Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

Posted by TheTaytay 4/2/2025

Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers(pico.sh)

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rjurney 4/3/2025|

This thing is really cool, I want to pipe data between systems... can I trust you to have that kind of access?

qudat 4/3/2025|

So you probably shouldn’t trust any external service and we do have the ability to subscribe to any topic. But we have zero interest in snooping unless we discover illegal activity at which point we will take immediate action.

rjurney 4/4/2025||

I don't really mean you, but let's say you are compromised... if I put a localhost http server up on the web using your stuff, am I now compromised? Not clear how this would work...

gherard5555 4/3/2025||

This web design is very nice to look at

qudat 4/3/2025|

Hey thanks! I stare at our docs site multiple times a day and sometimes I lose all sense of what looks good so your comment is much appreciated.

this_is_madness 4/3/2025||

Without being open source this is basically just a walled garden version of sr.ht.

antoniomika 4/3/2025|

We're actually fully open source and all development occurs in the open! Here's the repo https://github.com/picosh/pico and you can find us on Libera IRC

whalesalad 4/2/2025||

this is really cool but something I would want to self-host, especially for pastebin.

antoniomika 4/2/2025||

And we'd be happy for you too! All of our code/tools are open source and available here: https://github.com/picosh/pico

codetrotter 4/2/2025||

https://github.com/picosh/pico/tree/main/pkg/apps/pastes

https://github.com/picosh/pico/blob/main/cmd/pastes/ssh/main...

These looks like they are the code for the pastebin.

There’s a bunch of other code related to their other services in that repo and in their other repos as well.

hei-lima 4/2/2025||

This is great! Congratulations.

ctrlp 4/2/2025||

This looks awesome. Well done.

shnpln 4/2/2025||

This is awesome!

lynx97 4/3/2025||

rsync is no SSH tool. I get how that sentence emerged, but it is still a turn off, mixing up terminology like that for convenience.

bradly 4/3/2025||

rsync uses ssh for remote communication.

lynx97 4/3/2025||

I am sure you know this, but rsync works perfectly fine without ssh. In fact, it has its own custom protocol for remote communcation. It can use ssh to talk to remote machines, but so can any tool via the plain pipe mechanism. Followin that logic, every Linux CLI tool that does stdio is an ssh tool...

bradly 4/5/2025||

> It can use ssh to talk to remote machines, but so can any tool via the plain pipe mechanism. Followin that logic, every Linux CLI tool that does stdio is an ssh tool...

Not any others have this callout, though, from the rsync man page:

> For remote transfers, a modern rsync uses ssh for its communications, but it may have been configured to use a different remote shell by default, such as rsh or remsh.

Y_Y 4/3/2025||

In my experience, any time you're using scp, you'd be better off with rsync.

jarbus 4/2/2025||

I love this

sagarpatil 4/3/2025|

I’m sold.

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