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Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by magnat »

gregoryl wrote: post #69
Helmut10001 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

> I'm a c# dev with near 20 years experience

Which IDE do you use? JetBrains Rider?

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by rezonant »

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…

Unfortunately the person who owns putty.org started to use it to spread misinformation about vaccines and the pandemic, as you can see on the site today.

This recently [1][2] got a lot of attention on the web and here on HN, along with a post on Mastodon from the author [3]

I imagine trying to disincentivize this and provide another shorter more official looking link is the hope here.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/puttyorg_website_cont...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44579265

[3] https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by bayindirh »

blue1 wrote: post #95

I see no mention in this thread of KiTTY https://www.9bis.net/kitty/ >, no one uses this instead of PuTTY?

I'm sure it's a great piece of software, but sometimes, the simpler is better. I used PuTTY for a decade or so, and while it was kinda ugly and clunky, it's very beautiful and perfect because of its imperfections.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by pferde »

closewith wrote: post #82
viraptor wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It means a lot - you need to check the other side's meta to confirm yourself. https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/

No, it really means nothing. Identity on the internet is not a solved problem.

You are wrong.

It means that whoever owns the website marked as verified also owns the social account. See https://joinmastodon.org/verification for a quick overview of how it works.

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