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SSH for Fun and Profit

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Re: SSH for Fun and Profit

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You know about "reader mode", right? http://www.howtogeek.com/228104/how-to-make-the-mobile-web-m...

It's very odd to have to depend on a browser feature that is basically for accessibility in order to read a website because the colour choices are bad.

It's weird to me that people want millions of random people controlling how content is visually presented; aka, wish the web would die already.

Re: SSH for Fun and Profit

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"This was a problem, because my initial packets to the server were met with immediate disconnects, and I’d now lost my main means of debugging. I banged my head against the wall for a while, then at the suggestion of a friend, decided to turn the server’s OpenSSH log verbosity way up. I bumped the LogLevel in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to DEBUG3, and suddenly I was getting helpful error messages!"

ssh server can be run with -d option for monitoring. It redirects debug messages to stdout.

/usr/sbin/sshd -d

Re: SSH for Fun and Profit

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Thanks! Hint to all who participated in that ugly thread: The inital comments were bad, but I found it even worse to see how many people engaged this, making that ugly thread larger and larger. It became so large that it finally displaced all the good, on-topic comments! If you really want to show respect for the author, just downvote + flag the ugly comments, and be done with it. Then, go on and use your time to pos…

Should the children of flagged/dead comments be hidden by default as well ?

I like that idea.

Alternatively, such threads could not be hidden completely, but only be reached via a separate link. That way, the discussion would still exist, but would not consume growing space on the original discussion site anymore.

(In addition, it would still serve to bind the people who insist on wasting their time in that corner. On the other hand, that would still be a pity. I assume that some people who wasted their time in that corner would otherwise have engaged in the remaining insightful discussions.)

Re: SSH for Fun and Profit

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Meta: the grey text thing which seems to be really popular right now? That's just unreadable. Third time today I inspect-elemented a blog post to turn the text coloring off. Edit: Finished reading, what a great project! I've looked for something like this before, but ssh documentation never quite contained what I was looking for, let alone providing a simple client to hack with. Many code snippets look a lot easier t…

If the author is reading this, I always find it useful to run HTML CodeSniffer [1] to find contrast accessibility violations. It gives you the closest colour that meets the contrast requirements. With a few small colour tweaks, I got the number of WCAG AA violations down from 115 errors to 17 (the remainder are primarily contrast issues with the code blocks).

P.S. Loved the article!

[1] https://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/

Re: SSH for Fun and Profit

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Meta: the grey text thing which seems to be really popular right now? That's just unreadable. Third time today I inspect-elemented a blog post to turn the text coloring off. Edit: Finished reading, what a great project! I've looked for something like this before, but ssh documentation never quite contained what I was looking for, let alone providing a simple client to hack with. Many code snippets look a lot easier t…

Check your monitor gamma and white level using something like this: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gamma_calibration.php You might be crushing whites, or just have incorrect gamma.

Thanks for the link! I've seen the site before but never thought of testing my screen when I got my new laptop.

It's very difficult to tell, though. The gamma varies between 1.9 and 2.3 (roughly) depending on the angle at which I look at my screen. Every time I sit this will be different.

Opening the article again, it also depends where I look: when tilting my laptop back a bit, the text appears darker (even black if I tilt it far enough) but the exact shade differs: near the bottom of the page it's still greyish while the top part is indeed almost black.

Looking on my phone, it's a lot better readable than on my laptop, probably because I look at my laptop screen at an angle and my phone's colors don't change if you look from the far top or bottom.

Re: SSH for Fun and Profit

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It'd be nice to be gender neutral :)

It'd be nicer if people could stop derailing interesting threads with their gender politics and pedantry.

You're worried about derailing a thread topic of "I like this post, please upvote me"? If you don't reply to it, it won't derail the thread.
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