418
submitted 4 days ago by Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

North Korea's OS is Red Star, and I get the distinct impression you've never used it

I've used Red Star 2 and 3. It's a perfectly adequate OS, and just comes off as any old Linux distro with slightly odd settings. Despite technically bring It's own OS, I was able to use run pretty much anything built for Linux without issue

Calling it shit is reductive and inaccurate

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Calling it shit is reductive and inaccurate

Anything North Korea does is default assumed incompetently executed, maliciously intentioned, and/or the result of stolen work from a more skilled (western) developer/designer. The American Brain cannot comprehend the existence of a Soviet computer science expert. Certainly not one from a country where the prevailing wisdom is "These stupid foreigners all believe the President has a perfect golf score and never poops. Everyone eats grass because they're always starving. And their army feeds their Olympic Soccer Team to wild dogs every time a player misses a goal in a qualifying match".

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago

Interesting, how come you've used it enough to have experience of two versions?

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Curious if there is anything proprietary in it or if an audit has been run on the code.

[-] nullagon@ani.social 7 points 3 days ago

given it marks every file and does a whole other bunch of tracking stuff it definitly has some proprietary additions

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
418 points (99.1% liked)

World News

57769 readers
1381 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world

Ask Historians !askhistorians@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS