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Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by drabbiticus »

Izmaki wrote: post #78
nkrisc wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So download it with curl and read it first before executing it from your local disk.

Except you can't really be sure, still: http://web.archive.org/web/20250622061208/https://www.idontp...

This is helpful to know, but also pretty general security practice. If you are auditing an artifact, only use that audited artifact after, don't assume that a network endpoint can never change what it serves. If you must use a newly downloaded artifact, verify it matches whatever you audited by comparing some sort of hash or derived value.

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by drabbiticus »

h43z wrote: post #85
alentred wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did I miss something? Aren't public key are supposed to be public? To be clear, that's an honest question, not sarcasm of anything. I only assume I don't know about some corner case with SSH or something? Because we have those on our websites, they are supposed to be used to verify signatures, etc. How is publishing them bad?

It's just something everyone should be aware of. It's up to you to decide if it's okay that you send a server provider (in this case late.sh) a bunch of your public keys which he could for example use to probe other servers to see if you have access to them. Everyone has different opsec.

The site does include a way to use a throwaway key and IIRC it was there last night too.

    ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/late_throwaway && ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i ~/.ssh/late_throwaway late.sh
Based on what another user said, you might want to modify the above command to use throwawayUsername@late.sh instead if you are going the throwaway route to be more certain you aren't leaking your OS username.

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by joshspankit »

Super cool and seems to have a depth of historical knowledge

I’m shocked to see that LORD can’t be used because of licensing. Legally I know that’s how it is, but it Just Feels Wrong(tm) that a popular game based on 9600baud phone modems is encumbered in the era of fibre, wifi, and smartphones

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by soraminazuki »

greengreengrass wrote: post #86

I would prefer the connection instructions made clear that the default SSH username would be used to set up my username on the platform and display that to other users without initially seeking my consent. On $machine[work], I don't get to pick that $USER is my full name. If this affects you, make sure you connect with `ssh [pseudonymous name]@late.sh`.

> without initially seeking my consent

That's just how SSH works. If you want to be pseudonymous, you should also generate a new key pair.

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by nativeit »

asdf88990 wrote: post #51
docheinestages wrote: post #34

I loved the text contrast on the landing page. Grey text on a dark background.

Yeah, it is a very nice way of saying “f off” if you’re poor, whatever with your display (low res mobile) or eyesight.

Is this really not a mostly “solved” problem using assistive browser (or OS-level) settings/extensions that apply high-contrast/large type consistently across all sites/apps? Is it necessary to performatively sacrifice aesthetics to signal to everyone else you’re especially sensitive to these needs?

At what point is it enough? If they use high contrast, large fonts, and translations for every language—including Swahili’s default Kiunjuga dialect, but fail to include the Kimvita, Kiamu, Kingwana, Chimiini, Bajuni, AND Comorian dialects, will they be accosted for saying “f off” to everyone speaking Swahili outside of Zanzibar?

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by DANmode »

notpushkin wrote: post #29
DANmode wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The design = “flavor of the week LLM”, but someone still has to proof and tweak generated copy. Someone cared about this page.

No X. No Y. A is your B. We do G, not H. C, D, E — plus an optional F. No I, no J, no K — just an L into a W. I would say the design is the most human thing about this page. (It has its charm somehow, even if it’s obviously “flavour of the week LLM design”. Also, I don’t think an LLM would choose colours so poorly unless nudged in that direction – accidentally, I suppose.)

Oh no, concise sentences.

Must be an inappropriate use of the robot!

Kind of exhausting.

If you think (or care), that the LLM wrote all of the subheaders, the category names etc, then you might be spending too much time focused on the wrong thing.

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by Hugsbox »

h43z wrote: post #73
prodigycorp wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so, i used my public key. can someone please tell me what i should be worried about now?

If I have your public key I could probe a server to see if it recognizes that public key. Which would tell me information you might not want to be leaked.

Could you explain how/why that would be an issue? I still don't understand. Isn't the nature of public keys meant to be that they're public?

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by nativeit »

hankbond wrote: post #9

Design is illegible. Needs more contrast between text and background. I'm not even vision impaired and I was squinting immediately.

The whole brand identity is “late”, as in late night, as in all the lights are off and I don’t want my screen to blind me. I feel like this is a perfectly appropriate sort of theme, but maybe that’s just my inner 20-year old impugning my inner 70-year old?

Re: Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

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Post by nativeit »

pixlmint wrote: post #58
bl4ckbe4r wrote: post #57

NEW web design with better contrast incoming! :D Thank you for the feedback :)

yeah I was gonna say, it's very difficult to read on an eink display. And while we're at it, I believe my phone is set to reduced animations, which I believe is a preference that's exposed to websites, the experience would be much better without so much blinking going on.

There’s a single green box blinking at the top. If that’s too much for your e-ink display to handle, I think the problem is your display.
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