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Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser โ a web browser on every website
Is that right? Could be a recent acquire if it's DOM mirroring.
I heard CF acquired S2 a few years ago, and what S2 did is they created a WebAssembly binary that composited the browser SKIA draw instructions on the client, and streamed the SKIA draw instructions from the server. Not without its issues, but certainly useful.
What we do is just stream pixels to the client. Yes it's expensive in terms of bandwidth, relatively. But the advantage is simplicity. And with a close server and bandwidth trending faster and cheaper, with the increasing drive to video consumption across media, I don't see bandwidth as an issue.
If you're interested, our code is on GitHub: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
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Show HN: An embeddable browserview, like hyper beam with source code
Click through for a version on a server close to you that you can play with now.
Source code here: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
This demo is probably not really ready for a widespread audience, but luck it Iโm just posting it anyway
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Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
> Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there.
True. Maybe I should have put a full disclosure? I thought it was obvious, but I get if it wasn't. I'm sorry for not being more clear!
It's a good point to advise people to avoid entering important credentials in something that probably looks untrusted. I'd also advise that at this stage as we have no SLAs for now, and are just testing this SaaS-to-be demo of this source-available product:
https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
Thank you for pointing out the reasonable and important security concerns. Although I should have probably done that myself, I was just so eager to help!
Aside: I am surprised tho that you were unable to even login on your VPN. I would think that the IP blocks we run the browser form and those of a VPN would be in the same category of 'cloud IPs', so why should it work on CloudTabs but fail for you directly on a VPN? Who knows?
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Apache Guacamole: a clientless remote desktop gateway
These are difficult problems and perhaps the modern web has developed at a pace that older tech like RDP has not kept pace with. But Guacamole bucks that trend. The video shows how far it has come.
Guacamole is good, and I love that it's clientles and works in the browsers, but VNC lacks sound so you need to do that separately. Also the input lag when remote frames increase in frequency is challenging.
If you're looking for something lighter weight and possibly smoother and faster (albeit non-free software with a non-commercial option), check out BrowserBox: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
Solving input lag, and maintaining responsiveness across a range of bandwidth situations has been one of our priorities and I think we've mostly achieved.
We've accomplished this through a combination of sensible heuristics for congestion control, and using WebRTC with a fallback to WebSockets when faster. We also have audio out of the box, no set up required!
However there's always room to improve, which is why it makes it so exciting to work on. Depending on how close you are to a server you may encounter lag issues, too. Check out a free live demo of it working here (sorry, signup is not supported yet!):
https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_session
Some other problems we solve that are not always so easy to configure with Guacamole (and are harder to do with an RDP layer in general), but much easier for us as we virtualize the browser itself are first class mobile support.
Obviously that's an issue with remoting desktops from small form devices in general, but if a browser is all you need remotely then we got your back! :)
Same time, BrowserBox will not be for everyone. It all depends on what you need. Get on touch if you are interested!
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Kernel Hardening โ Protect Linux User Accounts Against Brute Force Attacks
Run your browser on a remote machine? Using say BrowserBox: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
Full disclaimer: my company develops it.
- BrowserBox goes source-available, drops AGPL
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Show HN: I found a crazy way to stream audio from Windows Server without RDP
to "repoint", or reorient an active RDP session to instead targe the "console", a sort of persistent virtual terminal session that the computer always has. From the days of when people actually sat in front of the machines they were using. Physically, like.
I thought that if I could send my RDP session to console then it would live. It would be alive!
And it was. But the audio still died.
All the while, I was context switching out of RDP back to my macOS desktop, to check my BrowserBox connection open in a regular browser tab. Every time, no matter what weird configurations, registry settings, or supposed ways to change various settings related to RDP, nothing worked. Every time audio still died.
This was quite possible the biggest, craziest bug I ever worked on. (Interestingly enough the second biggest, craziest bug I ever worked on was also audio related).
But maybe it wasn't a bug. Maybe it just wasn't to be. Perhaps the gods willed it to be not so. None shall ever, from now until the ashes fall upon the ghost of the world, and time stands finally still, stream audio from Windows Server without a real RDP connection.
