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Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by tgv »

chasd00 wrote: post #83
tgv wrote: post #23

~/work/...> telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl zsh: command not found: telnet

i bet this is something an ai could help with. "write a simple telnet client in python. It only needs to connect to the host and display what the host sends. conform to any connection initialization requirements per rfc 854". That would probably get you close. /edit front page of google did this and it worked for me. Need to do a pip install telnetlib3 import telnetlib3 import sys def simple_telnet_client(host, port=…

apt/brew/your-package-manager install telnet is simpler and more reliable.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by phplovesong »

VMG wrote: post #49
phplovesong wrote: post #22

I can forsee a future when all the AI slop, popups, fake news, propaganda and ads have fully consumed the web. Maybe then we just go back to an oldschool text based way of communicating. No google. No socials. Just text.

Do you believe that it is impossible to advertise, spread fake news or propaganda via text? Do you know what the letters in LLM mean?

Tell me where the slop is distrubuted on? Its 99% Social media, fake news sites, propaganda like fox or any russian "news site" or some combo of the above.

If we dont have any of the above the propaganda or AI slop is just not worth it.

This is why having small focused MODERATED communities is the only viable future.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by antisol »

cmcollier wrote: post #110
antisol wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool site! I especially like the list of RFCs. Just fyi, towel.blinkenlights.nl:23 still works for me, though I think maybe that's an IPv6 version, there's a note about ipv6 at the start that I was too slow to read. Maybe it should be re-listed? :)

Thanks! I did notice there are mixed stories about it working, and I got some email about it too. I'll check it out and make an update.

it's possible one of those emails might have been from me ;)

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

iberator wrote: post #100
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sending email over telnet was part of my training as tech support for a dial-up ISP.

Hey. That was a gateway drug for teenage 'hackers' hehe I remember grex.org and arbornet.org . My first free Unix shel acccounts hehe. Made friends worldwide.

Grex only shut down recently, in 2023.
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