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Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by pepa65 »

samuell wrote: post #205
gregoryl wrote: post #69

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Just pull the trigger. A surprisingly large amount of software just works on wine. I'm a c# dev with near 20 years experience, and I finally got the shits with advertising in the start menu. Arch Linux, because I figured why not do it properly? I game a fair bit, and find most things on steam just work.

Wine can be a bit of a headache if you are on a couple year older distro as it can make it harder to install newer Wine versions. But I found that the Bottles project pretty much solves this, by installing everything in some kind of sandboxed environment: https://usebottles.com/ https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles Has worked wonderfully for the few cases where plain Wine failed.

Too bad it's only flatpak, I'd try it out if it had an AppImage.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by Helmut10001 »

malux85 wrote: post #74
Helmut10001 wrote: post #59

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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.

Can you tell us which software? (Even if it’s very niche) I’m really curious where the gaps are.

The biggest migration challenge isn't finding one-to-one replacements for software, but rebuilding tested workflows and processes.

For years, I've had a seamless document management process on Windows for all my receipts and bills:

    1. My ScanSnap scans, auto-crops, and OCRs documents into a designated folder.
    2. A small open-source tool, DropIt [1], monitors that folder.
    3. Based on about 100 custom rules that parse the OCR'd text (for tax IDs, phone numbers, etc.), DropIt automatically renames and moves the PDFs into the correct subfolders.
    4. Nextcloud then syncs the organized files, and I can discard the paper originals.
This "fire-and-forget" system has been incredibly reliable.

When I explored replicating this on Linux, I found the building blocks exist. For instance, ocrmypdf seems to be a powerful OCR tool, and SANE drivers combined with gscan2pdf can handle the scanning. [2] I also found several tools for automated file renaming and organization.[3] However, the Fujitsu ScanSnap Home software provides an all-in-one experience for the initial capture.[4] More importantly, I'd have to manually translate all my pattern-matching rules from DropIt to a new system, likely a collection of shell scripts. I still feel that this is too fragile. I would need to program all exceptions myself: file renaming issues, special characters, length of document names, issues with OCR and alerting, should anything go wrong. The system needs to be fail-safe because once I throw the original away, there is no going back.

Then, another challenge is to find the time to replace this reliable system with the shortest "downtime" possible. I need this daily.. so I already decided I need a migration phase, where both systems run in parallel. Perhaps this better explains my slowness to migrate to Linux.

The fact that there isn't a well-known, integrated tool for this on Linux seems suspicious. It makes me wonder if I'm approaching the problem from the wrong direction. Is there a more "Linux-native" philosophy for this kind of workflow automation that I'm missing?

And yes, I'm aware of Paperless-ngx. It's a fantastic project, but I'm committed to my current folder structure and prefer to avoid a solution that centralizes my documents in a database, away from my Nextcloud setup and my filesystem-first-philosophy for document management. I don't trust that paperless-ngx will be available in 40+ years from now, but I need my document management to last that long.

[1]: http://www.dropitproject.com/

[2]: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

[3]: https://github.com/ptmrio/autorename-pdf

[4]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/fujitsu-scansnap-home-software-f...

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by mbrndtgn »

TZubiri wrote: post #209
viraptor wrote: post #73

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Why would that be disregarding safety? There's no extra text you can put on the website that would prove anything else (apart from messages signed by a known key, but honestly nobody would check those). Certificates don't provide any identity validation in practice.

Certificates have fields for location, company or name of person.

So you're suggesting we should bring back extended validation? Currently they don't mean anything.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by f1shy »

nailer wrote: post #233
0manrho wrote: post #186

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He's not an expert on vaccines or infectious disease and pushed known provably false narratives during the pandemic.

I don't think being a medical and phramaceutical expert disqualifies him speaking about vaccines, do you?

This is the modern world that we live in. If being “Vice President and Worldwide Head of Research in allergic and respiratory diseases at Pfizer” with 25 years of career does not qualify to talk about vaccines (in the context of of Covid, I assume because I do not know him or the videos), I frankly don’t know what does

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by jbaber »

thristian wrote: post #80

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…

My decades long habit has been to search for "chiark putty". Never fails :)

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by CRConrad »

hammock wrote: post #255
avhon1 wrote: post #247

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The wikipedia article has links to the official websites, and not to the scams: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY

That’s the outdated looking website I found that didn’t have mac version. I’m guessing I’m supposed to use the Unix version there? The website I was sketched out by (but tried it anyway, then got the scary error) was puttygen.com which had me install homebrew (whatever that is) and then do “sudo brew install putty”

I think the main reason you couldn't find a mac version to download is that there is none.

The closest I saw was a .tr.gz file (i.e. a gzipped Tape ARchive) of Unix source code, but A) I don't know of their definition of "Unix" includes OS X / MacOS; and B) judging from your comments here, you don't seem like the type who would want to install software by downloading, decompressing, and compiling source code.

I'm thinking the people who told you to use PuTTY were assuming that you are a Windows user.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by CRConrad »

zo1 wrote: post #142
viraptor wrote: post #70

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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.

It was bad enough that we had to tell developers to trust some rando website to download a tool that we'd use to potentially plug in sensitive production usernames + credentials. A link that looks like this: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht... And now they've gone and made it worse by posting some new site and confirming the new link is real on their weird "hachyderm" social media post thi…

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Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by ok_computer »

wolf550e wrote: post #234
ok_computer wrote: post #188

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If you hadn’t discovered this already with you mac CLI commands, OpenSSH from OpenSSL ‘ssh-keygen’ command is a good way to create SSH keys in ClI and ships in many OSes or is a lightweight download. The OpenSSL website name is unambiguous, which is a benefit. https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith...

OpenSSH and OpenSSL are completely unrelated projects.

Independent projects but not unrelated since there was a historical dependency from OpenSSH to OpenSSL.

https://serverfault.com/questions/780476/generating-ssh-keys...

My knowledge was a bit outdated by about a decade.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by sshine »

delfinom wrote: post #184
sshine wrote: post #85

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> Is such paranoia warranted? Millions of corporate laptops run Windows 11 just fine. Yes. With Windows Recall data mining surveillance screenshots taken every 5-7 seconds, completely disregarding if this may compromise your security, safety or privacy, we move from "you're the product" to "you're a pet in a zoo, and we want to learn from your behavior." > I know M$ is evil and spying on you, but not to such degree.*…

>Windows Recall data mining surveillance screenshots Some of you people are just too far gone to turn off a setting.

I’m reminded of a checkbox titled “Don’t ask me next time” when logging into Microsoft Online that I am given the option to check every single time I log in.

My lack of trust in Microsoft (or Google) to keep my interest in mind is rooted in experience.

The problem is: once your organisation is so corrupt that they think of this shit, turning off bad ideas becomes a game of whack-a-mole.

Just say no to this kind of behaviour.

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