I would like to run the apk, anyone got the app download?
this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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This is the business equivalent of throwing a tantrum.
their page to link accounts to it was not a real webapp, it was a novnc page that would connect to an ubuntu vm that runs chrome with no sandboxing and basic password store under fluxbox wm
someone dumped the home directory from it
Holy shit, that's actually hilarious, I imagine someone would have noticed when their paste/auto type password managers didn't work
For those confused, this sounds like instead of making a real website, they spin up a vm, embed a remote desktop tool into their website and have you login through chrome running on their VM, this is sooooo sketch it, its unreal anyone would use this in a public product.
Imagine if to sign into facebook from an app, you had to go to someone else's computer, login and save your credentials on their PC, would that be a good idea?
What I don’t understand is why. This sounds like way more work than spinning up some out-of-the-box framework with oAuth or a Google login and hosting it on Lambda or Azure. What is logging in on a VM box even going to do for the device?
I've looked it up and it's even uglier and I can kinda understand why they did it this way
Basically, for their "integrations" they aren't using any official APIs. Instead they just use the websites and automate them via the Playwright framework. So for each user they have a VM running with a Chrome browser to access the services.
So now they have the problem that they need to get their users session cookies into the browser. And the easiest solution for that is having the users access their VM via VNC and just log into the automated browser.
This is such a hacky solution that I'm actually in awe of it's shittiness. That's something you throw together in an all-nighter during a Hackathon, not a production ready solution
I wish I knew what any of this meant…
The "login" was actually a browser based remote access tool. You were signing in on a machine on there network running Chrome.
Someone dumped the contents of that machine.
It basically implies that they cobbled together some standard technology but they didn't even put it together very well.
It's like a solution that's held in place with chewing gum and Band-Aids.
Well that's horrific.
lmao threatening action against their own imminent irrelevance, more like
Not cool guys, not cool at all
And get serious - fuck your "proprietary" details, fuck lying/misrepresentation for money, and fuck you for trying a stunt like this.
Call me when you actually put the genie in the bottle!
Ubuntu is just a bunch of apps running on Debian! Did you know you can take Ubuntu app .deb files and run them on Debian?
Look. The R1 is stupid, but this isn't the reason why.
The difference here is Ubuntu is open about the fact that stand on the shoulders of something greater than them.
R1 in contrast pretend that everything they've built is proprietary, and therefore no one could possibly come up with something similar.
When it's clearly not the case.
This is critical, not for the purpose of sales, but for the purpose of retaining investor value.
The whole thing reeks of an exercise to generate artificial investor value.
If investors find out that their so-called innovation can actually be done by anyone with some coding skills and connectivity to open AI, then the company value will drop like a hot turd.
What? .deb aren't app files they are debian packages
What are you talking about? The article didn't mention Ubuntu once
Apk literally stands for Android package. I'm making an analogy. 🤦
Ubuntu is a piece of software. R1 is supposedly a piece of hardware that runs "Rabbit OS".
Such a bad comparison. In the case of Debian and Ubuntu apps you run both apps on your hardware you already have. In case of rabbit, you could just run app on your phone instead of buying rabbit. Rabbit does not offer anything more than their app does when installed on android phone. It's even better on android phone because phone is faster.
•Rabbit Inc. is unhappy about details of its tech stack being public, threatening action against unauthorized emulators.
All android devices are "emulators" like their hardware isn't special
I mean, isn't all software just an app that runs on hardware?
Next you're going to tell me that lemmy is one of these dirty dirty apps
Nahhh, not as dirty as Reddit.
Lemmy is a dirty, dirty app, but that's not why!
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