Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by chrisaycock » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 12:51 AM UTC

Mosh: The Mobile Shell
mosh.org

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by dang » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 1:55 AM UTC

Some past threads:

Blink Mobile Shell for iOS (Mosh Based) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370348 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429203 - Sept 2016 (49 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572146 - April 2016 (148 comments)

Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8928506 - Jan 2015 (45 comments)

Ask HN: Anyone using Mosh? Seems development has stalled since January - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8556680 - Nov 2014 (1 comment)

Mosh: A replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252093 - Sept 2014 (122 comments)

Mosh (mobile shell) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321474 - Sept 2013 (6 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016745 - Jan 2013 (89 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4588239 - Sept 2012 (1 comment)

Mosh: SSH for 2012 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382 - April 2012 (193 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3814589 - April 2012 (2 comments)

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by na85 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:02 AM UTC

I love mosh. It's great on slow connections of any sort, but particularly great on phones.

On short/medium trips I no longer bring a laptop. Just my phone and my bluetooth keyboard. I have successfully updated my rspamd DKIM signing config from a hotel lobby, among other things, with just those devices and mosh.

Mosh is great.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by shp0ngle » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:02 AM UTC

Note that Mosh has not had release for 4 years, even when pull requests are accepted on github, and the team lead says "we are too busy/burned out".

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1115

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by codesections » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:04 AM UTC

I know the pace of development has been pretty slow for the past few years — but Mosh is a good enough idea that I really hope it picks up steam again (better true color support, for one thing, would be a big feature)

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by Teknoman117 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

Mosh is the only reason I can bear working over a satellite internet connection. The local echo is fantastic. It's also fantastic for working over VPN connections where the tunnel collapses occasionally and you don't want to lose 30 active sessions.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by emersonrsantos » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:11 AM UTC

This mimics a lot how 3270 devices work, by transmitting chunks instead of individual keystrokes. The IBM 3270 technology dates from 1970!

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by est » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:14 AM UTC

All I need is file transfer.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by anamexis » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:25 AM UTC

codesections wrote: post #5

I know the pace of development has been pretty slow for the past few years — but Mosh is a good enough idea that I really hope it picks up steam again (better true color support, for one thing, would be a big feature)

Agreed, I think it's an already-fantastic tool that is a bit of polish away from being perfect. My number one gripe is the lack of scrollback.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Post by doomrobo » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:31 AM UTC

Big fan of Mosh for what it does. But the fact that it can't render Unicode properly makes it really hard to work with some files remotely. IIRC there's a PR that fixes and has never been merged