Lung @ lung @lemmy.world

Expert developer, Buddhist

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Nah, the OS has proprietary overlays that vendors put in there. And it's not like you're reviewing and compiling your own software - you're dependent on your provider to be honest with the software they actually installed. But factually you have no idea if the android phone you purchased has been modified. And Android itself is so huge that backdoors can be sneaky. We have already caught several instances of attempted backdoors in Linux - but there's always the fear we didn't find them all

If this all sounds way too paranoid, then review Snowden leaks

Yeah man, the hubris it takes to meet only a few times a year, but imagine that you have the elite wisdom needed make all the decisions. You're the guy on the board, so by definition you must be smarter than the worker bees, huh?

Well, in my comment I describe quite a number of methods. It doesn't matter how secure or reviewed signal is, if the feds have a keylogger at the OS or compiler level. It's really unbelievable how much code is involved in day to day security

Hey bro I mean no offense but there's a typo

This is actually wrong. There's a near 100% chance that the decision was made by the board, and also the decision to remove the CEO. So we're talking about the fall guy, but being an insider, the fall guy will get a tidy sum for the dive

Then the CEO can be recycled to some other project, and a new CEO instated at Unity, so they can pivot or double down with no moral dilemma. In reality, the board was there all along and it's all a big PR game

Well you gotta be careful if it's your only donkey but I'm still confident you'll end up winning a second ass

You bet your ass they can. Since when has Facebook taken anybody's privacy seriously? And you remember all the Snowden leaks? Like how AT&T has been a government apparatus for spying for decades? Or how about the way that the USA taps under sea cables to monitor data, causing China to build totally parallel backbone infrastructure

The better question is whether Signal, despite being open source, is actually secure. It's very plausible that the govt has backdoors somewhere, for either encryption, the OS, the programming language, the app store, or some random dependency lib

The answer is yes, the US government spies on everything, and has a complete profile of everyone

Yeah this is why I really like Lemmy. It feels like early Reddit where people are actually worth talking to. People that can change their minds, or learn, or be kind

Maybe it's an ego trip, but people seem more engaged with what I have to say here. A lot of the time on Reddit, I'll say something I think is worthwhile, and then just get some random trolls, or a contrarian, or someone not driven by reason to begin with

Like yes the community is small and maybe shrinking atm, but the quality is pretty high. I like the offbeat memes and all the piracy & tech stuff. I like that the admins seem to care. Content actually gets seen since the volume is not too out of control

Idk how long it's gonna last, but I think Lemmy is the new sweet spot for the social media refugees

Oh it's just an over complicated pile of low quality stuff. Still substantially behind XMPP, which was a fine solution. Somehow still behind IRCv3 in terms of raw usability and apps too. IRCv3 is a new spec that made a lot of improvements

I investigated all three in depth and decided IRCv3 is what I want to use for my server / apps. I even run a public web client that acts like Discord. IRC has the bigger communities still

If you really care about encryption, maybe there's a reason you'd do something different, but I just want private chat servers with good UX

I think it's super based. All these clowns talking about open source while using Discord and GitHub (yes, that's me included). You want to submit a bug report to Git itself? Well, you gotta send a bug report to the mailing list. Then some guy will be like "oh shit can you fix it also?" and I'm like "haha no" so the dude submits a fix himselg within 4 hours, and obtains the raging hard boner of internet developer clout

Great system, pgp keys are actually useful. And everyone knows you have to be at least an 8/10 in handsomeness to be running an IRC server. Also, Matrix is trash, I'm serious, modern IRC is cool

Yeah super niche projects like the Linux Kernel and Git

I found it hard to understand what this is. Overall summary, it's using new Linux kernel features to make Docker style containers way more efficient

It allows you to compose a bunch of filesystems into one layered stack of read only, at a mount point. It also shares memory between such filesystems and allows layers to be mounted in multiple places

For those familiar with how container images are built, this should make things a faster compared to the overlayfs techniques before. It also enables some kind of new hyper containerized software packages, but I'm not sure if that's a big deal. Something like how osx mounts a risk image for install or use

Iirc it becomes progressively more obvious to her. Character development and audience relatability

Shit y'know what, fair enough. I never had your particular needs, and I'd probably still have to double check a cache location in case the app didn't comply, but I feel you

You used to have to do all that stuff before too. Vim has had history, settings, caching, and plugins for ever. And it all used to sit in ~/.vim. Now it's in ~/.config/vim. What's the difference?

My "user directories"? You mean you have more than one $HOME with dotfiles in it?

It was never a problem to find user specific app data on unix. And XDG obviously didn't solve it because solutions that require everyone to change their code are dumb. Case in point, this thread

XDG config was always a smooth brain idea, and any other outcome of this experiment was always ~impossible (of course some apps didn't switch ...)

Great job to X Desktop Group "fixing" what didn't need fixing, and causing us to go from one unified system that made sense, to two. And now people don't even want to use X anymore

HabitBull is fantastic

Yeah man I agree ketamine makes for boring orgies. Idk why these people insist on it. I'll be like "okay let's start washing off all the layers of sunscreen and dust" and the middle aged tech HR with two kids will be like "hold on I have to load my special ketamine bullet (that I purchased in Goa) with my veterinary K that I got from mexico" before doing half a line of coke to balance it out. Calvin Klein they call it

"No worries if I k-hole" she said with a wink before passing the fuck out. Then the main orgy coordinator couldn't get hard so he makes his wife wear a strap on. Eventually 18 different cops show up because one guy was smoking pot in the back of the circus tent

Looks like artists renderings of Palo Alto lmao