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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by jeroenhd on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:39AM (#39262265)
RustDesk is often mentioned as an open source alternative.

It has a bunch of weird code smells that make me a bit hesitant to use it for supporting family members, but it seems to work well from what I read from others?

I use Teamviewer quite regularly, but that has some issues with Wayland. Free for personal use, but closed source with no self-hosting capabilities.

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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by timbit42 on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:43AM (#39263224)
I've used TeamViewer, then AnyDesk and now RustDesk. TeamViewer and AnyDesk are both German companies.

RustDesk works really well and is fast. I switched from TeamViewer because they wanted money. I switched from AnyDesk because it gave me more problems with disconnecting, has the worst UI of the three and sometimes my screen would be a minute or more behind what the host was seeing.

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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by bloqs on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:59PM (#39264299)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 please exercise caution
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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by Sakos on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:31PM (#39264886)
Wow, I wouldn’t touch that with a 100 foot pole.
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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by 15457345234 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:06AM (#39272382)
> TeamViewer and AnyDesk are both German companies.

Can I ask why you mentioned this? It stands out.

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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by timbit42 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:15PM (#39279923)
Because I happened to know it. They often make great stuff.
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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by bloqs on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:59PM (#39264305)
Weird code smell alright https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493
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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by jeroenhd on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:47PM (#39265172)
There's a lot of "just make it work" code in there. A "customer said software didn't work in China because of a missing cert, now importing cert on startup and it works" kind of deal.

For a while it used `sed` to disable Wayland on Linux in a way that only applies to Gnome (specifically on Ubuntu and a few other distros). The code also has a bunch of other exec()s with several commands piped into each other to parse the output.

None of it seems ill-intended, but it's code I would straight reject if I would be tasked to review it.

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Re:Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes ... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:26AM (#39273154)
It's not the first quality Chinese software.
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