So what? It’s Linux. More Linux users are good for the ecosystem. I’d rather have people’s feed flooded with zorin videos that a single windows or Mac video

You can test it in a virtual machine like virtualbox or virt-manager. Then you can get a good feel for it.

c stands for community. I didn’t know on which server it is but it’s on lemmyworld !selfhosted@lemmy.world

With that definition of AppStore, GitHub and other source forges providing an artefact store would be affected too. That will be fun to watch.

Judging a video by its title.

Sorry, bootkit. Resetting to factory settings should be enough to get rid of a rootkits, but not enough to get rid of bootkits if your bootloader is unlocked. You can read about VerifiedBoot to see how it works.

Yes, if someone gets provileged access to your phone, be that remotely or locally, you’re fucked already, but being unable to get rid of the infection is an even bigger problem.

It also makes stealing phones useless if they’re off because they will be unusable without the PIN. Sure, PINs are only 4 characters but going through all possibilities still takes time if done manually. If it’s possible to do so automatically (which isn’t always the case), then 4 numbers won’t help much, I give you that.

All in all, I depends on your threat level. If you’re defending against your grandparents, probably a PJN will stop them, if it’s a three letter agency or a big corporation with endless money, good luck.

Read the very first comment I made again. If your interpretation of my words is still the same, maybe you’ll have to work on your English comprehension.

Great argument there. Replace what I say with whatever you think it says and go on from there. Should I just do the same with yours and we’ll see what kind of nonsense comes out? I’m sure that would be in your interpretation of “good faith”.

But don’t worry, I don’t expect a coherent response. This was a just-in-case kind of thing 😉

A great goal, but given they haven’t gotten really close to doing so on desktop, my excitement is tempered.

“You don’t agree with me? Must be a Nazi” / “You don’t agree with me? Must be woke”

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I firmly believe there are ways of being a centrist without being a Nazi.

If your default is equating “centrist” to “nazi”, then I wonder what kind of experiences you had but it’s so far from mine that it’s pointless to continue this.

Yep, here we go. I’m a nazi now 🙄 This is exactly how you edge people out. You’re just the another flavor of “everything I don’t like is wOkE” but instead “everything I don’t like jNaZi!”.

Nobody’s in the middle. There’s no nuance. You’re either on my side or you’re an enemy. Life’s just that simple.

The entire ecosystem is full of purity tests. You don’t have a CoC? Must be a Nazi! Don’t use the right license? Probably a capitalist! You use systemd? Must be a Apple insider! You don’t use systemd? Fuck off you troglodyte. Oh my you said “no politics”? Definitely a lib! What’s that 🏳️‍🌈 flag? OMG what a woke commie.

Everyone draws the line somewhere else. Just because you draw it at DHH doesn’t mean you’re better.

What I wrote mostly applies to a physical takeover because that’s way easier, but privilege escalation on an a system with an unlocked bootloader can do everything I said. But if you’re hacked and privilege is escalated while you’re using the phone, it doesn’t matter if the bootloader is unlocked. You’re already pwned.

Search for “android privilege escalation” and look through the CVEs. This advisory for example says privilege escalation can lead to the creation of additional user accounts.

Also look up rootkits. The same principle applies on phones as on computers.

The PR. It’s locked down so no comments. Actually well written!

The same old broken record repeating a single incident and presenting it as multiple 😮‍💨

“You fuck a sheep one time…”

Wait, they expect people to start installing Linux by creating a Google or Discord account? I have to read this article now, because the title and subtitle are hinting at this.

Ok damn, what a misleading name!

The Ubuntu ISO Tracker has long been used by the Ubuntu QA team and the community for tracking the Ubuntu Linux ISOs and their pass/fail results and other build/testing related information

It’s an ISO test result tracker.

This is the biggest issue with niche communities: purity tests. They can’t unite under one goal and have productive discussions. They are more focused on being correct (their interpretation of correct) and shutting out the incorrect than getting closer to a goal. Sometimes incorrect can be as little as choosing the wrong utility and other times it can be much bigger but they all spark the same amount of ire.

I don’t support the views of the endorsed projects, but surely a better reaction would be to suggest alternatives instead of just screaming for outright dismissal? I keep reading that “omarchy is just a bunch of scripts” and “hyperland is just one tiling window manager”. If that’s the case, there probably are better alternatives no? Or if it’s as easy as described why not fork it?

Complaining without an alternative or a solution is not productive, IMO

This article explains it quite well.

An unlocked bootloader let’s any attacker change the the thing that boots your OS and the OS itself. They might not have access to your data (every modern cellphone encrypts those partitions), but replacing the OS is practically game over. It allows tracking the password (or PIN) you enter and sending it to any server once internet access is gained.