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So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.
So you’re saying it’s about as robust as a typical Linux application then?
"It works on my machine"
He said the thing!
Packagers job to make it fit their distro, innit?
As a package maintainer, it's a lot of fun sometimes!
I bet, both ironically and genuinely, depending on the cade. Flatpak must feel like a godsend to a lot of people haha
I've actually never used flatpak, I still prefer distro-specific package managers
Flatpak is really nice imo. You can have stable distro with up-to-date apps. And sandboxing for proprietary stuff, which is really nice.
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I think it was a fun post about what we go through sometimes just to get X or Y working. It was quite clever.
This is.. clearly a meme..
I wasn't sure about it either. There's security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.
But yeah, the
cmalw-lib-2.0gives it away...Yeah, nobody uses
cmalw-lib-2.0Its deprecated, now we use
hack-lib-client-1.17systemd-malwaredand its front-endmalctlare how the cool kids are doing it.