[dead]
PuTTY has a new website
111–120 of 304 posts
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the person who owns putty.org started to use it to spread misinformation about vaccines and the pandemic, as you can see on the site today. This recently [1][2] got a lot of attention on the web and here on HN, along with a post on Mastodon from the author [3] I imagine trying to disincentivize this and provide another shorter more official looking link is the hope here. [1] https://www.theregister.com/…
[dead]
What's the problem with them sharing they find it unfortunate?
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#113Not sure what all the negative comments are trying to accomplish. It's a perfect and simple little landing page. Simon has finally done what everyone has been asking for, so why are some people still complaining and harping about "trust" ? Get a grip.
[flagged]
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#114Re: PuTTY has a new website
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it really means nothing. Identity on the internet is not a solved problem.
You are wrong. It means that whoever owns the website marked as verified also owns the social account. See https://joinmastodon.org/verification for a quick overview of how it works.
No, it means a certain link exists on the website. On Hacker News of all sites, I would think we should all know that's not sufficient evidence of identity for an update regarding the source of critical software like a terminal.
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the person who owns putty.org started to use it to spread misinformation about vaccines and the pandemic, as you can see on the site today. This recently [1][2] got a lot of attention on the web and here on HN, along with a post on Mastodon from the author [3] I imagine trying to disincentivize this and provide another shorter more official looking link is the hope here. [1] https://www.theregister.com/…
[dead]
That’s not how discourse works imho. Yeadon is making extraordinary claims, so the burden of explaining and backing up those claims should be on them, not on us. Until they do, there’s no point in addressing their concerns.
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Which nicely confirms all this by saying: Latest news 2025-08-14 New website, putty.software We have a new domain name for the PuTTY website! ...
What if someone hacked his site and inserted that news item? Better to visit the guy in person and verify.
What if someone planted the idea of adding a new website for the project while he was asleep?
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Context: "The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers" ( https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 ), but by a competitor who historically used the site at that domain to promote their own product.
That looks like an open and shut ICANN trademark case to me. https://web.archive.org/web/20250728091154/https://www.putty...
Do they have a trademark? It costs $325 per year plus roughly $650 for the initial application (even if rejected). Is he paying that?
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are wrong. It means that whoever owns the website marked as verified also owns the social account. See https://joinmastodon.org/verification for a quick overview of how it works.
No, it means a certain link exists on the website. On Hacker News of all sites, I would think we should all know that's not sufficient evidence of identity for an update regarding the source of critical software like a terminal.
Nobody claimed it validates the identity in any way. It validates that the person at the other website confirms it's their social account and the social account matches the other direction. The real identity is not involved here in any way and never was. You're disagreeing with someone nobody here raises.
But the link validation confirms that if you believed that the original download site belongs to the author, then you would have almost the same guarantee about the social account. (+/- the chances of the putty website being hacked)
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#120I see no mention in this thread of KiTTY https://www.9bis.net/kitty/ >, no one uses this instead of PuTTY?
When the first sentence on the page is "This website requires Javascript to be enabled.", I leave; but not before looking at the source and discovering a relative monstrosity, unlike the original PuTTY site which is almost pure content.