pratyahava

any details on that? links to people reporting it?

can you please suggest any alternatives to switch to? i hardly can find any alternative which provides free service and is a non-profit org at the same time.

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

even this "ascii" (i expected raw text but still got html+css) was hardly readable for me, had to reach to the reader view, finally readable, ohh... looks much like ai-generated, why did i spend so much time jumping over obstacles...

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

afaik tcp and udp are the same on top of ipv6 as they are on top of ipv4, there are no tcp6 and udp6, the "6" suffix just hints they are comminucated on top of ipv6, but the packets are the same as before, no new standards.

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

can you please demonstrate the workflow you are suggesting? asking because i tried what you suggest, and it does not work.

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

can you please explain what you mean by this? because technically i do not see any similarity in this "analogy".

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

the question was "can we use port names from /etc/services instead of port numbers?"

how about "ssh://[email protected]:https/golang/go.git" instead of "ssh://[email protected]:443/golang/go.git"? does not work, hmm.

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

URI contains ":port" tho, but practically it is only digital number.

the OP made a tool which helps them to avoid using port numbers. people commented in a way that looked like laughing at him, like he reinvented the wheel, and talking about /etc/services. well ok, i decided to try using /etc/services for the purpose of using names instead of port numbers.

would it be possible to add "myapp 60001/tcp" to /etc/services and then work with "http://localhost:myapp"? NO! browsers do not translate these names into port numbers. netcat does. curl does not.

so probably the OP's solution is not that questionable and really solved their need? and "good old friend /etc/services" is not useful for this? i dont know what it is useful for as running services on non-standard ports actually helps with hiding from security/vuln scanners and is practiced widely.

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

if you configure sshd to listen on port 443, does it become an https server? i was just trying to demondtrate: pick any port from /etc/services and try to use the name instead of port number. no, it does not work well when trying to use for local-hosting http(s) services. so to address the irony and sarcasm of the messages i was replying to:

  zdw: It's like someone should make a file... maybe in /etc ... and put short names for services in it... maybe it could be called /etc/services...

  tolciho: And then they might code up some sort of service lookup tool thingy to use on the train wreck that is the modern web.
  $ getent services gopher
  gopher               70/tcp

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

ipv6 packet does not have any port field. ports are on the level of tcp and udp, and you don't have to use tcp or udp on top of ipv6. ipv4 packet does not have any port information as well.

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

i know, but the OP's goal was to host/access http(s) services with names and avoid port numbers, and gopher service name was chosen by me as an example. my point was that /etc/services cannot be used for the OP's need.

if you host an http(s) service on port 11111 you can reach it with url http://127.1:11111, but url http://127.1:vce/ would not work in most software.

  $ grep 11111 /etc/services
  vce  11111/udp   # Viral Computing Environment (VCE)
  vce  11111/tcp   # Viral Computing Environment (VCE)

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

i chose gopher port just as an example. try with any other service name mapped to a port number from /etc/services and the result will be the same. the OP's goal was to use many http/https services, so we are talking about many http(s) services.

i just wanted to make the point that even if you have service names in /etc/services, it is not possible to use that names easily to host/access http(s) services.

pratyahava

2 months agodiscuss

this is a nice idea, but idk why, in macos if i do `nc -l 127.0.0.1 gopher` and then try to open url "http://127.0.0.1:gopher/" - safari does not open it, no requests visible in the `nc` output.

also `curl -v http://127.0.0.1:gopher/` gives error message

  * URL rejected: Port number was not a decimal number between 0 and 65535
  * Closing connection
  curl: (3) URL rejected: Port number was not a decimal number between 0 and 65535

so the ports are named, it is nice, but in practice it does not make life easier.

pratyahava

3 months agodiscuss

the first paragraph in the linked post says "Major investors are Amplify, CRV, and HeavyBit."

but i know nothing about what the comment says, just answering your question.

pratyahava

3 months agodiscuss

> it’s a pretty basic hex viewer that runs in your browser

excuse me? "basic" and "runs in your browser" together sound very contradictory to me. while doing things i actually feel (yes, emotionally) much better when there is no browser open on my machine, but only text editors, vcs gui and file managers, and terminals of course. and sometimes i reject an idea to start a browser just thinking how much ram it will take (ha, what a progress we have done - one github issue tab, with text only and no images, takes 180mb of ram).

pratyahava

3 months agodiscuss

oops, sorry, so it is not as bad as i imagined :) is it just a way to have an unlimited account for free?

pratyahava

3 months agodiscuss

maybe try to fix it for them as soon as you have the root access?

pratyahava

3 months agodiscuss

please provide a proof. if this is the case, then telegram is not to be trusted. but it needs to be proven. otherwise a lot of people trust their business and personal data to telegram.

pratyahava

5 months agodiscuss

https://codeberg.org/latimar/lilush/src/branch/master/INDEX....

pratyahava

6 months agodiscuss

i guess the point of having a tag in the shape of a card is to prevent a thief from throwing the obvious airtag away, the card tag may look like an ordinary bank card and kept in the wallet longer

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