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Comment I make a SFTP Server... (Score 1) 144

Interesting. I make a SFTP Server for Windows, actually the first release was this month. While my classic ftp stuff is still going strong, despite IIS being out for decades. I wonder if their implementation will be complete and what kind of niche space will still be avail. I'm a little worried about MS releasing something that crushes my effort, but in the past, they kind of derp out on these efforts. While the Windows Linux Subsystem is certainly cool, it's also quite crippled and feels quit isolated on the system. Microsoft SSH server installs as a Windows System Service called "SshBroker" and "SshProxy"... you can check your system with "sc query | grep -i ssh" and then the subsequent detail query "sc query sshbroker". I had no idea it was running, until one day I mistyped and typed "ssh devhost" vs "sftp devhost" and it logged in a shell. Was hoping to run console mode programs from it, like my beloved Semware Editor, but no dice. You can execute programs like "explorer" from the command line, there are no errors, but they don't seem to spawn on taskmgr. Looking forward to finding out more about what you can do in Microsoft's SSH Server, my guess is "powershell" and command-line programs (gnu utils work great).

Comment Re:Coal workers (Score 1, Insightful) 504

Great comment. I hope it doesn't go on deaf ears. I'll add... For decades, the GOP has been convincing poor, white, religious, laborers to combat social programs designed to help the poor... and in turn, these poor, white, religious, laborers have chosen to gut the very system that is designed to help them.

Comment Twitter is Propped up by TV (Score 1) 105

IMHO, twitter has been propped up by the dying industry of live tv. Broadcasting companies took to Twitter as a way to engage with their audience, in realtime, as shows are aired. This helped to keep their dying business model a float with advertisers, as they could now show specific user counts (based on engagement). As a programmer, we've gotten a lot of goodies published which help to answer "twitter scale" issues. But honestly, I'll be glad when it's gone. While "web scale" is certainly a thing, there's been several years of praying towards Twitter without regard to the fact it hasn't made a profit in 10 years.

Comment Re:Legit Question (Score 1) 49

IMHO, it's more of a matter of MVP and first-to-market. There just hasn't been an emphasis on security, and that costs money and time. It's tough to get QA over releases. You're not wrong, there's certainly bad programmers and languages improvements help to protect buffer-overflows.

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