mastodon 4.5.19Pony fan, coder, and occasional writer, pre-reader, and reviewer; fan of retrocomputing and retrogaming. Also apparently a musician sometimes. Maintainer of the PonyMTG card archive: https://ponymtg.github.io
Inspired by xkcd's Movie Narrative charts, I made a chart for the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "The Mean 6".
When the subtitles are curiously accurate
Currently having a fun little time checking my EndeavourOS system for packages that were compromised in the recent AUR malware attack. As far as I can tell, I've avoided disaster - a scan found no compromised packages and I didn't update anything during the critical period.
It has gotten me a bit more wary of the Arch User Repository (AUR), however. I've always heard people say "you can't trust anything in the AUR, it's a free-for-all" - but, the pacman package manager doesn't treat it like a free-for-all. pacman lumps all the AUR stuff in with official packages with little distinction other than the AUR stuff has "extra/" at the start, and you can install those packages as easily as anything else.
I think that's not pacman's fault - it's specifically designed to be that flexible, and it's doing exactly what it was told to do. I think the problem is more one of messaging and education - even with all the warnings, it never felt like using pacman was dangerous. #linux #pacman
Continuing my perusal of Ageless Linux - which I still think is utterly brilliant - they have an interesting argument for not complying with the California age verification law, which is simply this:
- If the OS refuses to collect age data, no children can be identified.
- If no children are identified, no child can be affected.
- If no child is affected, the OS provider cannot be fined.
Or, more succinctly: the data you provide is exactly what the authorities will use to fine you.
They point out that the California Attorney General will likely not interpret the law so charitably, but that's the point - to make them justify this unjust law.
