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At first, I thought this would be an app that opens a new browser window on another random user's computer somewhere in the world.
by tinycombinator 3y ago
At first, I thought this would be an app that opens a new browser window on another random user's computer somewhere in the world.
- sshanky 3y agoSame!
- duxup 3y agoI remember an app that had a recycling bin so when you added a file… someone else got it so they could “re-use it”. Fun and similarly random idea.
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- butz 3y agoThat gives me an idea to add several recycling bins to desktop and forcing user to sort their trash.
- quickthrower2 3y agoLol, I’ll get that malware floppy out
- duxup 3y agoYeah the app didn't last long. I suspect it was as much a sort of temporary amusement / not expected to last.
- globalnode 3y agome too, but was pleasantly surprised with some of the window views!
- freeqaz 3y agoI also thought this. Collectively, asking HN, how would you implement something like "for fun and profit"? (Without making it an RCE machine)
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- scbrg 3y agoxhost +
- dxroshan 3y ago:-) I also thought the same.
- kjs3 3y agoI thought the same, and then thought "the most efficient goatse spreader ever".
- keyle 3y agoIt's a socially interesting idea, but what would be the use case (provided it can be achieved securely and without compromising the host)?
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- fsckboy 3y agoI thought something similar, but it said "swap" so I was wondering what we were swapping, and I thought "I give you a commandline window onto my box, and you give me a commandline window onto your box, and we see who can create more mischief/mayhem most quickly" but then I came up with a cool "network war" game: there's a shared window on our two boxes over the net (one window on your box, one window on my box) but inside the window are bash cmdlines for both of our boxes. Whatever commands you type get executed on both machines; whatever commands I type get executed by both shells too... stdout outputs are intermingled? atomic interspersed? it should be confusing but not impossibly so
- IntrepidWorm 3y agoHmm... You can run different CTF environments i to a VM, wouldnt take much to stream input back and forth to both machines. I just saw another item featured on HN for piped keyboard streams between multiple users on the same shell. Sounds like glorious chaos.