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tired_fedora

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  • The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse

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  • TLDR: Open package repositories without some approval and oversight system, like AUR, will have even more problems in the future due to advanced coding AI and malicious foreign hackers.

    Edit: Please normalize TLDR's on bot posts with just a link.

    Edit 2: I have been rightfully informed that this is not a bot post. I still think links should not be posted without a tiny abstract, one might say: a TLDR.

    I have also been informed that the text does not spell out "foreign". This is correct. The text does say

    Not all of the packaging issues are as bad as the initial wave of trying to steal credentials, some are just adding ridiculous messages in Russian.

    This implies but does not establish the nationality of attackers. While Arch has contributors from all over the world, it is commonly cited as being a Canadian distribution (example, see below). https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=arch

  • Can you see it?

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  • This would make for a pretty cool SCP: A place or a person whom you can't get super close to, because space around them behaves in a fractal manner.

  • Poop!

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  • The answer is no, but the other way round: If your regular poop stays inside long enough, it produces diarrhea again. Google paradoxical diarrhea. And don't try it at home.

  • LinkedIn from Microsoft locked me out — they demand I give my passport and access to my webcam to Persona

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  • So it begins

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • If Chromium becomes incompatible with privacy, the only real and broadly accepted alternative is FireFox. Which implementation, and as always in these kinds of discussions, that depends on your threat model: On desktop, I am very happy with LibreWolf. Mullvad Browser is also great, especially with Mullvad VPN, though it breaks pages a little more often than LibreWolf. On Android, I am quite happy with IronFox.

  • 🤨🤨🤨

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  • privacy fair, fair production [suggestion to developers]

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  • Thanks for the tip. Did not know. e/os is not Graphene but definitely an upgrade! There are also other companies selling pre-Graphened smartphones, but they are not fair. The reason I suggested a formal fairphone - graphene collab is that I trust Fairphone, as a company, to mean well, and I trust GrapheneOS, as an operating system, to be particularly privacy friendly. (and also as a slight slight at the fairphone - graphene feud, which I find just so sighs).

  • Age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."

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  • Second this and adding: Fiduciary responsibility and how US economic law places it above all else. Other jurisdictions, particularly in Europe, require companies to balance multiple responsibilities, such as towards their workforce, societal, ecological, and yes, fiduciary, too. It doesn't solve all issues and can be vague AF, but at least well-meaning CEOs can fall back to these other corporate responsibilities in court while the same CEO would be sued into oblivion by US shareholders.

  • Stop Killing Games: The fight over who owns the games you buy

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  • I'm not ideologically opposed to people earning money with their unique ideas and artistic execution. Creative work is work is work. But I don't think that IP should be the gift that keeps on giving three generations after an authors death. IMHO, the public has a reasonable interest in works remaining available, that's why the "maintenance / out of print" clause. Writing good code is authorship. It's only natural the same rules apply, though I wouldn't be principally opposed to applying different time lines, e.g., 5 years for unmaintained proprietary code vs 20 years for books, to reflect the uniquely fast pace of software development vs the more long-lasting beauty of traditional art and literature. Of course there would need to be some very careful wording to define maintenance (e.g., in respect to which platform? What about versions of the same software) and to prevent on-paper continued availability of books at an inappropriately increased price. However, I believe the law makers and the courts could handle this medium diff if there was political will.

  • Stop Killing Games: The fight over who owns the games you buy

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  • Yeah, how about we shorten that to a cumulative 10 years out of support / maintenance / print or after the death of the author / artist, whatever earlier. For software, a five years out of support threshold would honestly be preferable but I'll be generous.

  • Stop Killing Games: The fight over who owns the games you buy

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  • Software that is not actively maintained for a certain time should become public property. The same goes for books or music that go out of print for so long. "you want to sell me your original product? That's cool. You don't wanna do that anymore? Alright, but no need to bury it in obscurity."

  • AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume

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  • This article criticizing AI gives me strong LLM vibes. Especially this sentence, which addresses the reader directly, as if in response to a prompt: "The split you describe is real, but it’s not new, and it’s not caused by #AI, it’s the endpoint of a long enclosure of commons → platform capture (#dotcons), trust → contracts, sharing → surveillance + monetisation and public space → login walls." by Hamish Campbell on OMN (or is it?)

  • Privacy-conscious browser on Android

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  • Appreciate the recommendations. I will give IronFox a try.

  • Someone just made DOZENS of "UFE_LOI" communities across Lemmy.World

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  • Could be some Spiralism / Ai religion fan (club)

  • Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient

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  • I often feel a little 'legislative paralysis'. On the one hand, I want as little government interference in the free web as possible. On the other hand we can see first hand that web anarchy collapses into web oligarchy. I guess the EU is demonstrating that targeted legislation, like one click unsubscribe or one click cookie denial, can improve the web experience and privacy even beyond their borders. Baby steps... When do we get one click delete all my data? And when does a single page start caring whether my browser sends a Do not track request or not? Until then, it's back to private privacy measures... Even if that's an uphill battle.