from a deactivated |
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account (including phlogs and other stuff) will be moved in the |
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"inactive" section of the gopher/gemini space. |
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Your account will also be deleted if one calendar month passes after |
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the creation of your account and your gopher/gemini is either still |
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empty, or contains only an absolute minimum of content, e.g. a |
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"hello world" note saying that the space is under construction. As |
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soon as one item of genuine content is uploaded, your account is |
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safe from this consideration. |
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Q98: Are you a Bolshevik spy? |
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Not even for a moment (or am I not?). The name is just part of the |
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back-story inspired to Schismatrix :) |
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Q99: Why do you run this server? |
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For fun. And to give back to the circumlunar.space community. |
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<== Back to The Soviet main page |
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