• 30 Posts
  • 865 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: March 19th, 2024

help-circle













  • They meant that they wanted to do a test to see if they would get any gpg-encrypted emails from people who saw the hat in real life; the “experiment” doesn’t work if you allow internet strangers to email you too, as then you don’t know where a person may have gotten the email address/key from






  • communism@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlOpen source FTW
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    18 days ago

    That’s great but do you know why the patch was rejected in the first place? If the patch isn’t up to standard I think you should at least raise it however Fedora does their package development so they can address the issue properly



  • Depends. I read the PKGBUILDs of all AUR packages I install at least, which is not the same as reading source code but it’s something. If it’s a very widely used piece of software I don’t bother—if all these people haven’t spotted some secret backdoor, I as a lay person am not going to be the one to spot it. I will read small things like bash scripts or in general the more “obscure” software I run will be some kind of script. But also if you’re going to publish malware in a script you’re probably obscuring the malicious function so that someone doing a preliminary read won’t spot it.





















OSZAR »