Thank you Lemmy devs for just allowing to download videos and images. Fuck reddit
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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...I left reddit a while ago...they paywalled downloading shit?
New user?
Well the account itself is over 3 years old? Are you a new user?
Oh I think we migrated around similar times then (I'm a lemm.ee refugee). I thought you were surprised that photos and videos were available to download when this wasn't a recent lemmy change
Here's a careful reminder that Linux viruses can come in Windows executables.
When it comes to hacking in the modern day it's all about escaping the box - whether that box is a container, a VM, a sandbox or indeed even an emulated environment. So we should still fear the binary blob.
Remember: update early, update often - no matter how painful that sounds.
We need to get proton for templeos so we can be safe.
Well, I don't t want to be the one doing the porting to holyc
Remember: update early, update often - no matter how painful that sounds.
Not anymore! Supply chain attacks have become so common that it's prudent to wait at least 7 days before updating to prevent installing malware from compromised update infrastructure.
So, what's the solution? Debian Stable?
Hardened systems with hardware enforced isolation (virtualization and stuff)
Debian + unattended upgrades + modern package managers for non-system-installed software covers your bases very well.
Debian packages are downstream enough from their sources that the packaging delay keeps you safe (and means the updates have had human eyes on them before they hit you). Unattended upgrades means you donβt have to worry about running the upgrades yourself.
Pip, npm, and the other big package managers now also support dependency cooldowns on their recent releases, but uv and pnpm pioneered that and cover you for older release environments.
uv is owned by openai fun fact
Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.
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I really like Arch because I have a very custom setup and like to try the newest things, but this really worries me as Arch-based user-friendly distros that use the same packages make the repos a bigger target.
On the other hand, AI has made the patch to exploit code as short as 45 minutes.
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Compatibility layer. Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Which is what makes the situation much worse
I read a hilarious article, probably 2 decades ago by now, where a guy decided to try running Windows viruses on Linux in Wine.
If this really is a threat today, I would say that Wine has become a pretty damn impressive project. Here's the link in case anyone else wants to read it: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/05/01/26/219201/running-windows-viruses-under-linux
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Meanwhile innocent looking Z:/ drive
Yeah, Wine is not a secure container. Don't count on it for security.
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runs wine as root yolo
unless you have it sandboxed in a flatpack container
"Okay i'il look in to other drives"
Wine is a flatpak
yea, I play pirated games via flatpak bottles in hopes that getting out of the sandbox would be far too much work for the possible gains.
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Isn't your user data available in Wine on Z:\ though? I laughed at the meme but I'd still be worried info stealer malware or similar would have no problem grabbing the data it's looking for as Wine does no sandboxing at all.
you can remove the Z drive letter, but that's not enough. Nothing prevents a windows program from attempting to call linux syscalls
Yeah, I'm sure some malware would fail on wine but some could still be just as bad compared to running windows natively.
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My linus virus trying to fuck up my disk on nixos (coreutils isn't in the path)
I'm sorry Linus Torvalds is personally trying to destroy your PC
Jokes on them, even when I ran windows my os wasn't on C, I think it was like E
kinky.
Well I'm known to be a certified freak in the hard drive
This makes me miss r/shittyreactiongifs
doesn't every game have its own c_drive?
Yea im pretty sure thats the point. The virus will get a drive that has nothing but the infected game on it.
more correctly every wineprefix. Depending on how you install games, they might not be running in separate wineprefixes, but I believe steam does it that way
Proton for some reason insists in mounting root on Z. Plain wine doesn't care. So I had to use firejail.
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