Selling on the internet via ssh!

Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
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Found this on HN, where it has 387 comments, including interesting tips about the use of ssh and a historical note about selling CDs and books over telnet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227208
https://www.terminal.shop/

I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

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  • chadsixchadsix Services Provider

    it says it's sold out... how does payment work?

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    Start self hosting with an external IP with IPv6rs.
    The only thing between your host and your data is trust. Trust is not security.

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    The HN discussion now has 404 comments!

    Discussion about how payments might work is in the HN thread beginning with this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228751

    Further down, there is an interesting tidbit about how Stripe got started:

    samwillis 7 days ago | root | parent | prev | next [–]

Interestingly Stripe started life as /dev/payments and I seem to remember the first iteration was an agent on your server that literally processed card payments when you wrote the details to /dev/payments
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ppbjj 7 days ago | root | parent | next [–]

That's awesome
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niutech 4 days ago | root | parent | prev | next [–]

You can still find the source code here: https://github.com/benweissmann/dev-payments
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    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

  • aRNoLDaRNoLD OG

    creative, or old fashioned?

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