Comment on Rustdesk's lesser known features

• queerdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That news source is a joke. Go to the homepage and its filled with weird anti Chinese stuff about cannibalism in Shanghai! The first article on the homepage is:

  Emperor Kangxi imprisoned him and raised him like a pig, so out of boredom he could only have children for fun, resulting in him fathering 29 children.

  This is not a credible news source.

  The “Chinese company profile” you linked is a VC research page, not an authoritative source.

  There could be weirdness going on here though despite all that. The claim they are based in Singapore while Huabing Zhou of Wuhan University clearly has input (when I looked him up, the RustDesk team page was a search result on DDG, despite his name not appearing on the linked page) is a little odd.

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  • passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for the additional digging.

    Is it totally open source? Because I am not suited to verify this - I can only see that at some point it was not open source while claiming to be, and relied on binary blobs. Their server side code? Cannot know what is in there (of course). Running your own server? Cannot really vet the code either, so until it becomes still more popular I cannot trust it yet.

    I mean, it is probably fine, I hope it is.

    They have scrubbed Zhou from the company info page. They were listed as founder before among the two other people (who may or may not be real - this is another question mark I saw). This scrubbing could, of course be non nefarious. But I think this could have and should have been communicated better.

    But instead they seem to shut down discussion: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/1159#dis…

    None of this has to mean anything much but I personally will continue with paid options still for now and keep hoping rd would turn out alright!

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