Tetsuo

I’m not familiar with Mint but couldn’t OP just boot on a liveUSB and check if it works ?

I wonder if a SteamDeck could somehow get infected this way…

That would surely be a rather unlikely scenario but it’s interesting.

I think you understand correctly.

Your setup seems quite insecure considering your keyring seems to be always open and that you use a password that is already used to login.

On the other hand a keyring can be unlocked only when used and could also have it’s own dedicated password for it. Security is more a gradient than something binary.

Also if you store keys that are particularly sensitive in it they are as vulnerable as the container that stores them.

Not blaming you of anything of course, I think you are asking the right questions. 👍

Considering I haven’t been home since the 6th of June, I assume I probably couldn’t have been infected. But I will still do a thorough check when I get home next week.

I thought that in the US you could say pretty much anything beside :

• Threatening to kill the president
• Diffamatory stuff

Am I misunderstanding how it works ?

What do you mean by “repercussions and consequences” ?

Yesterday that was 400 packages, now it’s 1500.

Tomorrow 3000 ?

Controversial and inflammatory reply.

Painfully realistic.

Yes, but do you want Copilot in your notepad ?

Well Trump and many of his supporters are very much in this opinion…

That’s millions of people in the United States that think “global warming is an hoax” and it matters. This news does show that individual states can still transition to greener energy sources but it’s still a major issue that the president pushes hard his toxic ideas…

Maybe. But an unreliable scanner means a human has to check all the false positives and false negatives which can quickly take a lot of time for projects that are run by benevolent devs.

It’s really important to keep in mind this is done for free and that supply chain attacks like this one are very hard to identify.

I mean this is usually not the devs being careless, it’s very complex attacks on projects with very limited ressources. Attackers even sometimes choose purposefully projects that are “understaffed” (well, more understaffed than others).

I wish it was that simple but I doubt there is any scanner that can differentiate between legitimate and malicious code.

Maybe an AI but even then it would probably be quite unreliable.

Am I missing something ?

Just because I have 3/4 package on my system doesn’t mean the 400+ list of affected package gets shorter on the other side…

I’m actually pretty cautious with AUR and I only install them when there is no other options.

I’m not home for a few days so I can’t check yet.

But I think I have something like 3/4 packages at the most.

But I need to compare that to a 400+ list I’m not sure I agree with you it’s that easy to do rigorously.

Ok, but I was expecting something a bit more automated then opening a list of package in kate and comparing it to my list of installed AUR package… Plus it’s 400 package so that’s a lot of things to check and plenty of space to miss one package by manually checking.

But I get it I’m lazy and just need to script something myself. This is affecting so many people I thought we would have a script to check quickly if you are “infected”.

Edit : thanks for the numerous script sent as reply ! But I’m all set now, thanks !

Is this normal for snap? Is it because the algorithm knows that I am a upper 30s man and it just assumes we want to be fed with porn and funny videos? What are you experiences of snap? What is snap showing to women? Snaps feels like a distinctly sexual app, not to mention that it encourages very very unrealistic standards, some women there don’t even look real, like they are using some filter or something.

Duh, I’m sorry if this feels rude but obviously the algorithm sees men allocating their attention to ““porn like”” content and will therefore serve that to these demographics. And the fact that women receive them too in my opinion doesn’t invalidate that either.

The other aspect of it is that easily influencable kids will look around and think being this sexually suggestive is just the norm and will think “why shouldn’t I do it too ?”.

I know I have male friends that are on Instagram solely and admittedly just for this “softcore porn” content and when I tried the app myself it was clearly pushing me toward that too.

Since I was not interested I uninstalled but I have no doubt that if you are a man these algorithm will go out of there way to push porn like content and at the other end will encourage inadvertently the content creators to go for that type of content.

I hope all the Arch based distros will do a proper post to inform their users on how to cleanup afterwards.

I’m hoping at least cachyos, the distro I use, will tell me exactly how to check and clean my system.

I remember that when I installed a few of my AUR package, I was well aware that this repo was pretty much unregulated and that I just have to trust it’s safe. So I made sure to only use AUR as a last resort. But there was warnings on cachyos that were displayed to tell me to be cautious about it so that’s at least a positive.

The semantic debate is pointless.

These climate change or global warming deniers are not on the same plane of this conversation.

They open their windows, say “look its cold outside this morning, global warming isn’t true”.

It is so insanely a bad faith argument that discussing about the way they call it global warming or climate change when they deny the phenomenon is pointless. They are way past semantics.

I’m not saying you are wrong, I’m just saying we are way way past that kind of debates. And it’s not even a debate per se when one of the participant is going so low as to present weather and climate change as the same thing.

I think the climate change deniers use global warming for their vocabulary just because they can say the above bullshit and pretend like weather has anything to do with climate change.

On a more rational and scientific level I think climate change would be prefered by climatologist because it’s not as simple as “everything in the system that is climate is getting hotter”. Some air will get hotter at some places, some water will get exceptionally colder at some other places. The climate systems are getting dysfunctional is the main idea. Global warming is actually rather reductive in the way a scientific would talk about what is going wrong.

At the end of the day, global warming isn’t probably the most scientific way to present the problem but I agree that for the layman it’s probably the easiest to help understand why it’s a critical issue.

Very nice that Deezer does that and makes it work on other platforms.

I suppose the fact that education is very expensive there is one of the reason the population got dumber overall.

Where I live I had the opportunity to go to the 11th best engineering school for 500€ per semester. And even if you couldn’t pay that yourself you could ask for financial help from the government.

There shouldn’t be a price tag to knowledge…