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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Another ssh quirk...
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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> Yes, I enjoy writing about these weird quirks that I find in the ssh tools
> (including rsync).  I find it amusing that ssh (and friends) - a tool we
> all use daily and rely on heavily - is still stuck, design-wise, in the
> 1980s.

I just double-down on the 1980s mindset and use Telnet instead of
SSH for talking to things like Raspberry Pis which are on my own
LAN where nobody should be able to listen/connect anyway, unless
they can just walk over and steal its SD card anyway. Makes
everything much simpler, once you've installed the Telnet server.

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