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  • sadly what happened. all the guns in the world are of no use if you are in his situation.

    some of the black panthers got it right: organised, trained and are bringing their legal big guns very openly and in big numbers. pretty sure that acts as a deterrent.

    but if you are alone in that poor guys situation, the nazis could beat him to death with sticks… which kind of was a nazi tactic (sturmabteilung was mainly a goon squad)






  • I have to write so much boilerplate code to make sure my objects are of the correct type and have the required attributes!

    That is the trap that, sadly, my company fell for too. The POC was written in python. very fast i might add. but it was only that: a POC. if the whole backend crashes due to unexpected user input - noone cared. if the frontend displayed gibberish because the JSON made wrong assumptions about not defined data types - sweep it under the rug, don’t do that during presentations.

    but if it came to building a resilient system, which can be shipped to customers and preferably maintained by them (with minimal consulting contract for access to our guys)… we cursed the way python worked.






  • maybe this is more symptomatic. i have been through the academic wringer and have worked with ai technology in a professional way. from experience: ai is good at doing things, which have been done thousands of times (how else would it have learned it). and it can save you some time doing stupid tasks.

    look at this the other way around: if ai is good at writing scientific papers, it has been done thousands of times and is unimaginative. this covers with much of my experience in academia.

    i am not saying, that there are no scientific discoveries to be made anymore. quite the opposite. but i do believe that we overload students with stupid tasks and stress them beyond reason.

    academia is very important. but as institutions of learning, discovery and preserving knowledge. over the years it has accumulated a lot of dead weight.



  • you are mostly right. anti cheat is somewhat more effective with kernel level access. also, it is infinitely more dangerous and creepy to run on your machine.

    however, if the devs can get rid of just a couple more cheaters - they will absolutely insist on the more intrusive versions. it is not their machine after all.

    i see two variants on how to solve this issue:

    • let your wallet speak. this failed long ago IMO
    • remind the devs, that a client is never to be trusted. if i had the time, i would probably make a sport out of breaking kernel level anti cheat and distribute it for free 😈


  • ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafetoLinux@lemmy.worldLinux Antivirus?
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    3 months ago

    I like to consider myself part of the exclusive and oh so elite club of linux users. everyone here saying that AV is not needed, because the best security is not to be stupid, is right. but is your grandma tech literate enough to not do stupid things on her computer? your teenage son?

    as the linux user base grows, the platform becomes more interesting of a target. even for stupid attacks. and lets be honnest: lots of legitimate open source projects still use an install script to curl and pipe into the terminal as a suggested method to install. which is just horrible!

    while an anti malware is a patch. it is the last line of defense after a stupid mistake. so it would be great to have an actual desktop AV for linux. eset used to sell one but it is long out of service.

    i use clamAV. but i maintain it for the family, so it is not as simple as telling them exactly what to install and run with default configs.

    anyway, for those interested: here are two videos of malware attacks against lunux in rather different fashions: