this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Isn't saying FOSS software like sayimg ATM machine.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m going to need you to remove this comment ASAP as possible.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gonna steal your pin number

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And export it in PDF format!

[–] odium 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Which I could save in my PC computer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If the HDD drive wasn't already full of EDM music.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

The extra S is for SWW

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

It’s called “redundant acronym syndrome”, or “RAS syndrome” for short.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

using foss operating systems and installing lots of spyware and proprietary software on it double finger guns

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Who would do such a thing? side-eyes Discord, Spotify, Bitwig, Steam, VS Code, Sublime, etc. on my taskbar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

*Clones vscode source and packages it using electron

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Like all cases, it depends. I use both foss and proprietary software. I always checkout foss first when needing new software.

[–] odium 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Do the *ladder.

It's like a dance move. Climbing motion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

FOSS is sometimes less secure, because it builds on the fact that the user is also a contributor, not all decisions are premade and there is a ton of freedom.

Take Android or iOS for example, both are pretty much equally secure and both are very freedom restricting.

These are core architecture advantages like

  • encrypted user accounts
  • the system actually using the secure element
  • monopole allowing them to enforce a mostly opt-in permission model
  • apps need to comply or they dont exist

Android is still mostly Open source but it isnt really free from the user perspective. This is not really the purpose of FOSS tbh, but FOSS software is often very configurable, allows replacing stuff, using what you want, which increases attack surface a lot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It's funny how people forget games are software.