#tty — Public Fediverse posts

In the beginning, there was #TTY and serial ports, and verily did #sysadmins have text-based console access to fix a server falling over. And it was good. Not efficient, and scaled poorly, but for the 80s, it was good.

Then came addon boards and it was…ok. Then upon the world did come Baseboard Management Controller (#BMC), a dedicated, soldered on chip that changed server management from manual, physical troubleshooting to automated, isolated remote control. And it seemed pretty good.

And then pen testers and red teams started reporting flaws and vulnerabilities. For decades. Have those flaws been fixed in all those years?

No, don’t be ridiculous. Where’s the ROI for the MBA?

That said, if your bmc is exposed to the internet, you probably have way bigger #infosec issues.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/thousands-of-servers-can-be-backdoored-by-exploiting-buggy-motherboard-controllers/

In the beginning, there was #TTY and serial ports, and verily did #sysadmins have text-based console access to fix a server falling over. And it was good. Not efficient, and scaled poorly, but for the 80s, it was good.

Then came addon boards and it was…ok. Then upon the world did come Baseboard Management Controller (#BMC), a dedicated, soldered on chip that changed server management from manual, physical troubleshooting to automated, isolated remote control. And it seemed pretty good.

And then pen testers and red teams started reporting flaws and vulnerabilities. For decades. Have those flaws been fixed in all those years?

No, don’t be ridiculous. Where’s the ROI for the MBA?

That said, if your bmc is exposed to the internet, you probably have way bigger #infosec issues.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/thousands-of-servers-can-be-backdoored-by-exploiting-buggy-motherboard-controllers/

#vt320 #tty #cables

Hey all,

I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who can point me in the eight direction.

I have a VT320 terminal I want to use, but am lacking the MMJ cable -- this is quite common.

I'm not in a position to create one myself, and even then, likely won't be able to connect to a computer without a USB to serial converter anyway.

I'm curious if there's anyone in the UK/Europe who makes these cables, in which case I'm happy to pay for that -- I just don't want to try making this myself, as I don't have the time.

Any help much appreciated.

#vt320 #tty #cables

Hey all,

I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who can point me in the eight direction.

I have a VT320 terminal I want to use, but am lacking the MMJ cable -- this is quite common.

I'm not in a position to create one myself, and even then, likely won't be able to connect to a computer without a USB to serial converter anyway.

I'm curious if there's anyone in the UK/Europe who makes these cables, in which case I'm happy to pay for that -- I just don't want to try making this myself, as I don't have the time.

Any help much appreciated.

A KVM Without the V (Or the M)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/08/02/a-kvm-without-the-v-or-the-m/

“Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto”, Alex Alejandre (https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-mitchell-hashimoto/).

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/0mam5k/lobsters_interview_with_mitchellh

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849292

#Ghostty #Terminals #CLI #TUI #Zig #Unix #TTY #CommandLine #Interviews

“Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto”, Alex Alejandre (https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-mitchell-hashimoto/).

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/0mam5k/lobsters_interview_with_mitchellh

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849292

#Ghostty #Terminals #CLI #TUI #Zig #Unix #TTY #CommandLine #Interviews

Learn a practical approach to Linux desktop recovery. Understand desktop startup, diagnose failures using logs, and regain access with a TTY, Recovery Mode, or a Live USB.

Full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/linux-desktop-startup-recovery-guide/

#LinuxTroubleshooting #DesktopRecovery #Xorg #Wayland #TTY #LiveUSB #Systemd #Journalctl #Linux

Learn a practical approach to Linux desktop recovery. Understand desktop startup, diagnose failures using logs, and regain access with a TTY, Recovery Mode, or a Live USB.

Full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/linux-desktop-startup-recovery-guide/

#LinuxTroubleshooting #DesktopRecovery #Xorg #Wayland #TTY #LiveUSB #Systemd #Journalctl #Linux

subterminal simulating a lynx-like text browser

work in progress

#terminal #golang #foss #subterm #ftty #tty

subterminal simulating a lynx-like text browser

work in progress

#terminal #golang #foss #subterm #ftty #tty

work in progress: subterminal

a self-similar / fractal subdivision terminal, aka "ftty".

#terminal #golang #foss #subterm #ftty #tty

work in progress: subterminal

a self-similar / fractal subdivision terminal, aka "ftty".

#terminal #golang #foss #subterm #ftty #tty

Teletype 5620 DMD, Blit (1984)

http://xahlee.info/kbd/teletype_5620.html

"Blit terminal was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982. Model 5620 DMD (dot-mapped display) was created in 1984. They were sold by AT&T and Teletype Corp."

