Sorry for the reddit link, I don't know of a mirror. This was posted just today, running on an EeePC:
The binaries in question are various GNU and FOSS tools from elsewhere, not part of the Ventoy project itself. So no, the Ventoy author does not own the copyright of the tools in question.
So your approach to security is that you cross your fingers and hope?
Ventoy has a lot of work to do if they want to earn our trust:
Remove BLOBs from the source tree #2795
This ticket has been open now for 5 months with no engagement from the maintainer.
Your install media and anything that modifies your EFI partition or UEFI firmware settings needs to be the most trusted part of your system. And here is Ventoy, a tool that looks open source and then includes a large number of binary blobs in its repository, with no indication of how they were compiled. This is horrible security practice and for me that's enough for me to never use it.
You can also see a discussion on the subject on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689629
A much better alternative, if you want a multi-boot USB, is GLIM: https://github.com/thias/glim
It's just a collection of Grub configs, so very simple and easy to audit.
From my understanding, a lot of code in the graphics drivers is special-case handling for specific games to optimize for the way that the game uses the APIs. Is this correct?
In which case it would make sense to have the game-specific code loaded dynamically when that game is launched, since 99.99% of the game specific code will be for games that the user never runs.
You can't improve on perfection.
I used Ubuntu from version 8.04 to 18.04 and not once did I have a successful upgrade between major versions. There is always something that gets broken to the point that a reinstall is necessary.
That's a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.
they can’t be jammed the way radio can.
I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4912712
Most people know at this point that when searching for a popular software package to download, you should be very careful to avoid clicking on any of the search ads that appear, as this has become an extremely common vector for distributing malware to unsuspecting users.
If you thought that you could identify these malicious ads by checking the URL below the ad to see if it directs to the legitimate site, think again! Malware advertisers have found a way to use Google's Ad platform to fake the URL shown with the ad to make it appear like a legitimate ad for the product when in fact, clicking the ad will redirect to an attacker controlled site serving malware.
Don't click on search ads or, even better, use an ad-blocker so that you never see them in the first place!
Most people know at this point that when searching for a popular software package to download, you should be very careful to avoid clicking on any of the search ads that appear, as this has become an extremely common vector for distributing malware to unsuspecting users.
If you thought that you could identify these malicious ads by checking the URL below the ad to see if it directs to the legitimate site, think again! Malware advertisers have found a way to use Google's Ad platform to fake the URL shown with the ad to make it appear like a legitimate ad for the product when in fact, clicking the ad will redirect to an attacker controlled site serving malware.
Don't click on search ads or, even better, use an ad-blocker so that you never see them in the first place!
[SOLVED]: The issue was caused by having "Show read posts" unticked in Settings. This will hide your own posts from you!
I recently made a post^[1]^ to this community about a bug that I experienced and reported.
The post does not appear in the New feed for /c/lemmy_support nor does it appear in my user profile under Posts ^[2]^.
However the post does have 3 replies (from users on multiple different instances) which means that other users can see it across the fediverse, so it's not a federation issue. (Also, my account and the community are both hosted on the same instance - lemmy.ml).
I was not subscribed to /c/lemmy_support at the time I made that post, but I am subscribed now to see if that affects my visibility of this post.
Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding how lemmy works?
Interestingly, if I view my profile while logged out, it does show the posts that I made, but when logged in it shows zero posts in my profile.
[1] https://lemmy.ml/post/1394597
[2]
Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)