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by zokier 2888 days ago
I've had discussions with coworkers on why you shouldn't ve downloading putty from putty.org. Sure, they seem to be linking to the official downloads now, but imho it's just poor hygiene to use such pages. It takes just a moment of carelessness to get pwned
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lakechfoma 2888 days ago
Rather unfortunate that "putty.org" is the first result in searches and looks a lot more legit than "chiark.greenend.org.uk" even if it (currently) links there.

I've had discussions with coworkers on why they shouldn't look up "free online json beautifier" and dump thousands of lines of crown jewels into them (http too). Meanwhile we're doing web dev and JSON responses are autoformatted in Firefox dev tools so there's an amazingly convenient and perfectly safe alternative right there...

How do we impart urgency with this kind of stuff?

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slededit 2888 days ago
It's putty's own fault. They used to (and perhaps still do) have a section on how they don't want your donated domain - they like their current one.

From their FAQ:

> 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 google.com and we're the first link returned), and we don't believe the administrative hassle of moving the site would be worth the benefit.

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lakechfoma 2888 days ago
>>we don't believe the administrative hassle of moving the site would be worth the benefit

this is so short sighted, especially for software used to admin productive systems

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aeontech 2888 days ago
Show your coworkers jq, it is amazing:

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

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lakechfoma 2888 days ago
This looks great! Coworkers don't work in the shell at all though so there's that, but I might use it at times.

They're lookin for that syntax highlighted and interactive experience you know.

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WorldMaker 2888 days ago
Windows 10 has real OpenSSH ssh installed by default now (since April). The time for PuTTY has passed. May it rest in peace.
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alliecat 2887 days ago
PuTTY's been a thing for almost two decades at this point. That's quite a lot of inertia; It will take a lot more than three months for people to migrate, nevermind the people who aren't on W10.
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