@kasdeya Our science is a lot like magic, ez

@kasdeya I love this and now every time I connect to a remote host it’ll be in my mind too

@kasdeya commanding daemons at a distance by conjuring them in arcane language...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

@kasdeya _that's_ what SSH is used for? I've been using astral projection this whole time not realizing there was a simpler way 😭

@kasdeya So true.

@kasdeya same honestly

@kasdeya this post has strong @ashley energy

@kasdeya SSH in a nutshell. : }

@kasdeya even more magical than astral projection when you can login remotely to multiple hosts that are in distant locations one another.

@kasdeya I might of read my textbooks, if they were this interesting.

@kasdeya (though in that image it looks a little more like telnet...) @benjedwards

@kasdeya that is nightmare fuel

@kasdeya SSH is analogous to something we commonly do, like astral projection.

@kasdeya ssh is short for whooossh

@kasdeya … but real.

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aSSHtral projection?

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Yeah, the moment I have to do work, in my astral projections, ... Kill Me.

In all of the universes.

@kasdeya and now so will i

@kasdeya What book is that from?

@kasdeya What would be the analog for OpenSSL? ;)

@kasdeya You just can't unsee this can you

even more magical than astral projection @kasdeya when you set up reciprocal public keys across all of your homelab computers and then make bash aliases to summon them with just their host name. that makes me tingly every damn time.

@kasdeya I want this person to explain screen.

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Obvs the 'sound' it makes kasdeya is 'ssh -hhhhh '

😅

@kasdeya me too

@kasdeya @bitprophet `alias astral=“ssh”`

@kasdeya @iamtjg that's amazing

@kasdeya where is this image from?

@kasdeya that's totally in line with how I felt the first time I SSH'ed somewhere. Looked like magic! (It is still magical, in a sense, we just get desensitized...)

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Do you know what time period this is from?

@kasdeya I feel like astral projection with robust forward secrecy has appeared in a @cstross book

@kasdeya reverse shells are digital telekinesis

@kasdeya where did this come from? I love it

@kasdeya When you ssh into a remote computer, and ssh back into your local computer because the SSH shortcut is right there and opening a terminal window might take a few extra seconds.

@kasdeya @Sloanysoft Where’s this from?!

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@kasdeya Brb, astrally projecting to my VPS.

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The dial-up modem sound is demons screaming.

@kasdeya wireguard is like portals then

@kasdeya@tech.lgbt Why I have memories of this from a PC Anywhere book back in the day ....

@kasdeya i think this one too

@kasdeya It's so perfect. I need another version of this but for port forwarding.

@kasdeya This should make home server maintenance a lot more fun lol

@kasdeya When I was a young kid in the GDR I had a book about technology. It showed off all the great technological marvels that socialism was capable of, like landing on the moon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme).

The picture that most stuck with me though was very much like this one, and was supposed to explain radio waves: A farmer was shown, operating a horse drawn plough, from his home, by way of a pair of hundred meter long reins (spanning across the whole width of the book).

@kasdeya computer witchery and spiritualism

@kasdeya My only issue is the box I log into the most is usually 1 room away

@kasdeya I will now also always think about this, but with bunny ears on the person

@kasdeya This raises a lot of questions about using Ansible.

@kasdeya nice image representation

@kasdeya same

@kasdeya reminds of how I recently read "The Dispossessed" and so found out about this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible

@kasdeya It's not at all. SSH gives you a pseudo terminal on the other machine, which is different to actually controlling it.

Different screen size, terminal capabilities, etc.

@kasdeya we have always been wizards. According to the Du Cange glossarium, a mathematician is an astrologer, people who tried to predict the future and wizards summoning demons 😃 😃 http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/MATHEMATICUS

@kasdeya @NatSecGeek 😍

@kasdeya asshtral projection

@kasdeya Wait until you RDP.....

@kasdeya well thank you for sharing that mind worm!

@kasdeya not to be pedantic, but Xlogo is 90º rotated.

@kasdeya I would call it Man In The Middle.

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(via https://networkcultures.org/goinghybrid/2023/03/06/hybrid-futures-drawing-lessons-together/)

I was trying to find the source of that clip, looks like an old copy of Computer World.

@kasdeya For me it’s the other way around.

@kasdeya That's AMAZING

@kasdeya ooh! Also vpn

@kasdeya I absolutely love that image. I feel like it's been circulating for forever at this point, but it's never not delightful.