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- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
Is it really surprising? It’s not like it’s their first competetive shooter.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 5 months ago:
String theory is barely a scientific theory, it’s an untestable (experimentally) mathematical framework.
I’m far from an expert on this, but I don’t think this is the best introduction to physics.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 5 months ago:
Yeah, that’s the point
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 5 months ago:
There’s no chance this won’t happen again IMO (though since they abandoned their own engine maybe it won’t be as buggy this time).
- Comment on Lemmy's major collective account cake days are coming up soon. 6 months ago:
And not poop for 3 days
- Comment on Powerful New Chatbot Mysteriously Returns in the Middle of the Night 6 months ago:
Read the article, Sam Altman literally tweeted “im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot” the day before these chatbots started appearing.
- Comment on Powerful New Chatbot Mysteriously Returns in the Middle of the Night 6 months ago:
This is so dumb, they’re hyping up a new version of their chatbot like it’s a video game.
- Comment on Law of Attraction is just a modern-day religion 6 months ago:
Law of Attraction is a spiritual belief that thinking positively/negatively will affect your life in the same way. It is based on pseudoscientific explanation that people are made out of energy, and that energy attracts similar energy.
It is not science.
- Comment on Major privacy question (linux distro) 6 months ago:
The situation is improving, just very slowly. Solutions are slowly being figured out to various usability issues created by sandboxing (for example, there has been discussion for a while regarding how to solve the game controller issue I mentioned), which will allow the more user-friendly solutions to be more hardened by default. Also, even though I have many issues with Flatpak, with a bit of configuration (even graphically with Flatseal) it can effectively sandbox many programs already, as long as you use Wayland.
On the MAC front, there is a 3rd party project (apparmor.d) that’s trying to build a portable set of AppArmor profiles for all common programs/environments on desktop Linux. As you might imagine this is a huge project and far from done, but it’s actually surprisingly complete already.
- Comment on Major privacy question (linux distro) 6 months ago:
Hardening Linux is very hard IMO.
Privacy wise, if you use free software you should generally be fine, though look into either hardening Firefox’s settings (you can use something like arkenfox user.js) or use a fork which does this for you (Librewolf or Mullvad browser).
Sandboxing solutions available to regular users (as in usable after a sane amount of effort) have some major drawbacks (which means random programs, especially proprietary ones, aren’t as safe to run as on your phone):
- They all sandbox applications which were developed and designed assuming they will run unconfined (in contrast to something like Android, where apps assume they are in a sandbox). This leads to many problems, some of which are solved by portals.
- Flatpaks are often poorly sandboxed by default, and it can be hard/impossible to properly sandbox them (for example, if your Flatpak needs access to game controllers it will likely need access to all devices to work properly).
- Firejail has a large attack surface and is an SUID binary.
- Bubblewrap has a smaller attack surface and can also use unpriviliged user namespaces instead of being an SUID binary if supported by the kernel (though this has its own security implications), but it is very hard to use (it is used by Flatpak internally).
- I don’t know much about Snaps, but I doubt they’re better than Flatpaks in this regard.
An important part of Linux security is Mandatory Access Control (implemented by SELinux and AppArmor, for example). MAC is an additional permission mechanism that is checked after the usual Unix permissions (user, group based) grant access, and is used to confine processes, so if an attacker exploits them they will only be able to access a minimal amount of information. Most distros don’t configure a MAC, and it is extremely hard and time consuming to do so (though it’s relatively easy to confine specific “high risk” processes with AppArmor if your distro has basic support for it). Fedora has SELinux configured OOTB, and allows for simple further hardening by having predefined confined SELinux users you can assign to Linux users to limit what they can do. OpenSUSE has AppArmor configured and enabled by default though it is not a full system policy AFAIK (the init process runs unconfined), in contrast to SELinux (though Fedora runs many processes and users by default unconfined too). Both have good docs (though for Fedora look at RedHat’s docs for SELinux, it goes much more in depth). From my experience, it is much easier to configure AppArmor, but it would still require an extreme amount of work to do properly, so I’d recommend sticking with a distro that does that for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I don’t get why this comment is so unpopular.
- You made baseless claims:
when Gnome changed to Gnome Shell Linux marketshare clearly declined. That Linux has begun to rise again, is definitely not because of Gnome Shell but more despite of it.
I’m assuming you don’t actually have data on this or you’d share it.
- You keep insulting Gnome developers. You say you love how developers can do their own thing and then call the Gnome team arrogant for doing just that, in the very next sentence. They don’t have to accept criticism, they don’t have to accept contributions (think about this logically, would you want your favorite project to accept any criticism and any contributions?).
- You say they hurt the ability to run Gnome apps on other desktops with Gnome 3, but both from research and personal experience I can’t figure out what you mean (I use and have used Gnome 3 apps outside of Gnome), and you don’t give any examples (despite your comment being pretty long).
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
This happened 13 years ago at this point, and with all that “immense harm” desktop Linux is more popular than ever.
