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I have an ISO on a Ventoy USB and a VirtualBox VM (although I've quit updating that). It's pretty rare I want to use it.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Well half of them are jeets so you nailed it
Parrots security edition is pretty decent for using as a sandbox OS if you're fucking around with malicious stuff. It actually has its own "sandbox" capabilities available to use as well for containing/isolating applications as they launch, however I'm not too familiar with it beyond that. If you're super paranoid yeah OpenBSD or even Tails (obviously don't install that on bare metal) if you really want to go there are far more appropriate tbh
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It used to be that Backtrack/Kali was something you livebooted or kept installed on a pentest/research-only machine, the general idea being that it was insecure by default in order to better allow for the security research work. You were an absolute fool for thinking otherwise; this of course didn't stop retards from trying to use the "cool haxxor" distro as a regular OS. I doubt any of this has changed.
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I knew shit was broken in wayland (window positions not being remembered across sessions, or at all being the one that fucked over my workflow), but even I didn't realise just how much shit was broken.
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Sudo is the "large attack surface? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! Almost all the problematic context he complains about for sudo is a direct result of shit he implemented in systemd to begin with.
I like how he hasn't even released the thing and he's already feature-creeping it.
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pottering doing poettering things. The systemd crowd comes often across to me as people who have never really understood *nix and Linux Userland and are basically rewriting a shittier OS on top of it from first and flawed principles.
I've been using doas for a while, as it's configuration has less than five lines in my usage case and it also desn't make my eyes roll so hard that everything becomes blurry when I try to change a setting. (which I never need to, because it is just that dead simple)
I've been using doas for a while, as it's configuration has less than five lines in my usage case and it also desn't make my eyes roll so hard that everything becomes blurry when I try to change a setting. (which I never need to, because it is just that dead simple)
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So, a binary called "run0" can also run commands under a specified UID. Neat. Given Lennart's history, I can't wait for
systemd-rund-run0-d --systemd-run-as-specified-user-d 0day rm -rf /* to actually work, because "0day is not a valid user name!!!1111" or something.Cool. Because "fun" is excatly what sudo is missing. And WTF does it have to do with this sudo-at-home anyway? Unless you now have to link every single terminal emulator with libsystemd (or whatever the fuck it's called), AND use Gayland with a brand-new "lennarD-sudo-paint-my-terminal-d" extension.
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it's even worse. changing windows enough, even with it's own tools, and it's gonna break.
my personal focal point of hate is that you still can't move your user directory. I mean you can, and there's even the functionality for it via sysprep... only for then some stuff INCLUDING MICROSOFT'S OWN SHIT to inexplicably break. good luck trying to figure how and why, let alone fix it.
it even goes beyond that, for simple efficiency's sake it's still faster and easier to wipe the drive and re-install when there's inevitable problem (unless it's minor trying to "rescue" a windows installation is a fool's errant), which fucks over especially casual users who save every shit in their registry and elsewhere, so worst case you're not looking at 2-3 extra hours installing all the shit again, you can calculate another 2-3 hours (if you're lucky) setting up logins etc. - if you even can, because microsoft to save money has their account recovery automated, good fucking luck trying to get that back.
to be fair, it was ok for it's use purpose adding "interactivity on the internet" and other fluff.
if anything blame the retards dragging it into areas where it shouldn't be, out of convenience or ignorance. it also feels like the retarded "good enough" approach where instead of doing something properly with good foundations from scratch you just re-purpose something poorly (but then that's how like half the tech feels like these days).
there's nothing wrong with agreeing to a common standard everyone can work off, and as long as it's open people can take it and change it to make it fit.
linux isn't a product meant to sell so you have to target the lowest common denominator for maximum profit. sure, redhat tries with forcing the footshit and systemd on everyone, but there is still enough money and ambition to do something different, for now at least. but even if that energy gets low, you just know if shit gets bad enough someone will try to fix it, with probably enough people joining in. something like that is never gonna happen on windows or any other non-open software.
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It continually baffles me that the notoriously hostile linux dev community doesn't just reject everything he does, as he's clearly an Elop-style MS plant.
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The answer as so often is money. (probably)
I mentioned it before but I am using ratpoison as my window manager because together with helper programs (like a fuzzy search for open programs - I can just press a key, start typing and when there are no selections left it automatically switches to that window) it does all I need. The last update it saw was in 2017, that's seven years ago. There are people that seem to think you just cannot use software that "abandoned", but it works fine and is feature complete, another combination of words current tech has completely forgotten. I found a few bugs I fixed, because it was simple to do so as ratpoison is tiny. I'm personally not really worried because Torvalds for all his failings is autistically obsessed with not breaking compatibility in the Linux kernel and there's already so much good software for Linux that cannot be ruined anymore and is so simple I can maintain it myself that there's nothing that crowd really can threaten me with. Small programs I just write myself. (C is and probably always will remain first class citizen in Linux and C is delightfully simple) The only way to avoid being abused and controlled by that crowd is knowledge, so gather it. Always has been like this.
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SystemD has been a thing for a while now.
khaine
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Hilariously, I've just seen people complain on hacker news about firstly our ability to develop efficient software and that Safari is a piece of shit and welcoming the EU forcing more shit into iPads.
I'm sure everyone is looking forward to a world where the lowest common denominator is developed against because the EU enable shit web devs to be equal to an OS developers
Honestly, the world would be a better place if Electron devs and people who built on Electron were killed off.
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Oh come the fuck on now, Event viewer isn't much better. On the contrary, what's even worse about it is that the logs and Associated error are more or less undocumented, meaning that if you google your (indescriptive) Error you're going to get a couple of pajeets telling you to DISM your PC and (at best) a tech community thread.
Or, you know, buy Microsoft's book to have even a glimpse into how it works.
(No, I still haven't read it – I've heard that it's pretty decent)
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khaine
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fuck pottering is a massive cunt. Honestly, why can't wokies cancel that cunt and actually benefit the world?
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I never said Windows did it better. Every OS operates as a black box that won't tell you exactly what went wrong for you to diagnose it, perhaps as a side effect of how complicated Windows/Linux is. And let's be fair, 99% of people wouldn't know how to diagnose such issues from logs since it's all developer only stuff barely anyone will have a use for.
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Meanwhile this is the exact group of users that Linux malware creators target. Look at this shit man, Kali is the ultimate in Linux security and can't be hacked.
Who else will readily download and execute random binaries and shell scripts from the internet?
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The NPCs will never be given that order because they're tools of the same agenda. They will go after Linus though.