kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net to libre@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days agoArch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attackwww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square54linkfedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.devarchlinux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up170arrow-down1external-linkArch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attackwww.phoronix.comkleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net to libre@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square54linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.devarchlinux@lemmy.ml
Nearly 2000 packages affected now. I’m starting to become sceptical of pacakge managers as a concept.
minus-squarelurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 days agothe alternative is flathub just kill internet access with flatseal to any apps that dont need it, done
minus-squarehello_hello [undecided, comrade/them]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 days agoFlatpak next is going to have even more fine grained network sandboxing (per-app DNS, VPN portal, apps can’t talk to each other in the same network).
minus-squareTheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoBut then we have to deal with permissions?!?! And the bloat! Oh god, the bloat!
minus-squarelurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoprice to pay to not have some 1337t dprk haxor in your computer
the alternative is flathub
just kill internet access with flatseal to any apps that dont need it, done
Flatpak next is going to have even more fine grained network sandboxing (per-app DNS, VPN portal, apps can’t talk to each other in the same network).
But then we have to deal with permissions?!?! And the bloat! Oh god, the bloat!
price to pay to not have some 1337t dprk haxor in your computer