Comment on Good Old Windows

korstmos@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The original Twitter checkmark

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• Zalack@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re being sarcastic but even small fees immediately weed out a ton of cruft.

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  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They also weed out a lot of legitimate software, especially if it’s non-commercial.

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    • Zalack@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not saying there aren’t downsides, just that it isn’t a totally crazy strategy.

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      • WhyIDie@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I remember that short time when Steam allowed anyone and everyone to self-publish without fees.

        It was an interesting time.

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• RippleEffect@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well it at least is an obstacle. Broke hackers won’t get it or will have to work harder to get around it.

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  • Ddhuud@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the intention. In reality lots of genuine devs can’t afford it, so people get accustomed to just ignore the whole thing.

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• ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even more lols when you are gigabyte and your private key leaks. Also when you are gigabyte and your signed driver is used to privilege escalate malware.

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• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And you can still bypass it if you put your software in a .zip

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• smolyeet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And that’s why certificates can be revoked, that’s the whole point, trust. It only costs a few hundred a year per Microsoft’s documentation and approved vendors so it doesn’t seem that much of an ask. At the very least you can look up the developer yourself, harder to do if the package has no identity associated with it

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• Tathas@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gigabyte has entered the chat.

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