It was during this period I also discovered the idea of a Windows Session Host server with Client Access Licenses. Turns out, you need to purchase a RDP license from Windows if you want more than 2 RDP sessions (approximately) to the same OS instance/VM.
Turns out, too, that this notion was not related at all to getting audio to work.
It really seemed like I'd never get there. I was starting to think: Cut my losses, abandon it. It was a nice dream, shame it didn't work out, but that's what happens sometimes.
One day, I woke up with a hunch, that if I could someone use VNC at the same time as RDP, perhaps I could trick the repointed console session into staying alive. I didn't know how or why this should happen, but it just seemed like: it should, somehow. As if through all my intense working with Windows, it was somehow whispering to me, telling me how it wanted to be treated. As if Windows itself wanted this to occur, and somehow through all the interacting with it, I'd absorbed that message. And figured it out. I knew I was onto something with this. Momentum, and optimism, returned. I felt re-energized. I began to feel like this was possible. But still, I had no idea how to do it.
Turns out, I eventually figured it out. And made it repeatable. And further that it worked on: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019. It also, IIRC, worked on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
I formalized it all into a ridiculous PowerShell script where nothing now seemed impossible (so I went so far as to even use crazy C#-in-PowerShell hacks to close windows automatically as part of the install process, just to ensure that all that epic work, 10 hour days, maybe for over two weeks or more, were not wasted. And finally I ended up with a script that actually managed to both install BrowserBox, and set up the required VNC/RDP dance needed to keep the Windows audio drivers active, even when I do not have an RDP connection.
It was kind of complex, and like synchronized swimming, depended crucially on the order of the orchestrated VNC and RDP connections, and what was done in each session, but roughly, the process the enable audio on Windows versions, went like this:
- Create an initial RDP connection to the Windows based server for setup.
- Set up the application by performing a normal install of BrowserBox
- Open up registry key settings enabling: multiple (the maximum allowed for free, which is 2) sessions; and connecting to localhost
- Also set up a login script that will perform "The Magic Task" described below.
- Install VNC, and configure it with a password. From within that RDP session, create a VNC connection from that Windows server to itself, and ensure that VNC window is open and not minimized.
- From within that loopback VNC session just created, execute the logon script (which will happen automatically) to perform the Magic Task. The Magic Task is: use tscon to repoint the current main active RDP connection (from my local computer to this remote Windows machine) to instead point at console, disconnecting me, and creating a ourobouros-double-loopback-VNC-RDP-ying-yang super session that is self-stabilizing and crucially (Crucially! because at that point it had been 3 weeks of effort!), keep the audio streaming
The music might die one day. But not today.
I managed to factor out this code into a relatively reusable-esque script that I called Thunderbird (because I was so in awe of myself at that point haha!)
You can see the code here:
https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/blob/boss/windows-s...
Postscript
Turns out tho, despite all that effort, Windows was never a very popular target for BrowserBox. Sure, good to prove that it works there and provide a first blush at support, but in the end, not that many people use Windows to run BrowserBox. As proud as I am of that achievement, I can't even guarantee the method described still works today. The script had so many moving parts, I imagine it would be pretty fragile. Also, I have a suspicion that, as of this post today, Microsoft may hear this and want to lock down this seeming workaround because, even tho I don't think there's a way to use it to get more RDP connections that licensed, it sort of seems like something that shouldn't be possible, so I'm kind of worried they will just stamp it out.
- I translated my README to your language with AI. Can you help check it?
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Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub
This sucks. Supply chain is such an issue.
Even tho we don't currently target any npm releases, I make use of socket.dev to monitor my project by creating an npm release for it. But my project BrowserBox (lightweight virtualized web browser) only uses ~800 dependencies including all descendents, with only 19 top-level deps (cool your heels non-JavaScript folks, this is comparatively lightweight for a full stack boing).
I'm considering just snapshotting all 800 deps into a @browserbox namespace at npm. And then tracking any vulnerabilities discovered and patching the fixes.
