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Out of interest, is it possible to set up an anonymous service with SSH? Or would it rely on configuring an SSH server to accept any user-provided credentials?
ssh nethack@alt.org
It works properly with no password. It would be cool if Wikimedia would set up a similar thing for this service.
I connected and spent a few minutes poking around to try and understand the usefulness of this. Something for those in countries where web traffic is blocked? Is this a power tool just for Wikipedia editors? Oh, wait, ugh... is this an April Fool's joke?
Here's a bit more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Wow! This even has auto-completion and other shell goodies. However, there seems to be a bug in the auto-completion: When pressing TAB immediately after the prompt appears, the whole telnet session hangs and does not respond anymore.
Out of interest, is it possible to set up an anonymous service with SSH? Or would it rely on configuring an SSH server to accept any user-provided credentials?
The public NetHack server at alt.org has an SSH interface alongside the telnet interface. Try ssh nethack@alt.org It works properly with no password. It would be cool if Wikimedia would set up a similar thing for this service.
It's case sensitive :-( That's worse than it sounds thanks to Wikipedia's archaic capitalization constraints, so it's neither going to be the "official" case-sensitive name of the page nor the Title case, you could very well need to do SomeTHING like_THIS to read an article.... and then it gave me the German version for some reason? I wish it had search. >>> easybcd easybcd Sorry! Could not fetch "easybcd" for you. N…
No money but lots of time and ideas I see.
I almost skipped it, but I tried anyway. Wonderful! I like the wiktionary: use en.wiktionary.org Feels dictd on steroids. Somehow I got disconnected frequently. Is it intentional? Or is it just my company's network hate telnet?
No money but lots of time and ideas I see.
It's actually a 269-line test case for more serious projects at the foundation: the Offline Content Generator and Parsoid. We're allowed to have fun in the service of the greater goal. More technical details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway
That said, I friggin love the telnet access point. I am a bit fed up with the ever more weighty web so simple text link + repl gets my vote.