Eternal Terminal

Re:Eternal Terminal by efdee on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:33PM (#21641180)

Have my vote and never show your face around here again.

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Re:Eternal Terminal by narag on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:19PM (#21642816)

Apart from the reference, they seem to like humour, or at least saying it's "for the busy and impacient" while the name actually means "lasts forever" is funny.

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Re:Eternal Terminal by jolmg on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:31PM (#21641752)

The source is here:

https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal

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Re:Eternal Terminal by harumph on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:43PM (#21640613)

slow clap

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Re:Eternal Terminal by skyyler on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:01PM (#21640801)

It doesn't appear so.

Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry?

I hope you were sincerely asking a dumb question and not attempting to make a low effort joke instead of discussing the project in earnest.

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Re:Eternal Terminal by Nextgrid on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:39PM (#21641239)

> Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry?

Well, tools that you wouldn't expect to phone home like text editors and compilers now do. See VSCode, the .NET Core compiler and even the Windows 10 calculator [0].

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148

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Re:Eternal Terminal by Thorrez on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:46PM (#21644851)

Yes, on the front page of HN right now is a post about Atom phoning home.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642391

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Re:Eternal Terminal by satanspastaroll on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:46AM (#21647379)

Does Microsoft collect the calculations themselves, or metadata related to it's use?

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Re:Eternal Terminal by dunkelheit on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:24PM (#21641099)

I guess it is the reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial

Although in our times it won't even be that surprising if remote shells started phoning home...

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Re:Eternal Terminal by skyyler on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:25PM (#21641107)

This website is for high quality discussion, not low effort pop culture references.

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Re:Eternal Terminal by kstrauser on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:35PM (#21641198)

I personally found that to be a high quality joke. I mean, this isn't Reddit, but I wouldn't stick around a website too long if it were genuinely all business, zero fun.

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Re:Eternal Terminal by hundchenkatze on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:54PM (#21645350)

Wow, climb on down buddy. E.T. the movie is even referenced on Eternal Terminal's site. https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks/#the-eternal-terminal...

You remind me of the main character's wife from Breaking Bad, what's her name, oh yeah Skyler.

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Re:Eternal Terminal by skyyler on Monday December 02, 2019 @06:07PM (#21688058)

Sick pop culture reference!~

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Re:Eternal Terminal by evanriley on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:33PM (#21641767)

And yet, I'm not sure I would call the majority of discussion on this website "high quality".

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Re:Eternal Terminal by tekknolagi on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:40PM (#21641244)

While this was a joke, I am concerned about terminal utils having (opt-out) telemetry. It seems to have spread recently. For example, Homebrew, .NET core, ...

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Re:Eternal Terminal by staticvoidmaine on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:12PM (#21641564)

Maybe he’s not that smart. Maybe he’s like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something

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