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I'm on the fence about some of Kitty's extensions. The file transfer of TTY extension, for example, strikes me as adding little benefit over SSH but while also
by hnlmorg 5y ago
I'm on the fence about some of Kitty's extensions. The file transfer of TTY extension, for example, strikes me as adding little benefit over SSH but while also creating a new risk vector as it means we can no longer trust even printing to the screen.
I'm also not fond of the hyperlink extension that some terminals are adopting. We already know of the risk with emails and hyperlink URLs pointing to different locations (eg <a href="not.google.com">google.com</a>) the last thing we need is the terminal to also be exploitable.
I think some CLI users are looking at websites lustfully and wanting to emulate some of those features and while I'm all for improvements (better image support is always the obvious example but I'm all for inlining other forms of documents too) we definitely shouldn't be taking all the webs features wholesale without having a serious pause for consideration about the risks they might introduce. Particularly when a lot of organizations are still reliant on SSHing into remote servers.