• heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    137·
    5 months ago

    I know this is a joke but for anyone reading: Linux has many advantages and is great but is NOT immune to viruses or exploits.

      • Sombyr@lemmy.zip
        22·
        5 months ago

        lmao, this is unironically the reason one of my exs stared using Linux. Because I kept hyping it up so he figured it was a good bonding activity to learn it. To my knowledge he still uses it.

          • Sombyr@lemmy.zip
            22·
            5 months ago

            Then allow me to introduce myself.
            Not that I’m a Linux pro, but I at least know how to copy and paste terminal commands until I fix whatever problem I caused by copying and pasting terminal commands.

            • Vilian@lemmy.ca
              6·
              5 months ago

              but I at least know how to copy and paste terminal commands until I fix whatever problem I caused by copying and pasting terminal commands.

              this is such a mood lmao

            • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              3·
              5 months ago

              Will you marry me 😊?

              /s I’m already married, just said it for the joke 😂… not happily though, so there’s always a chance 🤣🤣🤣.

              • Sombyr@lemmy.zip
                4·
                5 months ago

                I’ve learned the dumb way going for married people is always a bad idea regardless of the status of the marriage, so I must politely decline.
                I’m an Ubuntu user anyway, so I’m unfortunately unfit for marriage in the first place.

                • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                  4·
                  5 months ago

                  I’m an Ubuntu user anyway, so I’m unfortunately unfit for marriage in the first place.

                  Lol 🤣, this is why you are, you’re funny 😂.

                  Seriously though, I completely agree with you. I was just kidding anyway, that is completely my problem to have and/or solve, don’t need to drag others with me.

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 months ago

      I mean, if OP is going to the type of websites that have that significant of a risk of hacking him, he’s pretty deep into the depravity.

    • folkrav@lemmy.ca
      6·
      5 months ago

      That’s… quite the dedication. I personally just never downloaded things or ran random executables from porn sites, but hey… who am I to judge, I guess

      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        5 months ago

        There’s always a risk of JavaScript breaking out of the sandbox and crap like that. Browser vendors do their best to protect against things like that but security is often a trade-off for speed and people like fast software, not to mention browsers are huge and complex and they’re going to have vulnerabilities. A browser’s whole job is to execute remote untrusted code, do you trust it that much to be flawless?

        … I mean, I don’t but I use it anyway so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

            • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev
              2·
              5 months ago

              Made a Nix library for this. For a simple setup you can just build this (untested) and run the result:

              import ./encase.nix {
  name = "firefox";
  rw.home.nathan = /home/nathan/home-for/firefox;
  # other dependencies it might need...
  tmp = /tmp; # fresh tmpfs for this sandbox
  network = true;
  command = pkgs.firefox;
}

              It doesn’t have user isolation yet, so if it escapes the browser and the chroot (which doesn’t have a /proc unless you set proc = /proc;, and runs in a PID namespace either way) your files are still at risk. However, this is still pretty secure, and you can run the script itself as a different user (it creates a new UID namespace so chrooting can be done without root).

        • folkrav@lemmy.ca
          1·
          5 months ago

          I mean, yeah, sure. But at this point, if that’s really a worry, one should not trust any sandbox. OSes are huge and complex and will have vulnerabilities too. Hell, there could be a xz level backdoor currently in the wild and nobody knows any better lol

          • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            5 months ago

            Right, that’s where OP comes in - most malware will be made for Windows, so if you visit such a malicious website, it’ll likely be inert under Linux!

            … I’m not saying this is a great reason to use Linux, but there’s at least a little bit of merit to it.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      20·
      5 months ago

      Remember when Forbes loaded malware onto people’s computers after demanding they turn off their ad blockers? Cause I sure do.

        • BigDiction@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          That’s not really Forbes serving the malvertising intentionally. If your site hooks into a programmatic advertising stack, the risk of malware exists. This is from 2016, but it’s mostly true today. If a user is blocking ads and cookies and they disable their ad blocker on a specific site only, there’s little data to know about that user. So you get low $CPM on the bid which is mainly where the malicious ads win bids on actual quality sites. That’s why most top sites are very strict on who can bid nowadays.

  • MrGerrit@feddit.nl
    24·
    5 months ago

    Okay, serious question: which distro is the best for watching Pr0n? One that can handle multiple video streams with out slowing down would be great.

    C’mon you nerds, help a degenerate out!

        • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          5 months ago

          Windows VM - even as hypervisor 1 - could leak any data. You need a revisited OS and kernel to be safe.

          Edit: Once you accessed your network your firmware could possibly track everything as well. But nobody knows. Once I heard that the intel firmware has more LoC then the linux kernel (which is the most collaborated human project ever in existence).

        • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          Honestly I know nothing about security, I just wanted to say a funny thing.

          I think a VM would work for most cases? There are ways for Malware to escape from VMs.

          Similar thing would probably be a consideration with a live media boot, as Malware could infect another OS on the machine.

        • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
          6·
          5 months ago

          Performance wise every modern distro should be able to handle multiple video streams provided your pc has the resources.

          Probably would also be doable off the live media?

            • itslilith
              4·
              5 months ago

              Most important stuff is loaded in RAM, so unless you’re downloading the stuff as well, you’re probably fine

            • uis@lemm.ee
              2·
              5 months ago

              Only boot performance if you have enough RAM. Linux’ pagecache can be quite agressive. I think with 4GB there won’t be evicted pages, but with 8GB there won’t for sure.

    • ordellrb@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Not fedora, i had issues playing any Video file with the standart install. Something openh264 related

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 months ago

    The hook is being able to load it onto SBC and selfhosted servers without the hassle of buying a license to an OS and being also to configure it in a way beyond what someone in Redmond or Cupertino intended.

    • uis@lemm.ee
      7·
      5 months ago

      Wasn’t there a story about bug found in kernel because some malware kept crashing in wine?