~vern is a non-commercial tilde focused on free software and services!
All our servers run free GNU/Linux distributions.
A list of announcements can be found at /announcements
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 03:53:09 +0000 - We have re-enabled Invidious video proxying
We host many services that are available for public use.
You can get access to the "Reg Needed" services by signing up via the registration form.
With the exception of clearnet Minetest & services hosted on Iceberg, none of the services we host have the capability to log IP addresses due to our use of WireGuard. IP logging on Iceberg is disabled.
We also host Tor and I2P versions of most of these services.
Services marked with "AD:" have alternate (sub)domains you can use for them.
- ~vern - The main ~vern website
- ~vern Gemini - The ~vern Gemini capsule
- ~vern gopher - The ~vern gopherhole
- SSH (Reg Needed) - Users can log in to the ~vern pubnix using SSH
- User sites (Reg Needed) - Each user can have their own site (HTTP, Gemini, Gopher) on username.vern.cc
- User sockets (Reg Needed) - Each user has a UNIX socket and can run their own HTTP server from it, accessible via *-username.vern.cc
- DNS - Domain name system resolver
- DNS/TLS - Domain name system resolver over transport layer security
- DNS/HTTPS - Domain name system resolver over secure hypertext transfer protocol
- gopherproxy (AD: A) - HTTP proxy for Gopher and Gemini
- Iperf3 (PubNixVM) - The ultimate speed test tool
- Iperf3 (tilserv) - The ultimate speed test tool
- Iperf3 (Mythos) - The ultimate speed test tool
- Iperf3 (Iceberg) - The ultimate speed test tool
- LibreSpeed (AD: A/B) - Lightweight speedtest implemented in Javascript
- Monero Node - A node to support the XMR network
- Spyda (AD: A) - A privacy first search engine and web crawler
- tmate (tmate.conf) - Instant terminal sharing
- YaCy (AD: A) - A free distributed search engine, built on the principles of peer-to-peer networks
- AnonymousOverflow (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for StackOverflow
- Beatbump (AD: A) - An alternative front-end for YouTube Music
- BiblioReads (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Goodreads
- BreezeWiki (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Fandom
- Destructables (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Instructables
- Dumb (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Genius
- GotHub (AD: A) - An alternative front-end for GitHub
- hckrnws (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Hacker News
- Hyperpipe (AD: A) - Another alternative front-end for YouTube Music
- Invidious (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for YouTube
- Laboratory (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for GitLab and GitLabCE
- LibMedium (AD: A) - Another alternative front-end for Medium
- Librarian (AD: A) - An alternative front-end for LBRY/Odysee
- Libreddit (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Reddit
- LibremDB (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for IMDb
- LibreX (AD: A) - A meta search engine for Google and popular torrent sites
- Nitter (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Twitter
- Piped (AD: A) - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design
- ProxiTok (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for TikTok
- Quetre (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Quora
- Rimgo (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Imgur
- RSS-Bridge (AD: A) - The RSS feed for websites missing it
- Rural Dictionary (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Urban Dictionary
- Scribe (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Medium
- SearXNG (AD: A/B) - A metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services
- SimpleAmazon (AD: A) - A Simple Web Interface for Amazon
- SimpleerTube (AD: A) - A Simple Web Interface for PeerTube
- SimplyTranslate (AD: A/B) - Minimal and private translations w/ many engines
- Suds (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Snopes.com
- Teddit (AD: A) - Another alternative front-end for Reddit
- Whoogle (AD: A) - An alternative front-end for Google Search
- Wikiless (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Wikipedia
- LibreTranslate (AD: A) - Offline capable and easy to setup translation API
- PGP Suite - A simple and easy-to-use client-side PGP tool
- v.Nu (AD: A) - Helps you catch unintended mistakes in your HTML, CSS, and SVG
You can join our community on most major free software chat programs:
We make use of bridging so you can chat with us regardless of what chat program you use
What computers do ~vern servers run on?
#sysinfo
~vern has many servers running in different ways. You can find a list of them and their uses at /sysinfo.