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    [–] kevinbacon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    reads source code

    Oh look I know exactly what it does and what libraries it uses, I don't have to hope and pray like a closed source cuck.

    Thanks for showing everyone how amazingly stupid you are.

    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yeah... Except if the compiler is backdoored. Ken Thompson explained this back in the day. If the compiler is compromised, there ultimately isn't a way to see if there's something malicious going on. Brodie Robertson does a good job explaining this.

    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sOeuYuvOcl0

    [–] kevinbacon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This is wading into paranoid schizo territory and I wish you the best of luck going down that path because there is no upper limit to distrust.

    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh I totally agree. I find these sort of arguments around privacy and security more interesting than they are concerning, cuz yeah, ultimately if someone wants the data badly enough, they'll get it.

    In my personal life, I like to explore all the privacy related gadgets/software I can for two reasons. One is that its just kind of fun. And the other is because ultimately I don't want to make it all that easy for every bit of my personal life to be laid bare on the internet.

    Like I said, if somebody wants my data bad enough, they'll get it. But I suppose that puts the onus on me (and the developers of the software I trust), to make the data NOT all that easy to get.

    [–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

    Implying that all Linux users have read the source code of the distro they're running (assuming the majority is able to).

    [–] CapraObscura@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

    When was the last time you read any source code for any software you use on a daily basis?

    Do you read and understand the source code for every piece of software you use?

    No?

    Then STFU.

    [–] EatMyDick@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Lolololol 👌

    Software getting pegged with cves left and right because of hundreds of source libraries is definitely not a thing.

    Unless you are one of the few people writing go routines for massive companies, or working on hardware and low level hardware where you have low resources where scaling can mean millions you are writing code using hundreds of dependencies and libraries.

    Very very few people need to code like that.

    [–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The fuck are you talking about? It's a thing in almost every major Node application I have ever worked on to reduce dependencies as much as possible. We do the same for Python. What shithouse dev company are you working for?

    [–] kevinbacon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    working

    He is not working, he is also not taking his madication it seems.