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Don't you love it the ability to compile and run software on your hardware is controlled by a third party over the internet? I sure love the SAAS future we are
by elitepleb 6y ago
Don't you love it the ability to compile and run software on your hardware is controlled by a third party over the internet?
I sure love the SAAS future we are heading forwards.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoI will be a full on linux junkie when that happens.
- paxys 6y agoBy then it will be too late
- cle 6y agoCan you elaborate?
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoI highly doubt corporate interests could eliminate linux. It just will be very difficult to use though no doubt.
- burnthrow 6y agoI've gotten quite good at recognizing crosswalks, fire hydrants, chimneys and the like. Though I refuse to identify that one mailbox as a "parking meter" even if it means another trial to prove my humanity. Users of the platform get treated as spammers already.
- olyjohn 6y agoYou don't like that?! I love teaching self-driving cars how to drive!
- higerordermap 6y agoDoing charity work for corporations capped as low as trillions of dollars in your not-free time.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoI really don't understand your analogy whatsoever.
- cesarb 6y agoIt's a reference to Google's recaptcha, which in my experience always asks you to try to identify features in tiny blurry low-resolution photos (and I always wonder how users with poor vision can deal with it). And it's not unusual for it to be wrong and insist that a street decoration is a bicycle, or something like that, and not let you proceed unless you agree with its misidentification.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoOh I intentionally select the wrong things on that mixed with the right things. Just to screw with google for trying to automate some BS by making us do it.
- IshKebab 6y agoI don't doubt it. At least on non-server machines. They might not even do it intentionally. When every new machine manufactured in the last 20 years has some kind of secure boot system that prevents "unauthorised" operating systems from being installed, what then? Are you just going to keep your laptop from 20 years ago?
- freeone3000 6y agoIt IS, though. SmartScreen on Windows doesn't check binaries created on the same machine, but you'll get flagged if you move the untrusted binary to another machine you own.
- meibo 6y agoNote that SmartScreen has an UI that lets you bypass it without having to disable it system wide, and has a sane timeout (I believe 30 seconds) after which it just pops up a dialogue box telling you that it can't check the binary, allowing you to continue.
- swiley 6y ago>has a sane timeout (I believe 30 seconds) What the hell? You have to wait 30 seconds before you can run unsigned code on Windows without calling home to Microsoft about it? How is that considered sane? (I mean, forking on windows is slow but it's not that slow.) How do people (and corporations! Especially ones sensitive to sharing IP!) put up with this stuff?!
- merb 6y agowell it is more insane because if you have an elevated exe that can span other exe which would trigger smartscreen the elevated exe can actually put a smartscreen filter in it. I mean what is the point in smartscreening an exe that gets spawned from an elevated exe?!
- freeone3000 6y agoTo prevent virus spread by confused deputies: even if you somehow get CreateProcess permission by, ex, getting a service registered, the actual malicious executable will still be blocked.
- merb 6y agowell as said its an elevated process that can completly disable smartscreen, so an attacker would only need to run an exe that downloads another malicious exe after it disabled smartscreen that would not be blocked.
- danbolt 6y agoI’m slowly transitioning as competently as I can.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoMentally I'm there. But in terms of convenience I'm not. Thankfully my entire workflow has been done with OSS compatible with linux in mind so switching over is little more than an inconvenience for me. It all started because I couldn't use specific software in my workflow with linux...even if I paid for it. So then I started looking for good OSS alternatives and now I've basically become OS agnostic.
- Iolaum 6y agoAre you sure? It's happening piece by piece so that its preferable for most people to bear one more bad thing than bear the cost of switching.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoI will begin programming in C when the day comes to my switch as well.
- phendrenad2 6y agoThis is a big conceit everyone holds - that Linux will be an acceptable substitute for MacOS. To be perfectly honest, if Apple shut down their Macbook factories and got out of the computer game entirely, and everyone flocked to Linux, it would be several painful years before Linux would be as usable as MacOS is today. This is why I try out Linux every few years, and file lots of bug reports when I run into issues (mostly in applications - the core Linux kernel is solid). I've even contributed code to Linux apps that I don't intend to use right now.
- swiley 6y agoI guess this is where the disagreements about usability on Linux come from. I've been using Linux based OSes since I was a child and IME when you run into brokenness it's almost always the user space (often something flashy from gnome or kde or occasionally freedesktop.org.) Most things are more than doable on Linux but often you're choosing between stuff that works and stuff that looks pretty.