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It's kind of funny our experiences are so diffent. I almost immediately surmised it's some sort of on the fly generated vm you can access via a ssh jumpserver.
by fredsted 9mo ago
It's kind of funny our experiences are so diffent. I almost immediately surmised it's some sort of on the fly generated vm you can access via a ssh jumpserver. Which it is! It's actually really neat. It's quite obvious that the authors want us to just ssh into it and try it out first.
- lnenad 9mo ago> I almost immediately surmised it's some sort of on the fly generated vm you can access via a ssh jumpserver How? It just says `ssh exe.dev`. Unless you are clairvoyant.
- integralid 9mo ago"ssh exe.dev" is exactly the Linux command you would use to connect there via ssh. And it's stylized like command prompt.
- rnewme 9mo agoExcept it doesn't trigger the keyboard on my phone and I can't interact with it.
- TJSomething 9mo agoIt's not interactive. It's just an extremely brief brochure for the actual service, which is available via SSH. All the useful copy is under the About link at the bottom, which is so light as to fail WCAG contrast standards.
- rnewme 9mo agoAh, that makes sense, thank you!
- flexagoon 9mo agoThe question wasn't "how to ssh into a server", it was "how did you figure out what it it from looking at the website"
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- doublerabbit 9mo ago"exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss." scroll down and hit the "about" link. I do agree though the landing page could be more resourceful. I'm not going to SSH to a random server.
- lnenad 9mo agoThat's my point, the home/landing page tells you nothing other than "try to ssh into this van"
- panxyh 9mo agoAll a malicious website has to do to be convincing is to have a more conventional landing page then? The disk and sudo mentioned are good enough clues, then you have the about.
- lnenad 9mo agoWhere did I say that, that wasn't a topic I just commented on the *entirety* of the content on the landing page. > The disk and sudo mentioned are good enough clues I mean, you do you and let's agree to disagree about a good landing page UX.
- pxx 9mo agotbh maybe this service doesn't want you as a customer if you can't figure this out. it seems like you'd be an above-average support burden
- gavinray 9mo agoYou are not the target audience if "how" was not apparent to you
- davidmurdoch 9mo agoSomeone else said it's not actually interactive. So which is it?
- andai 9mo agoI became target audience after I had a cup of coffee...
- hnlmorg 9mo agoI am the target audience and I still had no idea what the site was promoting from just the landing page.
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- lnenad 9mo agoI mean, I've done engineering work for the last 15 years on most layers of the stack. Seeing an ssh command into a fancy url does not tell me anything about what that is going to accomplish. But yeah, you must be right.
- as1mov 9mo agoThe "how" is very obvious, but not the "why". I'd assume this much would be very apparent from the OPs complaint, but apparently not I guess...
- davsti4 9mo agoYep, with no privacy policy published.
- Normal_gaussian 9mo agoExactly.