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Cake day: May 18th, 2024

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  • Do you know how to install without a helper? Go through the wiki and build the package for a couple apps and then uninstall if you like. I don’t know everything that’s going on, but I can somewhat tell if it doesn’t seem crazy. If you get a component that looks strange, just look it up on the AUR or official repos.

    Yes, there’s more risk in the AUR than “official”, but the AUR is one of the greatest parts of arch. I’d the app you’re installing seems active with comments and users, I bet you’re fine.

    There’s a lot of people out there doing this waaaaay smarter than me. If it got past all of them too, then I probably never stood a chance to avoid whatever it was. I also understand malware on the AUR to be very uncommon. I happened 1x in something like the last 5-10 years and was discovered and down in under day. (I could be remembering wrong).

    I’d also say think a bit. If you find “the official Firefox” first posted today with no comments and a link to some Eastern European language wish-looking version of Git….i mean download that shit. Add to root users group and save the password! * if you don’t know where the last part got sketchy and sarcastic, you may want an os with more guardrails.


















  • Cars have gps built in even if you don’t use the onboard navigation. For some odd reason you care goes to a particular club / establishment every Thursday and stays parked there for 2.75 to 3.5hrs each time. If I took all the data your car’s gps collected, I bet I could make some pretty good inferences about you. Even if they’re wrong but roughly accurate, I could still sell it.

    Now imagine something associated with where you’re going suddenly becomes illegal or target activity. Now you’re on a cool new government list.

    Heck let’s go one step further. The location you frequent gets associated with pro Israel or pro Palestine. And since all companies are perfectly with safeguarding data, somehow has a breach. Now a true wackadoodle has this and your home location. What could possibly go wrong here? All actions and dialogue around this topic have been perfectly mannered and civil </s>. You might not even have a clue that your now associates with something to which you had no awareness or affiliation.

    All of these scenarios go away if they didn’t harvest data.