Impressive.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Would this be better if the pasted command included some checksum which was checked before piping into the `sh`? Can anyone who's better at bash than me give an example of how this could work in a relatively cross-platform way?
You would need to have a GPG signature with a well-known public key that is verified before executing the code.
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#43I'm disappointed to see this getting so much traction when showterm.io is clearly the superior product with rewinds, custom speeds, scrolling up and down and linking to a specific point in time, and has been around so much longer. Here is an example of a longer Showterm session: http://showterm.io/a0616ce5e6f411f292e18 taken from http://www.bitfalls.com/2013/08/autofight-php-job-interview-...
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#45I was really hoping this was short animated clips of famous movie scenes rendered in ASCII.
Here you go: https://asciinema.org/a/6heuukhda9ozykt72gkw5fkog :)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
asciinema was initially called ascii.io. It got renamed about 2 years ago.
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#47I'm disappointed to see this getting so much traction when showterm.io is clearly the superior product with rewinds, custom speeds, scrolling up and down and linking to a specific point in time, and has been around so much longer. Here is an example of a longer Showterm session: http://showterm.io/a0616ce5e6f411f292e18 taken from http://www.bitfalls.com/2013/08/autofight-php-job-interview-...
That is cool and all, but its really really annoying the amount of history that thing throws at your browser.
Took about 10 tries of going back as far as the history would allow to get back here. I hate sites that do that junk.
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#48Why 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
asciinema dev here. Please read my comment on the topic here: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org/issues/186#issuec...
Btw, the player is already a separate project: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/tree/next
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#49Seriously 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.
You won't be so happy when your https connection drops after "/" as you are piping into /bin/sh:
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#50ttyrec is a tiny terminal utility that does this on your terminal. It was released in 2000, it's one of those nice little gems one is glad to discover. It records and playbacks terminal sessions. The recorded files are in kb's. [1]
It's simple to use. 'ttyrec filename' starts recording, ctrl-c to stop recording. 'ttyplay filename' to playback.
Of course with asciinema.org, you get the benefit of an html player for the files, that you can link and playback on your own website.
[1]http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/index.html.en [2]http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/man1/ttyrec.1.h...