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Related recent context/controversy that maybe fueled some of this: putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44579265
From the PuTTY FAQ: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#... Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name? No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into goo…
The first link I get when I searched for "putty" was `putty.org` which, according to the footer: "The PuTTY project or its authors have never owned this domain, registered it, or purchased it." Nevertheless, I can't consider relying on probabilistic algorithms controlled by 3rd parties to be a wise strategy. Also, these days, after decades of habit building and a rise in awareness about scam-related stuff, I think pe…
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The first link I get when I searched for "putty" was `putty.org` which, according to the footer: "The PuTTY project or its authors have never owned this domain, registered it, or purchased it." Nevertheless, I can't consider relying on probabilistic algorithms controlled by 3rd parties to be a wise strategy. Also, these days, after decades of habit building and a rise in awareness about scam-related stuff, I think pe…
My first 3 matches are https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht... , https://www.putty.org/ and https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
* https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282
I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed putty.org as the download site, which would have been contributing to inflated page rank up to that point. I found one on a wiki and fixed it, myself, and I'm sure that I was not the only person who went looking.
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The first link I get when I searched for "putty" was `putty.org` which, according to the footer: "The PuTTY project or its authors have never owned this domain, registered it, or purchased it." Nevertheless, I can't consider relying on probabilistic algorithms controlled by 3rd parties to be a wise strategy. Also, these days, after decades of habit building and a rise in awareness about scam-related stuff, I think pe…
My first 3 matches are https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht... , https://www.putty.org/ and https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
* https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@thomastc/115031906344758192
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My first 3 matches are https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht... , https://www.putty.org/ and https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
putty.org's page ranking used to be higher. * https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282 I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed putty.org as the download site, which would have been contributing to inflated page rank up to that point. I found one on a wiki and fixed it, myself, and I'm sure that I was not the only person who went looki…
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Average person aware of trust on social network / internet - because https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham has a validated link to the author's homepage. Others - they don't understand the trust anyway, so there prerequisite steps missing before the main question anyway.
hachyderm.io says it has a validated link to his homepage, but if you don't already trust hachyderm.io that means nothing.
I'm on Mastodon as @simontatham@hachyderm.io.
If you trust that website, then you can be sure that this Mastodon account is the right one.
I hope they only change the domain name, and keep the spartan websiste.
The regular page looks designed by the rules of the earliest version of HTML from 1993: no colors, no fonts, no graphics; it could be a port of a Gopher page. But the new landing page goes all the way to 1995, with fancy custom link colors, and colorful bitmap graphics!
From the PuTTY FAQ: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#... Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name? No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into goo…
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/…
The same thing happened with Facebook "pages", when they became a personal "soap box" by the owner of the page. It was downhill from there... You might as well turn the whole web into FB/Twitter/X/Insta promotional spam at that point.