Love the recreation of the old interface! I wish some of the edit options (like editing a community you mod) weren't hidden in this skin, though. Guess I should file a github request with the author to expose those.
There are some on the other instances, but none of them appear to have any postings... the lemmy-verse will decide, in Darwinian fashion, which becomes the 'outoftheloop'.
Post on there and I'll make you a mod if you like :)
I admit I want to like his science education efforts, but ... and I mean this in just an objective way and it's only my opinion but ... he just doesn't click for me anywhere close to how Carl Sagan did. Sagan had such a thoughtful, reflective and soothing manner in how he presented science concepts, and his awe and love of all things science (and science history) was infectious. The original Cosmos is capable of making one weep at the beauty of the universe... I only got through the first 2 or 3 of Neil deGrasse Tyson's new series; his style of narration just doesn't work for me. I even have trouble listening to his science podcasts, it's just too much 'sports-talk' like back and forth.
Update: This is awesome. To get it working I had to install some python3 dependencies since I'd recently upgraded my box. If the main DeGourou.py script isn't running, try installing these:
Whoa, if this works it'll greatly ease my saving of rare books.. without having to reboot into Windoze to use the Adobe eBook crap and Calibre just to save an unencrypted version. Thanks!
I had already commented on this post few days ago with my concerns about this bot. I feel it hinders the proper movement of users from rexxit by artificially keeping activity and attention tethered to the old site, discouraging the creation of (and participation in) new communities here.
I vote we de-federate from it and ignore it as much as possible.
Hmm. I wonder if Florida is going to be taken to court for violating international treaties then? Immigrants from the affected states could apply for an international driving permit for extra protection?
It does now, yeah. I started this project, AFAIK, before that was a thing (developement began circa Jan 2018). It was inspired by my frustration with experiments at extending openssh itself, at that time, to support new algorithms; despite having many years of experience in C and Linux/POSIX, the C codebase was, to me at least, obtuse due to its long history -- so much so that I hit a wall in my efforts.
At the time I was learning Go, and given its very nice string/buffer handling with better bounds-checking and enforcement, plus very good crypto libraries and interfaces for easy addition of new algorithms, it occurred to me that it might be easier (and more fun!) to take a crack at my own remote shell implementation. Don't get me wrong -- I love (OK, love/hate) C, and have made my career in it, but Go in many ways is just a much nicer language in which to code, esp. security-related stuff.
I found the concept of another potential tool to fulfill the same 'niche' as ssh compelling; enough so to motivate me to write it. A monoculture is dangerous, IMHO -- it's a single point of attack/failure if everyone, everywhere, uses a single tool/protocol for a common task.
Another goal was to build into the protocol defenses against traffic analysis, via 'chaffing'. The protocol supports sending bogus random data amongst the real session data in order to impede efforts to analyse the stream, whether interactive shell activity or file transfers.
On the wiki page there's a link to the SLOC of this project, which demonstrates that xs is a lot less code to understand than openssh. Complexity is an enemy of security, so my thinking was/is that a smaller codebase would be a good thing ...
My honest wish is that others would consider doing audits on the code and protocol, and suggest improvements. It's definitely experimental, but useful enough that I use it as my remote access solution instead of ssh 99% of the time for my own servers.
Love the recreation of the old interface! I wish some of the edit options (like editing a community you mod) weren't hidden in this skin, though. Guess I should file a github request with the author to expose those.
EDIT: I jut missed where they were, see this post https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/51#issuecomment-1652404012