No idea if they're any good, hopefully I'll never look at them
Well, better to be prepared. When you are starving and freezing from cold in a forest, lost and about to be mauled by a black bear, it's nice to have that stick around so you can quickly grab it and shove it sideways up in the arse of the bear.
Dan Goodin seems to write sensationalist articles of vulnerabilities. Then buried in a footnote you notice that the vulnerability doesn't really affect anyone in real world.
Tämähän on selkeästi lainsäädännöllinen puute. Kirjastot ovat aina voineet ostaa paperikirjoja kustantajien estämättä. Sama pitäisi pakottaa e-kirjoihin lainsäädännöllä.
Someone excitedly demonstrated to me how easy it is to code with copilot. They generated a bunch of code easily. And then proceeded to debug subtle bugs for longer than it would have taken to write it yourself in the first place.
And in the end they were still left with badly structured and maintainable code.
LLMs will do exactly what Stackoverflow has done, but more efficiently: allow profileration of bad/outdated solutions to problems, and application of those with no real understanding.
More garbage code and more work for the few people who continue to actually read manuals and understand what they are doing.
Running GUI programs as root is going to introduce you into a world of pain. But you have been warned now, so if you proceed, let the pain become a learning experience, young padawan.
There is a lot of advice in this thread warning you about doing this. Please heed it. Instead, read more about how permissions and file ownership works.
There was something magical about Little Big Adventure that no game has been able to capture afterwards.