8/23/2026 at 6:00:20 PM
by ibobev
8/23/2026 at 8:44:53 PM
Great idea! After all why reinvent the wheel with TUI libraries built in a popular browser-based front-end javascript framework?by fouc
8/24/2026 at 6:18:43 AM
We must stand on the shoulders of giants!by andros
8/23/2026 at 8:03:41 PM
I used talk back in 90ties and loved it and still missing it. Interfacing this with LLM is a nice touch.by nenadg
8/23/2026 at 8:39:21 PM
I remember using talk back when first learning Linux in college. I enjoyed the character-by-character aspect of it.by JoshTriplett
8/24/2026 at 1:32:45 AM
Until you wind up chatting with a painfully slow typist. Even worse is when they typo a lot and take the time to fix them on the flyby jghn
8/23/2026 at 9:15:43 PM
Yes, I've wondered many times why there are no modern (human to human) chat interfaces that implements that, rather than sentence by sentence.by em500
8/23/2026 at 9:37:49 PM
The same reason tar and dd and practically everything operates on blocks not bytes, plus the same reason the shell doesn't act until eol delimiter, the opportunity to edit before submit.I think talk could get away with it because on a shared local host both sides are accessing the same local physical resource directly, no tcp packet per byte.
by Brian_K_White
8/24/2026 at 6:17:30 AM
I get the same feeling when I see my colleagues writing in Notion, it's like invading their privacy.by andros
8/24/2026 at 1:38:25 AM
It worked over the network as wellby lokar
8/24/2026 at 3:03:19 AM
The default `talk` and talk service were trash, and often there were protocol errors that would cause you to hang forever, vainly waiting for an answer (classic talk used UDP only.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
Eventually, a few competing offerings sprang up, in the form of `ntalk`, `xtalk` and `ytalk`. These were superior in every way, and sometimes required swapping out the service attached to inetd. Once you did that, it was a fantastic way to chat live and direct on Unix. Way better than the `write` we started with!
by ButlerianJihad
8/24/2026 at 6:19:57 AM
Yes, in fact, when we talk about talk, we're really talking about ntalk. Keep in mind that it went through a very difficult time.by andros
8/24/2026 at 3:47:19 PM
It should talk about it.by beng-nl
8/23/2026 at 8:59:13 PM
Interesting chat widget in the corner.I've been looking for something similar I saw once, it was a chat widget connecting to everyone looking at the same webpage.
But it was called something like "aarrrgh!!" (the pirate), and I can't remember the name of the damn thing!
by Chris2048
8/24/2026 at 6:14:16 AM
With today's technology, I miss being able to interact with other readers who are reading the article at that moment. It's so much fun!by andros