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Visit my SSH ASCII lavalamp

Shown by dusted on Nov 26, 2020. Click the card to turn it over.

8points

9comments

#2,673of 3,028 in 2020

Top 89%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

2 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

Connection refused for some users due to unsupported cipher
From 2 comments
- connection refused
  Blahah on HN
- Works for everyone else. You just have to downgrade your cipher-preferences: ssh -c chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com -p 2222 85.27.249.130 Unable to negotiate with 85.27.249.130…
  wfee2020 on HN
Exposes home IP and location
From 1 comment
- I got here too late to watch it, but in the future if you want to expose a local service like this, the OSS inlets project has an add-on for TCP services like SSH and Mongo etc.…
  alexellisuk on HN

Share the source code
From 1 comment
- Works for me. Are you gonna post the source code for it? Sharing is caring ;)
  devenblake on HN

Is it a real lava lamp?
From 1 comment
- Neat. I spent a while trying to figure out how you simulated a lava lamp before realizing HasciiCam takes a video feed as input, so I assume this is a real lava lamp. Very cool.…
  ludocode on HN

OSS inlets project for exposing local TCP services
From 1 comment
- I got here too late to watch it, but in the future if you want to expose a local service like this, the OSS inlets project has an add-on for TCP services like SSH and Mongo etc.…
  alexellisuk on HN