HopToDesk is a free remote desktop tool allowing users to share their screen and allow remote control access to their computers and devices. Unlike other similar tools such as TeamViewer or AnyDesk, HopToDesk is free for both personal and business use, provides true end-to-end encryption for all peer communications, and open source.
HopToDesk
Free Remote Desktop Software For Personal and Business use.
Features:
Screen Share
Remote Control
Live Chat
File Transfer
Wake-On-LAN
2FA
In order for a remote device to control your Android device via mouse or touch, you need to allow HopToDesk to use the "Accessibility" service, HopToDesk uses AccessibilityService API to implement Android remote control.
Theres a new, minimal, cross-platform native app framework called #Fyne for Go that is pretty impressive and something I think most of my mutuals will be interested in. It solves a lot of the same problems as #Flutter, allowing you to write native apps for mobile and desktop seamlessly, while being much more lightweight and using a language that is well designed and nice to use. And it's not GTK based, it implements its own renderer. They are creating their own desktop, which has a very similar look & feel to #xfce, and the vibe of the project overall seems to be shooting to cover much of the same needs as GNOME but much more minimal and emphasizing no-nonsense mobile & desktop development.
Not many offerings check all those boxes, and those that do tend to be on the McDonalds end of the software spectrum.
The best part of #flutter dev... the app runs in the browser too lol. Not sure if I'll release a browser based version.. but at least it's great for testing.
I've changed my mind about #Redux. It does have it's use cases, especially with persist and sync capability, which is exactly what is needed for stuff like a shopping cart, or my next spur of the moment project :ablobcatreachflip: .
Is there a demand for a #TweetDeck replacement for #Mastodon and #Bluesky together? I've been looking at the competition on Bsky, and somehow they really like #Flutter? I checked flutter again, and the plugin options seem to have not made much progress over the last few years. Lots of quirks in the UI that STILL haven't been fixed.
I was thinking of building a single page app and hosting it on cloudflare pages and using Redux sync to do nonsense like multi-screen, multi-account, multi-tab columns of posts. And maybe I could make it... an Electron app.
#flutter development has been so enjoyable. I can't put my finger on what makes me like it so much. However, it's beating #react native for me right now. (And I'm a fulltime React developer).
The #WebP buffer overflow bug that caused all the major browsers to issue patches earlier this week (e.g. #Firefox 117.0.1) also affects applications built with Electron. #1Password issued an update today for their Mac build.
The CVE affects the underlying webp library, not just web browsers, so this will be an ongoing issue.
"Who uses #libwebp?
"There are a lot of applications that use libwebp to render WebP images, I already mentioned a few of them, but some of the others that I know include: #Affinity (the design software), #Gimp, Inkscape [not according to Martin Owens, see comment below], #LibreOffice, #Telegram, #Thunderbird (now patched), #ffmpeg, and many, many #Android applications as well as cross-platform apps built with #Flutter."
I was just sitting here browsing social media, and I had a thought. I wish #Flutter could use the Material theme while on Android and PC, and the Cupertino widgets while on #macOS and #iOS
Reason: Material Design is just not my favorite UI scheme.
Just finished watching the #Veilid intro presentation from #Defcon. Some highlights:
Re: my questions about post-quantum cryptography and SNDL, there are two mitigating factors.
A) Veilid has tagged, upgradeable and migrateable cryptography. When today's algorithms are broken, they can swap out the encryption and nodes will use a read-1 write-2 strategy to migrate data incrementally.
B) data is broken into smallish chunks and distributed across nodes, so building up a meaningful
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By the way, #Veilid is leaning into #Flutter as the cross-platform app framework of the future, which is a good and entirely correct choice. But the portability of #Rust also means you can use it anywhere you can rustle up some FFI.
Veilid doesn’t use IP or DNS, except for a one-time lookup when you bootstrap a node. It does use TCP and UDP, but nodes are theoretically untraceable. Lots of good threat modeling went into this thing and it shows.
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Learning #Dart and #Flutter lately. they seem to be really flippant about trailing commas. I have no beef with this, but I don't think I have seen a language mention this multiple times.
I have been surprised in other languages when I level them in, and things don't complain or crash.