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A random question, but what's the thing that comes to your mind when you see this combination of letters ?

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Maybelline@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm worried OP might be asking on the wrong platform to get any other response.

I mean, I'm a geek, and I can't think of anything else for those letters.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

ssh bby its ok

[–] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Isn't it a company ?

[–] TheViking@nord.pub 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A shell (like a unix terminal) that gives you a secure way to do things, such as remotely logging in to another server, or executing commands remotely. With older programs like telnet, you had to login in the terminal passing your credentials without encryption. Secure Shell encrypts the stream to attempt to mitigate someone other than you from obtaining your credentials. SSH uses public-key cryptography to authenticate the remote computer and allow it to authenticate the user, if necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TheViking@nord.pub 0 points 1 month ago

I came a company website by that name.

Secure Shell?

[–] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Me begging people to actually use ssh keys instead of password login

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

90% Secure shell, 10% the sound of a hush

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

PuTTY. It's been a while.

[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

what’s the thing that comes to your mind when you see this combination of letters ?

That should post more on my blog (I use SSH to connect to the webserver and send the new HTML files)

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago
[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My new favorite Linux command line shell: aSSHole.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Someone should create a new internet that uses SSH to access it. Call it An SSH On-Line Environment.

[–] ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Secure shell, the standard encrypted remote terminal, running on TCP port 22.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Connecting to a remote machine in a terminal

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago
[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's nonsense. There is no 'H' in SSD. The 'hard' as in hard disk drive comes from the spinning disks inside being hard. In contrast to the floppy ones inside of a floppy disk... A solid state drive has no spinning disks at all. It's just computer chips if you open it. So we cross out any 'H' and 'F's. And you're left with the 'D'.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They asked what comes to mind. Nothing about accuracy. So I'm right and you're wrong.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, calling it nonsense was the first thing that came to my mind, so guess we're all "right" here?!

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Nope. You will have to create a top level comment to try again.