It sounds crazy, but that's where we are. At least that way I "own" all the dependencies and can guarantee (up to company security at least) that we don't have supply chain vulns on the Node/JS side.
https://socket.dev
https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
- BrowserBox Docker v7.1.2
workspaces-core-images
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User Installation in Kasm Dockerfile
The copy script resides within the Core images and can be adjusted if necessary. It is visible in the workspaces-core-images Github Repo
- Kasm Workspaces: The Container Streaming Platform
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Diskless Cluster With PXE?
Another option could be to let the servers just boot into webbrowser and then do somethign VDI (Vitual Desktop infrastructure), for example KASAM: https://www.kasmweb.com/ This would also address/ solve/ simplify many of the mentioned issues above.
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Linux Terminalserver - Virtual Desktops - Nomachine alternatives
https://www.kasmweb.com/ is a popular new solution in this space. I've played around with https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop which is based on their kasmvnc and even in the non lossless mode if feels quite snappy.
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Making Kasm Workspaces and Traefik work together
I read about Kasm Workspaces here on selfhosted and really wanted to try it out on my Ubuntu VPS. Problem is, I use Traefik for my reverse proxy and it's not technically supported by Kasm. There are also very few hits on searches for the two platforms together, and the information that's available is not very helpful. Maybe I'm the only person really interested in this ๐ but after a lot of time spent figuring it out I decided to write my own guide in case someone else is too. This assumes you already have Traefik setup and running on port 443. The files are available at my Github project.
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Should I keep the 1070 in the server?
Check out KASM - https://www.kasmweb.com/ - you can actually play many of your Steam games from it with GPU acceleration.
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Is there any way to let a client test website without giving them the code?
You could spin up something like Kasm Workspaces, Neko or Docker Webtop.
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Please clarify the licensing of Kasm
- The Workspaces Images and Workpaces Core images, are both open source projects that include the image dockerfiles and associated scripts for building the end-user containers such as Chrome , Brave, Ubuntu desktop, etc. You can view the code and licenses here: https://github.com/kasmtech/workspaces-images/blob/develop/LICENSE.md , https://github.com/kasmtech/workspaces-core-images/blob/develop/LICENSE.md
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One site to access all your home services?
Check out https://www.kasmweb.com/. You could setup a persistent profile storage on a linux distro of your choosing and have all the bookmarks saved there or even have it open chrome directly with all your shortcuts right from the website using 2fa to protect everything.
- [Self Hosted] Quelqu'un a-t-il utilisรฉ Kasm sur Docker?
What are some alternatives?
Viewfinder - ๐ท BrowserBox - Remote isolated browser API for security, automation visibility and interactivity. Run on our cloud, or bring your own. Full scope double reverse web proxy with multi-tab, mobile-ready browser UI frontend. Plus co-browsing, advanced adaptive streaming, secure document viewing and more! But only in the Pro version. Get BB today! Secure your document needs and internet, today! [Moved to: https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox]
KasmVNC - Modern VNC Server and client, web based and secure
neko - A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
xpra - Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.
ViewFinder - :camera: ViewFinder - NodeJS product to make the browser into a web app. WTF RBI. CBII. Remote browser isolation, embeddable browserview, secure chrome saas. Licenses, managed, self-hosted. Like S2, WebGap, Bromium, Authentic8, Menlo Security and Broadcom, but open source with free live demos available now! Also, integrated RBI/CDR with CDR from https://github.com/dosyago/p2%2e [Moved to: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinderJS]
BrowserBox - ๐ท BrowserBoxPro - The internet. But unrestricted. And secure. Remote browser isolation product, available here and in Pro for purchase on our website. [Moved to: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro]
BrowserBoxPro - :cyclone: BrowserBox is Web application virtualization via zero trust remote browser isolation and secure document gateway technology. Embed secure unrestricted webviews on any device in a regular webpage. Multiplayer embeddable browsers, open source! [Moved to: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox]
kasm-workspaces-dind
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s6-overlay - s6 overlay for containers (includes execline, s6-linux-utils & a custom init)
vimGPT - Browse the web with GPT-4V and Vimium
alnoda-workspaces - :fireworks: Flexible and extendable containerized workspaces. Now. with free offline chat GPT!!! ๐๐๐