Our list of free software for remote work • Hacker News Board

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by robjan » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 12:41 PM UTC

LeoTinnitus wrote: post #65

zdkl wrote: post #45

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My very personal opinion is that the allure is mostly to people with PR/Marketing/Comm tendencies. It's basically crack for individuals or roles who thrive on attention & engagement with others (or the illusion of it, if we're going to be cynical).

But thats every social media site. Mastodon feels more like a techy or "in the know" journalist oriented of a site...and apparently hookers too.

Each instance tends towards being an echo chamber for a particular niche group. This had advantages and disadvantages.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by petemc_ » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

wheresvic3 wrote: post #75

aidenn0 wrote: post #70

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I have no recommendations that are free-as-in-speech. NoMachine[1] is free-as-in-beer[2] and it works nearly flawlessly across linux/windows/mac. 1: https://www.nomachine.com/ 2: It's freemium with the following note: "If you need to create virtual Linux desktops on demand, want to limit the logins to SSH, or are using NIS, Kerberos or other enterprise functionalities, you need one of the NoMachine Enterprise product…

Does nomachine work if my computer is behind a firewall?

If you can forward the ssh port, yes.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by castillar76 » Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 12:36 AM UTC

KajMagnus wrote: post #77

castillar76 wrote: post #76

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This looks really interesting—I could see our team using this for internal support and discussions around our services! Couple questions: - It does OpenAuth right now, and mentions enterprise auth as an advantage for StackOverflow. Is enterprise auth (e.g. LDAP) on your radar as a future thing you just haven't been able to get to yet, or not considered part of the product at this point? - Is there a capability in the…

> Is enterprise auth (e.g. LDAP) on your radar as a future thing you just haven't been able to get to yet Yes it is > Is there a capability in the product to disable specific components? [...] we don't need the Slack-like functions Yes, there's an admin area "Features" tab, with a checkbox for disabling the chat. (Someone else also wanted to disable it; they were using Slack already.) Thanks you too for the questions

Awesome, thank you! I'll make a note to keep an eye on it as it grows. Good luck!