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Re: Asciinema

#21
post #19

Why does it have to be in the cloud? Can't you guys provide a player in html css whatever and the recording program to generate data files for the player so we can use your technology everywhere and are not tied to this website and its hosting policies? /rant

Code is open source, install it https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org

Link is in the FAQ.

Re: Asciinema

#22
post #16

Seriously when people will stop using that for installation.... "curl -sL https://asciinema.org/install | sh" Still a cool product!

What's wrong with that? It is SSL secured. Once you agree to install software, it had local access with your accounts privileges.

piping random shit into sh is wrong because domains go away, yet installation instructions might be repeated in countless other tutorials. easy to snap up domains and host malware.

and SSL has nothing to do with it. packages are not cryptographically signed either and once on the system can easily become root.

Re: Asciinema

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with that? It is SSL secured. Once you agree to install software, it had local access with your accounts privileges.

piping random shit into sh is wrong because domains go away, yet installation instructions might be repeated in countless other tutorials. easy to snap up domains and host malware. and SSL has nothing to do with it. packages are not cryptographically signed either and once on the system can easily become root.

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Re: Asciinema

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with that? It is SSL secured. Once you agree to install software, it had local access with your accounts privileges.

piping random shit into sh is wrong because domains go away, yet installation instructions might be repeated in countless other tutorials. easy to snap up domains and host malware. and SSL has nothing to do with it. packages are not cryptographically signed either and once on the system can easily become root.

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Re: Asciinema

#27
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are these related?

Only in the sense that they are pretty much dead-on the same thing and Showterm has been around a lot longer and is in wider use.

When I see "previously" on HN, I tend to think "this was previously posted to HN." In this case, I thought the poster was indicating that asciinema.org was previously showterm.io - neither is the case.

Re: Asciinema

#28
I've been using Asciinema and personally I love this product. I don't have to make my recordings for demos or presentations nor do I have to do live presentations, just pre-record and let everyone view it themselves while I present so they can follow along at their own pace.

Its been great as a teaching tool as well. We've been running it on our internal network but its always hilarious to see which people accidentally have it running so we get to see people do some really dumb shit during their terminal sessions.

Re: Asciinema

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with that? It is SSL secured. Once you agree to install software, it had local access with your accounts privileges.

piping random shit into sh is wrong because domains go away, yet installation instructions might be repeated in countless other tutorials. easy to snap up domains and host malware. and SSL has nothing to do with it. packages are not cryptographically signed either and once on the system can easily become root.

Once you've installed it you've given local privileges (or even root) to the app, so you're hosed anyway.

Re: Asciinema

#30
This is very cool. I'd love to adapt it to help members of my team collaborate and share workflows, but GPL makes it hard to integrate with any internal tooling.
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