[fredsted]

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]

> 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]

"ssh exe.dev" is exactly the Linux command you would use to connect there via ssh. And it's stylized like command prompt.

[flexagoon]

The question wasn't "how to ssh into a server", it was "how did you figure out what it it from looking at the website"

[PcChip]

Because it literally tells you what to do

[doublerabbit]

"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]

That's my point, the home/landing page tells you nothing other than "try to ssh into this van"

[panxyh]

All 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.

[kelvich]

> I'm not going to SSH to a random server.

Opening a random website likely exposes you to more risk.

[enneff]

Likely? Definitely.

[codezero]

How to ssh into a server isn’t a question, it’s a command.

[codezero]

Being pedantic, I meant statement not command.

[rnewme]

Except it doesn't trigger the keyboard on my phone and I can't interact with it.

[TJSomething]

It'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]

Ah, that makes sense, thank you!

[gavinray]

You are not the target audience if "how" was not apparent to you

[hnlmorg]

I am the target audience and I still had no idea what the site was promoting from just the landing page.

[davidmurdoch]

Someone else said it's not actually interactive. So which is it?

[as1mov]

The "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...

[andai]

I became target audience after I had a cup of coffee...

[lnenad]

I 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.

[davsti4]

Yep, with no privacy policy published.

[Normal_gaussian]

Exactly.