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This is so cool! Just imagine a world where you can run `getcoffee latte` and have a latte show up at your door 20 minutes later.
Your receipt: - latte 5.99 - delivery fees 5.99 - ssh fees 0.99 - internet fees 0.59 - water 0.19 - sewage 0.09 …..
Sub total 5.99
Total. 10.80
The massive simplification this provides over rendering HTML/CSS should be attractive to startups.
Now I wish we had a CLI/TUI for things like Amazon...
One safety tip: disable SSH Agent Forwarding before you connect, otherwise the remote server can theoretically reuse your private key to establish new connections to GitHub.com or prod servers (though this host is unlikely malicious). https://www.clockwork.com/insights/ssh-agent-hijacking/ (SSH Agent Hijacking)
It's sold out and the only option if you actually connect via ssh is to give them your email address so they can send you updates.
Makes me wonder if this is just a ploy to email harvest and there never was any coffee being sold.
zero interest rate startups are still in fashion I see.
People make cafes and coffee shops all the time without taking money or at least VC money.
A lot of people don't know that before Amazon started, there was a company out of Portland, OR called Bookstacks selling books via a telnet interface. In the early days, Bezos was quite worried about their potential to get "there" first (wherever "there" was going to be). It was a fairly cool interface, at least for 1994. [ EDIT: worried to the point that we actually implemented a telnet version of the store in paral…
Interesting. I like this. No need for a cookie banner.
The rule is that if you have a good reason for your cookies (i.e., basically one that isn't user-hostile), you have nothing to worry about and don't need a cookie banner.
It's only when you engage in user-hostile practices, such as tracking, that you need to ask for consent.
I'm being sightly snarky, but that's really the essence of it.