Maybe I’ll finally move it into a VM so I can send a link to it here without tempting people :P
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I’ve taken some precautions, it’s running in a container as an unprivileged user and the only writable mount is the directory where make writes rendered pages, but i probably should move it into a vm if i want to be completely safe lol
my website’s backend is made with bash, it calls make for every request and it probably has hundreds of remote arbitrary code execution bugs that will get me pwned someday, it’s great
edit: to clarify, it uses a rust program i made to expose the bash scripts as http endpoints, i’m not crazy enough to implement http in bash
it behaves like a static file server, but if a file has the others-execute permission bit set it executes the file instead of reading it
it’s surprisingly nice for prototyping since you can just write a cli program and it’s automatically available over http too
the PineTime can run for over a week in my experience, but it runs at 64 MHz and has 64kb of RAM, so telling time is pretty much its limit
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Linux@lemmy.ml•"Linux Desktop: A Collective Delusion" - an unhinged rantEnglish
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If you put zoom in a flatpak and tighten its permissions, it won’t be able to touch the rest of your system
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup?English
1·2 years agoPeanuts and dairy are usually possible to spot without checking the ingredients list, and they serve a distinct culinary purpose. They have valid reasons to exist, and are fairly simple, if a little annoying, to avoid.
HFCS does not serve a distinct culinary purpose (it’s pretty much just sugar but it benefits from corn subsidies), and is impossible to identify without careful scrutiny because it’s included in all sorts of foods that it has no business being in. The (purely financial) benefit it provides is far outweighed by its harm to public health.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup?English
1·2 years agoHe can eat corn just fine, but HFCS gives him a migraine. I’m not sure why, but it happens consistently even when we don’t notice it on the ingredients list at first so it’s not psychosomatic or anything like that.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup?English
33·2 years agoYes, my brother’s allergic and I don’t want him to have to worry about it anymore.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•[SOLVED] Will Linux Phones ever become commercially viable and decrease to a price point of 200-400 USD?English
4·2 years agoMy big killer feature for Linux phones is running Wayland/X11 apps mostly unmodified, if AOSP added support for that I wouldn’t be too disappointed about sticking with it. I’ve tried to make android apps before, but doing things the Android Way™ basically requires you to use java and their bespoke UI primitives, and it always makes me wish I could just use the tools I’m already used to.
Being able to have intricate control over my phone is nice, but I’d rather do it with a KDE-like settings maze than a terminal because of how tiny the screen is, and if I’m doing something serious that would require a terminal I would rather do it at my desk.
I definitely think the Android ecosystem has some serious problems, but I already run a custom ROM without Google Play Services installed so I’m fairly well-insulated from that. I do plan on installing a mobile Linux system on my old phone to experiment, but I doubt it will become my system of choice.
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Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on
8·3 years agoWould be an excellent change if they replaced it with a chronological timeline, but we all know they won’t do that even though their backend already generates RSS feeds and it would barely take any effort to integrate with the frontend
Some games use a “trust” system based on human reviews of your gameplay that affects how you are matched with other players, but there isn’t a respectful way to force people to use just one account so that the trust score can follow the person. The best way I can think is to tie the purchase of the game to that account, which many services do, but that breaks the used games market…
There’s a concept I call “rule zero of cybersecurity”: “the user can and will exploit trust you place in them or anything they can touch.”
You can make it more difficult to exploit the trust you put in the user by hiding it behind obfuscation, but ultimately the user can desolder your secure enclave, reverse engineer your anti-tampering measures, and falsify any check your program wants to do, if it happens on their computer.
Client-side anticheat on Windows doesn’t “work” in the pure sense either, it’s just enough of a pain to bypass that most people don’t because you can’t recompile the kernel to change how it behaves. On Linux, it’s easier to take advantage of the fact that perfect client-side anticheat is fundamentally impossible.
Same with device attestation, DRM, and other client-side verification measures: they’re doomed to be in an endless back-and-forth because what they’re trying to do is fundamentally incompatible with reality.
The correct choice for anti-cheat is to detect cheaters like humans do: watch a player’s actions as they are received by the server, and use your knowledge of typical player patterns to detect if the player is cheating. Your server’s knowledge of the network messages coming from the user’s computer is the only thing you can trust (because it exists on hardware you control), so you should make your decision by analyzing that.

Maybe browsers could be configured to automatically accept the first certificate they see for a given .internal domain, and then raise a warning if it ever changes, probably with a special banner to teach the user what an .internal name means the first time they see one