#retrocomputing #tty #teletype #terminal #t5620 #belllabs #att

Teletype 5620 DMD, Blit (1984)

http://xahlee.info/kbd/teletype_5620.html

"Blit terminal was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982. Model 5620 DMD (dot-mapped display) was created in 1984. They were sold by AT&T and Teletype Corp."

#retrocomputing #tty #teletype #terminal #t5620 #belllabs #att

Why Are Linux I/O Devices Called TTY? (+ bunny bonus)

#Linux #TTY

How TTY Opened Up The Phones For The Hard of Hearing

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/30/how-tty-opened-up-the-phones-for-the-hard-of-hearing/

How TTY Opened Up The Phones For The Hard of Hearing

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/30/how-tty-opened-up-the-phones-for-the-hard-of-hearing/

ttydal 1.6.0 is out with some awesome new feature 🫡

For your eyes you can now see all tracks or albums art in big format either via the "o"shortcut or directly via the track art that is playing.

Now ttydal is also capable of detecting if any network issues occur, inform you if so and try to reconnect for a certain time.

Check the release here : https://github.com/results-may-vary-org/ttydal/releases

#terminal #developer #tidal #tty #music

ttydal 1.6.0 is out with some awesome new feature 🫡

For your eyes you can now see all tracks or albums art in big format either via the "o"shortcut or directly via the track art that is playing.

Now ttydal is also capable of detecting if any network issues occur, inform you if so and try to reconnect for a certain time.

Check the release here : https://github.com/results-may-vary-org/ttydal/releases

#terminal #developer #tidal #tty #music

Am I the only one who just prefers to use whatever the default provided terminal application that comes with a window manager / distro?

There are so many niche tty's that I have yet to find a compelling reason to use. Even though like 50-60% of my workflow is in terminal.

#tty #terminal #linux

Two tremendous dystopian whodunnit films

Two recently released dystopian thrillers are outstanding movies and both are available via streaming services.

Mercy (2026)

Released earlier this year, Mercy is a tremendously interesting and entertaining science fiction movie — despite what the critics may say. In fact, the reviews and ratings by viewers of the film are much, much higher than those of the critics.

Rebecca Ferguson and Chris Pratt are tremendous in their respective roles – Ms. Ferguson as the AI generated Judge Maddox of the Mercy Capital Court and Mr. Pratt as a police officer accused of murder. He has exactly 90 minutes to prove his innocence sufficiently to AI Judge Maddox (a threshold below 92 percent likelihood of guilt) or be summarily executed.

Mr. Pratt must prove his innocence while his arms and legs are locked into the execution chair by employing all sorts of evidence gathering techniques that access the court’s ties to the municipal cloud. All technological devices within the city (LA) must be registered to the municipal cloud so defendants can access them. This includes surveillance cameras, live action feeds, cell phones, databases, and other technologies available. He can do this by use of a small hand screen or through voice requests to the cloud and/or AI Judge Maddox.

You will definitely be on the edge of your set while watching Mercy!

Relay (2025)

Released to theaters in 2025, Relay is thoroughly entertaining movie and unique in its story/use of an older technology as the conduit to protect whistleblowers who are being tormented by those entities they called out or implicated.

Relay stars Lily James and Riz Ahmed, who both excel in this film. Lily James plays a whistleblower who is being harassed by powerful corporation that she has dirt on. Meanwhile, Mr. Ahmed play the fixer who uses old-fashion TTY (teletypewriter) relay service to communicate with his clients (the whistleblowers) and to those who are harassing them.

This movie fan does not recall seeing TTY employed in a movie before and certainly never in such a central role of the plot. Mr. Ahmed’s use of old-fashioned TTY technology makes his communications virtually untraceable. That premise alone makes Relay highly engaging, truly groundbreaking, and a definite must see!

Hope you enjoy both films too. Peace!

Two tremendous dystopian whodunnit films

Two recently released dystopian thrillers are outstanding movies and both are available via streaming services.

Mercy (2026)

Released earlier this year, Mercy is a tremendously interesting and entertaining science fiction movie — despite what the critics may say. In fact, the reviews and ratings by viewers of the film are much, much higher than those of the critics.

Rebecca Ferguson and Chris Pratt are tremendous in their respective roles – Ms. Ferguson as the AI generated Judge Maddox of the Mercy Capital Court and Mr. Pratt as a police officer accused of murder. He has exactly 90 minutes to prove his innocence sufficiently to AI Judge Maddox (a threshold below 92 percent likelihood of guilt) or be summarily executed.

