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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • You are right. They can’t for every distro.

    But fedora/rhel, Ubuntu/debian, and arch-based distros are the most commonly used. So they can provide official packages for those, and/or as the OP said, provide an official flatpak.

    And to be fair, it’s a nice-to-have to have a better sense of trust, but given the unofficial ones are open source, it’s quite likely any maliciousness would be rooted out very quickly.






  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlMusic to my ears
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    1 month ago

    No, I think I’ll go on gloating to these unhinged sycophants that their godking is now a convicted felon and their whining and tears are so very satisfying.

    The moment they decided to attempt a literal coup is the moment they solidified any polarization. That ship has sailed. Now it’s time to see everything they worship fall apart.


  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlDestroying friendship
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    2 months ago

    Not only that, the interpreter will point directly to the line of code and possibly to the exact character that is the problem. Any programmer worth anything would find the issue or, worst case, retype the line of code and have the problem fixed rather quickly. “Illegal character” is a pretty easy error to diagnose.

    But…I still chuckled a little at the intent of the joke. I’m sure there are better pranks one could come up with, though.


  • So basically don’t be stupid when on a network you don’t control. I mean I would think that would be common sense by now. Just because you’re on a VPN doesn’t mean that the local network doesn’t have some semblance of capabilities.

    And maybe I read it wrong, but perhaps don’t use DHCP on a network you don’t control. Wouldn’t that wholly mitigate this?

    I get that this is concerning for people who don’t know any better. But I don’t think it’s as devastating as the title makes it sound.