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Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by chii »

devnulloverflow wrote: post #88
Uehreka wrote: post #6

Since I often complain about bad landing pages, I want to take a moment to highlight a really good one. I arrive on the page and: BOOM! "Eternal Terminal" the name of the project But what is-- "H2: Remote terminal for the busy and impatient"! In a sentence or two? "Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Learn how to install and use it here." Oh sweet, n…

Yeah, it's an amazingly creative technique: explain the fuck your thing is, so that people might decide they want it. I suspect the market does not lie though, and if you are pedaling broken stuff t to middle-managers, it's best to not explain a damn thing.

But guess who approves purchase orders for business software? Coz it ain't the developers...

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by dionian »

Digitalghost wrote: post #82

Hey all, ET developer here. It was an amazing surprise to find ET on the top of HN today. Since it's the three year anniversary of the project, I wanted to share a post that I wrote to my colleagues about it: RejoinableTCP was a project that I started and abandoned in 11/18/16. RejoinableTCP was supposed to be a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It was supposed to be resumab…

> RejoinableTCP

actually i understood a lot from this name, but i get it

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by Thorrez »

Nextgrid wrote: post #30
skyyler wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't appear so. Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? I hope you were sincerely asking a dumb question and not attempting to make a low effort joke instead of discussing the project in earnest.

> Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? Well, tools that you wouldn't expect to phone home like text editors and compilers now do. See VSCode, the .NET Core compiler and even the Windows 10 calculator [0]. [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148

Yes, on the front page of HN right now is a post about Atom phoning home.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642391

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by scubbo »

johntiger1 wrote: post #37

For someone wondering "how is this different from screen?/ what problem does it solve?", this article was actually quite nice: https://medium.com/@grassfedcode/what-could-be-better-than-s...

Thanks! I was wondering the same thing, and this helped.

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by ngcc_hk »

albertzeyer wrote: post #12
Uehreka wrote: post #6

Since I often complain about bad landing pages, I want to take a moment to highlight a really good one. I arrive on the page and: BOOM! "Eternal Terminal" the name of the project But what is-- "H2: Remote terminal for the busy and impatient"! In a sentence or two? "Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Learn how to install and use it here." Oh sweet, n…

Actually, I found the homepage (landing page) not so great, and came here to the comments, in the hope to get some more information. Specifically, I use Mosh, and I would like to know, is this the same thing? If yes, how is it different? What are advantages/disadvantages? I would have wanted a more detailed comparison. The name is also a bit confusing; just from the name, I thought this might be a terminal emulator.…

It is actually quite good, even cover alternatives. I think it is great landing page.

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by hundchenkatze »

skyyler wrote: post #18
dunkelheit wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess it is the reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial Although in our times it won't even be that surprising if remote shells started phoning home...

This website is for high quality discussion, not low effort pop culture references.

Wow, climb on down buddy. E.T. the movie is even referenced on Eternal Terminal's site. https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks/#the-eternal-terminal...

You remind me of the main character's wife from Breaking Bad, what's her name, oh yeah Skyler.

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by abcdef123xyz123 »

csdvrx wrote: post #90
0xb100db1ade wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Been waiting for a good replacement for tmux to come along for a while now that isn't just i3 > Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with tmux? > I hate its scrolling and buffer behavior, its almost impossible to get right. I wasn't planning on sharing my project on HN until I've written up more documentation, but I'm actually working on exactly this problem. https://github.com/aaronjanse/i3-tmux So far I…

Funny, me too! I was adding some features yesterday, a few more today, but I took a few minutes to do screenshots and join the discussion. If you are focused on better controls, our work may be complementary. Would you like to join forces on a high quality fork? A few things concern me with tmux currently. Please read the following links and tell me whether you share these concerns: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issue…

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1613 is a better reflection of my views on SIXEL, although I am coming round to the idea rather. It is not easy to do properly however, I am interested to see how your code works.

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by satanspastaroll »

Nextgrid wrote: post #30
skyyler wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't appear so. Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? I hope you were sincerely asking a dumb question and not attempting to make a low effort joke instead of discussing the project in earnest.

> Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry? Well, tools that you wouldn't expect to phone home like text editors and compilers now do. See VSCode, the .NET Core compiler and even the Windows 10 calculator [0]. [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148

Does Microsoft collect the calculations themselves, or metadata related to it's use?

Re: Eternal Terminal

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Post by hnlmorg »

Digitalghost wrote: post #82

Hey all, ET developer here. It was an amazing surprise to find ET on the top of HN today. Since it's the three year anniversary of the project, I wanted to share a post that I wrote to my colleagues about it: RejoinableTCP was a project that I started and abandoned in 11/18/16. RejoinableTCP was supposed to be a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It was supposed to be resumab…

This really resonates with me because it was a very similar story with one of my projects (a $SHELL -- a bit like Bash et al). I started it as a short "what if" project and was really surprised at just how much already worked after only 3 weeks.

I think it's a great lesson for hobbyists: don't worry about perfection. Just POC something and if you're still passionate about it after 3 weeks you can always go back and tidy stuff up.

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