Mr. Pratt must prove his innocence while his arms and legs are locked into the execution chair by employing all sorts of evidence gathering techniques that access the court’s ties to the municipal cloud. All technological devices within the city (LA) must be registered to the municipal cloud so defendants can access them. This includes surveillance cameras, live action feeds, cell phones, databases, and other technologies available. He can do this by use of a small hand screen or through voice requests to the cloud and/or AI Judge Maddox.

You will definitely be on the edge of your set while watching Mercy!

Relay (2025)

Released to theaters in 2025, Relay is thoroughly entertaining movie and unique in its story/use of an older technology as the conduit to protect whistleblowers who are being tormented by those entities they called out or implicated.

Relay stars Lily James and Riz Ahmed, who both excel in this film. Lily James plays a whistleblower who is being harassed by powerful corporation that she has dirt on. Meanwhile, Mr. Ahmed play the fixer who uses old-fashion TTY (teletypewriter) relay service to communicate with his clients (the whistleblowers) and to those who are harassing them.

This movie fan does not recall seeing TTY employed in a movie before and certainly never in such a central role of the plot. Mr. Ahmed’s use of old-fashioned TTY technology makes his communications virtually untraceable. That premise alone makes Relay highly engaging, truly groundbreaking, and a definite must see!

Hope you enjoy both films too. Peace!

One Open-source Project Daily

Universal Terminal Emulator, might be a great toy terminal front-end for geeks.

https://github.com/JLChnToZ/uniterm

#1ospd #opensource #bashonwindows #electron #javascript #nodejs #pty #terminalemulators #tty #typescript #windowssubsystemlinux #wsl #wslterminal #xtermjs

One Open-source Project Daily

Universal Terminal Emulator, might be a great toy terminal front-end for geeks.

https://github.com/JLChnToZ/uniterm

#1ospd #opensource #bashonwindows #electron #javascript #nodejs #pty #terminalemulators #tty #typescript #windowssubsystemlinux #wsl #wslterminal #xtermjs

@fozztexx @foone Baudot 5-bit code, not to be confused with Baudot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

#BaudotCode #TTY #BillyJoel #WeDidntStartTheFire

@fozztexx @foone Baudot 5-bit code, not to be confused with Baudot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

#BaudotCode #TTY #BillyJoel #WeDidntStartTheFire

Using an ESP but not getting the serial port under /dev/ttyACM? Seeing the device in lsusb and dmesg but still no luck?

`modprobe cdc-acm`

You are welcome.

#esp #serial #tty #linux

One Open-source Project Daily

Record your terminal and generate animated gif images or share a web player

https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer

#1ospd #opensource #animated #bash #bashprofile #capture #colors #commandline #font #generate #gif #powershell #pty #record #render #repeat #shell #shot #terminal #theme #tty #zsh

One Open-source Project Daily

Record your terminal and generate animated gif images or share a web player

https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer

#1ospd #opensource #animated #bash #bashprofile #capture #colors #commandline #font #generate #gif #powershell #pty #record #render #repeat #shell #shot #terminal #theme #tty #zsh

Eine Reihe von #Linux Distros habe ich jetzt ausprobiert und letztlich entschieden, nochmal #Manjaro in der #i3wm Version eine Chance zu geben. Seit Stunden richte ich es nun ein. Sogar zur #tty musste ich zwischendurch wechseln, weil ich mir 'nen Knoten gebastelt hatte. Langsam nimmt das ganze aber Gesicht an. Ist bis jetzt "nur" das Notebook, was dafür herhalten muss. Damit hat sich #ArchLinux doch wieder gegen #Debian durchgesetzt. So sei es dann eben…

Nur diese neue Warnung bei #pikaur nervt.

Eine Reihe von #Linux Distros habe ich jetzt ausprobiert und letztlich entschieden, nochmal #Manjaro in der #i3wm Version eine Chance zu geben. Seit Stunden richte ich es nun ein. Sogar zur #tty musste ich zwischendurch wechseln, weil ich mir 'nen Knoten gebastelt hatte. Langsam nimmt das ganze aber Gesicht an. Ist bis jetzt "nur" das Notebook, was dafür herhalten muss. Damit hat sich #ArchLinux doch wieder gegen #Debian durchgesetzt. So sei es dann eben…

Nur diese neue Warnung bei #pikaur nervt.

