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Cake day: March 29th, 2021

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  • Do you think every single app should have permissions to screen record without you knowing, to keylog without you knowing?

    Can you point me to a single notable breach that happened because of this?

    Classical security thinking is that if you have a compromised app running, it’s all over anyway, and it’s time to wipe and reinstall. Luckily, this isn’t a problem on Linux because packages are vetted by distributions maintainers… unless…

    Unless the new plan is to transition from that to flatpak proprietary stores packaged by unknown developers, giving us trashware app stores like on Android and Windows.

    Sure, if you expect to run proprietary malware on Linux then some protection might be useful. But then you’re just running a removedty version of Windows, and not getting the historical cultural benefits of Linux anyway. Might as well run Windows.



  • After trying NixOS in a VM a couple times, this constant tweaking ended up in the system breaking both times to the point where it was impossible to edit the .nix config file without chroot (and a lot of GRUB entries, a rather bit messy if you ask me).

    I don’t get it, doesn’t NixOS let you go to a previous configuration in the boot menu?

    To make a reliable Linux desktop, I see almost no other solution than Atomicity that doesn’t require extensive Linux experience.

    You have a very skewed perspective coming from your constantly broken Arch install.

    You don’t need immutability and containers to have a reliable Linux install. My Ubuntu installs are extremely reliable, both on desktops and servers.

    I have to say though that I ran Arch for a few years and it only broke once or twice. This is either astroturfing or PEBCAK.




  • Well let’s see

    • Doesn’t work with nvidia, the leading vendor of graphics cards
    • Drops support for a huge set of diverse window managers and applications
    • Reimplements X11 functionality over removedbus, an incomprehensible nightmare
    • sandboxing security designed to enable Windows/Android like apps where users run random proprietary malware
    • Promoted for purely idiotic reasons like like “circular windows”

    I could go on…