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This makes me wonder about newer terminal emulators on maccOS like Warp[1], and if they're for example taking all input locally, and then sending it over the remote host in a single blob or not? I imagine doing so would possibly break any sort of raw-mode input being done on remote host but I'd also imagine that is a detectable situation in which you could switch into a raw keystroke feed as well.

[1]: https://warp.dev

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In general once you’re connecting over SSH the connection itself is always in raw mode and then the remote host deals with its pty normally (which can be in line or raw mode). Terminals with special shell integrations usually need them installed on the remote host too (some have support that does that somewhat transparently though).

This is why mosh can have better behaviour than pure SSH over high latency connections. However this feature isn’t going to apply to mosh.

I wonder if SSH can honor line-buffered mode. It should be able to detect it, but then if it incorrectly switches to line buffering then random stuff might deadlock.

It's really hard for me to imagine that an app that markets "AI for your terminal" is going to be "more secure and private" than some standard Unix tool.

Perhaps some very specific example of a security feature (such as protecting against timing attacks) could be protected against in a new tool, and not in the older more standard one. But it seems far more likely that many other security features would get forgotten in the newer tool, and by adding "AI" so many more attack vectors would be added.

It's honestly hard to even believe in the privacy claims of warp. Almost all NLP tools in today's age seem to fall towards cloud solutions, which almost immediately makes that likelihood of privacy close to nil.

If they’re designed to take in data at some baud rate, wouldn’t the blob feed in at that rate too?

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