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Yes, the domain was suspicious to me too, but the legit site links back to it.
PuTTY has a new website
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Re: PuTTY has a new website
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
It means a lot - you need to check the other side's meta to confirm yourself. https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/
And that's why the fediverse thing is so niche :) Looks like it's as complicated as a parts inventory system developed in house for a half a million employee company...
There's a link on one side and a meta tag on the other. It's as simple as you can make the validation between two sites. It's not even fediverse-specific really - there were other services doing something similar before.
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't trust Windows with my SSH keys. Since about 2 years, I am actively preparing my final migration to Linux. There's some Windows software left that I need to replace before this move is possible, but I am close.
Is such paranoia warranted? Millions of corporate laptops run Windows 11 just fine. I know M$ is evil and spying on you, but not to such degree.
I recently, by playing around with the LAN's default PAC file and a dummy HTTP server, discovered that on a machine that says in System Settings that Proxy Auto-Discovery is turned off, the PAC file is still fetched and used by a too-large number of Microsoft/Google background auto-update services, from Windows Update to Office.
* https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/114693762493884550
I had been lucky through having done my own experimentation, decades ago, with setting up a default PAC file on the LAN and having left it in just-send-everything-directly mode, keeping it as I upgraded things on the LAN, all of these years. Because otherwise I would have been vulnerable to a third-party in the search path for years, on a machine that clearly and unequivocally, including per direct inspection of the setting in the registry, has this switched off.
* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/web-browser-auto-proxy-configuration.ht...
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#124Simon Tatham's most important work is keeping its page: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Try Mines, you never have to guess.
The first thing I install in every Android device.
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, that and “git bash” were always the weird outliers. I’m glad there’s now native options.
mingw predates git on windows (and in general), but yeah, indeed. interesting to scan the log on that: https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/main/Rel...
I remember my journey trying to disambiguate Git Bash, Git for Windows, MinGW and MSYS2. To this day, I'm still not sure I have the full story right.
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#126I see no mention in this thread of KiTTY https://www.9bis.net/kitty/ >, no one uses this instead of PuTTY?
There are two pieces of software named Kitty. That one is the other one. (-:
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#127Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.
The org. one being already taken being the straw that broke the camel's back in this case. It has been a FAQ item for years. But the org. domain squatter's recent behaviour crossed the line, from what M. Tatham has said on the FediVerse.
I (and I suspect several others) suggested a TLD that you would probably have no qualms about, a few weeks ago. M. Tatham went with software. instead; which is fair enough. software. has been around for a while, and is stable and a fairly on-point choice.
Be thankful that it was not putty.party. . (-:
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#128Simon Tatham's most important work is keeping its page: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Try Mines, you never have to guess.
I love these kind of webpages with little programs to discover.
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Yes, your caveat at the end there is exactly why this method shouldn't be trusted, as it's indistinguishable from an attacker with access to embed a single link.
So it doesn't confirm the account belongs to the author, it confirms the site has a specific link and nothing more.
Re: PuTTY has a new website
#130Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.
> Terminal Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop
Are you referring to the pixel-level font smoothing they use by default (as opposed to CMD's subpixel-level font smoothing)?
You need to define the "antialiasingMode" key in the settings JSON for the default profile to hold the value "cleartype", rather than "grayscale" (which is the default value). I don't believe this is exposed in the GUI settings page.
Note that this only affects the actual terminal emulation area. The rest of the application will still be pixel-level font smoothed (so e.g. the tab titlebars, the settings, etc.).