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Why would anyone upvote this? the README is worthless, the repo was started yesterday and it has absolutely no authentication before allowing control of your computer via a publicly available webpage.

Common' HN, smh.

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> has absolutely no authentication before allowing control of your computer via a publicly available webpage.

It's less than 100 lines of code, not hard to see exactly what it is doing. It doesn't dial out to a remote server, it starts a local server. And unless you're running a computer that is exposed to the public web, that won't be "publicly available."

I'm not saying it's secure, but let's not immediately jump to conclusions. It is what it is a little useful utility, albeit small and immature.

>let's not immediately jump to conclusions.

I did no such thing. Everything I pointed out is the truth. The README is incomplete (being diplomatic) and lots of people have port forwarding turned on for various reasons making boxes publicly available.

I question the dev's priorities and judgement if authentication wasn't the first thing on the list before putting it out there.

>It is what it is

you're correct, it's a poorly thought out application that allows for remote control of people's computers.

> I question the dev's priorities and judgement if authentication wasn't the first thing on the list before putting it out there.

Come on, this is the kind of thing I meant. You question his priorities and judgement? Seriously? Because he shared a little project he put together? He made a thing. He shared it. That's it. It's not like he is selling this, or promoting it as some great thing. I imagine he thought other people on HN would find it interesting given all the discussion of Apple's touch bar, so he shared it. No need to be so antagonistically critical of what is obviously not a finished product. A little kindness and consideration goes a long way.

Thank you. I want to add that, my priorities are to make this project available for everybody, my intent is to make it functional, on the prototype I didn't see the need of security because, my own network is private so testing it was a breeze, but now i did implement an authentication because many people requested it. My main goal of building something that's like apple's touch bar , is kinda finished but that doesn't mean i won't evolve the project , all i need is just some ideas and I will happly implement them because I love programming

i will be working on the auth for making it secure. In the days to come I will improve it.

maybe one of the flaw of HN is you only have the UpVote Button for most of the users..

There is no downvote button for stories, and the bar is fairly low for the downvote button on user comments, IIRC.

Is clicking the [-] button (which hides the comment) the same thing as down voting?

That's "Collapse Thread" / "Collapse Tree" and it's a view-only thing to make it easier to browser the comments.

Thanks... So then, at what point does down voting become enabled?

I believe it becomes available once you have 500 karma. There may also be an account age requirement. The idea, IIRC, is to only give the power to people who are invested in the community.

No.

You can flag any post, and downvote privileges take 500 (501?) karma.

1. You can't flag a comment that is in direct reply to you.

2. You need to go to the permalink / direct link to the comment to see the flag link.

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