This is just racism btw. FOSS software is FOSS software regardless of the race of the people doing it.
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Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
People saying rustdesk should realize the Chinese connection it has. I would not use it for that reason.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago Whew! Thought I’d missed something.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
oh no, rustdesk does have a lot of problems. I could give you a nice list. It’s just that nobody cares, they don’t matter, and we don’t have a good alternative.
This user’s main account is Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org (probably). You can take a look through their post history to get an idea of why they might make this comment…
Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
That is definitely not my main, I have zero racial issues on the subject, I would say exactly the same if the team would be Russian. There is probably Chinese government relations to RustDesk, so if you use it, you should consider that.
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
oh no, rustdesk does have some significant problems. I could give you a nice list.
Sure, I get that. I was just wondering about the Chinese connection bit.
You can take a look
Oh…I already did. LOL
Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
Definitely not. If it would be 100% open source, but rustdesk is not FOSS.
We investigated rustdesk for critical infrastructure and decided that it cannot be used, because some parts of it are not something you can review.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Brother it is 100% open source. whatever part you failed to review was not something you could not review. You can fully compile it and self-host. It has no binary blobs required for it to function.
I’m sorry whatever ‘team’ you think you’re on is literally incompetent.
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Unpack that. Why are you suspicious of Rustdesk? Open source/inspect code, direct p2p connection…perhaps I am missing something. School me.
Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
RustDesk is not 100% open source, it has closed source parts. It has installed suspicious certificates.
We investigated on using it on critical infrastructure, and decided that cannot use it because of these issues.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
It has installed suspicious certificates.
I dug into this, and it looks like it has been fixed: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444)#discussioncomment-12039260 , and no longer does that.
So Rustdesk can be used entirely open source (since the proprietary management web UI is not critical), and it no longer installs certs.
So maybe it had problems a while ago, but it looks clean in these regards now.
Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
They must likely have linking towards government, use it with just that in mind
Tippy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Bruh doesn’t realize everyone can see he’s posting from his gooner account 😭
Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
Hey! This is good instance, don’t judge!
Tippy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You came to this thread to be a racist chud and made a complete fool of yourself. If you don’t want to be mocked and judged, I don’t know what to tell you other than be better.
Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
My comments about about rustdesk being Chinese had zero to do with race. If it would be Russian I would say exactly the same. RustDesk tean have done questionable things, so it is quite certain that they have governmental links.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
It’s open source, and the relay’s are e2ee (and audited), but they can also be self hosted.
Do you have actual technical issues with rustdesk?
Do you have an alternative software you would recommend? I hate when people spread FUD or say “don’t use/do this” without actually preventing an alternative. Drives me nuts. Because if you don’t present an alternative to a software that someone needs, your complains are kinda meaningless and a waste of everybody’s time because they’re gonna end up ignoring the complains and using the tool they need.
Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
RuskDesk is not fully open source, there are closed source parts for it.
Currently there is no good alternative unfortunately.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Lmao stop spreading more FUD. They have a paid, proprietary web UI to make management and administration easy. But you can get all the critical components needed to actually run the software from the source.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
If you aren’t a fan of RustDesk, one alternative that I’ve used a bit is Remotely (https://github.com/immense/Remotely). Me and a few people were using it but most of them went to RustDesk.