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- I love the idea. I couldn't get it to work; I navigated to (0,0) but didn't see a cursor; kept changing colors and trying to place blocks but saw nothing. Eventually my Ghostty crashed.by jxmorris12
- > Your cooldown is tied to your SSH key
This sounds like a recipe for bots that bypass the cooldown...
by Retr0id - I also have limits for IP and device + some other factors :) The full details are in the README on GitHub. But also I don't expect too many people to find this, it's one of my first public projects. If we do get a surge of people then I'll implement something better.by jeninh
- So cool! If I wanted to make a similar product, how should I do it? Do you have any advice or research directions? I saw a company using SSH for hiring a couple of days ago, and I thought it was really cool. I also want to build something similar.by bestony
- ssh superlogical.jobsby dolmen
- I'm going to be so honest, I don't have much advice for you. I'm a teenager who's part of Hack Club (https://hackclub.com) who made this entirely for fun.
I was inspired by @zachlatta's SSHtron (https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron) and wanted to make an SSH game. I loved how easy it was for him to promote it too, he made a HN post with title "ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com" because it gets people to try out the actual game rather than look at a README. If you have a business, find something useful that would help! Or in my case, find something fun you want to make/remake to be used in the terminal over SSH. Hack Club also used to have a hiring page over SSH, if I recall correctly.
My code uses wish, bubbletea and lipgloss from Charm. You can look at the code over at https://github.com/jeninh/ssh.place
Good luck!
by jeninh - I love ssh apps! See also late.sh, and my own https://shellbox.devby messh
- and funky.nondeterministic.computerby fragmede
- another one: https://pico.shby qudat
- Parked means the storage is kept, right?
- Shellbox is so sick!!! I'm going to look into implementing it into a project I'm working on.by jeninh
- Shellbox looks really cool! I love the proliferation of ssh apps lately… Ever since I saw the terminal coffee I’ve been inspired. I’ve been working on https://billard.sh myself for a bit.by nickzelei
- Ayy late.sh called out, my favourite hangout on the internet :) I'm in there every evening antagonizing the bartenderby Hugsbox
- Mine is hard to get to(ip6 only) but was started around the idea of a shared postgres database.
ssh applicant@register.public.outband.net
The web page https://www.public.outband.net hosted on the same box, if you can see it you have the needed ip6.
No users yet but feel free to try it out.
by somat - Takes all the fun out of it when people are multiboxing for the sake of posting an advertisement. Oh well.by mplewis
- Welp. Same thing happened in r/placeby jeninh
- Make sure to not be forwarding ssh agents! :)
- Why so few colors? Even with palette characters you can have 240 or so options, and with truecolor you can just have anything. Also, you can double your vertical resolution by using half block characters, setting the foreground color as the top half, and setting the background color as the bottom half. Something like this: `\x1b[38;2;{r};{g};{b};48;2;{r};{g};{b}m{half block character}`.by bob65536
- I can't see my cursor if it is placed on top of a cell that has already been colored.by cbarrick
- Oops. I'll fix that right nowby jeninh
- Are we coordinating factions here, like the original r/place? The social aspect was such a big part of the original. I'll start:
# PURPLE FRAME #
Our mission is to draw a purple frame around the canvas. 2 rows of blank space between the frame and the top/bottom of the canvas. 4 cols of blank space between the frame and the left/right of the canvas.
by cbarrick - I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this. On one hand, we could just do it here but then I can't link people to this page or it'll harm the post. I could also just use a subreddit or make a forum on https://ssh.placeby jeninh
- If you have a slight interest in originality of presentation, whatever website copy first comes out of Claude is not there yet. Its preoccupation with "no x, no y" and annoying runs of sentence fragments might have been a punchy rhetoric for a short while before it became a tired cliché, but by now it stylistically makes it look more like you're bragging on LinkedIn than presenting something fun and creative.
I mention it because it's immediately off-putting even though the project itself sounds fun enough. It tarnishes it with the impression that maybe you just don't care, but maybe you just aren't attuned to the style and its strong slop connotations.
I'm genuinely fascinated by the problem and I've wondered what in the training process causes the model to develop this peculiar style of writing. Is it because it's trained on old Medium slop? Someone else replied with a link to their SSH-based VPS, where the copy is absolutely saturated with the same annoying style.
by boomlinde - > what in the training process causes
Read some early pre-mass-adoption LLM papers by the key scientists and researchers. The style is very similar...
- I don't think Claude's writing style is peculiar, it is just that we are being flooded with it. Everything becomes stale with overuse.
- Yeah it kinda feels like a great, original meal but served on plasticwareby myzek
- I understand where you are getting from, thanks for posting this. I'll keep this in mind for my next project (or if I push changes to this one.) I also wanted this to appeal to non-hackers, and a big part of that was me wanting to show how simple it was to log in.by jeninh
- It's an extremely pervasive misconception, but a model's voice is not really a matter of its training data, not by the time it reaches consumer eyes. The voice these models use are specifically selected for in RLHF, ie, curated by humans by telling it it did a good job when it uses this voice and telling it it did a bad job when it didn't use this voice.
Why do they specifically push for this voice? Because it is effective. This is "headline voice", the voice that gets people to endlessly click on Youtube clickbait and garbage articles. Most of the population gets a dopamine hit from this style of writing, making it legitimately addicting to them. Those who recognize it for what it is and find it insufferably grating are in a tiny, tiny minority.
- > I've wondered what in the training process causes the model to develop this peculiar style of writing
I think this might just be inherent to the currently deployed LLM architecture. If the training process works at all, any model will come out of it with some (default) voice that it'll apply everywhere.
Human voices are not like that, both because one copywriter does not write a significant fraction of all texts in the world and because unlike LLMs they remember all of their own prior writing, which gives them an opportunity to get tired of their old tropes.
by lxgr - Why is there no orange? The entire colour palette is a bit depressing.
Also my terminal (Ubuntu in WSL2) had an ugly colour palette defined by default with several identical colours. I'm glad I found out!
Use this to check yours:
and then press ctrl + , to change it.for i in {0..15}; do printf "\e[48;5;%dm %2d \e[0m " "$i" "$i"; (( (i + 1) % 8 == 0 )) && echo; doneby Tepix