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Not sure what all the negative comments are trying to accomplish. It's a perfect and simple little landing page. Simon has finally done what everyone has been asking for, so why are some people still complaining and harping about "trust" ? Get a grip.
Genuine question ( I avoid windows) is putty still necessary now that WSL is a thing?
Putty is obsolete for SSH terminals, but is still useful for serial terminals (like when you need to flash a bricked router ) Putty is a terminal emulator and an SSH + telnet client all in one. Now Microsoft offers a number of platforms that overlap to provide similar functionality. WSL2 (aka WSL) is the Linux system that runs a Linux kernel and apps within Windows (technically a hidden HyperV VM) with some loose bin…
Come on, AI can make a better looking site in 10 minutes these days.
PuTTY's use of an antiquated website, bizzarro url and difficult to find binaries has created trust issues for no apparent good reason.
Why is the website antiquated and the URL bizarro? The homepage and the downloads page both seem fine to me. (BTW, the collection of one-player puzzle games is super!)
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Argument from authority is not particularly strong. The information on putty.org is considered misinformation by the vast majority of professionals in the field of infectious diseases.
The irony of complaining about an appeal to authority only to then counter it with an appeal to authority.
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So an expert is exactly the one you want to believe, and no other person, and you tailor the definition just exactly, so only people with your opinion are experts. Everyone has the world the size he deserves…
At least the reading comprehension monster will never hurt you, that's for sure. Your previous comment makes perfect sense now too, along with why you'd be whinging about oh the modern world.
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Putty is obsolete for SSH terminals, but is still useful for serial terminals (like when you need to flash a bricked router ) Putty is a terminal emulator and an SSH + telnet client all in one. Now Microsoft offers a number of platforms that overlap to provide similar functionality. WSL2 (aka WSL) is the Linux system that runs a Linux kernel and apps within Windows (technically a hidden HyperV VM) with some loose bin…
Putty is also still useful for when you need to automate connections to SSH servers with password-based login. OpenSSH's client really doesn't want you to do that.
I work in OPs and use Putty daily. For people like me, finding and downloading the correct app is simple. For non-technicals, this just seems like the perfect way to download malware and destroy a company's reputation.
Puzzling, imo.
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At least the reading comprehension monster will never hurt you, that's for sure. Your previous comment makes perfect sense now too, along with why you'd be whinging about oh the modern world.
The truth, reason or wisdom will never catch you. Don’t worry, you are faster and smarter than anyone! Keep going!
Like imagine thinking that parsing this:
> I'm sure we can then find experts with those kinds of qualifications who also pushed covid misinformation (or to use more old-school terms, straight up fucking lies and unfounded, conspiratorial speculations) and held minority opinions.
as this:
> So an expert is exactly the one you want to believe, and no other person, and you tailor the definition just exactly, so only people with your opinion are experts.
resembles any form of intelligence. These two are in direct contradiction!
Is this really that big of a bar? Let's read together!
> I'm sure we can then find experts with those kinds of qualifications
So I recognize that there are experts with the "right qualifications", whatever that means to me, we don't even have to agree.
> who also pushed covid misinformation and held minority opinions.
So no, I do not stop recognizing them as experts, despite them not confirming my beliefs. Instead, what I do is consider them to have pushed covid misinformation, holding minority opinions, despite being experts with the "right qualifications".
Was this really that hard? I even featured multiple paragraphs after this arguing back and forth on your behalf!
Trusting expert or authority opinion is analogous to trusted computing. It works until it doesn't, and when there's debate among the trusted parties, there's two options: unanimous consensus, which humanity is not exactly known for as you can tell, or majority consensus, which yielded that the guy is wrong period. Choose anything else, and you're discarding the trust-based model in favor of something else; there's no trust and/or no consensus.
And what model do people turn to when there's no trust? Verifiability. This is why I brought up that at scale, verifiability is simply not viable, not as far as I can tell, and somehow this wasn't what you latched on to either. Current state of affairs could be improved a lot, I do think that academic research output has a lot of room for improvement in accessibility, and that getting up to speed with a different area to one's own shouldn't be as hard as it is. But just think about our guy and his claims in practical terms. He was claiming things like "nuh-uh, no second wave in the UK". How are you going to hand verify that yourself on your own? Are you going to act a Santa Claus one night and just visit everyone and take samples? Come on.
And so this was never actually about either of these. It was about believing different things and then piling on top whatever is available, reversing what came first: the thought, or the rationale behind that thought.
I can understand if someone, irrespective of the (majority) scientific consensus on mask use, vaccination, distancing, sanitation, and isolation, simply still chooses to not fall in line out of gut feeling or whatever, and owns up to it. That is at least intellectually honest. But this "oh so you're thinking " and this "a handful of experts out of millions claim otherwise so they're right and unjustly oppressed, and everyone else is wrong and complicit" rubbish is pitiful. The putty.org owner could swap the current text out for free infinite energy or flat earth theory and it would be equally believable. You see countless of those with the same sob story of being unjustly oppressed and then the thing somehow turning out to be bollocks or a scam, sometimes both, all the time. With the rare but convenient few experts chiming in being the occasional icing on the cake, much like the phony full time jury-only experts presenting on court in favor of insurance companies.
It is simply not reasonable to believe in what the guy is pushing, unless you've been believing that from the get-go - at which point, there's nothing to argue anyways. This is unlike the trust-based or the verification-based models, which have more going for them than just the sheer belief of individuals, and where there is capacity for arguments. Arguments that we are not having, because you're entirely too busy intentionally(?) misreading the guy's work title and qualifications, and intentionally(?) misreading what I wrote.