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@ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

  • Mozilla Now Offers an Official Firefox RPM Package for RPM-Based Linux Distros

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  • The Firefox Flatpak has much weaker isolation because the Flatpak sandbox interferes with the browser sandbox. This means a malicious site can compromise other sites and even the whole browser with a single exploit instead of the two normally required (which is a significant degradation in protection). The specific part blocked by Flatpak is user namespace sandboxing by Firefox. If you can help it, DO NOT install as Flatpak. Snap does not have this problem, but nobody likes Snap. Chromium has a similar problem as a Flatpak.

  • The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming

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  • Ok. I guess I never noticed because I actively don't like any of those features and I definitely don't want Discord to have unrestricted filesystem access. The file picker in Vesktop works for me without giving full access.

  • The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming

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  • What features? Discord was working perfect for me on a custom client (Vesktop) but is broken now because they hate me using a VPN.

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    This is Jehan Pages, the top developer behind GIMP, a free open source photo editor. Adobe executives hate Jehan. Because of his hard work, Adobe lost millions of dollars

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  • Honestly, I thought the post may have been making a joke about GIMP sucking or something, cus half the time I see GIMP it is people hating on its (admittedly) not-great UX.

  • The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming

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  • I think is very dependent on the apps you install because i haven't need to do really any workarounds and i install all my apps through Flatpak. The only messing around with permissions i do is disabling everything that i dont need (like printer or smartcard access). I also have over a hundred apps installed.

  • Great Mug

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  • Here is a video by the channel Dr. Fatima (former astrophysicist) which I think has some intersection with this topic. I may have picked the wrong video though because I haven't watched it in months.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdTmvqCgxI

  • Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request & FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution

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  • Wydm? Rockchip copied their code, changed the license and didnt attribute FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a small team of enthusiasts who are responsible for plenty of important innovation and remain largely unpaid even with such substantial widespread use of their code in like SOOOO MANY big software projects. It isn't their fault that people aren't following the simple rules of the license to use their code.

  • electron.jxl

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  • I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline. It is more secure to run an app in the browser because off the layers of isolation in modern browsers. Native apps can access all sorts of information and system resources, which could be used to compromise the host OS.

  • electron.jxl

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  • I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline.

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  • They used the alcohol as aftershave

  • Installing Linux on friend's new PC, which distro should he use?

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  • As I mentioned, most security vulnerabilities are not reported because it may not seem security related. The distro maintainers can't keep up with every package and read all the commits, so as a result security fixes often go unfocused. It is a real big problem that many security researchers acknowledged.

  • Installing Linux on friend's new PC, which distro should he use?

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  • I still would never recommend a "stable release" or LTS distro because the vast majority of security vulnerabilities never receive a CVE, and as a result the a large amount of vulnerabilities go unpatched for months. Also I like distros that take security seriously (Fedora and openSUSE).

  • Installing Linux on friend's new PC, which distro should he use?

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  • It has to do with LTS kernel (iirc) making it incompatible with certain new(er) hardware. I recommend Fedora KDE.

  • DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025

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  • DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025

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  • I have been liking CachyOS as well. I reluctantly switched from Fedora after I kept getting weird problems (definitely a "my PC" thing, I wish I could upgrade).

    Features I like about Cachy:

    • Auto-setup of snapper btrfs snapshoting (my fav feature of openSUSE) on all bootloaders (I like the simplicity of limine)
    • Gaming ready fork of kernel-hardened, with some changes, including allowing use of unprivileged namespaces (needed by Bubblewrap/Flatpak/Firefox/Chromium to avoid the need of a SUID binary)
    • AUR (cus it is Arch)
    • Update service which updates from all installed sources (pacman, Flatpak, AUR)

    What I wish was different:

    • Inclusion of a full system Mandatory Access Control policy (SELinux preferably)
    • Compatibility with hardened_malloc (idk why but on Cachy, GTK apps crash because glycin bubblwrap commands fail)

  • Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves bust into grocery store and steal $3,000 worth of food

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  • Naturally. By not stealing you are giving them free money.

  • Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves bust into grocery store and steal $3,000 worth of food

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  • They factor the cost of theft into their item pricing.

  • Mageia Linux 10 Enters Alpha Phase With April 2026 Release Target

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  • It started as a fork of the now defunct Mandriva Linux. Mageia isn't a new Linux distro (in age). Otherwise it is just a normal Linux distro from what I can tell.

  • What are some unique games to host server's of?

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  • Valhiem