Чёрное окошко Linux: погружение в подсистему TTY

Начав изучать тему терминалов в Linux, вы можете почувствовать, что по отдельности вроде бы всё понятно, но разница между понятиями и их суть всё равно ускользает. Консоль, терминал, TTY, виртуальная консоль, виртуальный терминал, эмулятор терминала, оболочка — это просто «вот то чёрное окошко, куда вводят команды Linux». На самом деле за этим окошком скрывается целая цепочка разных сущностей — от компонентов ядра до пользовательских программ. Цель данной статьи — объяснить подсистему TTY и избавить вас от этого неприятного ощущения.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/983240/

#linux #tty #pty #uart #terminal #terminal_emulator #virtual_console #shell #line_discipline #ruvds_статьи

Reminding myself that it’s been over two months since I made any progress fixing the Olivetti. #onthebench #tty

Reminding myself that it’s been over two months since I made any progress fixing the Olivetti. #onthebench #tty

Did you know that mpv can play videos from the TTY? Using the caca (yes) Video output, it shows the video from ASCII characters! 😍

There are better options like tct, but I do love the look here!

#linux #mpv #tty

Did you know that mpv can play videos from the TTY? Using the caca (yes) Video output, it shows the video from ASCII characters! 😍

There are better options like tct, but I do love the look here!

#linux #mpv #tty

Ran into this problem yesterday. Was might confused as to why the USB-TTY was not showing up.

https://koen.vervloesem.eu/blog/how-to-stop-brltty-from-claiming-your-usb-uart-interface-on-linux/

#Linux #RS232 #TTY #homelab

Ran into this problem yesterday. Was might confused as to why the USB-TTY was not showing up.

https://koen.vervloesem.eu/blog/how-to-stop-brltty-from-claiming-your-usb-uart-interface-on-linux/

#Linux #RS232 #TTY #homelab

When i press the "delete" key on my keyboard, and i'm using my terminal program (kitty), it should delete the character to the right, like Ctrl-D does. That seems achievable, right?
#Unix #tty

#Montag – morgens voller Energie und Elan den PC starten, um dann schockiert auf den #tty Login-Prompt, statt das #ly Anmeldefenster zu starren. Dann findet sich in der #systemctl-Liste weder ein ly-Dienst noch #network-Service. Ja, ich hatte am Freitag noch eine Systemaktualisierung durchgeführt. Da war weder ungewöhnliches noch verdächtiges dabei und lief fehlerfrei durch. Nun existiert das Kommando #startx angeblich nicht mehr.

Auf welchem Stockwerk sich meine Laune befindet, dürfte leicht zu erraten sein 🤬 Nein, ich habe keine Motivation zur Fehlersuche. Mir hängen solche Sperenzien zum Hals heraus 🤯 Früher fand ich sowas spannend, weil es mich von wichtigen Dingen ablenkte. Doch diese Zeiten sind vorbei, ich will einfach nur ungestört arbeiten. Vielleicht wechsel ich doch wieder von #ArchLinux zu #Debian. Wenn "rolling" mir immer wieder das System zerschießt, kann ich darauf verzichten. #Linux

The fix: the bit 4 idler sits on a shaft that's independent of the other idlers. This smaller shaft is tilted slightly. I adjusted the bottom plate that holds the gear assembly and (somehow) managed to get it in a position that relaxed the sticky (mechanical) bit. #repair #tty

Finally finished part 3 of the TTY-Only Challenge, where I update the environment to work with my blog workflow

https://jacen.moe/blog/20251016-blatant-cheating-the-tty-only-challenge-part-3/

#Linux #Arch #TTY #CommandLine #Technology #Obsidian #X11

I only just learned you can use the mouse in the TTY! (The Linux text-only console you get to by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1, F2, etc.)

Some applications that enable this are gpm and consolation.

consolation worked better for me, especially when in tmux; however, I still can't get scrolling with middle button and trackpoint to work, which is what would be the most useful for me. I don't know if it has to do with consolation, tmux mouse bindings, my particular ThinkPad model, etc. I can't find anything online about this, so if you've also dabbled in this, please share your experience!

#CommandLine #cli #tmux #tty #linux #thinkpad

I spent some time playing with #tty last night and I realized what I did wrong last time when I tried to talk to a tty. The response does not have to arrive in one read call.

I also ran into 7bit vs 8 bit encoding difference that my parser did not handle.

What bugs me the most is lack of sensible single place that documents all of the protocols involved. There's a range of odd websites, man pages, PDFs and websites but nothing cohesive.

Please tell me I'm missing a well-know resource.