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  • tarneo@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWTF IS THIS?
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, most anticheats are actually just rootkits (running at kernel level with unlimited privileges). This is also a big security issue, some games like genshin impact have also been used to create botnets since there is only one privilege escalation from the game itself to the kernel.

    Whenever you use an anticheat, you just have to take the company’s word for what they are doing with that kernel-level access.



  • tarneo@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPlease, do not use Brave.
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    1 year ago

    Use librewolf instead of Firefox to get rid of the whole spyware part of it. Librewolf only has a single request when starting, to “check for updates”. But using Firefox is the second best thing you can do both for your privacy and to fight Google’s " Web Environment Integrity" crap.




  • Yes. But p10k has many downsides:

    • requires using oh my ZSH, which alone is quite bad because of how much slower it makes the shell.
    • is a piece of software you’ll have to either install on each new device or have the software in your dotfiles. Bad practice. I very much prefer having no additional dependencies or overhead, plus the way I do it I can do whatever I want without the limitations of a prompt made by someone else, for which I’d have to dig in a lot of documentation. Compared to this, I only spent half an hour making a prompt exactly how I like, which doesn’t add overhead and doesn’t require a third party piece of software which I’d have to install on every new device.

  • I totally agree. But I just wouldn’t necessarily say gentoo is a bleeding edge distro: it’s kinda up to the user. They are free to configure the package manager (portage) however they want and can even do updates manually. I just like the idea of having newer packages at the cost of stability, because I also use the server as a shell account host (with an isolated user ;-)) and need things like the latest neovim. These days I would know if an update failed because I would literally be in front of the process and test services are working after the updates, so I’d know if I have to rollback. This makes it basically like a stable distro IMO (even though the packages aren’t battle tested before being pushed as updates).



  • I’m surprised this strategy was approved for a public server

    The goal was to avoid getting hacked on a server that could have many vulnerable services (there are more than 20 services on there). When I set this up I was basically freaked out by the fact I hadn’t updated mastodon more than a week after the last critical vulnerability in it was found (arbitrary code execution on the server). The quantity of affected users, compared to the impact it would have if hacked, made me choose the option of auto-updates back then, even if I now agree it wasn’t clever (and I ended up shooting myself I’m the foot). These days I just do updates semi-regularly and I am subscribed to mailing lists like oss-security to know there’s a vulnerability as early as possible. Plus I am not the only person in charge anymore.