A random question, but what’s the thing that comes to your mind when you see this combination of letters ?
secure shell
What is SSH ?
Submitted 2 hours ago by 
TheViking@nord.pub to ask@piefed.social
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago Maybelline@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I’m worried OP might be asking on the wrong platform to get any other response.
I mean, I’m a geek, and I can’t think of anything else for those letters.
- TheViking@nord.pub 43 minutes ago
Isn’t it a company ?
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
ssh bby its ok
- TheViking@nord.pub 2 hours ago
And what is that ?
RegularJoe@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
A shell (like a unix terminal) that gives you a secure way to do things, such as remotely logging in to another server, or executing commands remotely. With older programs like telnet, you had to login in the terminal passing your credentials without encryption. Secure Shell encrypts the stream to attempt to mitigate someone other than you from obtaining your credentials. SSH uses public-key cryptography to authenticate the remote computer and allow it to authenticate the user, if necessary.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Solid state harddrive
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 53 minutes ago
That’s nonsense. There is no ‘H’ in SSD. The ‘hard’ as in hard disk drive comes from the spinning disks inside being hard. In contrast to the floppy ones inside of a floppy disk… A solid state drive has no spinning disks at all. It’s just computer chips if you open it. So we cross out any ‘H’ and ‘F’s. And you’re left with the ‘D’.