15 points pbohun 2 hours ago 5 comments

dapperdrake 53 minutes ago | parent

Pigshell explores taking plan9 to the next level.

jauntywundrkind 37 minutes ago | parent

(2015). Connect to g+!

Very much a fan of this, of the 9p life. What times seeing a shell on the web with 9p access!

9p is very shell coded, as we see here, but I also really want to imagine going further. I want to imagine apps and systems that interoperate via small fine grained files. As a scripting environment, I really hope it's easy and fun for programs and now llms to look at and alter state, to work other systems, and 9p feels like it is rallying around a core truth that's there all the time just more of it, more files. Instead of descending beyond the os into deeper datastructures like toml.

A downside is that now you need lots of kernel syscalls to talk to all the files. That alas has not, historically, been performant.

mbreese 9 minutes ago | parent

Yep... their Github was last updated 11 years ago (which would also explain the SSL warnings).

https://github.com/pigshell/pigshell/commit/9ad32ce83b7191e8... committed on Aug 24, 2015

Still, I'm a fan of the style. Today, it would probably be an LLM interface to resources, but how much fun would a web shell be?

sntran 30 minutes ago | parent

Hah, I had somewhat similar plan, but based on the concept of FIFO (named pipes) and the Unix tool `mkfifo`, so I built https://mkfifo.com to make it easier for people to build pipes instead of shell commands.

There are also a few FIFOs there that works like rclone, using my own `rfetch` library.

Still a WIP though.

alt227 19 minutes ago | parent

My Chrome flags this site as not secure, but it doesnt tell me why which is strange.

EDIT: Looking at it, chrome seems to hide all security info about sites now and only display a generic 'Not Secure' badge for anything. This is a very awkward change and removes lots of convenience when troubleshooting random sites.

Still, the site needs to fix its SSL certificate.