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> As it turns out, bash can speak HTTP by itself. No, it can not. Bash lets you open TCP sockets. What you are doing here is trying to speak HTTP yourself, which is fine for testing and debugging, and hella cool for fun to do by hand, but you will shoot yourself in the foot if you try to use this pseudo http client unattended in reality. This toy code does not parse HTTP properly and will break. You could of course w…
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This is the most Claude pilled comment I've seen here.
This worries me. Some AI writing styles became mainstream; at first it was the em-dashes, now it’s “A, not B” patterns and excessive acknowledging. There will be more. Was grandparent comment written by an LLM? Or is this a human who copies a style they saw in a blog post, unaware that they’re copying an AI? Or is this a human who spent too much time talking to an AI and now they just talk like this? Or is this an or…
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the '90s version of finding the hiring manager or boss on linkedin to try and get a job was connecting to the company's public smtp server with telnet, using their name to probe different email address patterns with "rcpt to:" (those days the actual servers were often directly connected to the internet and would leak email address validity in how they would respond to rcpt to) and then sending them a nice email. smtp…
> smtp grew up to be an antisocial curmudgeon. extended smtp starts with EHLO. "EHLO" still sounds friendly. It just sounds like a different accent or something. Know someone that used to answer calls with a friendly "Jello?".
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This is the most Claude pilled comment I've seen here.
It's pretty rough to learn I sound like Claude. Will need to do something about it then. (For what it's worth I did write the message above manually but I understand why no one would believe that now. At least I did not call netcat "load-bearing" [ https://mareksuppa.com/til/load-bearing/ ] or something...)
Before that would just made you top 5% (or maybe top 1%) of the nicest people to talk too.. know ppl think you are Claude.
We are all going crazy s a sibling comment said.
Once had a coworker tell me to never to use this because "you never know when the customer doesn't have bash installed; use python instead" even though our contract required that the customer had bash. I'm still laughing at that.
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> No, it can not. Bash lets you open TCP sockets. Very fair pushback -- I did get carried away and will update the article to be more precise. Thanks for raising it! > For less insane, non-bash shells there is always nc which is usually probably the wiser choice. For completeness, `nc` or any netcat equvialent I could think of was not available in the image I was trying this with. It would certainly be a better optio…
This is the most Claude pilled comment I've seen here.
As a kid in the late 90s my mind was blown when I realized I could telnet to port 80, 25, or 110 and interact with the servers manually. Simple get: GET / HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/html User-Agent: l33t hax0rs lol X-Funny-Monkey: farts For sending a mail message on port 25: HELO mail-from: whoever@whatever.com mail-to: sysadmin@yaya.com Body of the message yay. POP3 was so long ago I forgot but you could list the m…
Last century I would read and send personal email from work using telnet to pop3 and smtp respectively.