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New startup sells coffee through SSH

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Re: New startup sells coffee through SSH

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Post by mdgrech23 »

tonymet wrote: post #25

I long for an alternate dimension where terminal-based internet like Minitel dominated . Something like hypercard implemented with 80x24 ncurses UI

The real power of the internet all along in my opinion was networked databases. Everything else is fluff and not a particularly great use of resources.

Re: New startup sells coffee through SSH

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Post by fouc »

tonymet wrote: post #25

I long for an alternate dimension where terminal-based internet like Minitel dominated . Something like hypercard implemented with 80x24 ncurses UI

I love TUI (as in text-based user interfaces) so much more than GUI. It always felt like a far more peaceful and productive environment.

Re: New startup sells coffee through SSH

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Post by fragmede »

bradlys wrote: post #17
Dig1t wrote: post #6

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.

They were mentioned 2 and 1 days ago, and weren't sold out then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200701

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40208417

Re: New startup sells coffee through SSH

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Post by archgoon »

Since I can't currently order, can someone say how the ordering process works? Do they send back a link to be used with stripe? Or do they try to handle everything within the terminal? The latter seems to invalidate their claim that this is just as secure as using a web browser.

Re: New startup sells coffee through SSH

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Post by fragmede »

rvnx wrote: post #40

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)

The full command you want is:

    ssh -a -i /dev/null terminal.shop
to disable agent forwarding, as well as to not share your ssh public key with them, but that's just a little less slick than saying just:

    ssh terminal.shop
to connect.

Re: New startup sells coffee through SSH

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Post by Shakahs »

I'm curious how they built this. It's SSH but the IP address is Cloudflare's edge network. It could be using CF Tunnel to transparently route all the SSH sessions to some serving infrastructure, but I didn't know you could publicly serve arbitrary TCP ports like that. Building it in serverless fashion on CF Workers would be ideal for scalability, but those don't accept incoming TCP connections.
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