I don’t use Gnome, and it really wouldn’t matter much to me if the project ceased operations tomorrow (as long as stuff like GTK is still around), but remember that normal people like you and me work and that project, people who are passionate about making a free system to benefit everyone; and you’re calling their work “extremely harmful” when the worst thing they did was radically change the UX.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 6 months ago:
Who would’ve thought an evil company would mistreat its employees. They literally worked for a corporation whose main business involved violating your human rights, if they really care they wouldn’t have worked there in the first place.
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 6 months ago:
This is an article about a dumb argument between two random people, not to mention the title is misleading anyway (the Rivian driver only assumes cops were called). Why post it here?
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 7 months ago:
Yeah, that’s why the comment you initially replied to cast doubt on whether the chats are actually E2E encrypted.
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 7 months ago:
E2E encryption means only the sender and recipient should be able to access a message.
- Comment on Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn 7 months ago:
I read the article… amending a law doesn’t make the problem go away.
Maybe if more attention was given to the politicians talking about this half a decade ago (instead of focusing on AOC, which honestly realized this issue way too late), something more meaningful could have been done.
- Comment on Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn 7 months ago:
It’s too late at this point IMO, you can make AI generated porn on your PC… How exactly are they going to stop it?
- Comment on Why is this sub so ban happy? 7 months ago:
OP is a real asshole, judging by his comments.
But you were the one who started a petty argument with him. He expressed his fear, and you made light of it.
- Comment on Why is this sub so ban happy? 7 months ago:
Why did you care enough to make this comment?
Why do you care enough to “mass downvote” posts on this community if it’s a joke?
- Comment on Why is this sub so ban happy? 7 months ago:
In my experience many people who talk about politics on Lemmy have very extreme and inconsistent views, I won’t be surprised if the mods of this community also do.
Since you’re new to Lemmy, you will either get used to it or go to another platform.
Since you’re conservative, be prepared for some petty arguments, since (probably) most of Lemmy users are leftists.
I like Lemmy anyway, but it usually sucks for political discussions IMO.
BTW I’m not conservative, I made this comment because I believe a larger diversity of opinions is beneficial to Lemmy.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 7 months ago:
Four prominent members left at once, including the lead designer and the game’s artist. They claimed the studio was acquired through a fraudulent purchase and went to court (and the suit was dismissed). There are many more details, look it up if you want to know more.
The studio has since laid off 25% and cancelled a standalone expansion to Disco Elysium and and its sequel.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 7 months ago:
It’s a good game, but you should know ZA/UM (the studio behind the game) was sold under suspicious cirucmstances; the lead designer and other major memebrs are no longer part of the studio (they sued, but it didn’t go anywhere). Personally I wouldn’t give them any money.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 8 months ago:
Following that logic, if someone on Lemmy needs to chat with someone on Mastodon that bad they should just make an account.
Calling someone lazy for building and running a service which bridges between different protocols is both dumb and rude.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 8 months ago:
You can’t stop them from sucking up your data as long as your posts are public.
Even if it was made illegal, how would you even know they’re doing it? It’s not like these companies are afraid of breaking the law, they’ll just get a small fine if they get caught anyway.
Mainstream social media sites and apps collect an extreme amount of data for the companies running them. For this reason, you are already far better off using alternative like Lemmy or Mastodon. But don’t be delusional, you can’t expect privacy when you make public posts.
I don’t disagree that it would be a good thing if you could limit what these corps can suck up, it just doesn’t really seem possible.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 8 months ago:
This argument makes no sense. Everything you post is already public.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 8 months ago:
Currently there are many edge cases which haven’t even been considered yet, so maybe statistically it is safer, but it doesn’t change anything if your car makes a dumb mistake you wouldn’t have and gets you into an accident (or someone else’s car does and they don’t stop it cause they weren’t watching the road).
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 8 months ago:
That’s is every single programme you’ve ever used.
No software is perfect, but anybody who uses a computer knows that some software is much less complete. This currently seems to be the case when it comes autonomous driving tech.
And with each fix applied to every one of them, it’s a situation they all shouldn’t ever repeat.
First, there are many companies developing autonomous driving tech, and if there’s one thing tech companies like to do is re-invent the wheel (ffs Tesla did this literally). Second, have you ever used modern software? A bug fix guarantees nothing. Third, you completely ignore the opposite possibility - what if they push a serious bug in an update, which drives you off a cliff and kills you? It doesn’t matter if they push a fix 2 hours later (and let’s be honest, many of these cars will likely stop getting updates pretty fast anyway once this tech gets really popular, just look at the state of software updates in other industries).
- Comment on Proposal for GitLab to support ActivityPub 9 months ago:
He’s saying Git is already decentralized, GitLab isn’t.
A project using mailing lists for development can already receive patches from (pretty much) any mail server (while still having a central Git repo).
It’s kinda surprising it took this long for this to come to Git “forges” TBH.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 9 months ago:
In Sekiro, while it is not made clear that the decision will end the game (after a boss fight), it is obviously a very important decision, so I don’t think making the stakes actually high is bad design - the stakes being high is one of the reasons I like souls games.
I didn’t like Nier Automata and didn’t play it much, so I don’t know about its abrupt endings, and how they are presented and handled.